Album Rating: 5.0
Sonic, I wouldn't describe their music from How To Measure a Planet onward as prog. There is some psychedelia in there, some post-rock, some trip-hop, even some krautrock, and yet despite all the genres involved, it is very personnal.
Getting back to Home, Rene Rutten's sound is really drony and thick on that album, though it doesn't get ahead of the other instruments in the mix. If you listen to it closely, A Noise Severe and Home are damn doomy!
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Album Rating: 4.0
Is this third or fourth best? And where does that leave Planet? Asking for a friend.
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Album Rating: 4.5
This just about scrapes third over Nighttime Birds and matches Planet for replay value I think?
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Album Rating: 4.0
Nighttime is my #2
It gets sketchy between this / Planet, but they’re definitely the next two
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Album Rating: 5.0
My holy trio is Planet, Souvenirs and Home, with Planet usually at No. 1 and the other two occasionally switching places yet Home usually being third.
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Album Rating: 4.5
1 either Mandylion or NB depending on the mood
3 i_t_e
4 Disclosure or Souvenires again depending on the mood.
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Album Rating: 5.0
1 - Planet / 2 - Home / 3 - Mandylion
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Album Rating: 4.0
Souvenirs > Nighttime > Planet / Home > Mandy > Disclosure
All 4s or above
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Album Rating: 4.0
Updating the above ^
ITE is ahead of Disclosure. And this is 3rd over Planet (which may simply be a by-product of their respective runtimes) but yes, I play this one a lot!
Love their sound here. Excellent follow-up / companion to Souvenirs. Great flow and increasingly enduring depth and consistency. I might make it my third tG 4.5(+)
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Album Rating: 5.0
I would understand if you would Demon. It's up there indeed. Like with all of their albums, there's more to it than you would think at first glance.
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Album Rating: 5.0
Listened again today.
Yep. It's still a 5.0.
Beautifully heartfelt and committed. 18 years old already, it's been with me longer than I've lived without it at this point. Weeeeeird.
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Album Rating: 5.0
Low-key their best album
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Album Rating: 5.0
Home is arguably Anneke’s best performance with The Gathering. Creatively speaking, the vocal melodies on Box and Waking Hour are insanely refined. And her interpretation on A Noise Severe and the title track give me chills everytime. The recording and mixing of the vocals are amazing as well.
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Album Rating: 4.5
Yes to both of those first examples in particular, was revisiting Waking Hour the other day and that coda is absolute bliss - amazing how much she channels through a (seemingly) relatively stately set of melodies and the occasional vocalise
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Album Rating: 4.0
I may have destroyed enough alt rock ratings that raising this may not adversely affect my pie with the most ghastly of historic reappearances
Let’s hope so! #lifegoals
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Album Rating: 4.5
From the stats I've pulled and control experiments I've trialled,
a) the only ratings that impact your pie at all are 4s and above,
b) 4s/4.5s/5s all have parity of impact,
c) only the first two tags of each artist count for pie calculation (though an artist can still show up in a genre slice if it has that genre as a tertiary - these are usually pulled from your highest ratings, though not always)
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Album Rating: 4.0
I knew c) but didn’t realise the others (thought it was 3.5 / didn’t realise they were equal… very odd, lol)
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Album Rating: 4.0
I don’t think alt rock has a shot tbh, was just a wee joke really
A few regularly bounce around / compete for those last couple of slots but never alt rock and also thankfully metalcore seems to have given up (seen hardcore more recently)
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Album Rating: 5.0
Anneke is absolutely perfect here agreed. 100% heartfelt and wonderful. And on that t/t. Oh my.
This is a dear one.
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Album Rating: 5.0
I love her rythmic work on In Between. Really groovy.
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