Album Rating: 5.0

nice review btw, short and sweet.

Album Rating: 3.5

thanks. i can't really even write long reviews tbh

Album Rating: 5.0

long reviews usually suck, they end up being blog posts disguised as reviews or having tons of redundant exposition about lyrics, music, etc. that no one actually needs to read. of course all my reviews were long so



also idk why but 'Work' made my heart race lol, guess it reminds me of another time

Album Rating: 3.5

the good thing about long reviews is that if they keep themselves at the actual topic they can be really fucking good. i just read your review for this and it's a really really good personal one

Album Rating: 5.0

yeah i can agree with that. i guess it depends if you want to sell an album to someone new, or contribute to the conversation about the album. i find short reviews (like yours) are the best as actual reviews of albums: what to expect, what's good, what's not. the longer ones tend to have analysis that are pretty much useless to someone who doesn't know the music (or the band) but they're pretty nice if you're in the conversation.



my blog post of a review (lol so embarrassing) is a good example of something that's useless as a "review" but okay as a piece of the dialogue around the album, although i feel it's so personal that it's hard for anyone to really say anything about it lol

Album Rating: 3.5

agreed. that's why chan's tdagarim review for example (regardless of how amazing it is) isn't really that good for someone who wants to know what the album is like

Album Rating: 5.0

yeah that's definitely true. i guess it works since on this site has heard tdagarim anyways so we don't really need a featured review that just describes the sound of the album. his old review did that and honestly it was just way too long and unwieldy (and it wasn't even helpful to me when i was trying to figure out what the album was about)

Album Rating: 5.0

this album deserves to get scores of 5 because of its amazing atmosphere and how it ties together and creates a mood for every listener. its just that that's a much more subtle quality than, say, big climaxes and progressive song structures that tend to indicate a 5 with other albums. so it's harder to put your finger on why this hits the way it does. but the fact is that it does for many of us. i don't see rating this as a 5 as being indicative of "subjective" or "personal" reasoning, because it actually is made in such a way that it makes so many of us feel that personal connection, regardless of how or when we first heard it. at least that's how i feel about it. this is an alt-rock record; in no way is it an ambient/post-rock album, and yet somehow it manages to craft and atmosphere more powerful than most of the works of those other genres whose main focus is atmosphere. and it does it effortlessly. heck even drugs or me's background instrumentation sounds like sigur ros. but you don't really notice that because the album is tied together subtly without, as i said, beating you over the head with its qualities.

Album Rating: 3.5

"its just that that's a much more subtle quality than, say, big climaxes and progressive song structures that tend to indicate a 5 with other albums."



you couldn't be more wrong with that

Album Rating: 5.0

how so?

Album Rating: 5.0

my point is that this album doesnt do one thing that stands out above its peers. its qualities are in how its tied together overall to create a mood. obviously not all 5s have big climaxes and progressive structures, so that was too general a statement, but most 5s that i find tend to have a single quality that speaks out, like being really catchy, or really emotional, or really powerful. my point is that this album doesn't have any "really"s, so its harder to pin-point why its a 5, but it doesn't mean it shouldn't be rated as 5. at least i think.

Album Rating: 3.5

an album doesn't have to be gy!be to get a 5, even albums with simple structuring and short track lengths can well deserve a 5 (doolittle is such album for me). it's all about your personal views tho, this isn't a perfect album for me nor a 5

Album Rating: 4.0

this thread is completely fucked up







me too

Album Rating: 5.0

Lol as if anyone listens to GYBE. I can truthfully say I have not had the displeasure.

Album Rating: 4.5

Oh Storm you didn't just go there did you?



Also nah I started posting a lot on the JEW threads way before Futures joined. This was my second review actually. He just bumps JEW in general the most. My random bumping is reserved for Alcest, Sigur Ros and Porcupine Tree lol

Album Rating: 3.5

your random bumping should be reserved for converge and off minor

Album Rating: 5.0

I did Mongi I did! I really have never heard GYBE. I've known about them for ten years or whatever because so many people love it on here but I've always been hesitant because I know I'd go in expecting a 5 and probably being let down even if I liked it.

Album Rating: 5.0

tbh storm your evaluation is right. it's basically just try-hard post-rock music, which is chill but they hit that uncanny valley where their music also sounds sorta-kinda-classical (not sure which era since i haven't really thought about it seriously / listened to them... maybe neoromantic) but then not really.



idk it's definitely quality stuff, the kind that you'd point to and say "hey good music is still being made today" but i'd rather listen to pure post-rock (e.g. the world is not a cold dead place) or actual classical rather than some hybrid that isn't really a world beater IMO

Album Rating: 5.0

Woo hoo toxin! Ya sounds right!



Plus years ago I already had a phase of listening to God Is An Astronaut and that didn't last long.

Album Rating: 3.5

giaa died for me pretty quickly as well