"Illuminate" is perf
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Album Rating: 3.0
this is growing on me for sure
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Album Rating: 3.5
So so different to what l expected, but still such an awesome record. They've gone in a different direction and it's worked.
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Album Rating: 4.0
Yeah. The inordinate levels of whining about the change in direction on Facebook is infuriating. Like, it's pop punk, people. It's not the end of the world if they aspire to be something more than that.
And moreover, they've succeeded in changing.
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I'm so fucking glad they tried something different.
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Album Rating: 4.0
My take...
Awesome:
Lift a Sail
The Deepest Well
MSK
Good:
Make Me So
One Bedroom
My Mountain
Convocation
Fragile and Dear
Illuminate
Yawn:
Transmission Home
Crash the Gates
Madrid
California
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Album Rating: 4.0
Awesome:
MSK
The Deepest Well
Lift A Sail
One Bedroom
Illuminate
Good:
Fragile and Dear
Make Me So
Transmission Home
California
Convocation
Madrid
Yawn:
Crash the Gates
My Mountain
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Album Rating: 3.0
Illuminate is such an amazing mix of electronic and pop-punk.
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Album Rating: 3.5
prob the only YC album i love front to back
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Album Rating: 3.5
making this list makes me think i should change my rating..
Awesome:
Illuminate
My Mountain
MSK
Good:
Fragile and Dear
Crash the Gates
Madrid
Yawn:
The Deepest Well
One Bedroom (except the ending)
Make Me So
Convocation
Transmission Home
California
Lift a Sail
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Holy shit, this might be their best album ever. Did absolutely not expect that after Souther Air which I didn't enjoy all that much as it was too poppy for my liking. This however really sounds a lot like early 00s Foo Fighters / Jimmy Eat World / more bands I can't pinpoint right now. Really awesome record.
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Album Rating: 4.0
Illuminate just gets me every time
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Album Rating: 4.0
MSK is definitely my favorite.
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Album Rating: 2.0
Am I one of the only ones that dislikes this?
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Album Rating: 4.0
No just take a look at the comments on their Facebook page
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Album Rating: 2.0
Oh really? Is it getting some hate there too?
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Album Rating: 4.0
There's a noticeable handful of people commenting on the band's posts with things to the tune of "I hate this new direction why did you guys change." For what it's worth though I'm perfectly fine with the change. Maybe it will lead to an even better Yellowcard. There's only so many ways you can remake Ocean Avenue.
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@SowingSeason. I think you are seriously understating the loss of Parsons' drumming to the Yellowcard formula. As
both a massive fan of Anberlin and consistent fan of Yellowcard since WYTTSY, I can't help feeling that Nate Young's
inclusion on this record makes it that much harder to digest on first listen (not that I won't give it a listen and enjoy it).
Young's drumming kept Anberlin grounded, but the intensity and precision of his attack were never at the center of
Anberlin's music. He is surely creative ( the tom opening meshed with the piano on "Losing It All" is a great example), but
his greatest strength is in the subtlety of riffs and not overplaying. This has been especially true post-Cities.
By contrast, whatever emotional weight and sense of gravity/urgency Yellowcard has created in its music up to this point
has been largely driven by Parsons. Think about what his cut-time fills do to "Rivertown Blues" or the opening of "The
Sound of You and Me" and how the guitars feel almost secondary in generating the feel. Or the stampeding, lightning
fast snare into the chorus of Ocean Avenue. Parsons drumming creates oceans of space by sheer amount of vacuum he
leaves when he stops playing ( most extreme example being "The Sound of You and Me"). For a band like Anberlin, that
kind of drumming is counterproductive to what they are trying to create. But Yellowcard has been built on that. Just
skimming Lift a Sail track by track, you can tell the BPM, by comparison to previous albums, has dropped dramatically and
that tempos are almost identical song to song, which is a big no no, regardless of feel.
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Album Rating: 4.0
I don't necessarily disagree with your points, I just enjoyed the change in atmosphere more than you did. Now if they continue for two or three more albums without varying tempo, then yeah, we've got a problem. But for now I find it refreshing, and Young's drumming is actually a better fit for this new style.
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I can appreciate that perspective. It was just disappointing to not only lose that part of the band, but to also hear Sean Mackin drift into the background ala Paper Walls. His solo on "Always Summer" is one of the most memorable pieces for me not only on Summer Air, but throughout the entire Yellowcard discography. I would've appreciated him not being quite so compartmentalized in favor of guitars as they transitioned past Parsons and slowed things down. If anything, it was an opportunity to allow him to drive the identity of the band for bit. But maybe I'm nitpicking.
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