Album Rating: 4.2

Idk if I like this or Dealer more tbh.

Album Rating: 5.0

I think this and the Self Titled blow everything else they’ve done out of the water… but I still like those other three records a lot. The Medic and Rory are obviously all timers, but I have a lot of love for more than a few Dealer tracks.

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Agree hard on that,Wild!

Album Rating: 4.2

Debut is definitely sweet, but also flawed. Idk why, but the s/t just bores me and I've tried it multiple times.

Album Rating: 5.0

yeah man idk, just not for you I guess. Secret History, Hell 99, Greyhound, Looks Like Nothing, Gratitude, and Hall of Frozen Heads are all some of their best songs ever to me.

Album Rating: 4.2

Yeah, it happens. Not everything is for everyone!

Album Rating: 5.0

SHOCK COLLARED AT THE GATES OF HEAVEN



hearing that for the first time was one of the biggest “woah” moments I had in my 20 years on this earth. My love for the self titled has got me neglecting their other best album.



You ever end up checking out Draw Down the Moon hawks?

Album Rating: 4.2

Holy balls, you're only 20??? Makes me feel old as fuck lmao.



And I haven't yet, that's the only one I haven't heard.

Album Rating: 5.0

no no no, I was like 20 when this came out, I’m an old fuck now lmao

Album Rating: 4.2

Not as old as me bro hahaha.

Album Rating: 5.0

jesus if I was this jaded 8 years ago just imagine how bad I’d be now😂

Album Rating: 5.0

oh to be young again

Album Rating: 4.2

Right!

Album Rating: 4.0

I read how they are ending. Also the Bastardizer beckons.

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YOU THINK I MUST NOT REMEMBER

I MUST NOT REMEMBER

Album Rating: 5.0

I think what gets me with a lot of those back half tracks is how… happy(?) they sound sonically but god how fucking depressing Conor is. I guess it’s that way across a lot of the record but Bastardizer is just wicked sad man



Where the Self titled just went all in with depression and nihilism

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Bastardizer is probably my favorite off this

Album Rating: 5.0

I think I gotta go with Grand Paradise or the title track, maybe Won’t Drown… there’s no wrong answers imo. I’ll say how much more I love the self titled but this one is definitely more consistent, I just think there’s like five songs on the self titled that are the best songs they’ve ever wrote lol

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The live at grandel version of draw down the moon is making me appreciate that album so much more. Beacons still stands tall above the rest in my mind

Album Rating: 5.0

Ya there’s so many different parts of those songs that hit way better live. The whole back half of 737 sounds absolutely unhinged, the second verse of Go Down Together actually goes hard as fuck when the guitars kick in, Beacons is insanely good throughout, the visual of Conor holding the camera during If I Believed in Love adds to what’s already one of my favorite parts of the record, and the outro of Speak With the Dead is the best moment and it’s not even on the record.



The more rock oriented songs I don’t like as much (Where The Lightning Strikes Twice, Cold Blooded) have an added intensity and the softer ones (Bialystok, At Least We Found the Floor) have an added warmth and tenderness to them.



I already loved the album, but if the record is a 4.5 for me that live video is a straight 5. I don’t even think I was exaggerating when I say that it’s my favorite live recording of all time. It’s everything a live recording should be.



They performed it just as well when I saw them at the record release show, I purposely avoided that version until after that because I knew they were playing the whole thing, and the outro to Speak With the Dead is seriously one of the most insane things I’ve ever witnessed at a show… my jaw was on the fucking floor. I really hope they work that track into these last two shows, I have a big fear of them ignoring that record, it really feels like they just pretend it doesn’t exist. I was pretty drunk but I don’t think they even played anything off it the last time I saw them headline, and I know they didn’t play anything off it when I saw them with Coheed.