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parksungjoon
May 4th 2022


47227 Comments


livejournal type beat

ArsMoriendi
May 4th 2022


42367 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off

I will survive the Potsy culling

normaloctagon
May 4th 2022


5237 Comments


You can’t kill me ‘cause I’m already inside you
You can’t kill me ‘cause I’m already inside you
You can’t kill me ‘cause I’m already inside you
You can’t kill me ‘cause I’m already inside you
SIC!!!! SIC!!!! SIC!!!! SIC!!!!!!!

Colton
May 4th 2022


16757 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

literally everyone on this site thinks tkol is better than amsp anyway

parksungjoon
May 4th 2022


47227 Comments


explain the average difference then

normaloctagon
May 4th 2022


5237 Comments


Quick someone make a bill oreilly ‘can’t explain that’ meme

tectactoe
May 4th 2022


9228 Comments


Was just thinking about livejournal the other day. I spent an entire day trying to figure out how to make the mouse cursor turn into crosshairs when you visited my page.

I miss when the internet was nothing more than a novelty.

qwenta
May 5th 2022


833 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

This is their best album since 1997, maybe even better.

parksungjoon
May 5th 2022


47227 Comments


lmao

Koris
Emeritus
May 5th 2022


22631 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Daydreaming is a top 5 Radiohead tune

Demon of the Fall
May 5th 2022


39156 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

'literally everyone on this site thinks tkol is better than amsp anyway'

lol yeah it certainly FEELS that way, guess we're the vocal minority, or perhaps TKOL has grown on people over time? Hoping it's the latter. TKOL certainly appears to have a cult following here these days.

parksungjoon
May 5th 2022


47227 Comments


explain the average difference

Koris
Emeritus
May 5th 2022


22631 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

It's what I call the "Sound of Perseverance Phenomenon". TSoP has a 4.4 avg, but you wouldn't believe that based on the extremely vocal minority that shits on it in the comments. TKoL is basically the same thing but in the opposite direction

Underflow
May 5th 2022


5297 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

this shits on tkol tbh

parksungjoon
May 5th 2022


47227 Comments


>TSoP has a 4.4 avg, but you wouldn't believe that based on the extremely vocal minority that shits on it in the comments.

theres like 3 or 4 of us dude, chill out lmao

Koris
Emeritus
May 5th 2022


22631 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Clearly you don't remember the Tableguy Chronicles of 2014



Seriously, when that guy was here, every other page was just people constantly attacking the album. Shit was crazy (granted, it's not one of my favorite Death albums anymore either, but still)



parksungjoon
May 5th 2022


47227 Comments


i dont and perhaps thats testament to its irrelevance

polyrhythm
May 5th 2022


2601 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

AMSP and TKOL are both 4.5s for me, for very different reasons

polyrhythm
May 5th 2022


2601 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

On god, they're both really good albums



TKOL has a rhythmically dense and busy first half, before all this machinery breaks down and is reclaimed by nature in the blissed-out second half. The transition from jittery to zen provides such a powerful sense of release. Love it



AMSP on the other hand goes hot-cold-hot-cold for most of its runtime, with the more animated tracks (Burn the Witch, Decks Dark, Ful Stop, Identikit) immediately being followed by a more subdued track (Daydreaming, DID, Glass Eyes, The Numbers). Say what you want about flow and alphabetical tracklists, I love this approach and the stark contrast it provides.

Again, we have a sense of something breaking down in the back half of the album, with the final four tracks all being of the 'cold' variety. While I don't think this 'slow side B' thing works as well here as it does on TKOL, I love all four of these tracks individually, and I enjoy the sense of being enveloped by something infinite, like death or the ocean. A busier track thrown in here might have 'spiced up' the back half and made it more exciting, but we would have lost that beautiful sense of surrender



Call it lazy, call it boring, call it too-many-slow-songs-grouped-together. For me it feels like the album's emotional themes coming home to roost. An album about death and loss and trauma shouldn't end with a bang, but with a whimper



TL;DR they're both amazing and appeal to different parts of my brain

parksungjoon
May 5th 2022


47227 Comments


thats cute



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