Album Rating: 4.5

Two Paintings by Nikolai Astrup is incredible.

about to listen now

Album Rating: 4.5

It's mesmeric, for better or worse.

Album Rating: 4.5

Idk if i could handle that.

Album Rating: 4.5

oh shit it's out? idk if I'm ready...

Album Rating: 4.5

it’s even better than this record, believe it or not

Album Rating: 4.5

I don't know why but I'm going to give it a chance. Hopefully there's more to it than this.

Album Rating: 4.0

I’m crossing my fingers for another Sowing 2.0

the new album is more this.

Album Rating: 5.0

Crow Pt. 2 might be Phil’s best song. The slow-building tension is so incredible, and the guitar is absolutely beautiful

Agree w Lucid, it's better than this

Album Rating: 4.0

Wtf, Sowing I will fight your conterfeit Xerneas ass.

Album Rating: 4.5

one thing the detractors definitely can't say is that the new one is musically vacant. feels like a culmination of all his work under microphones/mount eerie paired with a continuation of the loss theme

Album Rating: 4.5

That’s exciting to hear. Hoping I like it even more than this.

Album Rating: 4.5

Ravens still gives me chills. The atmosphere is overwhelming.

Album Rating: 4.5

Well this is embarrassing

wew

glad you finally saw sense

Album Rating: 4.5

i thought i might get used to this after awhile but it still destroys every time.

Album Rating: 4.5

I think the first time (well 3 times, because I didn't give up on it right away) I just wasn't in the right mindset. I was looking for something to appeal to me aesthetically and not emotionally. I decided to give this one another shot in light of the new record, and it devastated me. I'm not sure what was different. Might have something to do with the fact that the wife and I got in a big argument the night before. The whole ride to work I'm listening to this just imagining how his lyrics would feel applied to me if my wife were to die from cancer. I felt perspective very suddenly. I felt guilt, thinking about how petty the argument was and how all that matters are the seconds of happiness we have each day. I imagined the future hypothetical daughter we'd have. I literally had to wait in the parking lot at work before going in to make sure I wasn't going to start crying (or at least crying more than the misty feel my eyes already had). I sort of never want to listen to it again because of how depressing it is. At the same time, no other album or movie I've witnessed has ever made me want to come home and simply concede everything, just to hold her and be thankful she's alive. I know this album isn't "for making into art", but it is art in itself because of the realness of the lyrics and the bare, vacant instrumental contributions that signify Phil's devastation and the lifelessness in his voice - he's literally singing about his wife's death 11 days after the fact, recounting mundane details of his day that cause him to break down weeping just like it would anyone. It's so powerful and easy to connect to in a way that no one ever should have to know. It's shattering my perspective on things right now...to call it an amazing album doesn't even feel right. It's awful...and I feel awful. But it's so damn beautiful in the most morbid of ways. Gaahh whatever this is a 5 and it's the reason I or anyone should ever listen to music and I'm an idiot for being so blind for so long. I feel like I should write Phil an apology note or something.

Album Rating: 4.5

I love you Sowing.