Album Rating: 5.0

"weight" was my favorite initially and is still a eye-opening barnburner to me but something about the way it ends (maybe especially the new vocal line that's introduced: "a day! it change! es ev! erything!") gives me a little less pleasure than the amazing first eight or whatever minutes



"carry" is the GOAT forever as it stands tho, one of the best songs there is

Album Rating: 5.0

I love that part of weight.







But yeah carry gets me every time. Very, VERY few songs ever put to record hit a person as hard as that song

Album Rating: 5.0

it might even be the lyric that "bothers" me: "all in, all in, all in a day..." retains a bit of mystery that "a day, it changes everything!" sort of disambiguates. I mean it's all very abstract and vague, it's like four words of lyrics lol, but yeah something about the combination of the way she sings it and the words themselves makes it feel a TINY, tiny bit "cheap" or like perfunctory or something



there are so many good things about "weight" though. the sort of imperceptible way it changes keys in the first half, the appearance and then disappearance (and then reappearance) of the vox/lyrics, the snare

Album Rating: 5.0

I just noticed that they slow down the riff at like 5:14 of "the other" juuuuuuuust a bit for its crunchy iteration at 5:24. does so much with so little. yeehaw

Album Rating: 5.0

Hmmmm idk man, I feel like she unleashes "a day, it change, es ev, erything" right at right moment with the climax of the instrumentals and if you're following the themes on the album (a relationship/interpersonal connection, both of which are entirely destroyed and thrown away in the "narrator's" [?] eyes by cheating), that moment in the song is revealing of the direction of the story and super powerful imo. Idk I dig it.



I've never been as big of a fan of weight as many other people but I love the moment she unleashes that final line

Album Rating: 5.0

for sure man, you've got a good point and it makes sense that someone would find that cathartic. I think I used to, unambiguously, but maybe got grouchy

Album Rating: 5.0

I relate a lot to some of the themes on this album: cheating, albeit indirectly by way of certain (still fucked up) acts of infidelity, and the resulting depression and, not so much the overt suicidality, but in general the absolute bottoming-out of the will to live and faith in other people and relationships. The album is a series of powerful statements, told in a kind of story form, that just resonates a lot w/ me. The fact that the music is well-done and kicks ass is just a huge bonus.



Don't get me wrong, some of the specific details of the story contained herein are...strange, and don't directly relate to anything I've gone through. I just love it dearly.



The relationship that caused my connections to the story told on this album existed from 2015-2018. Up until that point, this was just an album i loved a lot from a band i discovered by browsing through cds at my college record store. And I've seen them live twice. First time I jammed this album I was instantly blown away, so the love for the music has been there for a long time, almost 20 years. But the appreciation I have for the themes contained on this album is a relatively new thing (since 2017/2018ish) and that coupled with just loving the music elevated it a lot for me, even considering how much I loved them to begin with. So yeah, it's kind of a personal connection thing for me, and this is definitely in my top 5 favorite albums of all time, probably always will be.



There, now you know way more than you wanted to about me lol

Album Rating: 5.0

im so jealous of anyone who got to see them live...

Album Rating: 5.0

See i saw them live with tool in 2006 i think? I dont remember much of that show.



The one I DO remember was at Gabe's Oasis in Iowa City in 2007. Small, sweaty, dark, loud venue. Probably 200 people or more crammed in a tight little room. They opened with So Did We and just fucking blew everyone away, best concert I've ever been to. The energy they brought at that show was fucking unparalleled

Album Rating: 4.0

That sounds crazy.

Album Rating: 5.0

I dont remember the exact setlist, but I do remember they played a few songs off of ITAOT (that was their newest record at that time), so did we, in fiction, and carry.

Album Rating: 4.0

Ooft, that sounds perfect.



ITAOT is still my fave Isis.

Album Rating: 5.0

Can't blame you, there's really no wrong answer to that

Album Rating: 5.0

It's not my favorite but it's underrated af, and I could probably 5 their discog and mean it

Album Rating: 4.0

Wrists of Kings, dude.

Album Rating: 4.5

"im so jealous of anyone who got to see them live..."



I saw them...twice I believe? Trying to find the exact shows...12/03 Cambridge, MA - the Middle East (Feat. These Arms Are Snakes, Tim Hecker, Dysrythmia). Holy fuck this show was insane. I didn't care for These Arms Are Snakes, but I remember becoming a Dysrhythmia fan after that. Strangely don't remember Tim Hecker from that show. Maybe I missed him opening.



The second, and last time was on the Wavering Radiant tour, which might have been their last tour IIRC. Yeah, it says Farewell Tour here. That was in June of 2010: https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/isis/2010/paradise-rock-club-boston-ma-3bd41094.html

Album Rating: 5.0

tim hecker and Isis jesus

Album Rating: 5.0

I missed them with oceansize and 27 on the oceanic tour because I went to live in Australia for a year. Still pisses me off. Especially as Maria from 27 did her parts too.

O did see them play oceanic in full years later though, back to front. Saw them between Panopticon and Absence but the only played one track off the latter. And once after absence at ATP festival that Mike Patton curated. That was the show I liked least because I just don't dig that album. Every other show ruled.



I did miss them in Oz when I eat a spacecake the night of the show and fell asleep at the bus station too.

Album Rating: 5.0

Oh Wrists Of Kings is a fucking masterpiece

Album Rating: 5.0

The ITAOT love is appreciated