The Knife Shaking the Habitual
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PotsyTater
July 31st 2023


10099 Comments


The topics and themes of this album are challenging, the music itself can be similarly challenging. Good art should be challenging. Perfect album, the moments that being you out of your comfort zone are doing their job. It’s up to you if you want to be a low vibrational smooth brained pleb and dock the best album of the 2010’s for that.

ArsMoriendi
July 31st 2023


42343 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Oh come on, the fact that Old Dreams is even left off some versions means Karin thinks it’s inessential

PotsyTater
July 31st 2023


10099 Comments


No it means there wasn’t space on the medium actually, the rest of that is conjecture

IsisScript80
July 31st 2023


1755 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

"Old Dreams..." is a definitive part of the experience.

If I'm thinking, "Ooh, I'm gonna have me some 'Shaking the Habitual'!", it's not going to be skipped because it's entirely part of the statement.

It's a brilliantly uncompromising album and needs to be enjoyed as such.

Demon of the Fall
July 31st 2023


39105 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Everyone who skips it should lower their ratings, instead of sullying everything good and righteous with these brain-dead takes. Put your money where your mouth is. You’ve been exposed for the shameless posers you all are.

ArsMoriendi
July 31st 2023


42343 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

The thing is, I don’t skip it. If I’m listening to Shaking the Habitual in full, then I’m listening to it in full warts and all



I don’t skip tracks and then claim I’ve heard an album, that’s just not my style… doesn’t make me enjoy the tracks though

ArsMoriendi
July 31st 2023


42343 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

My rating is lower because of Old Dreams, this would be a 5 without it

SomeCallMeTim
July 31st 2023


5349 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

I mean I def listened to the whole thing on first listen ye and I 100% took that song into consideration when giving this a 4

nol
July 31st 2023


12280 Comments


“It’s not going to be skipped because it's entirely part of the statement.”

I knew this was coming lol


cylinder
July 31st 2023


4393 Comments


I was used to the CD version without Old Dreams way before I first heard the song when I got the vinyl. Awesome track for sure, but I don’t think it’s necessary on the album tbh, could’ve been its own release

Idk, maybe if it was the first or last song, but I really dislike it being in the middle

ArsMoriendi
July 31st 2023


42343 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

It's basically an intermission at best, and an interruption at worst

Hawks
Staff Reviewer
July 31st 2023


116701 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Jamming this now because this discussion has me interested lmao.

Dewinged
Emeritus
October 31st 2023


33050 Comments


This is amazing.

Demon of the Fall
October 31st 2023


39105 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Whoa, first time Dewi?

And yes, absolute peak-level music in every sense. Glad you like it.

Dewinged
Emeritus
October 31st 2023


33050 Comments


Yeah this one is first time, Raging Lung is so good.

PotsyTater
October 31st 2023


10099 Comments


Hawks to the knife is as Ben Shapiro is to WAP

SlothcoreSam
October 31st 2023


6666 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Hey Pots, what do you think of the whole Buffy Sainte-Marie saga?

Flashmobba
January 31st 2025


3458 Comments


Time to check this out

hope her voice is bearable this time

Demon of the Fall
January 31st 2025


39105 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

good luck, don't mess this up (again!)

"Idk, maybe if it was the first or last song, but I really dislike it being in the middle"

whoa, no no no, the only reason it works is BECAUSE it's in the middle. A long intermission between the two sides is the only situation where it would work (presumably, I haven't tested this theory). In fact I can't think of a single song which is more reliant on where it is in the track-listing. As a standalone release I would never listen to it. For all the 'skippers' out there, imagine if it was at the beginning, or the end (even worse), it would increase the temptation 10x

Flashmobba
January 31st 2025


3458 Comments


sorry I don’t think I’m quite used to this yet



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