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Ryus
September 17th 2020


37885 Comments


t/t is da best

theBoneyKing
September 17th 2020


24890 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

It's up there for sure. For now I like the opening run/first half the most.

Dylan620
September 18th 2020


6007 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Think I narrowly prefer the back half myself - that run from "One Great City!" through "The Prescience of Dawn" is hard to beat, and the latter is my favorite track here

theBoneyKing
September 18th 2020


24890 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

It's close but for now what are probably my 3 least favorites (still great songs) are in that back half.



Also, do all the songs encased in parentheses all have the same chord progression or at least very similar melodies, or am I imagining things?

JohnnyoftheWell
September 18th 2020


64287 Comments

Album Rating: 4.7

the parentheses songs are 3 variations-on-a-theme sonnets that might as well be considered a suite or whatever, but suites are for prog abums and nerds so let's not. weakest for me is probs the mid-section, though still good - which 3 dya mean boney?

Ryus
September 18th 2020


37885 Comments


yea that was on purpose

first half of this >

theBoneyKing
September 18th 2020


24890 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Alright glad I'm not just making it up. That's pretty cool though tbh because all 3 of those have quite different sounds. Coincidentally though 2 of those 3, "(Hospital Vespers)" and "(Past-Due)" and in my 3 least favorites and the third is "Uncorrected Proofs". Opening 5 tracks is an insanely strong run but New Name through Prescience is very close behind.

BigTuna
September 18th 2020


5998 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Time's Arrow very underrated - that's really the song that made me fall in love with The Weakerthans

theBoneyKing
September 18th 2020


24890 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Yeah that's a fave for sure, stuck in my head as I type

Pheromone
September 18th 2020


21850 Comments


Turn around and around and around

theBoneyKing
September 18th 2020


24890 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Could we please?

theBoneyKing
September 18th 2020


24890 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Any way after 4 spins this is definitely at least 4.5 level but I want to hold off on rating it for the potential satisfaction of giving it a 5 as my initial rating.

Dylan620
September 19th 2020


6007 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

then you whisper your arrival, walking backwards to the door...

Rowan5215
Emeritus
September 19th 2020


48410 Comments

Album Rating: 4.2

Hospital Vespers is one of my favourite songs lyrically ever

SlothcoreSam
September 19th 2020


6666 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

The Prescience of Dawn, in my top 100 of all time.

JohnnyoftheWell
September 19th 2020


64287 Comments

Album Rating: 4.7

yeah, Hospital Vespers is perfect and totally flooring (and so ofc is Prescience). agreed on Time's Arrow also

Pheromone
September 19th 2020


21850 Comments


Hospital Vespers holds so many of my favourite Samson lines in its brief time

Rowan5215
Emeritus
September 19th 2020


48410 Comments

Album Rating: 4.2

before the doctors came took you away



I stood there on a chair and watched you pray



:/

theBoneyKing
September 19th 2020


24890 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Ok well the 3 I just named weakest all really hit on this latest spin so yeah this is just and incredible album.

Pheromone
September 19th 2020


21850 Comments


album is full of only 5's and i wont hear anything else



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