Album Rating: 3.0

yeah this is great but at the end of the day probably their worst



love celestial creatures tho

Album Rating: 3.5

Excited for this

Album Rating: 3.5

'Celestial Creatures' is wonderful.

not rly a fan but celestial creatures is decent... great write-up btw

Honestly surprised that I didn't hate this. Adored Limbo, Panto, loved Two Dancers, liked Smother etc... Clear trend there, but boy they went far enough this time for it to work.

Album Rating: 3.5

Thanks Doc

"One of the most impressive catalogues of recent years,"

lol

Album Rating: 2.0

Oh, Posty, I believe he's right. I can't think of another band that has put out as many great albums in a row over five years time as these guys, but I love these blokes.



'Closing track 'Dreamliner' is little more than ambient textures and a pretty Thorpe vocal but...'



Not sure if you missed a word here or something. Anyway, I got to listen to this a few minutes ago. Celestial Creatures, 2BU (why???) and Dreamliner were all great. He the Colossus and Eat Your Heart Out Adonis were okay and the rest was... not for me.

Album Rating: 2.5

i didnt dig this one at all :/ didn't think the change in direction worked for them and this sounded a bit like a watered down glass animals or something. the closing track was nice tho i wish they stuck with that sound

Album Rating: 3.5

Pots I'm struggling to think of many bands out there on album number 5 who didn't drop the ball once in those first four albums



Dbizzles it looks like it worked out as expected, I was hoping you'd warm to one of the early tracks too but at least you liked half the album.



Brandon I can understand people not digging this direction for the band but I'm hoping it might grow on people. I maintain it was definitely an album written to sound great live.

"Pots I'm struggling to think of many bands out there on album number 5 who didn't drop the ball once in those first four albums"

thats because you solely listen to relatively mainstream shitty indie bands bud

plus, while granted that everything they've done is good for sure, literally none of their albums aside from Two Dancers are anything to write home about, nor are they anything that special.

Album Rating: 3.5

I think irrespective of genre you'd find it hard to name many artists with 4 or 5 decent full length albums in a row released in the span of 8 years



I'll admit they are more steady than mind blowing at times

id list bands that are on album 5 or more without dropping the ball once in the first four that have had infinitely more impressive output than this band but that would be an absurd waste of time given that there are so fucking many

"I think irrespective of genre you'd find it hard to name many artists with 4 or 5 decent full length albums in a row released in the span of 8 years"

rofl

i like how you've now lowered the standard of quality from MOST IMPRESSIVE CATALOGUES OF RECENT YEARS to FOUR OR FIVE DECENT ALBUMS. you're just making it even more overtly debatable

Album Rating: 3.5

well if you reduce it down to bands who are effectively working within the traditional realm of popular song I'm at a loss to know who you're referring to but hey, ever was it so

bare in mind that i like this band and think they are good, i just think that your initial claim is utterly outlandish and pretty much objectively un-backable and that your refined claims are actually even more absurd

"well if you reduce it down to bands who are effectively working within the traditional realm of popular song I'm lost to know who you're referring to but hey, ever was it so"

"well if you take what i initially said and bastardize the shit out of it to support my outlandish claims..."

why the fuck would i reduce it down to "bands who are effectively working within the traditional realm of popular song"

im sorry did i miss the part where you said

"One of the most impressive catalogues of recent years for bands who are exclusively effectively working within my subjective definition of the traditional realm of popular song"