The Pineapple Thief Magnolia
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ChoccyPhilly
September 20th 2014


13693 Comments


Double posting woes.

Onirium
September 20th 2014


3126 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

As you said Choccy, All the Wars had a much stronger capacity of building atmospheres and crescendos, and I

don't see any song on this coming close to the first 4 songs of All the Wars or Reaching Out

LightbulbSun70
September 20th 2014


16 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

It's very simple: tastes differ

Onirium
September 20th 2014


3126 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

Well yeah of course

insomniac15
Staff Reviewer
September 27th 2014


6430 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

This is nice, in a simple and poppy way. I like listening to it. Dammit, I still have to check out their earlier stuff.

Irving
Emeritus
September 27th 2014


7496 Comments

Album Rating: 2.6

Omg whyyyy insomniac15 whyyyyyyyyyy

navid_ahmed
October 1st 2014


6 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Incredible album. the songs are on shorter side and songs are mostly slow but there is almost no filler here. Alone in Sea and the one you left to die are the best tracks. The last track Bond has a surprise solo section. The vocals of Bruce has improved considerably.

omnipanzer
October 1st 2014


21827 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

Not loving it but it's not horrible.

ChoccyPhilly
October 1st 2014


13693 Comments


Agreed, it's just kind of there

Onirium
October 16th 2014


3126 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

The drums on this aren't half as good as on previous albums. I mean, Keith Harrison was definitely not the

greatest drummer of all time, but he had some really interesting parts. Sad he left the band, the new

drummer does the job, but nothing more imo

insomniac15
Staff Reviewer
October 16th 2014


6430 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

Sorry Irving, I'm a sucker for poppy tunes . Still, compared to their early stuff, this is quite meh. I might rate it at a 3.2 :D that okay? Not that good, but not that bad either. Variations On A Dream is their best IMO.

Mad.
October 16th 2014


4921 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

Keith Harrison was awesome - his drumming on Little Man and WWHS was incredible, very understated. New drummer is meh agreed, doesn't add much



I've noticed the bass on this is far superior to anything Ive noticed before on their albums



3.2 is about right lol, I'm about a 3.3

TalonsOfFire
Emeritus
October 16th 2014


21027 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

Almost every song is either good or great even if there's nothing like "Reaching Out" on here

Onirium
October 17th 2014


3126 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

Yeah, most of it is still greatly done alt-rock. Like Soord said, it works much better as a whole than as

individual songs

Onirium
December 6th 2014


3126 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

"Magnolia is much more satisfying, melodious an rhythmically varied "



Man, more than half of the songs here are in 7/8 (which Soord certainly loves and mastered on previous

albums, but he somehow succeeds in making it sounds so monotonous here) and/or slow-paced semi-ballads. I

don't know how this is rythmically varied.



I just jammed this again after some time, and sadly I feel my rating going down. As much as it seemed like a

grower, it just lost its already quite minor impact

Tunaboy45
March 3rd 2015


18942 Comments


Heard Simple As That on a Kscope sampler, thought it was pretty good.

TalonsOfFire
Emeritus
April 29th 2015


21027 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

Most of these are great, only two or three mediocre cuts

JJKeys
April 29th 2015


1377 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

swap 'great' and 'mediocre cuts' over and you're spot on

Onirium
July 4th 2015


3126 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

This is actually not such a bad album in the end.

OmairSh
February 9th 2017


17931 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

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