Album Rating: 4.5
It’s on the same level just stripped down but the songwriting is the same quality.
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Album Rating: 5.0
I think it was a conscious attempt to not make something on the same level which is what lets it stand on its own and be appreciated for what it is. It also just has some really really good melodies
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Album Rating: 5.0
I love this just as much as V D C, maybe even a little more... the style of this is a little more up my alley.
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Album Rating: 4.5
I think VDC is just as admirable as this because it takes so many risks and is such a thought provoking record, but this one is just better idk
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VDC was never just about the songwriting; the way that record blends genres and textures is almost in a class of its own
This is a nice, competent and sometimes very lovely rendition of the same dream pop album countless other bands are constantly making; good shit for sure, but pretty plain in comparison. Pretty much a 3.5 with some 4.5 highlights
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Album Rating: 4.5
It doesn’t sound plain to me at all. Never heard any other ‘indie’ band pull off so much feeling. Indie pop template aside, the progressions on this are quite a bit beyond the standard for the genre. Also a lot of thick chords you rarely get w this kind of music, help get those progressions of the ground and where they need to be.
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Album Rating: 5.0
Animals is correct
This is on another level from typical indie bands and still has the creativity and brilliance of their previous work
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It's clearly a cut above your Beach Houses and your Broadcasts, but it's playing the same game and can't cut it against the greats with so many weaker sections (everything between Darkness and Pretending); there's no way I'd take this as a whole over something like (hmm) Hi-Fi Anatomia, 23, Highvision or even Ceres & Calypso.
The progressions are nice, yes, but many of them are loose revisitations of VDC material and were unpacked in much more depth there (and it doesn't help that Chocolate Matter was essentially a noisier blueprint for half these tracks that ended up equally tight and considerably more exciting)
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Now I think about it, a lot of these tracks are somehow less focused than VDC's despite having less expansive structures; No Words... and Misfortunes both meander p liberally and Acting's jams are pretty circuitous
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Album Rating: 4.5
nah its not playing the same game as beach house lmao WAY more elevated than that drivel
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Generally agreed lol, but Beach House's latest raised their bar considerably and probs holds its own with this. Amazing what happens when you work with an actual drummer and use reverb for things other than making porridge
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Album Rating: 4.5
lmao
im excited to see how the lead guy has advanced his sonic skills the past decade (aside from just the single we got so far)
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Album Rating: 4.5
personally i feel like all songs should be about the songwriting but to each their own
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Album Rating: 5.0
“weaker sections (everything between Darkness and Pretending)“
Is that including Darkness and Pretending? I need to decide how much to lower my opinion of you
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Album Rating: 4.5
Acting is one of the greatest songs of all time. Pretending too. Yeah I like that Hi-Fi Anatomia album too but this is not only more progressive but has more charm. Really not too invested though because I can see anyone being captured by Hi-Fi. That album is assuredly a more immediate set of pay offs than this.
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Album Rating: 4.5
Darkness is straight up the best song by Sweet Trip
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Album Rating: 4.5
Beach House blows hard has never made anything even close to this
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"Is that including Darkness and Pretending?"
Lol no, Darkness is decent (no way near the best Sweet Trip) and Pretending is a big highlight. Love that one.
"personally i feel like all songs should be about the songwriting but to each their own"
...what does this mean?
"That album is assuredly a more immediate set of pay offs than this."
personally found it the other way round and would consider Hi-Fi equally or slightly more progressive (??) complex (those guitar arrangements are more sophisticated than any individual component here and it has a lot more going on rhythmically) but whatever; great record
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Album Rating: 5.0
"Darkness is straight up the best song by Sweet Trip"
as a whole no, but those last two minutes are for sure
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Album Rating: 4.5
"(no way near the best Sweet Trip)"
counterpoint yes it is
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