Album Rating: 5.0

I hope I don't get that lame when I get old

Damn dude I'm still 22, you're gonna get old a lot faster if you set the standard that low :[
Giving this a relisten and hmm

Album Rating: 5.0

oh shit I'm older than you



well



I'm glad I wasn't that lame when I was young

Haha
About 20 minutes in and my misgivings were right; this about the best possible realistion of a beginner guitarist's aeolian-only scale jams with dynamics so obviously telegraphed they feel kinda clunky. Gonna skip to the tracks I loved here and revisit Folklore and Marrow sometime bc if the best bits of those are slipping, I'm in trouble...

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

Maybe you're just gay and suck

Album Rating: 4.0

so you are lame smh

Album Rating: 4.0

damnit dede

nice sax

Album Rating: 5.0

Maybe you're just gay and suck [2]

Album Rating: 5.0

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Album Rating: 4.5

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Album Rating: 4.0

[67!]

Damn guys, y'all lost deep in pagan woodland :[ Will get a rescue party going!

Album Rating: 5.0

the album has chord progression motifs that show up on a lot of tracks. i can see how that can get repetitive i guess but i love it. pale companion, odal, and hawthorne are legendary

Album Rating: 5.0

Nay, drowning in snow and spiritus frumenti.

I think my problem is less the repetition and more the incredibly basic nature of the chords and melodies in question. Feel like I'm putting an overly harsh spin on it because I do like this album, but a lot of the composition seems they're incompetent rather than selectively simple and this grates on me

Album Rating: 5.0

bruh... BRUH

Album Rating: 5.0

I'll take simpler music that has uniqueness and emotional impact over soulless instrumental wankery any day. There's nothing wrong with playing music that might be considered "simple" from a music theory standpoint or using basic chords. This also has pretty adventurous song structures and plenty of technical moments, mainly I Am the Wooden Doors and You Were But a Ghost...

"I'll take simpler music that has uniqueness and emotional impact over soulless instrumental wankery any day"
Oh yeah, absolutely agreed on this! Nothing wrong with simplicity, I just find it somewhat tiresome that this is so centred around the same ultra-basic minor chords and entry level scale ideas; think I've slightly outgrown that sound. The two tracks you named are my favourites here; they have the best pacing and most memorable melodies imo

Album Rating: 5.0

I see what you mean, this sounds like magic to me despite the simplicity. In some ways that's even more impressive, they also experimented a lot with different sounds like using a deer skull in The Lodge and all the genrebending. A lot of the softer sections were influenced by a really interesting ethereal wave/ambient electronic album from the '90s called The Dynamic Curve by Sand. I reviewed it cause I felt it needed more attention, and I could hear qualities of it on this.