Album Rating: 4.0
Bit late to the show but fuck Real House into intro of Sadness as a Gift is perfect.
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Album Rating: 4.0
Also gonna treat Ruined as a bonus track as Donut Seam feels like the better closer idk
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Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off
Ruined is like the perfect closer whaaaaat
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Album Rating: 4.0
The one thing missing here for me is her incredible guitar skills that were so upfront on Songs
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Album Rating: 4.0
I mean compare Ruined to my angel, it’s no contest. Just a relative thing, songs ended so perfectly, so understated and restrained, my fave closer on a big modern folk LP since re:stacks probably, whereas Ruined feels like big old regular ballad territory. Just not my preference, more generic, less personality, etc. Feels like a Julien Baker b-side (I generally love Julien but her songcraft is more pop / less interesting than Lenker’s usually is imo).
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Album Rating: 3.5
enjoying this a bunch! need to give 'songs' another whirl
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Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off
"I mean compare Ruined to my angel, it’s no contest. "
I much prefer Ruined... My Angel could have been 2 minutes shorter, the repetitive lyrics get kind of annoying, whereas Ruined is also repetitive, but less grating imo
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Album Rating: 4.0
i, uh, like both
for different reasons, of course
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Album Rating: 4.0
Ye it’s a preference thing, cause they shoot for very different things. I find the repetition hypnotic, and it makes the cut at the end all the more impactful
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Album Rating: 4.3
A thousand years or more,
And I've never seen this face,
Never heard this voice before
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Album Rating: 4.0
Hmm, I like this, just not sure how much yet
Also, am I crazy for perhaps low-key liking the bookends more than virtually everything else here? Needs further time to sink in but they definitely hit me the hardest. A few other cool ideas here though for sure
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Album Rating: 4.0
“I suppose genres of music with similar DNA will sound the same if you're not invested in the genre”
weirdly I’m starting to feel the opposite is true, in the sense an unfamiliar genre sounds fresher / more varied due to my relative lack of exposure.
I mean Lenker certainly does sound fairly original (“songs” even more so thus far), whereas death metal (easiest example) is starting to get stale. I mean there’s great stuff in that realm still, but it’s generally way more likely to make me think “heard this all before”, which is the exact opposite of the perspective Anthracks had.
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Album Rating: 4.5
repetition and derivativeness are definitely accepted and encouraged more in metal and rap than they are in folk
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Album Rating: 4.0
I mean this seems like a can of worms but it certainly do agree in the sense a section of the ‘DM fanbase’ obstructs progress with their want of a familiar by-gone sound. There’s a reason why ODSM is a ‘thing’ in 2024. And some of the same people declare other genres homogenous
No idea about folk or rap tho
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Album Rating: 4.0
Free Treasure is a gem. I like the contrast between the loveliness of that one and how raw / angular (idk if this is the right word, it'll do for now) Vampire Empire sounds.
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Album Rating: 3.6
"repetition and derivativeness are definitely accepted and encouraged more in metal and rap than they are in folk"
maybe the stupidest thing I've ever seen you say do you know what folk music is
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Album Rating: 4.5
i think if you try to expand on that thought you’ll see where you’re going wrong
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Album Rating: 4.5
take a look in the mirror if you wanna see empty space between the ears lmao
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There can be a lot of repetition in folk music. I won't remark on derivative as that's a subjective statement, but you can somewhat measure a reasonable amount of repetition in folk song-writing. That's not a bad thing. It has worked in the genre for generations.
Sometimes, like folk hymnals or work songs, that repetition is paramount to some sort of state of meditation or mantra for drowning out external factors required for ritual... or just to endure the back-breaking labor.
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Album Rating: 4.0
I love how people see a Colton comment and immediately rip it apart like he's just said the most offensive thing possible
I mean his point is far too vague to draw any concrete conclusions from, but there certainly are issues with derivativeness being encouraged in some areas of metal fandom. The generalisation of entire 'wider' genres is obviously rather silly, but we expect this behaviour over here, and yet people still go off because Colton or something
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