Laura Stevenson The Big Freeze
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Lucman
April 3rd 2019


5537 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

She does what she does better than 99% of everyone else in the genre. Love her work so much.

DoofDoof
April 3rd 2019


17284 Comments

Album Rating: 2.0

I love this girl, the big Friesian

Lucman
April 3rd 2019


5537 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

This could legitimately overrake Copeland for my AOTY. I honestly wasn't expecting something as strong as Wheel, considering that's a decade best, but this is just soooo perfect and delightfully sweet that it may (may) just do it.

Sowing
Moderator
April 3rd 2019


45523 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Wheel is still a cut above this, but this is obviously gorgeous.

BigBlob
April 3rd 2019


5948 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

this is the most solid 3.0 ever

Lucman
April 3rd 2019


5537 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

To those who enjoy this, I must throw out a rec for the new Emily Scott Robinson record, Traveling Mercies. This, Blushing, and that make up my top three thus far.

neekafat
Emeritus
April 3rd 2019


26926 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

This is real good but even tho this is right up my proverbial alley I don't think I dig it as much as y'all do

Sowing
Moderator
April 3rd 2019


45523 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

it's jaw-droppingly beautiful throughout, but I miss the guitars/rock edge

despite that, this is a strong 4.5 and I have no qualms with her taking a different angle with the new album

Project
April 3rd 2019


5959 Comments


something about her voice irks me a little bit, but I can't deny these songs are pretty

BigPleb
April 3rd 2019


65808 Comments


damn

neekafat
Emeritus
April 3rd 2019


26926 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

I agree her voice is gonna take some getting used to, "Low Slow" was breathtaking tho

nol
April 3rd 2019


12280 Comments


um her voice is the best part of this album by a lot

the atmospheres & melodies (when distinguishable) are great too, but the guitar playing is lazy ngl

dmathias52
Emeritus
April 3rd 2019


1799 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

My first listen of this went right through one ear and out the other. I was kind of disappointed with the more introspective sound, even though her lyrics had always been introspective. But holy cow did it grow. Like others have said, her songwriting is masterful. A casual listen through doesn’t do it justice and I loooooove her vibrato.

mynameischan
Staff Reviewer
April 3rd 2019


2407 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

She has always been a great guitarist and this album is no different.

Project
April 3rd 2019


5959 Comments


Low Slow is great, agreed, but there's just something nasally about her baseline tone, which is a weird complaint for me to make as a sucker for a lot of very nasal pop punk
i feel bad not loving this but yeah

BigPleb
April 3rd 2019


65808 Comments


Her voice is pretty haunting dude idk, so good.

BigPleb
April 3rd 2019


65808 Comments


Living Room, NY is so damn good, that chorus is pure bliss.

nol
April 3rd 2019


12280 Comments


The guitar playing is good it’s just a bit void of structure which is mostly much made up for by inspired vocal melodies, but still feels occasionally aimless.

I bet this album started mostly as jam sessions, and they layered harmonies and nice instrumental details after the fact

dimsim3478
April 3rd 2019


8987 Comments


just something nasally about her baseline tone

i know what ur talkin about; remember noticing it back when sit resist first came out (its pretty prenounced on that album). dw it just takes a bit of gettin used to.
My first listen of this went right through one ear and out the other.

A casual listen through doesn’t do it justice.

agreed. this is not an immediate album. its relatively quiet, not hooky, and the song structures arent v conventional. always irks me a little when ppl give an album one listen and write it off immediately as if a single casual listen is ever really enough to properly assess any album. literally most of my favourite records ever didnt really grab me at first because theres usually so much to em that its impossible to internalise it all after one playthru (or even like four).

Deathconscious
April 3rd 2019


27882 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

"The guitar playing is good it’s just a bit void of structure"



thats part of what makes it good though.



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