Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

yep

nah

Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off

Sad update, I listened to it again today and this time it made me want to die. Someone hold me pls.

become one with my loving embrace

its good but not excellent

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

you're too busy talking



and i wasn't even listening

Album Rating: 2.5

seems u ain't even listened to the album either

Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off

PLS DELET

Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off

AaS, do you want my copy? Holding out for selective memory erasure to go mainstream now. For health. :'(

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

Nah mang, but ty, I gots my own :3

Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off

Trust issues acquired

Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off

Ok, ily, thank :'(

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

Yo this thing was easily a 3-3.5 first listen but after a few spins oh how wrong I was

terrible album

Album Rating: 2.5

awful artwork can't be bothered to check again

artwork is shite too, yea

Album Rating: 3.5

leave the artwork alone

Album Rating: 3.0

it's ugly yeah

Album Rating: 2.5

band will never top their artwork on maudlin tbh

Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off

I love that Toby usually does his own artwork! Very special thing. All of his covers are wonderful.



Tbh when the press release for this came out I was a little bit nervous based on the cover.

The painting itself is cool. I do find it fights the content of the music for me a little bit. I'm seeing it connecting most closely to Amalia's theme, in terms of the color and light, but I get sort of a disconnect where it would seem like it's supposed to be Amalia, though based on the lyrics I don't think it's Amalia and then it's like well what. It def sets up an expectation for a way airier record than of course we have on our hands here.

But it is quite a nice painting on its own terms, and I can see it working.

The type treatment however, is a HUGE fucking disaster. It almost could not be doing Fuco's work more of a disservice. Totally flattens her work down to a piece of paper. That drop shadow. Smdh. The painting is now the BACKGROUND and the logo is two cut out pieces of paper placed on top of a flat image. Really a shame because the painting has such a great quality of spaciousness on its own. I get the impression they were going for something sort of like the type on Flaming Lips At War with the Mystics (really good cover), which could have worked too. It was just really handled pretty poorly, and the result looks pretty cheap and thin, like a bootleg, or an ad based on the real artwork that some venue promo guy threw together a few days before a show. Total amateur hour.

Check it out without type: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/afUQv9wxw34/maxresdefault.jpg

SO much better holy shit.