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Album Rating: 2.5

Are you talking about my comments or other people's? Lol

15 negs for a review that nails the album and the band in general. yep, this is sputnik

Yeah it sucks. Review is so good

So much filler and bad songwirtting. Excellent Review

I don't really like the first few paragraphs, but other than the review is pretty much accurate.

lol @ how non free-thinking half the users on this site are. so this album's overall rating is a 3.6,
but from july 7 (the day the review was posted) to today, there were 23 ratings averaging a 2.6. what
fucking conformists...

Good thing society revolves around conformity then.

i negd cuz strikeys a strikey and strikeys are fagets and he cant ever hide frm it

Album Rating: 3.5

Adam, reading through your comments on this thread have made me want to reply.



I think you're trying to make this album something it isn't. It's four guys with guitars and banjos writing songs about how they feel. Maybe it's not inspirational to you, but it is to some people. In fact much of the album is very inspirational to me personally, hence the 4. I'll give an example I guess, lyrics from The Cave: "I'll find strength in pain, and I will change my ways. I'll know my name as it's called again." Those lyrics hit me hard for various personal reasons I won't get into. And while you may see them as shallow or whatever else, that doesn't mean they objectively are. You seem to be making the argument that this album "pretends" to be inspirational which is just retarded. It's insprational for some (me +100,000 annoying Mumford and Sons fans I'm sure) and not for others, like you. But stop trying to say that this is "fake" or "contrived." They wrote a bunch of songs in the style that they like to play, they wrote lyrics that meant something to them, and then they threw it together and made an album out of it. That's it. Anything that happened after that should have zero impact on your feelings about the album. Hate the band and what they've become, I do, but saying that their music is "pretend inspirational" is so so stupid.



I understand that you don't like the album that's fine, but I really think you're over-blowing it and trying to find a whole bunch of specific reasons why this doesn't connect with you instead of just doing what most of us do which is go "hmm this sucks" give a 2, and chalk it up to personal taste.



If you seriously think that Mumford and Sons are a stepping stone towards some genre-declaring machine like you were saying then you're looking way way way too hard for a reason to hate this band. Just be honest, you think the music sucks/vocals piss you off/lyrics are cheesy/banjo is tacky/whateverwhatever.



Yeah they're big and popular now. My "ewwww indie" sister loves them and so does every annoying motherfucker that I know. But honestly, who gives a shit? Hate the music cause it's terrible (which I don't think it is, but I could at least respectfully disagree with you on that one, and not assault you with sputnik posts) but don't hate the music because of what it means for the future of mainstream music, or whatever.

Album Rating: 3.5

for the record, I 100% expect their next album to be terrible, fake, and contrived. the fame has definitely gotten to their heads.

Album Rating: 2.5

^i would pos that if i could

tl;dr shutupfag

Album Rating: 1.0 | Sound Off

Nah man, give me credit. If I thought it was a simple case of 'vocals suck' or 'lyrics are cheesy' or 'banjo is tacky' I'd say so! I kinda take offence that you'd suggest I'm lying or not fully aware of my own opinion.



My statement about a genre-declaring machine was obviously me taking my argument to an overly simplistic end point kind of like Mumford & Sons do to folk music!



About the lyrics, I know they occasionally get to a place where they make sense but let's have a think about it for a second. The thing is that I think in M&S's music the lines that elsewhere would count as 'beauty in simplicity' are the staple of their music to the point where it becomes a mindfuck of vague sentiment with nothing to fasten it together.



It's kind of the reverse of Owl City because that guy sings about fucking fireflies and the world spinning and he's really specific all the time and again, people say "oh it's so meaningful!" when Young himself doesn't really know what he's chatting about! And here it's the same except the other way around; where Owl City make random bullshit images and people draw a border round them and proclaim them art, Mumford are arguable more irritating 'cause they just draw the border and people believe there's a painting inside it because of the way they sing and the instruments they use.

I think you missed the part where Aids said that you might be looking waaay too much into this. You keep saying WHEN they try and be inspirational, WHEN they do this and WHEN they do that. How do you know this isn't just a couple of guys making music with no agenda other than to make music that they want to make and you just don't like it for the standard reasons

well thats just boring

Album Rating: 1.0 | Sound Off

It's also not how I see it but I'll make an effort to think less in future!

adam is knott listening correctly

and is acting like a downer