Album Rating: 2.0

"Helena is the least nice here"

my bad. please educate me on what the objective 'nicest' song is so i can avoid making this mistake again.

okay yeah Illuminate My Heart was jaw-dropping, super excited to listen to this. How does it stack up to EEB? This review is great but didn't really objectively compare the two

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

Lol archer is great, but it's easier to compare the two yourself after a few dedicated listens tbh.

alright I feel that. Already liking the vocals on Together
I am in love with this band fuck

Ooo, this sounds lovely. I remember when these guys first came onto the scene - doesn't feel like that long ago...

disappointed on first listen, missing the fun, wonder filled spontaneity of EEB imo, This Very Flight is definitely the best song for me

Album Rating: 3.5

This is pretty underwhelming for me tbh

this is insanely boring

Album Rating: 3.5

I wouldn't say "insanely," but it's definitely way less interesting than I'd anticipated it being. I'm really hoping that it grows on me.

maybe it will grow on me too. there are moments of beauty - the first minutes of both the first and second songs are gorgeous, but then they devolve into generic post-rock tropes.

idk, i feel really indifferent towards this, and i loved enjoy eternal bliss. even if it doesn't affect me as powerfully today, it's still a lovely album.

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

Hope you can change your mind on it later man, I may have liked it immediately but some are probably seeing this As a pretty big grower

i'm listening to it again now and it just sounds so sterile to me. it follows the post-rock blueprint to the letter: pretty opening followed by a slow section that gradually builds and builds to the epic conclusion. i guess it can be argued that their last album followed this same formula, but i enjoyed the music a lot more on that one.

i might just try it again in a few days. post-rock is a genre i have little patience for these days, because a lot of it sounds homogeneous to me. this has gorgeous vocal melodies, and some damn pretty music too, it just doesn't really do much for me - especially when there are so many quiet, pregnant pauses in their songs which draw them out to unnecessary lengths.

This is one of those albums that does the same old thing that loads of bands have already done before. But to me the point is that it does that same old thing way better than 99% of those other bands. As an album it falls short of the debut for being much less epic and a lot more samey. It doesn't take me on a journey like the debut did. Saying that I think the moment-to-moment musicianship is a lot better on here than the debut, so that makes up for the overarching structure being less absorbing.

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

No worries man, music is ideally one of the most objective forms of entertainment. You like stuff and you don't. If you don't like it then trying too hard to enjoy it may not work.

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

But I can see where you are coming from, the whole post-rock blueprint has been done to death and is especially present here. But I'm a sucker for it

Album Rating: 4.0

Honestly this kind of post rock is just done so beautifully with this band. You can hear some heart in it.

Album Rating: 3.5

Gonna jam this tomorrow. Won't matter if the formula is standard as long as it's well done. I have faith in them.

Can't wait to hear this, fuck.

Album Rating: 4.0

DON'T PLAY WITH MY EMOTIONS LIKE THIS

Album Rating: 5.0

i am in love with this album. i feel like it is front loaded though, maybe because the songs are so long. i got the same impression with the first album many moons ago too. i will revisit both albums starting halfway through each time to see if the songs affect me differently.



make no mistake though, this thing is absolutely beautiful (formulaic or not)