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YoYoMancuso
Emeritus
June 10th 2022


19776 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

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Colton
June 10th 2022


16757 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

this dude ain’t actually a space marine he’s a musician

pizzamachine
June 10th 2022


28291 Comments


Game over man, game over

Sinternet
Emeritus
June 10th 2022


26909 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

i believe the particles of bread represent all the cum stains he didnt clear up from wanking over charli xcx



understandable really

GhandhiLion
June 10th 2022


17793 Comments


They were influenced by pere ubu on their debut. Pretty sure they referenced them.

GhandhiLion
June 10th 2022


17793 Comments


This one is more Arcade Fire and Michael Nyman

Demon of the Fall
June 10th 2022


39143 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

perhaps, but this is not the debut

tectactoe
June 10th 2022


9228 Comments


They were influenced by pere ubu on their debut.
I can see that a bit more. Especially in the slower and more sparse parts of "Athens" and "Science Fair," maybe even the final section of "Sunglasses".
They've largely abandoned that specific sound here. Or at least transformed it into something completely different.

GhandhiLion
June 10th 2022


17793 Comments


"perhaps, but this is not the debut"
What's that suppose to mean

Demon of the Fall
June 10th 2022


39143 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

this is a departure in sound vs the debut, doesn't warrant any comparison to Pure Boo Boo

even if the reference point was once relevant, it no longer is

GhandhiLion
June 10th 2022


17793 Comments


That's really dumb

Zakusz
June 10th 2022


2134 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Why is crescendocore a bad thing? Are we not building upon ideas and moving the song to a more formed direction these days?

Anthracks
June 10th 2022


8410 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

listened to this in a good mood and hated it



listened to it in a bad mood and liked it



2.5 is fitting for now

LeddSledd
June 10th 2022


7445 Comments


lmao

LeddSledd
June 10th 2022


7445 Comments


"Why is crescendocore a bad thing?"

there is a difference between using a musical crescendo and playing the absolute most boring and formulaic post rock imaginable

tectactoe
June 10th 2022


9228 Comments


I misremembered how the Sput 'similar' artists worked, for some reason I thought it was specific to an album, not the entire artist. In that case it makes enough sense to have Pere Ubu as similar since influences are present in 50% of BN,NR's discography.

I was mostly using the term crescendocore flippantly as indeed many of the tracks here finish louder than they begin and sort of gradually arrive there. But there's a huge difference between the approach here and something like e.g. Explosions in the Sky, which is precisely the sort of boring cookie-cutter post-rock to which you're probably referring.

robertsona
Emeritus
June 10th 2022


28661 Comments

Album Rating: 1.0

🅱️ants from 🅱️up there

Djang0
June 10th 2022


1173 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

“Crescendocore” is great when the idea you’re building on is interesting. Which is probably why I find a song like Basketball Shoes far less engaging than something like Haldern.

That being said yeah i’m hard pressed to call many songs here “crescendocore.” Maybe Snow Globes is the closest thing

LeddSledd
June 10th 2022


7445 Comments


I have not listened to this but yea I'm pretty sure (or I hope) this isn't crescendocore that everyone is hyped about

Colton
June 10th 2022


16757 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

it contains crescendos but that’s always kinda been their thing



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