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StormChaser
August 19th 2021


2090 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Not everything has to be insightful, constructive and serious in a comment thread mate, just saying



Also I really dig Great Cold Death's lyrics

JohnnyoftheWell
Staff Reviewer
August 19th 2021


60321 Comments

Album Rating: 3.7

Show me the serious comment threads on sput, I will delete all of them

and I mean that if Poe boi is your touchstone poet I find it a lot easier to see how you'd jive with Agalloch lyrics (no shade, well maybe a little bit of shade)

StormChaser
August 19th 2021


2090 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Honestly it's literally the first thing that popped to my head in terms of being both a poet and a critic



I don't read a lot of poetry so you can throw shade all day long, I don't mind being called out for being uneducated if it's true



Also, nobody's comparing this to actual poetry

JohnnyoftheWell
Staff Reviewer
August 19th 2021


60321 Comments

Album Rating: 3.7

I also tend away from poetry; was vibing more that Poe is melodramatic as all hell than that he's a basic pick or whatever - seemed q cogent, esp as She Painted Fire 2 came up in the same discussion

+ I think the distinction between 'actual poetry' and heavily poetic lyrics is blurry in cases like these. perhaps.

JohnnyoftheWell
Staff Reviewer
August 19th 2021


60321 Comments

Album Rating: 3.7

STATE THE PASSWORD

porcupinetheater
August 19th 2021


11027 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Man Emily Dickinson is the real deal tho

Kole
August 20th 2021


384 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

I just am having trouble understanding people giving 5s to albums that they criticize the lyrics for. Does the rating not include that? A 5 is a perfect score, I feel like if the lyrics are that cringe to yall it should be less than perfect right?

zaruyache
August 20th 2021


27380 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

they can be goofy but if you don't perceive their goof during the song it doesn't really matter toward your actual experience of the music.

Deathconscious
August 20th 2021


27347 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

No album is 100% perfect, if i was going with that as a definition for a 5 i wouldnt have any 5s.

porcupinetheater
August 20th 2021


11027 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Yeah for real the atmosphere here is sublime you can absolutely tune out the lyrics when you’re listening. Great lyrics can elevate a great song but most lyrics in most music are irrelevant which thank goodness because most lyrics are bad

zaruyache
August 20th 2021


27380 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

particularly in black metal when clunkiness makes it feel human and gives it some of its charm, the clunk doesn't really matter too much since it's otherwise carried out well.

Deathconscious
August 20th 2021


27347 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

I like my black metal sloppy.

porcupinetheater
August 20th 2021


11027 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Disagreed ahrd im really stoked to read Luciforge Firedük’s new poetry chapbook

Aberf
August 24th 2021


3986 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

I'm juggling between The Hawthorne Passage & ...And The Great Cold Death for my fav track in here.

quetzal
August 24th 2021


993 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

"I just am having trouble understanding people giving 5s to albums that they criticize the lyrics for. Does the rating not include that? A 5 is a perfect score, I feel like if the lyrics are that cringe to yall it should be less than perfect right?"



half this album is instrumental and lyrics aren't that important for black metal or black metal adjacent

quetzal
August 24th 2021


993 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

"baby guitarwork"



wtf don anderson is an incredible guitar player

JohnnyoftheWell
Staff Reviewer
August 24th 2021


60321 Comments

Album Rating: 3.7

why do all his parts pre-marrow sound like a 16 yr old's spare scale practice then? don't get me wrong, his riffs carry, but his post-rock is of-its-time clunk

"particularly in black metal when clunkiness makes it feel human and gives it some of its charm, the clunk doesn't really matter too much since it's otherwise carried out well."

respect this take tbh, although personally i vibe it more for Pale Folklore than this (probably because that album is gorgeously supremely clunky)

beefshoes
August 24th 2021


8443 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Haven't listened to this in so long.

Clunkiness has never been an issue with Agalloch. It's part of the charm.

quetzal
August 24th 2021


993 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

"why do all his parts pre-marrow sound like a 16 yr old's spare scale practice then? don't get me wrong, his riffs carry, but his post-rock is of-its-time clunk"



don't really get that feeling



try the song bodies without organs from sculptured, dude has chops for real

DungeonBoy
August 24th 2021


9696 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

When did post-rock become technical lol, it's about atmosphere brooooooo



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