Album Rating: 2.0

the songwriting on MPP is great even if it's a very general way to refer to a host of things songwriters are doing. how my girls lops its verse-chorus structure in half, the immediate-relief of in the flowers' arpeggio explosion, "taste" just sounds like it was written half a century ago to me. the harmony on "I can see you..." on bluish it's all very expert but also genuinely jubilant. this I just can't get any hints of expressivity except in "essplode" which I don't like much either (the production is bad, but it's also "overrated" as a simple descending-bass-note thing). feels like random noodling

>feels like random noodling

the big brain argument against experimental music since the dawn of time agreed

Album Rating: 2.0

it's obviously another conceptual handwave, I like albums that have less structure than this, but the album hardly feels engaging with it's just sooo limp to me. doesn't hold any interest. I'm genuinely glad people can find things to like about it but I don't even want to put it on to make more specific my dismissals. it's just not at all up my alley

Album Rating: 2.0

I like hollinndagain though

ur enough of a big boy to 5 stars of the lidl and the memetaker surely u understand not all genres play by the same rules, have the same aims, use the same musical language etc.

textural shit go brrrr dont give a fuck about ur songwriting

Album Rating: 2.5

this being less successful than MPP at expressing the same kind of vapid bullshit MPP expresses sounds like a W to me

tl;dr check controlled bleeding distress signals

Album Rating: 2.0

the pop songwriting and noise instincts on Spirit (though I used to think that was closer to this in quality than most fans) are so perfectly tied together idk like



it's boring but I'll take 100 chocolate girls over all of this any day



I get that it's playing by different rules than MPP but again I like albums that play by similar rules, I just have problems with the thinness and lack of direction in this album. no moments stand out and the moments don't gain anything from their corralling-together. I don't like the sounds on an individual level and I don't like how they're arranged either. seems like such a DOA release for me

i would prefer not to tear down either record, but for my tastes this album has more subtlety and dynamics and as a consequence it actually registers as being a little more ~musical~ where Merriweather Post Pavilion seemed content to bludgeon me with what it was trying to express, which wasn't something that seems to connect with me in the first place

but this is just the observation of someone who is likely too dense to appreciate this kind of thing anyway

Album Rating: 2.5

how did we get to spirit

bc that album is in an entirely separate league to both this and MPP

songwriting on that + all the bits I remember liking from Sung Tongs is mega lackadaisical and, like, good

>how did we get to spirit


check em again and youll figure it out

Album Rating: 2.0

Idk this is the sophomore album and spirit is their debut

Album Rating: 2.0

Or yknow



With different band names but still



Seems relatively germane

they are not that dissimilar also ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Album Rating: 3.5

This is sooooo creepy and I think the album succeeds in that way



Nothing sounds creepy and unsettling like this does, or if not then I’m missing out on some good inspirational horror music

Album Rating: 2.0

check silent hill 2 ost



this is just unfocused vapid shite

Album Rating: 3.5

the creepiness factor is def cool

Album Rating: 2.5

this is creepy in the same way that naked mole rats are creepy. inoffensive waste of decibels - not as brain erasing as Campfire Songs at least

Album Rating: 3.5

Will check Silent Hill & naked mole rats!

Album Rating: 4.5

Never thought of this as creepy