Album Rating: 4.0
Me too yeah - second listen is faring really well though!
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Album Rating: 2.0
This was about a 3.5 on first listen for me.
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Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Off
I’m on my fourth listen and it’s staying at a 2
Clever they released this on a day nothing else came out
Unless you’re into Carly George Jetson
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Rammstein...
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Album Rating: 4.0
This is going to have to carry the summer for me - is it just me or does the release schedule really dry up after this week?
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Album Rating: 4.0
“Underwater” is really poorly placed. They shouldn’t have dipped their toes into interludes.
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Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Off
‘I will love you like there’s razors in it...and she will love you like a raaad-iant flame’
The ending of ‘Hey Rosey’ makes the much maligned ending of ‘Heavenfaced’ sound like ‘Hey Jude’ by comparison. What guff.
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Album Rating: 4.0
“Light Years” is perfect as the closer though.
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Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Off
‘Light Years’ is better in this context - might bump to a 3.5 track rating and top 5 here.
It also made the cut on ‘I am easy to Beast’- the mark of a champion tune
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Interesting this review should bring up the ‘bigger and better stages’ bit. I saw these guys play one of the most beautiful venues in the world at some garbage indie festival and it was like spitting tobacco into a jewel encrusted chalice
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Album Rating: 3.0
I'm so excited to jam this. I wanna noooowwww =(
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Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off
A step down from SWB but still a really great effort. This shares the dreary, mellow aspects of TWFM but is still very much a departure for them. I’ve listened three times so far and while I really enjoy most of it, I don’t see it ever being better than the previous five.
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Album Rating: 4.0
I like this better than SWB. I don't know. Never could fully connect with that album; something felt off.
I'm through 3 listens and really impressed with it. Production sounds really good.
Let's see how it holds up with time.
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Album Rating: 2.0 | Sound Off
I think this album confirms they don't really have any gas left in the tank. All the songs are forgettable. Everything is kind of off, from the "celebrity arty photo shoot" album cover, to the clunky lyrics, zero build or point to the songs, and overly smooth production. The duets concept was good, I really wish it had worked, but the songs aren't there.
It looks like they'll never get to the heights of Boxer or Alligator again. I'd be happy if they even had another High Violet in them, but this doesn't seem to be the case. It used to drive me nuts when people would describe them as boring, but I guess they're boring now.
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Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off
There’s not quite enough ideas for the whole runtime, I definitely agree with an earlier comment that they used so many guest singers to compensate.
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Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Off
fogza - on this album I agree with you totally
The previous two were varying degrees of excellent though
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Album Rating: 4.0
Will this be their last album? Starting the betting pool now.
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Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off
They said they’ll take a long break after this I think. It’s well deserved after 25-30 songs in 5 years and all the touring.
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Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off
I sure hope the hell not. I love this new direction after such a somber previous album.
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Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Off
I did think they were ready for ‘new projects’ after SWB which was a slightly clunky album boosted by six or seven excellent songs.
I really think their talents would be better served parting ways now. Matt is running on empty in this framework - let him do a full duet album over disco beats. Let the Dessners do soundtrack chin stroke’y stuff or guest on other people’s albums.
Let the drummer fucking drum with the ol’ passion.
Let the other dude...Er, be. Let him be.
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