Album Rating: 4.5

the backing vox on dormouse are so fucking perfect

Album Rating: 5.0

PH was way more cloudy than this

If anything this is their cleanest sounding from a production standpoint since TS

I know what you're hearing though because it's what I heard on Will Yip's production of PH; I think he really upped his game here, however

Album Rating: 5.0

Soooo... vinyls for this have shipped too?

Album Rating: 4.5

Will Yip’s production is way better and less cloudy here for sure

Album Rating: 4.0

Over 100 votes and still a 4.5. Good Lord.

Album Rating: 3.5

Nbehre, regular vinyls should be shipped out already, but the special edition doesn’t come out until early 2019

Album Rating: 3.5

I heard Aaron Weiss say “asshole” once

Album Rating: 5.0

I had a “holy shit” moment on my 20th or so time listening to michael. someone had mentioned the “your little brother can’t paddle anymore” part and what that means and then the fact the song title is both a reference to the spiritual as well as his brother... I was like oh damn, duh. also that last line is devastating.

Album Rating: 5.0

yeah the "can't paddle anymore" line almost reduced me to tears

Album Rating: 3.5

What is everyone’s favorite lyric from Aaron Weiss? I’m curious.



Mine is: “You kept a distance out of fear you’d break, but what good’s a single windchime hanging quiet all alone?”

Album Rating: 4.5

I said “water” expecting the word would satisfy my thirst.

Album Rating: 4.5

I asked her, "Do you ever have that recurring fantasy

Where you push little kids

From the tops of the ride?"

And she shook her head no

I said "oh, neither do I"

And with my grandma's ring

I went down on one knee

And the subsequent catastrophe

Has since haunted me

Like a fiberglass ghost in the attic

Album Rating: 5.0

Borderline impossible for me to choose.

But the Elephant lyrics always stood out to me, both "I don't know anything about truth / But I know falsehood when I see it" or "This mock trial can no more determine my lot / Than can driftwood determine the ocean's waves."

Album Rating: 4.5

Maybe there’ll be a bakery hiring, we’ll knead a little dough to get by



Best line on TS imo

Album Rating: 5.0

A fish swims in the sea

While the sea is in a certain sense

Contained within the fish!

Oh, what am I to think

What the writing

Of a thousand lifetimes

Could not explain

If all the forest trees were pens

And all the oceans - ink?

^^Chan's pick is one of my faves too

And if I didn't have you as my guide
I'd still be wandering lost in Sinai
Or down by the tracks
Watching trains go by to remind me:
There are places that aren't here
I had a well but all the water left
So I'll ask for your forgiveness
With every breath


is probably the one though

Album Rating: 5.0

Coldheaven - thanks! Mine hasn’t yet and it’s not special edition... was wondering because it said ships in November but some of you have gotten it... anyway, loving this!

Album Rating: 4.5

probably the final chorus to red cow tbh



Was he a violent man? Well, he had his genocidal moments...

Or penned by fiction’s hand? To whom could that phrase not apply?

How much are even lifeless sounds responsive to our listening ear!

what Pharoah now or Jew or picture holds us here?

Album Rating: 5.0

The closing lines to tortoises all the way down are a little nonsensical and mad but entirely brilliant:



While all hiding inside our painting-of-a-house-hung-up-inside- that same-painted-house-which-ever-implies-another-painted-house-inside lives

Serpent-in-the-sky-lives!

Servants-of-the-least-high!

Most-tortoiseless lives!

Would you meet me sometime soon, son, down by the riverside?

There’s room enough in my paradise

My empty little mind

Album Rating: 5.0

And then of course Aaron’s masterpiece



“The sky, I'd been told

Would roll up like a scroll

As the mountains and islands moved from their place

And the sun would turn black

As a dead raven's back

But there'd be nowhere hide

From the Judge's face

After which message-less birds take flight without cause

To the silence they've heard in the absence of laws

Or imperial crowns: Unsent, unsigned--



The other night I dreamt I was finally out of college

In my own pair of sandals, I had turned into my father

Whistling our tune about the Rio Grande

Like an anchorite in June I took hold of my own hand

And started on the Abrahamic joke we knew

About apostrophes and pronouns and you-remember-who

"But let's keep that silly punchline between me and you

Little Haroon

And the man in the moon."