Album Rating: 4.2
And yeah, Saint Cloud vs. American Weekend are completely different vibes, so it's natural some people will much prefer one or the other. Saint Cloud is just one those albums for me, I can throw it on whenever and get blown away by how great it is - has a sort of easy-going elegance to it, while also being very catchy song after song.
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Album Rating: 4.5
I definitely still love it!!
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Album Rating: 5.0
I’m definitely going to be giving her back catalogue more careful listens now. I liked Saint Cloud (and the Plains album) a lot but never quite loved it, aside from that I’ve only heard Ivy Tripp waaaay back and I didn’t care for it, and Out in the Storm I’ve heard a few songs from but haven’t listened carefully to. But I’m pretty convinced this is a songwriting masterclass so I need to re-evaluate the other stuff and check that which I haven’t yet.
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Album Rating: 4.0
Out In The Storm is pretty good Boner. definitely check that one
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Album Rating: 4.5
1. American Weekend
2. Tigers Blood
3. Ivy Tripp
4. Cerulean Salt
5. Saint Cloud
6. Out in the Storm
7. Great Thunder
Nothing below a 3.5 for me though. Discog is amazing.
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Album Rating: 5.0
The guitar in “Lone Star Lake” is absolutely sublime. MJ Lenderman best musician of the 2020s tbh.
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Album Rating: 4.0
lol dude…
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Album Rating: 3.4
Wow maybe I should give this another listen
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Album Rating: 4.0
i don’t think there’s anything especially good about any of the guitar on this tbh but especially not Lone Star Lake
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Album Rating: 4.0
I think Lenderman does well here but I still think Waxahatchee's magic is in the lyrics and Crutchfield's unique delivery of lines. The way she annunciates is very different from other mainstream vocalists, I don't want to say like a female Dylan, but there's just something distinctive about her melodies where you instantly know it's her. And I already touched on the fragmented lyricism earlier; comes across as disjointed but with repeated listens reveals itself -- between Saint Cloud and now this record I'd say it's become something of a calling card that rewards investment. This started as a 3 for me but I kept listening because I already knew the magic was there, I just had to look for it.
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Album Rating: 3.0
Yeah the guitar here is *fine* but could have been played by any session musician steeped in Americana and you'd never know the difference. Can't say the melodies or songwriting stand out much to me on first spin - feels a very of-its-type record, but defs competently realised. Prefer it to American Weekend by a good margin
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Album Rating: 5.0
Let me be a Lenderman simp, I know I am not objective when it comes to him. Might be a right place/right time thing for me but this simply does a lot of my favorite things exceptionally well. We’ll see if it has legs past this bout of obsession.
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Album Rating: 5.0
Btw the Pitchfork review of this is spot on. I hadn’t read before just now but pretty much every point it makes is something I’d remarked myself.
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Album Rating: 4.0
did they cover the part about MJ Lenderman being the must musician of the decade
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Album Rating: 5.0
near enough
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Album Rating: 4.5
I've been having a really hard time jamming anything else that came out last week because I've been trapped in a Waxahatchee state of mind
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Album Rating: 4.0
she has such chain smoking republican mom energy but like, one who went to a liberal college
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Album Rating: 4.5
She's done it again (release an excellent record that I will listen to for weeks or months on end, which she's been doing for over ten years now). Potential rating bump pending...
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Album Rating: 4.5
this is her best album
and I really really really really like all of her albums
cryin in the club rn
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Album Rating: 4.5
yer a wrangler keepin’ the pace
huuuuntin’ for open space
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