Album Rating: 3.5

booklet would def be helpful for some of the "references" because I'm not sure I picked up on any

Album Rating: 4.0

It's nothing integral to the meaning of the album, just references to music he drew from, particularly lyrically but also the instrumentals. Same can be said for the glow pt2

Album Rating: 3.5

ahh cool cool, sounds interesting either way. def wanna jam this on a snowy night...

Album Rating: 4.0

I've never figured out the best way to jam this. People suggested an attentive listen, no distractions would work best, but actually I found it to be surprisingly good revision music. Idk. Maybe musically it works as a background thing but thematically and lyrically it requires more attention.

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

This album is so underrated

no, it's not

"This album is so underrated"

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I thought The National was the zenith of the sad flannel boi mustache clown genre but this guy is sadder, more self indulgent and more lifeless than I though possible! What a time to be alive

Album Rating: 3.5

Papa's 1.0 troll ratings shouldn't bother me as much as they do, yet here we are.

troll only works under the assumption that I don't mean it. I mean it. I sincerely think this album is utter garbage.

Album Rating: 3.5

nah, you have nickelback/owl city/asking alexandria all higher than this album. that's how I know it's a troll or spite rating. Somebody you hate must listen to this or something

sweetheart, I hate everybody. and when it comes to those owlback alexandria ratings, gimme a moment...

and I do utterly despise this talentless faux downtrodden wank

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

'sad flannel boi mustache clown genre'



Haha, album is still gold.



' talentless faux downtrodden wank'



One of the most talented guys out there tbh

well yes, it does take talent to make one's lack of creative abilities and musical finesse appear artistic and intentional, so that the mouthbreathers have something to drool over.

I think it takes a measure of bravery to stow one’s sense of privacy and just 10x turbo overshare til the notebook is full. What really bugs me is when this dude or father John misty, Jeff mangum etcetera choose to put these absent- minded, entirely forgettable acoustic guitar parts to accompany just so it fits a musical medium. Yeah it’s music, but arbitrarily so. My worst fear is that the motivation is commercial. I think more likely it’s just that the words are personal and visceral enough that it would odd to not have the artists voice uttering them and if there wasn’t melody to soothe both the listener and the artist then they might realize how goddamn cringey it is

Album Rating: 3.5

i can see that as a criticism of his past two albums, but not this Microphones album.

oh no, agreed. no doubt the bloke has some emotions and those albums about his wife's death are quite damn heavy. still doesn't change the fact that all of this is de facto unlistenable. the themes may be profound (though I don't really think they are most of the time), but the music is just so blunt and painful that I just cannot get through it. it's not bare bones music, it's decomposed residue of what those bones once were. it's dogshit. full stop.

Album Rating: 3.5

"it's not bare bones music, it's decomposed residue of what those bones once were."



But you're only describing some of the songs on this record. Tracks 2 and 3 both have plenty of structure, rhythm, melody, all that. In fact Track 2 is quite a nice accessible little folky tune. And there are only 5 tracks here total. So I feel like your rating (which inherently indicates worst of the worst, bottom of the barrel, no redeeming factors whatsoever) is only representative of a couple of these songs. Which honestly is kinda bullshit.

don't assume what people think. those folky songs are still bland detours amid mess of nonsense. it sounds like a 16-year old on Bandcamp made his first song and accidentally managed to make some of the instruments stick out atmospherically (that's talking about track 3)