Album Rating: 4.0

Swapped peaks and valleys for consistency in terms of quality. Keep You on My Side, Clearest Blue, and Bury it are standouts. A solid album front to back.

Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off

Empty Threat, Make Them Gold, Playing Dead are also really good imo.

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

Leave a Trace, Playing Dead, Bury It and Afterglow are my favorites.. Bones is slightly better than this one but not by far

Album Rating: 1.0

gave this a whirl and yea it's an indistinguishable blur of homogeneous shite



whole thing is gutless, lacking oomph, bland

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

'Swapped peaks and valleys for consistency in terms of quality. Keep You on My Side, Clearest Blue, and Bury it are standouts. A solid album front to back.'



Reverse that statement and you're golden

homogeneous is a pretty good work to describe this. it's cute and all, but is majorly lacking pretty much everything that made bones such a phenomenal record. i'm actually blown away by people saying this is better. i mean subjectivity blah blah blah, but seriously? oceanic and panopticon are two albums that could be argued over for which is best, but this is so clearly not even in the same league as bones. these choruses are so fucking weak, and it all sounds the same. twinkly, bubbly, samey pop music

Album Rating: 4.5

Bones was good, but it was pretty homogeneous. It was super sugary with lashings of bite, it also felt innocent in nature, felt very much like a debut. Whereas this feels much more grounded, like they know what they want and what they're aiming to achieve. This is better lyrically and carries a much higher level of maturity imo. Every Open Eye displays growth and they've grown, though you can argue whether it's in the right direction or not.

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

Gyro I am 100% with you I don't get the reaction to this at all compared to Bones

you and i are surprisingly a part of the minority here. like, what dropdead said, i completely disagree with literally every single point. this doesn't at all feel like maturity, unless maturing means sounding bored. bones had way more innovative ideas going for it than this does.

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

That's all that compelled me really, but I just can't agree they are still here in all but two or three songs. I am a sucker for those tunes (hence a 3.5 not a 3.0), and the rest aren't bad per se, but so disappointingly bland

yeah bones is like a thousand times catchier and more melodic than this. i can't think of a single song on here that stands up to mother we share, sink, gun, tether, night sky, science/visions

i mean musically this is way more conservative tbh. they settled into a sweet spot

leave a trace is excellent and is prob one of the only songs that would fit bones' blueprint imo. i'm nearly done a 4th playthrough now and i just think these choruses are so w/e (most of them, there are a few standout moments though).

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

Leave a Trace is best for sure

Album Rating: 4.5

Leave a Trace is actually second-weakest for me after Afterglow. Both of those songs have no recognizable direction. Keep You On My Side and Clearest Blue are clearly as good as anything on Bones. Down Side of Me and Bury It, I would also argue the same.

second weakest? gtfo

Album Rating: 4.5

Leave a Trace keeps building toward a climax that it never reaches. Yes, it's the second-weakest song for me.

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Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

yes.

Face it. Arcade proves again he belongs among the edgiest mfs on this site.