The Strumbellas Hope
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gryndstone
April 27th 2016


2976 Comments

Album Rating: 2.0

I'd actually call or write-in about that. I don't need radio stations, i'd boycott it

LotusFlower
April 27th 2016


12000 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

i think my problem with this record is that they sound like theyre holding themselves back from just letting shit go loose and making a super crazy of the hook folk pop record. They seem to be keeping everything really contained to the same calculated formula of boom-clap wankery that really kills the vibe and energy that builds up in the verses of these songs (Spirits and We Don't Know come to mind, they just sound completely neutered.) and I think the vocalist is just a little too plain for the kind of energy theyre trying to catch here.



blegh.

NordicMindset
April 27th 2016


25137 Comments


104.5 is garbage now. Used to be good but it went down the shitter.

Point1
April 27th 2016


863 Comments


Ugh as a Torontonian this band is the bane of my existence. I'm usually on your page Sowing but this band is like the crappy Canadian version of the Lumineers.

Sowing
Moderator
April 27th 2016


45533 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Oh come on though the Lumineers don't come close to these guys

NordicMindset
April 27th 2016


25137 Comments


Ho Hey runs circles around Spirits.

Kupasexy15
April 27th 2016


372 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

Ho Hey confirmed for me why I don't like radio folk: strip everything down, handclap and woah-woah. Its innocence and more of its purported earnestness is so unearnest.



I'll take Spirits for its size over Mumphord's I Will Wait and its banal banjo thrumming any day.

LotusFlower
April 27th 2016


12000 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

this is nothing like the lumineers lol

NordicMindset
April 27th 2016


25137 Comments


yeah, lumineers is more laid back, this is overblown to the point of mediocrity

Kupasexy15
April 27th 2016


372 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

Well, I haven't heard the whole thing, but I don't mind Spirits. So, I'll put this in the back of my already large queue of Things I'll Listen To.

Sowing
Moderator
April 27th 2016


45533 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

I'm honestly of the opinion that Ho Hey is the only truly good song that the Lumineers have written



Stylistically the bands are similar, these guys just take that approach and blow it up even more



I'd take these guys over them, the only question is whether or not I prefer them over Of Monsters and Men, which I probably do not because Nana's vocals are outstanding

rufinthefury
April 27th 2016


4383 Comments


I'll probably like this

Dylan620
April 27th 2016


6007 Comments


"I Instagrammed A Sunset Today Half-Ironically, Hoping That Beautiful Starbucks Barista Would See It But Not Necessarily Like or Comment and We'd Share A Moment of Connection"

Just checked the tracklist in the hope that that was an actual song title

RadicalEd
April 27th 2016


9546 Comments


"this record falls in that sweet spot of being bland for very, very bland reasons
i can feel the apathy resonating in my pot-smoking bones just reading the names of the songs
"We Don't Know"
"Wars"
"Young & Wild"
"The Night Will Save Us"
"I Instagrammed A Sunset Today Half-Ironically, Hoping That Beautiful Starbucks Barista Would See It But Not Necessarily Like or Comment and We'd Share A Moment of Connection""

HARD

LotusFlower
April 27th 2016


12000 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

"I Instagrammed A Sunset Today Half-Ironically, Hoping That Beautiful Starbucks Barista Would See It But Not Necessarily Like or Comment and We'd Share A Moment of Connection"



title of my upcoming emo-folk EP

Sowing
Moderator
April 27th 2016


45533 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

I'd order it on vinyl in a heartbeat clover

Hopelust
April 27th 2016


3635 Comments


Lumineers... phhhht. Strumbellas win that battle.
I particularly enjoyed their album previous to this. I'm certainly interested.

ShadowRemains
April 28th 2016


28667 Comments

Album Rating: 1.5

this is so awful

Sowing
Moderator
April 28th 2016


45533 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

I can't say I don't get the hate, because I do, but I'm actually a little bit surprised that more people don't enjoy this

gryndstone
April 28th 2016


2976 Comments

Album Rating: 2.0

looks like the general public has had enough of the radio folk plague



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