Album Rating: 3.0

That too

Album Rating: 4.0

So I’m Growing Old on Magic Mountain is actually bliss

Album Rating: 4.5

^That should be the final track.

Album Rating: 4.0

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Tho the final is a highlight too tbh

This is looking like a solid 4 guys

Album Rating: 4.5

:-)

Album Rating: 4.0

Magic Mountain is really hitting me hard rn

Album Rating: 2.5

frodo gets fisty with father john misty in a crazy fitsy of domestic blissty..

Album Rating: 4.0

Do you not at least like that one butcher?

Album Rating: 2.5

sorry, neeka.. this guy's got some skill, but from concept to execution, he's fucking unbearable..

Album Rating: 1.5

That's fair dude, and I call it like I see it dude, and in my eyes you might as well be the wasted guy in the back off the general admission crowd on the floor booing the opening act off the stage, saying they blow and are terrible writers with very little context other than the 10 minutes you've listened to, and anyone who even bothers to give you a little more context you cover your ears because you can't be bothered.



Sure, you think this is written terribly, that's fine, all I'm saying is if you watched some of the vlogs released with this and some of the interviews he's done that FJM is pretty methodical with the way he made this record and while it's not your cup of tea that it's something that was methodically put together with some reasoning and not randomly spewed out.



It's like the difference between hating food because whoever cooked it is terrible or you just don't like how it is. Person A can make a pizza and just sloppily throw dough together, drench it with sauce and cheese throw it in the oven without checking the time and have it come out burnt and it would be terrible piece of cooking and food. Person B could follow a specific recipe where they knead the dough with butter so the flavoring is evened out, they can add flour on the outside and put garlic sauce around the edges to enhance flavor, they can make their own sauce from scratch adding pinches of garlic and basil and make their own custom 4 cheese blend and then throw the pizza in a custom wood stove and rotate the pizza every few minutes until its golden brown.... and guess what, that pizza can completely suck as well to you! But objectively you can argue person B at least has a methodology and logic behind their piece of shit pizza where as person A was not...



Whatever, I'm just going on now and I really don't care what anyone thinks about any piece of music, that's just an idea that's floated in my head for a while where i think on some level music can be objective in certain realms, such as writing and methodology. I'm sure I come accross as pretentious and narrowminded but I'm really not trying to be.

Album Rating: 2.0

Insipid fucking album

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

Inspired fucking album

Album Rating: 4.0

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[2] Same formula of a few great songs mixed with some trash.


Some solid work on here and I have respect for FJM, but not a single album of his has gripped me fully. Love the satire and there are moments of great lyrics; However the songs often feel overly fleshed out while lacking the melody or hooks to drive deeper imo. I always keep my eyes on his releases because I know that while sonically it could be better, his concepts and standout tracks are far above the standard par.

Album Rating: 1.0

Banger after banger

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

People got what they wanted with the new one - zero innovation, re-record the last album melody for melody and put it in a more comfortable format



Wasn't a single second of the new one I didn't feel I'd already heard the lyrical sentiment, vocal melody, instrumental backing selection....aaaaaaargh



He should of carried on 'following his muse' and being obnoxious



'Boring FJM' was the only one I didn't want - least interesting album since the debut...and that had three or four classic songs to bail it out



New one is - just - ok

This is way longer than it needs to be but otherwise it's solid.

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

Well if you want the exact same album with shorter track lengths may I direct you towards his latest release...

I'm listening to it now : )

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

Just finished my first spin of the new one. I enjoyed it, it remains to be seen whether I prefer it to this one but I think the return to a standard album length does it good. Yeah it's the same sort of stuff stylistically as this, the arrangements certainly aren't up to the quality of those on ILYH but the songwriting seems solid, it'll all have to grow on me but the only song I disliked was Date Night and the title track could be a classic. The biggest problem I think is releasing it so soon after this one - no one felt like they needed more FJM in their life yet and that might hurt it in the long run. Reality though is I didn't expect him to change his style up really so I'm not bothered by the sameyness.