it seems like a very good album for this time of year

Album Rating: 2.5

i guess not mang

Album Rating: 3.0

i just really love the guitars on this thing

Album Rating: 5.0

the drums too oh man

Album Rating: 2.5

idk the musicianship is tight as fuck and you can tell they're into it, i just find p much all the songs sound the same





but i will listen again.

harder

better

faster

stronger

so history repeats, and the feeling that i will one day wake
an old and empty man only drives me harder.
even if you will not sacrifice your youth, it will grow to resent you.
like a body of water, it will yield only to entrenched earth.
i swore i would not carry your weight for you anymore
when at twenty-one, you cannot help yourself.
but in the time you were making up your mind, we already knew.

Album Rating: 2.5

damn

i knew that you wouldn't change, but i bit my tounge and swore, resigned myself to carry on despite you.
but you would not match my stride and cried, "foul! foul! how could you expect me to care about somebody else?"
and after all, who would expect anything else from you?
you would not apologize for what claimed you'd never do.
you guard your hand like there is something brilliant
waiting to play itself off.
and when you move to strike, everything will fall into place.
but i'll call your bluff. i know you're all talk.
and the words that come out
there will be nothing left but promises.
i wanted it to be different, to see truth where it did not fit.
but the harder i looked, the farther you seemed from it.
there is a cadence here, i guess, for every measured misstep.
i put one foot forward, and you take two steps back.
so just say what you want.

Album Rating: 5.0

in fall, the year you grew to be six feet

i tempered my fear in to haste,

a worry that dogged our mother.

she, the baby of three, asked how

so many things could take flight at once.

there are no easy answers, and even at thirteen, i

could not think of a sure reply.

at the church where i was baptized,

our father refused to park neat the crowd

at that time, i still believed in god, or faeries;

or that the air could catch on fire.

when you and your friends took off on seperate routes,

i wanted to follow you.

but our mother said i was not allowed to.

you had not yet learned how to fill such a broad frame.

that winter you said you hated your body,

but when spring came, you learned how to speak,

and you moved out west

to watch the ocean eat the coast away.



i can still remember that day you left,

thoughts spilling out from my chest,

like "who will you be when you come back"

or even, "will you come back?"

there is no album that is more emo than this one that doesn't cross that line into trite bullshit territory

Album Rating: 5.0

mostly because the lyrics are really fucking good and not about typical relationship or hating yourself bullshit



more reflective and thought provoking

wasn't there a thread where we just posted lyrics for a good hour? maybe it was a list.

Album Rating: 2.5

these lyrics are destroying me tbh

Album Rating: 3.0

ciiiiittttyyyy lights

and already i can't remember the heart was ever aware
that the body it kept alive was wearing out, was shutting down.
and tonight, when it realized, you gave up, it cried out,
"only now, i realize i always knew."

staaayyyy youuuurrrr piiiiityyyyyyy noooooww

Album Rating: 5.0

It would probably be easier to get into these guys with the EPs

Even though I don't emo much, this album has one of my favourite closers.

Album Rating: 4.5

Jammed Cathedral in the plug today, the part at the 2-minute mark is just gorgeous

Album Rating: 3.0

Keep What You Have Built Up Here has some pretty cringeworthy high vox, I prefer him to stay in that lower octave, but then that piano bridge