I appreciate the raw honesty of this review. Thanks, Sowing.
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Album Rating: 4.0
this is gorgeous...
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Album Rating: 4.0
"and in less than twelve minutes I've felt more than I have across the sum of all the full-length albums that I've heard in 2023"
Sowing my man, this has been a horrible year for music. I honestly can't remember when did we have it this bad...
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Album Rating: 4.3
Glad you enjoyed it, Teal & Piripichotes!
Unfortunately, I agree about 2023 being a letdown musically thus far. Paul Simon's Seven Psalms is my front runner for AOTY at this time, while Yellowcard's Childhood Eyes and Adjy's June Songs Vol. 1 are my top EPs. Still, I haven't had that one insta-5 come and just knock my socks off yet. Hopefully the latter half of 2023 will reveal that album to me!
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this year has been shit
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Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off
@ Sowing re: the deathcore vocals, thanks I appreciate that. It’s the element of my music that seems the most divisive but I feel I did a pretty good job of tastefully integrating them without it being too gimmicky or shoehorned. The death metal/deathcore vocals are actually the first thing I learned how to do musically (besides playing trumpet in my school band as a kid which I sucked at); it wasn’t until later that I learned to play guitar and sing and do the post-hardcore shouting stuff, and then some time later I started focusing on production/programming/mixing etc. So it feels like a waste not to utilize that skill and kinda honor my own musical lineage if that makes sense. Plus it’s just fun to do those kind of vocals haha.
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Album Rating: 4.5
Well well auber, this is awesome. Immediate thoughts are this is too catchy and need to jam this at least 6 times over this week. Also makes me want to add these songs and old trophy scars, svalbard, and la dispute into a playlist together.
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I see State Faults listed as a similar band. Is this accurate? Cause then I need to get on this record right the fuck now.
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Album Rating: 4.3
I have only heard Clairvoyant, but I didn't get State Faults vibes. State Faults is much heavier instrumentally (from what I recall) while How to Care for Flowers is more vocal/melody focused and thus catchier (hence why I enjoy this more than SF). The first thing that came to mind for me was La Dispute with some minor death metal influence.
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Album Rating: 4.5
Someones a virgin.
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Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off
“La Dispute with some minor death metal influence” is probably a perfect description lol. I’m the one who put the similar bands, I just tried to think of 5 bands that were somewhat similar that influenced me musically but in retrospect maybe mewithoutYou would have been a better pick. I tend to think of music more on an emotional level than a sonic level which is why (for example) State Faults and something like Death Cab for Cutie seem like similar bands in my head even though they aren’t at all musically.
@Storm thanks man! I really consciously tried to make this as catchy as I could without sacrificing any darkness or heaviness inherent to the genre as I feel like some of this kind of music, even though I love it there can be a lack of memorable melodies vocally or instrumentally. Some parts like the second verse in the last song I intentionally juxtaposed the poppier guitars and clean vocals with the darkest stuff on the EP lyrically to try to make a point about Japanese society becoming desensitized to suicide. I think way harder about this kind of thing than I probably need to haha
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Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Off
^point stands out quite a bit tbh, sounds like we're just going along feelgood punk vibes and then wait theyre doing what now
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Album Rating: 3.0
this project has gone from a double digit amount of spotify listeners to over 300 since this review. love to see the sputnik spike in effect
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Album Rating: 4.3
I've honestly never made a focused attempt to give any sput artist the benefit of the doubt, so anything I've reviewed has been a direct result of me stumbling upon their music and having it far exceed my expectations. I'm glad to see that it's moved the needle for some, even if just a little.
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BADNEW might be the best troll in the history of this site lmao
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Album Rating: 4.0
"Glad you enjoyed it, Teal & Piripichotes!"
Totally did. I guess this dude will drop an LP eventually...
Regarding this year, the only record I feel like coming back to is Sermon's latest... Ostraca's Disaster is really good too, but it need a certain time and place to be listened to.
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Album Rating: 4.5
I didn't plan on crying this evening, but here we are lmao.
This really got me feelin like the mid 2010's after I discovered the dreambound channel.
Great record, great review
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Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off
Thanks so much for listening! The review is its own work of art as per usual with Sowing.
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Album Rating: 4.3
#4 trending is impressive. You should be proud of this EP.
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Album Rating: 4.0
this is a really great listen.
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