Album Rating: 3.5
I can see you obvs love this by your comments and rating, but do you consider this to be pretty close to the top of your all time favorites?
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Album Rating: 5.0
I don't know why I like it so much. I don't really like this kinda music all that much anymore.
And like I've said over and over, I didn't like this when I first heard it or even months after I
first heard it.
I would say that this is among my all time favorite albums. Along side Stay What You Are and
Discovery.
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Album Rating: 3.5
yeah this is honestly an odd album to love, there's nothing grandiose about it
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Album Rating: 5.0
That may be so, but I'd argue that Stay What Your Are is too. I admire both albums' subtle details so much.
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Album Rating: 3.5
My favorite thing about this band are the guitarists. They write some kick ass stuff.
So much delay... So much delay goodness...
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Album Rating: 5.0
agreed. funny how the guitars are so good yet held back for too many of the tracks.
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Album Rating: 3.5
I don't think Stay What You Are is subtle at all, it's got really noticeable basslines and riffs, huge choruses, and the lyrics are.... well I can't find the right word for them but they're definitely not subtle.
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Album Rating: 3.5
i mean they have a through-composed song for christ's sake, how many bands even do that
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Album Rating: 3.5
What is Stay What You Are?
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Album Rating: 3.5
the Saves the Day record both Cyg and I love
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Album Rating: 5.0
"I don't think Stay What You Are is subtle at all, it's got really noticeable basslines and riffs, huge choruses, and the lyrics are.... well I can't find the right word for them but they're definitely not subtle."
I came upon both these bands by incident. I really shouldn't have ended up liking both so much. For some reason, I gave both albums a lot more of a "chance" than other albums of similar ilk. I was willing to giving it multiple spins before deciding whether not I dislike it, decided to actually give a shit about non-standout albums.
I'm saying that, if I had given both this album and Stay What You Are the same treatment I'd normally give to pop punk/alt rock artists, I wouldn't think so highly of them. Normally, I just listen and decide if I like it, and if I don't, never give it another moment's thought. But not these albums, for some reason. I decided to listen to the lyrics, decided to let the whole thing settle within me.
I connect with the emotions tied to those moments and to the emotions tied to the album itself, that's why they mean so much.
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Album Rating: 3.5
That's all well and good, but I was responding more to:
"That may be so, but I'd argue that Stay What Your Are is too."
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Album Rating: 5.0
In addition to my absolute love of both albums, I have (an obvious) discontent or frustration of other bands in the same genres. I tend to dislike them, or be very disappointed in them. Most of them just don't engage me at all (though, admittedly, it's part in because I didn't give them the same treatment as these ones).
These bands also represent what I image to be the "best" that the genres/styles of that genre can achieve in my eyes (moar like ears), just like how I imagine you feel about Cities.
My love for the albums is even more amplified, especially if you ask me to compare to similar bands/albums.
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Album Rating: 5.0
A lot of those details may have been obvious to you, I guess, but they were subtle to me.
A through-composed song? I'd never have noticed that.
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Album Rating: 3.5
I don't think Cities is the best of a genre, unless you mean its little subgenre of polished alt rock that we were talking about earlier. Its strengths just happen to be what I like in music (or at least, that style of music) and its flaws (overproduction, a few weaker songs) just don't bother me as much as they do other people.
And that's fair enough, I just don't find SWYA subtle or understated at all within the genre it exists, whereas that's definitely true for this IMO.
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Album Rating: 5.0
Which one is the through-composed song? I'm curious.
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Album Rating: 3.5
Firefly? I guess there's technically repetition (to me you are the light from a light bulb breaks sometimes and know I'm burning tonight) but I consider it through composed.
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the sun and the seas second ep "vega" is awesome and sounds just lile the graduate! much better than their first one. get on it people.
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Album Rating: 4.5
Yeah they're pretty good.
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Album Rating: 4.0
I only heard vega once and was really disappointed tbh. I'll give it a few more shots then.
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