Album Rating: 4.0

Laura & the Beehive is such a pace-killer (love the song though).

If the first four tracks didn't run so perfectly together I'd shuffle this every time.

@Slex who hurt you boo?

^ Walter white Obvs

Album Rating: 4.0

@Feather



I do like NCTH's title track as the closer, but Palm Reader is such a bad choice to be the "climax" of the album. Swap that with Cigs and Saints and you've got a damn near perfect record. Cigs and Saints would be even better pushed further in the tracklist since it has the Cardinals reprise

Album Rating: 4.0

Old friends like lost TEEEEEETH >:-[

Album Rating: 3.5

I like Palm Reader a lot but also totally agree

Album Rating: 4.0

The acoustic version of Palm Reader from the deluxe edition is way better

Album Rating: 3.5

That is usually the case with the acoustic version of their songs, A New Hope was my favorite song of theirs for a long time

Album Rating: 4.5

The Burst and Decay EPs are awesome yes

Album Rating: 4.5

I wish they would release the full livestream with polished sound. They put up like 5 songs and I watch them pretty frequently

Album Rating: 4.0

After some quality time with this, I think it still stands in the shadow of everything that's not Get Stoked and Sister Cities, but I think there's a massive gap in quality between those two and this one. It's about on par with how I feel about the Upsides. It's grown slightly on me so a 4 feels right. I still do not vibe with Summer Clothes at all, but the rest of the album is mostly pheromonal.

Album Rating: 4.5

Summer Clothes has only grown on me



this is probably a 4.2 for me

Album Rating: 4.0

summer clothes has been stuck in my head for days

Album Rating: 4.0

Wish it wasn't such a blemish for me. To me, it just wanders into that self-serious space of melodrama that kind of makes me roll my eyes and the melody feels really forced. Sister Cities was the most guilty of this, but the Burst & Decay EP's also kind of did for me as well. It's weird because The Wonder Years has basically been approaching that point since The Upsides, but they crossed some threshold where it's just all too much. NCTH dealt with some incredibly heavy topics in a completely serious way, but things were communicated....better. Wheels completely fell off with Cities, but Hum does a mostly phenomenal job of walking it back to being balanced outside of this track

Album Rating: 4.5

The bridges of Summer Clothes and The Paris of Nowhere (mostly Dan’s repeated lines) are the weaker moments for me. Those basically keep this from a 5 but it’s still very close

Album Rating: 4.0

this band has always been aggressively melodramatic, it kind of feels like the point of the entire band

What’s the deal with the shots at Will Yip? He produced Pale Horses the best mwY record

Album Rating: 4.0

@YoYo



yeah, that's what I'm having trouble putting into words lol



Like I said, they've been building to the overly melodramatic their whole career but it feels like they crossed the line of good taste on Sister Cities. While they've dealt with dark subject matter their whole career, that album refused to let ANY light in

Album Rating: 3.0

Will Yip is hit or miss for me, he destroyed The Menzingers last album, "Hello Exile" , but he nailed their 2nd last release "After The Party"

Album Rating: 3.5

I have said this so many times on this site but Pale Horses sounds like it was recorded in a porta potty lol, I've come around to it kinda making sense thematically but I think technically the production for that album is very ungood