Album Rating: 4.2
I love the Little Faith lyrics, very dark even for them. HV is perfect, I don’t think I could rank the songs.
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Album Rating: 4.5
Runaway is boring and bland yeah, but Lemonworld is so deceptively weird. I found it v unassuming to begin with, but it's up with Karen for Matt's best personable deadpan moments imo, great lyrics as mentioned
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Album Rating: 4.7
Lemonworld is great agreed, it's one of the best HV songs to comb for one liners
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@Doof
Top tier? They’re cringey. It’s pure navel-gazing and he manages to overdo even that. And the melody is like a nursery rhyme, so irritatingly simple. I will never get how it compares to literally any other song from those albums
@YoYo
I can get why some might find Runaway boring, I always loved the tension of it tho, and how gradually it builds
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Album Rating: 4.5
criticising the national's lyrics for naval-gazing is a very slippery slope lol, at least Lemonworld has some colour to it. load of good wry lines there
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Album Rating: 4.0
i remember being 12 and reading a metacritic review that called Lemonworld self parody and I took it literally and took a long time to appreciate Lemonworld because I thought it was an actual parody and that bothered me
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Lemonworld is like a Marshmallow Peep. A pleasing appearance, but when you bite into it it’s overly sweet and no substance
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Album Rating: 5.0
surely lemon is also bitter
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Album Rating: 4.0
terrible love
bloodbuzz
conv 16
england
vanderlyle
sorrow
afraid of everyone
anyones ghost
lemonworld
runaway
little faith
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Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off
lemonworld > terrible love > afraid of everyone > sorrow > bloodbuzz > anyone’s ghost > vanderlyle > conversation 16 > runaway > England > little faith
probably my second fav after boxer
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Album Rating: 4.0
Had to listen to this after Frankenstein ugh lol
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Album Rating: 5.0
Why is this suddenly a High Violet thread lol
For me:
1. England [5]
2. Bloodbuzz [4.5]
3. Conversation [4.5]
4. Vanderlyle [4.5]
5. Sorrow [4]
6. Lemonworld [4]
7. Little Faith [4]
8. Runaway [3.5]
9. Terrible Love [3.5]
10. Afraid [3.5]
11. Anyone [2 5]
First half of HV always seemed inconsistent to me, also don't like the way it flows
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Album Rating: 5.0
Sorrow (10)
Lemonworld (10)
Conversation 16 (10)
Bloodbuzz Ohio (9)
Terrible Love (9)
Afraid of Everyone (9)
England (8)
Vanderlyle (8)
Runaway (8)
Anyone’s Ghost (8)
Little Faith (6)
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Album Rating: 4.0
i really don’t understand the appeal of Sorrow, the verse melody is so dry, never transitions into anything and the lyrics are just “I have depression and I’m sad about a breakup”
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Album Rating: 4.5
song is about inhabiting a reality
it inhabits it
it inhabits it better than other songs
the lyrics are perfect without going the least bit overboard
don't be reductive
it is sad
sadness is a reductive feeling
less is more etc
next
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Album Rating: 4.0
the fact that it inhabits a reality doesn’t mean I’m being reductive
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Album Rating: 4.5
>> doesn’t mean I’m being reductive
>>> the lyrics are just “I have depression and I’m sad about a breakup”
lol fuck right off
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Album Rating: 4.0
that is quite literally the entirety of the subject matter on Sorrow
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Album Rating: 4.5
honey you're getting your quality and quantity mixed up again look me in the eyes and promise me you tied those shoelaces by yourself
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Album Rating: 4.5
personally think sorrow would be much improved if it had a nod to each of world peace, DIY brewing and thrush infection
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