Album Rating: 2.5

as is always

Album Rating: 4.0

Any thoughts on the review guys let me know, I love your input as usual and I love how y'all are arguing over this one that's cool, like some controversy to this one.

Good review SPR, the Intro in particular is great, it did its job to get me invested and draw me in. One thing I'll say as general advice is to cut down a little bit on the explanations. What I mean is, sometimes they're overlong and a bit wordy when a shorter or more concise sentence could do the job. JohnnyOnTheSpot told me this and he's 100% on the ball (I'm paraphrasing); "if you can convey the same meaning and importance in fewer words then do it"

I try to keep that in mind when I write. It makes for a clearer read and you won't get lost in a sea of adjectives (:

Not really my cup of tea

well what can i say, urine to different stuff

Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Off

I'm still not very impressed with this, It's not as though he's sold out or anything but this album almost feels like he's retreated to being a musical backing for other artists. He does shine on tracks like Free and 3 which give off a vibe similar to his debut.

Hopefully the deluxe edition has instrumental versions of some of these tracks.

nice writeup. record is very listenable but not that great

Album Rating: 4.5

Loving this record, been on repeat for the past couple of days! Great review and some of my favourites on here are:



- Numb & Getting Colder (such an atmospheric experience)

- Say It

- Never Be Like You

- Wall Fuck

- Like Water

- Take a Chance

This is just everything that's wrong with popular music.

thanks for the in depth critique, your opinion is valued

btw 90% of your ratings are popular music tbh cya

soaked

> Intro paragraph is top-notch.

> What Flume does best in his kaleidoscopic, mirroring compositions is the viciousness and intensity it fixates into one's embodied soul, lighting it up in awe and confusion because of the unfamiliar patterns it shoots across.

For the first section there, I would consider being a little less zealous with the imagery because I'm not even sure what that means. For the second, I feel like "shoots across" is a weak descriptor given the huge vocabulary thrown around in the same sentence.

The epitome of Streten's art, is the bipolar emotion
Unnecessary comma

In the futuristic, inviting "Tiny Cities" featuring alternative mainstay Beck, his grundy, echoing vocals resonate naturally as they blend a clean-cut acoustic guitar sequence with pulsating, oxygenating bass that, in its explosive core, squeeze out and suffocate with every drop and burst, conveying the deepening sadness that echoes from tragedy and continuous struggle.

Superb descriptions here, but it's kind of hard to read because it's kind of a run-on sentence. Split that up, somehow.

as underneath it's masculinity
its for possession

her inner romantic enemies within herself
redundant

Fitted and designed with eloquent, electric synths that speak amongst the bolstering claps that rattle in its gusty essence, Tove Lo shines through the starry, star-studded night with a sense of damning seduction and demanding, the per usual in which she does best with.

demanding doesn't really work there, if you're looking to express that she sounds demanding then the noun would just be plain "demand", although I'm sure there's a better word - perhaps insistence / command.

it's lustful premise is further magnified immensely over the strong urge of sexual temptations that seduce all over with Tove Lo's elegant voice guiding through.

too many similar words in a small space

This is the most exotic, global kind of electronic you will come across in 2016

electronic what?

the end of it, this isn't certainly nightclub dance or anything commercialized, it's meant to make you think beyond it and at its faithful conclusion, delivers that agreeable nod and the sense of satisfaction that Flume aimed to shoot for, because this isn't "festival music", this goes beyond it.

Good wrap-up but it could be more powerfully delivered by splitting it up, probably right around "beyond it" | "and at its faithful conclusion."

Overall this is a really skillfully written review. If I had any broad/general advice it would be to focus more on the clarity of the descriptions than going into insane detail. Sometimes it works, but other times it makes it seem like you're attempting to sound smarter than the reader, which can be a turn off or just make it difficult in general to follow. Don't take the enormous wall of edits as a bad thing, just some constructive criticism because your writing has the potential to be top-notch when it avoids some of the above pitfalls.

Album Rating: 4.0

Sowing, this is really great thank you man. This is the kind of feedback I need that really is extensive and stuff which I like a lot, figuring out the next album that's coming up to write on but this is really good to use to follow up on the next review! I'm honestly glad my intro paragraph is really good, I've struggled massively before with those so that's really killer.

I distinctly remember arcade throwing one of his bi-daily temper tantrums about how much he hates flume like 2 years ago and now he's going out to see him live and bumping his new album rofl

yeah what an idiot changing his opinion over hundreds of days

Well when you are so vehemently insulted by an artist that you feel the need to call their fan basement dwelling neckbeard hipster losers then yeah its pretty ironic when you start actively listening to that artist and going to their shows bud

A little different than being lukewarm about something and then warming up to it, use your brain

No im gonna use your brain, and according to it, you are wrong and i am right xD