Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

lmao

Album Rating: 3.5

"You had it all! Tomorrow's never fine. The peace we lost in ourselves are never found."



This slightly bothers me. I sing "is" overtop of Troy.

Album Rating: 2.5

this is so solid and dull





agree, I tried my best to listen it full, and I am like done by track 5 or so, and I thought I was at track 11 or something. is "hushed and grim" a description of the production style btw?



I give it a 2.5 just because they are all great musicians and stuff, but their songwriting has rubbed me the wrong way since ever lol, I can´t say I have ever been a big Mastodon fan. Even saw them live 4 times and yeah, never was blown away. I guess it´s not my vibe

Album Rating: 2.5

this is so solid and dull [3]



Their timbre choice is absolute ass. Not only does it flatten out the dynamics on most of these songs, it also sucks out the emotion when you be bluesy or try to go for a transcendental-ish mellow part and all you get is muddy compressed tones.



I FEEL COMPRESSION.

Album Rating: 3.5

This album feels like it's more focused on vocal melodies and creating catchy tunes than it is about the other instruments.



To its detrimennnnnt!

Album Rating: 4.0

Still bangs hard

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

Yap, just checked the whole thing in vinyl I bought for xmas. Rules

Always been mostly indifferent to this band, but as an open-minded musician I am giving this a listen. Production is gorgeous, the heavy parts are nice, and many good moments overall. As always, it's just the vocals that stand out as a weak spot.

Album Rating: 5.0

I personally love the vocal work on this album.

It's way better than older stuff I've listened to, it's definitely cleaner. I will say that this far into their career it's just part of their sound now, so it is what it is. But between all three voices they use, I always wonder what a dedicated vocalist would sound like.

Album Rating: 4.0

Vocals sound much better here than on the past three releases. Production work sounds a bit thin but it isn't bad, specially when you compare it to the over compressed mess that is OMRTS (and I like that album, for the most part).

Album Rating: 5.0

"You had it all! Tomorrow's never fine. The peace we lost in ourselves are never found."

This slightly bothers me. I sing "is" overtop of Troy.



I presume he actually sings "the peace we lost in ourselves and never found" and it's a typo on the lyric sheet. That way the sentence would make sense.

Album Rating: 3.0

Blood Mountain vocals >

Album Rating: 4.0

I personally love the vocal work on this album. [2]

Blood Mountain vocals > [2]

Agree with both statements. Sure differs.

Instrumentally, also very different, very few fillers, imo, very good double album.

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

god fuck the last part of pain with an anchor is so fucking potent aaaaargh

this part would've been the highlight of some other of their records before, like the closer rounding everything off. but its only the intro to this amazing album here.

Album Rating: 4.0

alright this is finally starting to grow on me quite a bit.

Album Rating: 4.0

Undoubtedly their best since CtS.

Album Rating: 4.0

Agreed

No contest

Album Rating: 4.5

I had a new listen on Emperor of Sand, which I found to be an excellent album that year..... and it pales in comparison to this one





I guess this is the excitement of following a contemporary band as it develops, while its hard to say a release is objectively better than another, it definitely makes more sense at the time of release than a few years later, or when approached and compared at the same time without context of the time (which is what many new listeners do when browsing through discographies of older bands for the first time)