Album Rating: 4.0

WE by AF came out in 2022... and was a clunker.

Album Rating: 3.0

RYM really thinks this is better than the downward spiral

Album Rating: 4.5

I swear this site talks about RYM more than RYM

Album Rating: 3.0

honestly this shit happens with such a frequency that i think the problem isn't rym or their taste at all, maybe I'm the problem, maybe this is better than somethin like census designated and I'm just too much of an outlier to understand that

Album Rating: 5.0

Well here's the great thing about music, you can choose what you enjoy

This started as a 4 for me, but on repeated listens it just clicked

Album Rating: 3.0

actually got worse for me when i revisited and focused on isaac's vocals/lyrics as that seems to be the selling point for a lot of listeners, something just bugs me about the pop culture references ("she had Billie Eilish style") and whatever he was trying to do with the climax of "basketball shoes"

it just frustrates me because i think i'd be 4-ing this if it was instrumental

Album Rating: 3.5

"it's in the top 10 for post-rock and that's one of my favorite genres."

post-rock is very broad / vague and has many sides, this is (mostly) the good kind

and it is better than the Downward Spiral (if I ignore how weird a comparison that is in the first place -could they be less similar except idk, 'guitars' maybe? lol)

Better than the Downward Spiral

lol

i see no lie and a whole lot fewer grease stains
really brave to namedrop TDS and then turn the screws on *this* for shoddy lyricism lmao

Album Rating: 3.0

funny part is the averages actually prove me wrong, it's just their weird ass weighting system letting a 4.04 get 3 positions past a 4.10 on the all time charts

as far as tds lyrics vs afut, tds didn't feel the need to shoehorn in a bunch of references that will make no sense in two decades to people looking back on it

Album Rating: 4.3

He puts the concorde to his head

BANG

Album Rating: 4.5

I never saw the lyrics of this album as a selling point to begin with tbh

Album Rating: 3.0

that's fair, i liked this more when i didn't know what the hell isaac was singing about lol ppl were just talking about him like he's this master gen z wordsmith so I gotta read what it is...and it's poignant at points and just head scratching at others (i could go without lines like "she had Billie Eilish style" or the entire ending to Basketball Shoes) but I think what unnerves me the most is that whispery indie baritone vocal delivery, it's very rare that that style of vocal works for me and i can't explain exactly what makes one better than another

i've yet to tackle bush hall yet but i have a feeling i'll like it more than all the isaac stuff judging by how besties worked on me

"tds didn't feel the need to blahblahblah"
well yes, if you feel the need to reduce the discussion to a superficial gripe that represents next to nothing of the lyrics in either album, by all means take that one to the bank and work on your reading comp another day

Album Rating: 2.5

Eraser from TDS has deep lyrics if you think about it Johnny.

how dare you imbeciles even mention TDS in this thread

Album Rating: 2.5 | Sound Off

Seconded

Album Rating: 3.5

"i could go without lines like "she had Billie Eilish style"



me too, but simply because I think referencing a person who is likely to be very much a 'time and a place' sort of deal is unwise (especially at the pace modern pop moves on to the next thing). Cultural refs of this ilk ages music so rapidly

avoid newly popularised brands, events that aren't likely to go down 'in history' (can be hard to judge in the moment) or tech in any form, because modern society will have forgotten it by the time the next generation of listeners emerges

Lisa Stansfield style

Album Rating: 2.5

Lisa Stansfield, yes! I used to wear my cap like her for a while. (Related: Kriss Kross style)