Album Rating: 3.0

yeah musically they havent been "emo" since albatross really, maybe parts of dealer too but by nmg its gone and listening to them in interviews shows they dont think of themselves as really being in the sound

Album Rating: 4.5

You release one record, a couple of absolutely iconic songs, and all of the sudden everyone wants you to make Midwest emo music forever



This band’s trajectory has been very weird but I’m very glad to have been present for it

Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off

@sowing it looks like your 1975 joke flew right over everyone's heads

Album Rating: 4.0

Thats because hes an elite

Album Rating: 4.0

Dealer's very emo, just the softer vibey kind.



i wish they integrated a bit more of that stuff into their present era (specifically the twinkly shit considering they did that so well), buuuuuuuut definitely not complaining about where they are now. experimental whatever the fuck Foxing is one of a kind

Album Rating: 3.0

Okay, so both singles are stellar and among their best tracks, I think. I’m just really hoping they aren’t showing the best stuff early

Album Rating: 4.0

Their emo phase was Albatross/Dealer by my perception, and then NMG launched more of a post-emo/alternative phase in the same vein as Brand New/Modest Mouse. Their latest album is brilliant in its own way; I'd characterize it as a logical progression from the styles of Nearer My God.

Album Rating: 4.0

Holy shit this new song

Album Rating: 3.5

I really think it might be my song of the year for real. I can’t take it off repeat. I like it even more than Greyhound and that alone says a ton

Album Rating: 3.0

every other second of Greyhound reminds me to a borderline offputting degree or this, that or the other moment from Beggars/Alchemy era Thrice (albeit with shinier prod), but it's well-realised and definitely one of their better tracks

Hell 99 is absolutely horrible though. artless overuse of mediocre uncomfortable-sounding (not in a fun way) raspy skramz, piss-thin prod and choppy mix (those drums just sound awful), terrible zeitgeist-baiting lyricism, cheap cynicism and disaffect that probably sound halfway deep if you're still hung up on doomer fantasies from the comfort of a very american armchair. kill it with fire

Album Rating: 3.7

Hell 99 is genuinely worrying yeah

Album Rating: 3.5

im not listening to an 8 minute single I'll wait for the album but holy fuck Hell 99 is AWESOME

Album Rating: 3.5

“I'd characterize it as a logical progression from the styles of Nearer My God”

I’m just struggling with this and find it a bit worrying. I loved the first two singles of NMG. Then GameShark sent my expectations crashing down. I genuinely appreciate the experimental nature of NMG and I honestly wish I liked it, but it comes off often times as grating and nails on a chalkboard. There are 3 or 4 I legitimately cannot stomach to finish. So, I’m wondering how exactly this new album is like NMG? So far, neither of these singles remind me anything of it. Does it have songs on here like Lich Prince and GameShark and Crown Candy? Does each song have the level of production of Greyhound? I am immensely excited for this album due to these singles and now that you are saying it’s similar to NMG and Ian Cohen said it’s like a proggier NMG, I am definitely quite concerned. I personally see that album as far and away their lowest point and there’s a giant gap between it and dealer and it and this. I know many people find this album to be a step down from that album but I even find this to be way better.

Album Rating: 3.0

nearer my god is far and away their best album so far yee. as long as it doesnt in any way remind me of crown candy i am sold

Album Rating: 2.9

new song beats absolute ass hell yea, more eric vocals please and ty

Album Rating: 4.0

@sowing i need this fucking album already, please

Album Rating: 4.5

Yeah yall are tripping, Hell 99 is absolute fucking fire.

Album Rating: 4.0

Hell 99 is dope af but im curious in how the flow of the tracks will go together

Album Rating: 4.5

Johnny, im not trying to sound like a dick, but how old are you?



I’d struggle to find many older zoomers and millennials (at least that I know) that wouldn’t relate to the lyrics in some way.



“terrible zeitgeist-baiting lyricism, cheap cynicism and disaffect that probably sound halfway deep if you're still hung up on doomer fantasies from the comfort of a very american armchair.”



the rest of your criticism? Fine agree to disagree, but god I really think you’re wrong here man. When you’re still young and the existentialism hits and you realize what’s really in front of you… idk I wouldn’t call it “doomerism”. Just purposelessness maybe?

Album Rating: 3.5

Johnny is 23 why wouldn't he relate ?