Album Rating: 5.0
It’s not like Holy Shit guitar God stuff, but the texture and sense of place he yanks out of some fairly simple effects work just bowls me over. Styles and approach are very different, but I’d compare some of the pedal work to Gareth Liddiard or Adrien Belew, just again to an incredibly different end
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Album Rating: 4.0
Yeah it definitely works well within the context of the song and the atmosphere it was going for
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Album Rating: 3.6
this is missing the massive climaxes and, like, engaging melodies of IFWWW for me
it's pretty as hell but it's also all kind of the same. the only song that sticks out does so in a bad way (There's Your Man). something something about how the outtakes from this album are better than what made the album etc
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"and, like, engaging melodies"
ye boi. + since we're in the circle of jerk about Ben's dopeass guitar chops and stylings, IFWWW was a much jucier showcase
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Album Rating: 5.0
Melodies are definitely more unobtrusive, but the way Boat to an Island pt. 1 grows into its chorus or the slightly strange vocal rhythms in Someone in the Doorway really do still jump out in a pretty pronounced way, and it works to balance some of the more extended ambient movements so the whole record really ebbs and flows
I like it a lot
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Album Rating: 3.6
guitar tone on Small Things >>>>>>>>>>
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fingerstyle on She Treats Me Well (+ that open tuning/capo combo)>>>>>
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Album Rating: 4.0
Yeah Ben's open tuning fingerstyle stuff that I've heard is great but has nothing on Matsson, Drake or Kinsella imo
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Album Rating: 5.0
Which is why his stuff is (a little) more interesting when he pulls back from the flashy playing and pronounced individual climaxes and leans purely into expansive atmospherics! (IFWWW’s still pretty close to a 4.5 though)
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Album Rating: 5.0
Doesn’t matter what technical prowess is on show there is an abundance of soul with our Benny Boy which is found in more or less everything he crafts.
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Album Rating: 5.0
Trve but less so in Every Kingdom if we can all band together in classic Sput negativity and end this schism
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Album Rating: 5.0
The Wolves and Black Flies are stunners on that record. I won’t hear a bad word said bearing in mind I initially thought it was run of the mill Brighton student indie twaddle.
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Album Rating: 4.0
I'm gonna listen to this tmo at noon while walking my dog in a big ass field. Should fit the vibe I think
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Album Rating: 5.0
Can I retroactively apply a “relatively” or is that bad form?
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Album Rating: 5.0
Hell yes, Cole, please give your dog so many ear scratches for me
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Album Rating: 5.0
I’ve done that on occasion Cole. Essential dog walk in fuck off great field listening. Poo bag at the ready.
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Album Rating: 4.0
Of course Porcupine
and yeah it's honestly my favourite way to listen to music Zak. Walking while listening to an album is way better than just sitting and listening to it, but it feels weird to go for a walk just to listen to an album, so dogs are perfect for that
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Album Rating: 5.0
I reckon I listen to the majority of my music walking. A lot of the rest of the time it’s on in the background while I’m reading a book or scrolling through bollocks on me phone, on sput or whatever.
For me the best listening ‘experience’ is and always will be just sat there listening to an album in it’s entirety on me own with no distraction, no interference from anything.
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Album Rating: 4.0
for fingerstyle playing, in dreams is a slam dunk. precise and melodic
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Album Rating: 5.0
Give us it here. Piece of piss.
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