Album Rating: 5.0
“This album is making me appreciate their past work even more”
someone put it into words, I looked back at A:B Life yesterday and found myself enjoying it more than ever before
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Album Rating: 3.5
Y’all give I Never Said That I Was Brave some damn love, you heathens
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Album Rating: 3.5
I enjoy the section of '[dormouse sighs]' 'Winter Solstice' & 'Flee, Thou Matadors!' the most, despite initially thinking the last of those tracks lost momentum half way through.
'New Wine' is my favourite overall track in a stylistic sense, the only thing missing is maybe the ending could've been even bigger, feel like it would've worked so well with a belted hardcore-like last chorus (similar to some of the vox in the opener) but it sort of just ends abruptly after a nice build-up.
Cool album, it hasn't all clicked yet & not sure it will, but this was a pleasant surprise regardless.
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Album Rating: 5.0
Lyrics from this album I can't stop hearing:
basically the whole first verse of Julia, especially "So many ways to lose so many faiths"
"Does my misery feed a metaphysical need that's long since passed me by..."
"God's will or come what fortune gives / Or is this truly how you choose to live"
"Fire and the flood, there's power in the blood"
the last refrain/verse from Winter Solstice - "dear my newlywed wife..."
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Album Rating: 5.0
I love the lyrics in Tortoises, especially:
'While all hiding in our painting-of-a-house-hung-up-inside-that-same-painted-house-which-ever-implies-another-painted-house-inside lives'
Idk why, it's not that catchy. Just like the overly-long adjective and the cool delivery.
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Album Rating: 4.5
This album is really extraordinary.
After the first listen, it really reminded me of the first time I listened to The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me by Brand New (songs like "New Wine, New Skin").
Elsewhere you have a track like "Julia" that has a Circa Surive - "The Great Golden Baby," vibe about it.
[Untitled] essentially spans most of the post hardcore scene over the past decade into a really well thought out and cohesive album. It helps that Aaron Weiss sounds the best he has ever sounded vocally.
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Album Rating: 3.5
isitluck in 2018 tho
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Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off
What a time to be alive wtf
Also yeah this is easily Aaron's best album vocally
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Album Rating: 4.5
its my guy ryan flatley
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Album Rating: 4.5
Hey boys, I lurk a bit still. Albums like this bring me back... kind of like Science Fiction and A Black Mile to the Surface brought me back.
P.S. Channing, the new Cursive is not that good, stop trying to make me believe that it's something interesting.
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Album Rating: 4.5
if i had still been following cursive closely since mama i'm swollen then i probably would be sick of them, but i have sort of been ignoring them since that album
so it feels fresh to me when it might not seem that way to others
or maybe you are just wrong
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Album Rating: 3.5
This and Cursive are totally in my top 3 for the entire year
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Album Rating: 3.0
Massive mewithoutYou fanboy here.... can’t really get into this one. New cursive shits all over it.
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Album Rating: 5.0
The Pitchfork review for this links the apocalyptic fall-out at the end of "Rainbow Signs" with the exploration of mental fragility on this album, and I think that makes sense. And I think that's why this album resonates so deeply with me. This thread running through the album - that Aaron (and the band as a whole) is wrestling with his own potential for mental collapse or unraveling - destroys me every time.
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Album Rating: 3.5
Don’t read Pitchfork, they suck. Someone must’ve told them it was cool to like these guys if it was given a positive score.
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Album Rating: 3.5
Sorry I’m just annoyed at a linked review I saw earlier, worst ‘professional’ review I’ve ever seen, honestly.
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Album Rating: 5.0
Yeah, they sometimes have poor reviews, but I like to read their reviews to broaden my own tastes and sensibilities. Listening to music is so subjective that I'm going to disagree with at least 50% of their takes, but at least I'll listen to some new stuff.
They reviewed Pale Horses positively, too. And both reviews help me listen to the respective albums, which I guess is the ultimate purpose of any review.
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Album Rating: 4.5
it's a good review
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Album Rating: 3.5
The review in question wasn’t a ‘bad take’ it was simply petty, juvenile & unprofessional. They can write good reviews & presumably the quality varies greatly from writer to writer.
I’d much rather read Sowing’s (& others) reviews & frequent this place regardless.
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"Sorry I’m just annoyed at a linked review I saw earlier, worst ‘professional’ review I’ve ever seen, honestly."
This should help cheer you up, it's really well written https://tinyurl.com/y7s4wtad
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