Album Rating: 3.5
Gel are cool. Nothing special but they are one of the most popular hardcore punk bands going right now. Definitely an oddball choice for an opener, it'll be interesting to see how the metalcore crowd reacts to them.
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Album Rating: 5.0
Latest single has grown on me a lot but my god, Mike needs some new riffs. His guitars could just be AI-generated at this point
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Album Rating: 4.0
I dig the opening riff in Perfect Soul but I wish that melody carried into the full song.
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Album Rating: 3.5
Tsunami Pee
Eternal Poo
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Album Rating: 3.5
The Mara Effect came on Spotify on my commute last night and I forgot just how groovy and fun I found their earlier material
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Album Rating: 5.0
that first EP (I pretty much consider it the first album because it's pretty long) was way more proggy and complex than what they've been doing the past few years. I wish they would dabble in that more but I doubt they will. I think they're leaning heavily into the pop/djent direction going forward (with the occasional angry prog-metalcore song with pure screaming)
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Album Rating: 4.0
Yeah found their niche and dug a WW1 size trench for it.
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Album Rating: 5.0
I've followed Mike and Courtney long before Spiritbox so I'm mostly just happy they've finally found success and occasionally make good music. I wish they would branch out a bit more but I see how they ended up on this path
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Album Rating: 4.0
I'm happy for them too. They seem like good people overall. From her twitter AMA she had for questions about the new albums she made it seem like they would be experimenting more on the new album.
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Album Rating: 5.0
Yeah Softspine and Perfect Soul are pure autopilot mode, not too hyped for the album
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Album Rating: 5.0
Yes but I still have faith. Sunk-cost fallacy with this band for me. I'm ride or die.
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Album Rating: 3.5
Happy for them too, they've achieved a ton of success and have been touring nonstop to huge crowds, I just can't help but feel it was at the expense of the part of their identity that made me fall in love with them in the first place.
They said before they were "listening to a lot of TesseracT" when they made the first album, as if to imply it was derivative of a passing fad for them, but I think it had a lot more character and nuance. Kinda bored by the guitars lately, which sucks because Mike is super talented.
Appears to be calculated though. They rubbed elbows with the right industry people who could guide their trajectory, and they up and moved to LA and changed their sound.
Stoked to see what sort of experimentation they try next though. I'm just bummed I'm not so gung-ho on their recent stuff. I used to not be able to turn them off, it was daily all day every day, but once this album dropped I fell off hard. But like you, Art, I'm in it for the long haul, too invested at this point!
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Album Rating: 4.5
Perfect Soul is excellent. They’ve done that style track before more than once but they’re so damn good at it
As “lame” as soft spine is its grown on me
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Album Rating: 4.0
both tracks got me excited for the new album REAL bad
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Album Rating: 3.5
Soft Spine grew on me as well, I didn't initially notice some of the cool stuff Mike was doing because it's so damn low in the mix. I think I like it more than the two heavy tracks on the new EP.
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Album Rating: 4.0
Nah Cellar Door shits on Soft Spine. Angel Eyes is a fairer fight but even then I'm not sure.
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Album Rating: 5.0
all 3 songs are great honestly
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Album Rating: 5.0
If there is any experimentation on the new album, it probably won't be in any of the singles. Stuff like Soft Spine and Perfect Soul are meant to be crowd-pleasers (of different varieties)
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Album Rating: 4.5
3 songs art? What 3
Edit: nvm you meant between angel eyes, cellar door, and SS
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Album Rating: 4.0
crowd-pleasers = good music
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