Album Rating: 5.0

a sweeping 3 I predict

Album Rating: 4.0

Nah, I'll probably end up loving it in the end.

Album Rating: 5.0

I can never tell if our tastes will converge or forcefully push apart

we're like two magnets

Album Rating: 4.0

Our tastes are mostly the same except your pop/pop punk is my country/Americana



Though I've also kind of grown away from indie folk recently.

Album Rating: 5.0

fair enough

Album Rating: 4.5

Listen number 10 and we have a breakthrough...this is a pretty good album



It's still a 4 rating though

Album Rating: 4.0

Doof you talk like a 4 isn't a very strong rating from you.



On my second listen now and I'm enjoying it much more.

Album Rating: 4.5

I rated this a 4 initially because I rated the previous two albums a 4 and nothing seemed amiss after an initial spin



Then I waited for it to grow. It has grown but not above a 4 which is a high score for me (as I said the two previous FF albums were a 4, the two most recent War on Drugs albums are a 4, I have no Stooges or Velvet Underground album above a 4...4 is a really high rating imo)

Album Rating: 4.5

It hasn't blown me away above that, and this is currently the highest rated 2017 album on RYM

Album Rating: 4.0

I see what you mean from that perspective. I think this will grow on me lot but it's definitely not the sort of thing to immediately blow you away.

Album Rating: 4.0

Fleet Foxes has never been a band that's swooned me on a first listen, it's always been very dense folk rock that I've had to take time to digest.

Album Rating: 4.5

I guess I was hoping this would end up their best/a 4.5 or higher and the RYM reception only added to my confidence it'd grow and grow

Album Rating: 4.0

The question of the year though:



This or Pure Comedy?

Album Rating: 4.0

Pure Comedy

Album Rating: 4.5

"This or Pure Comedy?"

Considering how stale a lot of PC got after 3 listens...

Album Rating: 4.0

You mean how much more depth, diversity and appreciation can be taken from PC after continuous listens...

Album Rating: 4.5

Both on a 4 right now - sitting on that fence



If pushed...think I'll land Fleet Foxes by a (uh) whisker

Album Rating: 5.0

This beats PC for me because of the music. Lyrically PC is amazing though. It's the only reason I rated it highly tbh because musically it can get pretty damn tedious.

Album Rating: 4.5

I like the overall musical aesthetic of PC but I agree most of its tricks are revealed in the first four songs. This has more musical surprises/flourishes throughout.

Album Rating: 4.0

I agree the music on here has more depth and experimentation than FJM, but he's a singer songwriter where the music is ideally the vehicle for his lyricism, and the music is great.