damn i liked Silhouette

Awesome review my brother. I think it speaks to your writing skills that you can keep me engaged in a review for an album I likely won't ever listen to.

My thoughts exactly Jr lol.

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damn i liked Silhouette [2]

Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off

I'll admit this has grown on me since Friday. It's far from their best, but it is focused and still "feels" like Periphery. Checks most of the usual boxes except for song lengths. Next LP better have some prog odysseys.

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If next album is a straight pop album I wouldn't be surprised tbh

Album Rating: 3.5

Subhuman goes haurd

Album Rating: 4.0

There is a lot to like here - in agreement with what people say about the lack of flow but the majority of the songs are still really good. It is nice to hear them deviate from their usual sound too. Overall, I'd say this is one of their better albums - massively divisive in terms of listener opinion but this is very enjoyable IMO.

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[2] in a really silly way it's hard to complain about this imo

SO much better than the bloated mess that is P5

Album Rating: 2.0 | Sound Off

Didn't think they'd put a worse album than Alpha out, but oh well.

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I'll not tolerate Alpha slander here, sir

Album Rating: 3.5

very kind words jr, thank you man. and thanks hawks and numali! and very funny you mention abr numali, that's my next planned review haha!



opinions all over the place lol. i like a good divisive album, fun to talk about. i definitely lean towards this side of their modern sound than p5 which i thought was unbearably bloated and exhausting. sure it doesn't flow great but i don't think any of their albums really work as wholes post juggernaut. there is definitely a compromise they could make between the two extremes. but i also wouldn't mind another attempt at something like this because it will definitely be more refined.



and i feel like the heaviness here is really being undersold. almost all in the first half but the heavy moments and songs here are some of the heaviest they've ever done. so i don't really take the sleep token/octanecore criticism seriously. and they've had pop hooks and song structures going back to p1. i think it absolutely still sounds like periphery at its core.

Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Off

"almost all in the first half but the heavy moments and songs here are some of the heaviest they've ever done. so i don't really take the sleep token/octanecore criticism seriously."



I was thinking the same. It's a weird criticism when there's a lot of really mean sounding stuff here.



This is growing on me. Still one of their weaker efforts imo but it's better than I initially gave it credit for.

Album Rating: 3.0

“ the songs on this album have way more of a stop/start quality to them, way more overly heavy parts in otherwise not heavy songs, glossy electropop verses in otherwise regular periphery songs.”



This I actually agree with. While I don’t feel like the songs are disjointed per se, there are a several where it’s like oh damn this goes hard and then all of a sudden synthy Spencer. Ugh