Album Rating: 4.0
glassy blue doesn't actually do that much for me but as a whole this is a very, very pleasant listen front to back (as if i expected anything else lol)
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Album Rating: 4.2
I really like when this band uses percussion, vocals, and shoegaze elements
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Album Rating: 4.5
Agreed I love all their elements combined like in Ten Thousand Years Won't Save Your Life. Stunning song off Departure Songs.
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Album Rating: 4.0
agreed talons, they use those elements very delicately, almost always really well executed and rarely becoming too dominant. however, glassy blue and we were so young aren't their greatest examples of that imo
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Album Rating: 3.5
So as someone who doesn't listen to this kind of stuff very often, I like this a lot, though I do have a couple reservations, namely that the magnitude of material makes it a lot to take in and there isn't really a sense of flow, it's just a lot of songs, and also that while these guys are clearly masters of arrangement, some of the songs are lacking compositionally; like, they sound awesome, but are these all good songs?
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hey the less notes you play the less notes you can fuck up
some of this stuff really sounds like twinkle twinkle little star put through seventy reverb pedals
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Album Rating: 3.5
^it takes the pain away for a moment
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Album Rating: 4.0
"they sound awesome, but are these all good songs?"
that's actually quite irrelevant in ambient music
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Album Rating: 4.0
and yes i know this isn't necessarily ambient but the point of this is the same
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Album Rating: 3.5
I guess that's true, maybe it's a problem for me more with the style in general than this album.
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Album Rating: 4.0
For someone who doesn't like an album you sure waste a lot of your time complaining about it
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Album Rating: 5.0
You've been here a while JS, that's commonplace amongst the sput community
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Album Rating: 5.0
any music community*
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Album Rating: 4.0
Can't wait to 2.0 the new Deftones and write how stupid everyone else is for liking it every other page in the thread comments yh agreed
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Album Rating: 4.0
Also anyone else who has actually heard these guy's last band Common Children getting a massive vibe from Start Over Again? Sounds like an offcut from those years
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Album Rating: 4.5
Theboneyking, are you saying because the music doesn't have strict song structure or an accessible verse chorus repetition that It doesn't constitute as a song? Hammocks music has never been about that it's more about an overall feel and soundscape. Immersion is key for their take on the post rock style with leads to the sometimes long droning sections and ambient takes
As for the bulk of their material, there is a lot but it's all worth while. Kenotic, Departure Songs, Raising Your Voice and this one are the high points
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Album Rating: 3.5
I'm not saying that lacking those things prevents it from being a song, I just mean that as I'm listening to this I find the sounds more memorable than the songs themselves, if that makes any sense. Like when I listen to some of the songs, I enjoy the soundscape, but it doesn't always go anywhere, and that makes it hard to connect to it emotionally. I'm not expecting every song to build to an epic climax, it just seems like they wander a lot, a feeling which isn't really helped by the length of the album and the lack of a flow, at least not one that I've identified over the course of 5 or 6 listens so far. As I said, I don't usually listen to this type of music so I'm probably just looking for the wrong thing out of this. I do like it a lot though, and am definitely interested in checking out their other material!
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Album Rating: 4.5
Clarity is sooooo fucking good.
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Album Rating: 3.0
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Album Rating: 4.5
This shit leaves me in absolute wonderment.
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