... No.

Album Rating: 2.5

Yeah.

Seriously though, the vocals sound so strained around the piss-poor melodies and the lyrics are meaningless, pretentious garbage.

I don't know about the lyrics because I couldn't care less, but...
...
...
... No.

I like the vocals more than anything. It's the strings constantly harping on like I'm at some sort of snobby fundraiser dinner that annoy me.

We'll see though. It's already growing on me a little bit.

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

dudes the lyrics are fine. perfect in that they are carefree and obviously are important and of meaning to who created them. its quite obvious. i feel like this release has an impeccable atmosphere. it creates a world that is its own and flourishes in the brain, yet it is different from driver's other worlds. i do indeed love this world he conjured up this time.

Album Rating: 2.5

Nah man, it's the combination of the lyrics and the way they're delivered with the instrumentals that give this thing such a sickly, faux-intelligent air.

This the latest mediocrity that Sput is jacking up to the heavens? Good to be here.

If he cut down on strings by like 50-60% this would be better.

Album Rating: 2.5

Yup. A 3 feels a bit generous tbh but it is pleasant enough while it's on and the parts without vocals are nice.

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faux-intelligence? its not trying to be overly intelligent. think more of victorian romance.



strings rule. bring us to an autumn long ago.

Someone rip this damn bodice off my heaving bosoms.

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^nice

MORE. STRINGS. WE NEED. MORE. STRINGS.

Strings give me the will to live.

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

Agreed with AnimalsAsSummit's comments. The atmosphere and string arrangements are so well done and intoxicating. Really well produced and mixed too.

Album Rating: 3.5

they get tiresome after a while idk

Album Rating: 4.0

"dudes the lyrics are fine. perfect in that they ... obviously are important and of meaning to who created them."



No.

Any artist worth their salt writes lyrics that are important to them. That, in and of itself, should not be grounds to receive exceptional praise - that should be a bare minimum. The artist's ability to effectively convey their art should be the metric to which they can be commended, and not how much elusive imagery they put in that they alone can fully understand.

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

Toby stated on a reddit Q&A recently that these are essentially love songs to various people in his life. There's lots of spiritual, abstract, surreal kind of imagery though too, I recognize the kinds of themes that are in his main bands maudlin of the Well and Kayo Dot.

Album Rating: 2.5

Yeah I mean after 2 decades of motW and KD lyrics it seems like a strange criticism...

Lyrics dumb.
Strings smart.