Album Rating: 4.0
Born To Beg really resonated with me today, great choral vocals and a vocoder-y bit
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Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off
The piano figure in that song is beautiful.
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Album Rating: 4.5
The coda of "I'll Still Destroy You" keeps giving me imagery of a rocket blasting off. Probably the most thrilling moment in their discography, song is a whole might be in their top 10
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Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off
Dark Side of the Gym is my current favorite and for now the only 5/5 song here imo.
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Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off
is the title track not clicking with you, Boney?
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Album Rating: 4.5
The jungle bird noises towards the end of 'Empire Line' are...different :/
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Album Rating: 4.5
'Dark Side' is sitting between two superior tracks for me but it's still really good, probably top 6
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Album Rating: 4.5
I still find the melodies of 'I'll destroy you' a bit "la-dee-da" wishy washy. The ending is Tinker Tailor-tactic though.
Still easily the second weakest here for me.
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Album Rating: 3.5
Their worst since Sad Songs… the melodies just aren’t there. Matt sounds uninspired… Idk, maybe it will grow, but I’m not nearly as blown away by this as I hoped. Carin >>>
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Album Rating: 4.0
I think it'll grow on you. I know for me it always takes a bit for National albums to click. Took me like a month for TWFM to click. It's a good album though. It has it's mishaps (looking at you, turtleneck) but overall very solid
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Album Rating: 3.5
More like TOILETNECK. Song stinks.
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Album Rating: 4.0
^this
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HIDE YOUR BACK OR SHRUG YOUR SHOULDERS
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"Born to Beg really resonated with me today"
Yussss. Idk if Matt has sounded so vulnerable before, and that's like exactly his niche. "If your heart was in it, I'd stay a minute/I'm dying to be taken apart." There it goes, right to the feels
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Album Rating: 4.0
4 or 5 full listens now. I think Empire Line is probably the weakest track but I do really like the refrain and the way it lingers on "you are in this too". Favourites are definitely Nobody Else, System Only Dreams, I'll Still Destroy You and Guilty Party.
As far as the electronic elements I think they're really deftly handled, they don't distract in the slightest and they don't sound ham-fisted or feel without purpose.
I don't think the album sounds uninspired at all, to me it sounds meticulously laboured over.
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Album Rating: 4.5
System and Guilty Party are confirmed classics for me too
I'll keep trying with I'll Destroy You - I actually prefer the drum builds on Empire Line at the moment.
Nobody Else in going up in my estimations every time I start the album, 'I Should Live in Salt' seemed unremarkable to me at first too, but then I came to associate it with introducing that album as a whole and it reaped the benefits
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Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off
I remember thinking "Salt" was really weird at first because of Matt singing in a higher register. Now of course I deem it a classic.
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Album Rating: 4.5
Am i the only one who enjoys the melodies on 'Walk it back'? Song grew on me hard. Least favorite song on the album but now is one of my faves.
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Album Rating: 4.4 | Sound Off
Yeah Salt never stood out to me much before about a year ago when it clicked and I loved it. A lot of that album and Alligator was like that for me.
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Album Rating: 4.5
'Am i the only one who enjoys the melodies on 'Walk it back'? Song grew on me hard. Least favorite song on the album but now is one of my faves.'
You are not alone, second or third favourite track on this. The second section after the samples takes a while to get used to but it won me over after ten or so listens.
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