Album Rating: 3.8

Every song was just so much better live the album sounds plain af in comparison

Album Rating: 5.0

A good problem to have

Album Rating: 4.5

When the album is this good, there are indeed far worse problems

Album Rating: 4.0

from an objective standpoint he's actually a marvelous singer

Album Rating: 4.5

basically gave up listening to this in regards to my own emotional health

Album Rating: 5.0

Album is desperately teetering on a 5, but the title track and No Shade just don't cut it, even though I jam this thing practically every day.

Album Rating: 5.0

Album is desperately teetering on a 6

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

except title track and no shade are both in the top 5



fourth of july is the worst probably

Album Rating: 4.5

I fail to see how Fourth of July is the worst

i don't

Album Rating: 5.0

Fourth of July is a contender for best track on here

Album Rating: 4.5

I agree. I don't see what's so divisive about it.



The "We're all gonna die" line is so simple yet so powerful, one of the most memorable ones on the album.

Album Rating: 2.5

That line is just. Ugh. Bad ugh, not good ugh.

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Album Rating: 4.5

Well to each their own, I guess. While it's a simple line, I think it works well as a realization on Sufjan's part (assuming the song is autobiographical, which I'm pretty sure the whole album is), considering the topic of the rest of the song. It's something we all know, but to embrace it and truly comprehend it is hard, and I feel like with that line that's what he's trying to do.

Album Rating: 2.5

I get exactly what he's trying to do, but damn it feels so cheap.

Album Rating: 5.0

If that song feels cheap you should check your pulse because you might not have one

Album Rating: 5.0

Death is a zombie.

whole album is cheap whiny b.s. tbh

Album Rating: 2.5

I don't know man. I prefer esoteric and generally less forward feels.

Ya know. Like that's just me. I'm not faulting anyone that doesn't. But I dunno. Maybe I put it a little more bluntly than I could have. BUT that's just how that song feels to me. It's so... blunt. Like I feel things. YOU should feel them too. Don't think for a second that music doesn't make me feel, Mr. Sowing. I feel things (especially art) very deeply. To the point, where it has fucked up many a life plan. I just want these things to creep in on me unexpectedly. This album. Everything about it screams FEEL SAD. Ya know? Maybe you don't. I just want things I don't expect. Those are the things that get to me. Whatever. I've probably had too many drinks to Sputnik right now. And I know your comment was harmless jest, but to suggest someone as emotionally spastic as me is emotionally dead? Nah. I'm not with it. Damn. Lots of words here. Sorry.