This is a big no from me I think 8(

Album Rating: 2.5 | Sound Off

the big thief at least goes some way toward justifying being quite a bit long

what about that cities aviv anat

Album Rating: 2.5 | Sound Off

all albums should be 45 minutes and all films 90

but what about deathconsciousness and edward yang ??

Album Rating: 4.5

I mean I kind of agree this is too long for this type of sound, but really amazing songs if you pick them

Album Rating: 3.0

anat with the straight facts up in heah

I don't mind the length, but I'll admit all the good songs are in the first half basically

Album Rating: 4.5

Masquerade and Modern Love Stories???

Album Rating: 3.5

After listen four my prevailing sense is that they would have been better off just releasing this as two albums, concentrating all the great material onto one disc and the meh to good stuff onto another, much as they did with Depression Cherry and Thank Your Lucky Stars. I think if you cherry-picked the best 9 songs here you’d get a single album that would probably be my 3rd favorite behind DC and TD and the leftovers would still be a decent album somewhere in the mid-low end their discog. As is we’re left with a super long album with a lot of great material but that fails to justify its length. The EP approach mitigates this somewhat but not as much as just making it two albums (or one “real” albums and one outtakes set) might have. I will say that the great material is decently well spread out among the first 3 chapters and the last one is the only one that feels noticeably weaker overall (until you get to the closer).

Album Rating: 4.5

3.3???????

Pffffffft.

Truly finding it so hard to figure out which songs are supposed to be the good ones

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

Uh, self titled song, Superstar, Through Me, Sunset, Only You Know, Masquerade, New Romance, The Bells, Hurts to Love, Modern Love Stories...

Not really a bad track here, but those are the highlights

Album Rating: 5.0

Second disc has heaps of great songs - Sunset, Only You Know, Masquerade, Finale, Hurts to Love, Modern Love Stories...

The only non-essential track in my view is The Bells, and it's not that it's bad - it isn't - it's great, but it's the only track that sounds older; I could easily see it in the back half of Bloom, or even on Devotion.

Everything else has elements I haven't heard before from Beach House.

Album Rating: 4.5

I really enjoy how a bunch of the later tracks sound like Devotion-era songs on steroids

Album Rating: 3.5

“Pink Funeral” gives me serious Age of Adz vibes.

Album Rating: 4.5

“Not really a bad track here, but those are the highlights”



Pretty much yeah

Album Rating: 3.5

Current chapter ranking: 1 > 3 > 2 > 4

Album Rating: 3.0

Yeah, I rated chapter 1 a 3.5 on release and yup, the rest not as good so a 3.0 seems right

Album Rating: 4.0

My ranking's the same as Boney, except for that EP 4 is my favorite or second favorite. The whole first EP, Runaway, New Romance, Sunset, Only You Know, The Bells, Hurts to Love, Many Nights, and Modern Love Stories are the highlights for me. EP 4 especially is pure bliss.