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iamSeraph
July 23rd 2011


928 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

: D

Crowe
July 23rd 2011


434 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

The lyrics aren't deep or profound, but I just believe the singer when he sings them. With most music like this, I just can't. The music-vocals combo just sets up the sincerity here perfectly.

DaveyBoy
Emeritus
July 24th 2011


22503 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Oh yeah, it's half as much in the delivery, than the lyrics themselves.

Spec
July 26th 2011


41420 Comments


Love the summary, seriously. It's what caught my attention.

Will check this out.

omnipanzer
July 26th 2011


21827 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

Need to listen to it a few more times but so far so good.

Sanders
July 26th 2011


2416 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

I can't get the chorus of the first song out of my head.

DaveyBoy
Emeritus
July 26th 2011


22503 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Thanks Spec. Thought that lyric was especially fitting. Just in case you - and others - were not aware, it is a lyric from the album, so I can't take full credit.



That's always a great sign Sanders. Some criticized the decision to release that song as a single, but I think it was a pretty obvious choice.

IfYouRun
July 27th 2011


314 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Checking these out at the moment, certainly liking Work In Progress at the moment, however the end deffinatley drags out and lost my interest.

War Paint is, simply put, awesome. Enough said on that track.

DaveyBoy
Emeritus
July 27th 2011


22503 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Just on that, this is one of those albums where if you play around with the tracklist (EG: Just simply reverse the order), you will like the closing tracks more than you initially did. It's not great for that aforementioned storyline arc, but it does make you see some songs in a different light. Probably a sign that there is a little more diversity needed.

F0RBES
July 29th 2011


279 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

Finally got my pre-order. I really did not expect this, but I'm super dissapointed. The whole album seems so bland, and yeah, I like the lyrics for the most part but they were delivered so much better on Reach For The Sun. Only songs I really enjoy a lot are War Paint and In My Room.

F0RBES
July 29th 2011


279 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

I guess I'm also enjoying "Everyone Left".

DaveyBoy
Emeritus
July 29th 2011


22503 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

I'm predicting a rating increase in approximately 7 days time.

F0RBES
July 29th 2011


279 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

Holy fuck. I don't know what just happened. I've been sitting in my room in the pitch black darkness since I wrote that

comment, listening to this album. It has suddenly grown on me like crazy in what....3 hours? I came here to write this

before I saw your comment (obviously), slightly strange. So yeah, not sure what just happened, but I now enjoy this quite

a bit. Very strange...



My rating was 2.5 before this.

F0RBES
July 29th 2011


279 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

@DaveyBoy, mindfreak?

DaveyBoy
Emeritus
July 29th 2011


22503 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Hahahaha. Sometimes, I just have this power to infiltrate the mind of Sputnik users. I must say I didn't predict such a quick increase though.



It was to do with 2 things actually... The album itself & the fact you pre-ordered it, so I knew you were gonna put the time into it.

Japandroid
July 30th 2011


139 Comments


Good album, but the hype almost kills it.

KingAlistair
July 30th 2011


175 Comments


Daveyboy, I'm quite tempted to try out this reversing-album-order idea that you have ;D I tend to kind of lose interest in longer albums after awhile if the songs run together, so it would be a good solution.

F0RBES
July 30th 2011


279 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

What hype?

DaveyBoy
Emeritus
July 31st 2011


22503 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

I sort of know what japandroid means, but "hype" is not the correct word. It's more that people who love albums like this get so immersed in them that there isn't too much middle ground... It's also quite tricky to put into words why they love them.



Alistair, it's worth a shot & I do it almost always. This isn't the best album to do it with though, as there is a concept running through it. But if it's just a straight-forward LP & you come away thinking that the 2nd last, 3rd last & 4th last tracks are the weakest, try it out.

F0RBES
July 31st 2011


279 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

Waves is definitely the best song imo now. I still prefer Reach For the Sun though. A couple songs on this album seem lacking for me.



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