Album Rating: 3.0
The best thing about this album is he has embellished these songs with some odd, dare I say quirky, sound additions
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Album Rating: 3.0
'Can't Let Go Juno' is the most distinct song here and it's hardly that melodically rich or that impressively written, it works because of the bells and whistles
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Album Rating: 3.0
My criticism of this album is that it is less distinct melody wise but I'm surprised you say that about Lighght. I mean, my personal favourite is Once Upon a Lucid Dream, which I'd say doesn't have the gloss like Philosophize does. But beyond that, I feel like they work hand and hand. Sure, if you strip down the gloss from any song, it will sound bland the same way if you strip a punk song of its grit it's gonna sound boring.
And that's what I feel is lacking from this. For instance, M'lady sounds great but the melodies are a bit... meh. I actually think I'd prefer it as an instrumental as the constant falsetto is just a tad too lacking. However, I don't think the same can be said at all for anything of Lighght
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Album Rating: 3.0
I just listened to Lighght and that did seem to work a bit better for me.
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Album Rating: 4.0
Juno, Ode To My Next Life, m'lover, Say Yeah, and Why Don't You Answer Me are as melodically rich as anything he's done. Yes, the record lacks the immediacy and energy that his first two and the EP have, but that doesn't make the album less great, necessarily.
If anything, I would say this is his most consistent album. The first two had those soaring highs, but it also had some weaker songs (Wonder Woman, Bittersweet Genesis). There is no such drop in quality here.
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wasnt a big fan of lighght at all. i might check this out anyway
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Album Rating: 4.0
i actually found this more immediate tbh
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Album Rating: 4.0
This album is completely consistent with all of K's other work, in Jupiter One and of Montreal through his solo stuff. It's not even that much of a departure sonically, he's just abandoned some of the progressive songwriting from Lighght. IDK why Doof is bringing up Pitchfork (when they completely ignore all of his output, don't even review his albums) and Currents (almost zero similarities to Parker's psych-drenched R&B opus). K learned how to produce from Kevin Barnes of of Montreal (they're neighbors), and that's what the production here is most similar to, easily.
You could put Hey Big Star on an of Montreal album and you'd hardly know the difference.
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Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off
I mean, arrangements are a key aspect of K's music, but I think that songwriting wise there is a core in there that makes them compelling and engaging.
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Album Rating: 4.0
Only four tunes on Lighght had that ambition though. The rest of the songs on that album, and the vast majority of the songs in his discog are the more "typical" KB song.
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Album Rating: 4.0
Strip these songs down and there would not be anything particularly affecting or engaging left, I'm sure of it
What does this even mean? You're not being specific enough for this to mean anything. You could say the same about almost any album out there. Give me an example of albums that you could "strip down" and they would still be enjoyable.
You seem to be reviling this album for one of its biggest strengths, in an era of music where production is the most prominent means of innovation. Welcome to mid-late 2010's, buddy.
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That is one black metal cover, damn
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Album Rating: 3.5
i bet this rips
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Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off
cover's cool af, yes
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Album Rating: 3.0
'where production is the most prominent means of innovation'
You still need something more than that. The songwriting isn't strong enough for me to be an album I'd seek out for the songs. It isn't an energetic/danceable album either. It's got no raw emotion coming through, at least none that connects with me.
It's more detailed than usual background music as far as I'm concerned.
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Album Rating: 3.0
Anthracks - I agree with you about its greatest strength, that's been my argument the whole time.
You can fit your house with all the latest mod cons but if you don't still have the essential foundations it collapses
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Album Rating: 4.0
'It isn't an energetic/danceable album either. It's got no raw emotion coming through'
this is entirely wrong
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Album Rating: 3.0
Just what I'm feeling so far, will give it another go at some point
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Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off
I think it's the more emotional album K has released so far... It doesn't work ALL the time but it's not prefab or shallow at all... That's how I see it at least.
Even honeybody, the only silly, uplift song on this, one can argue, gets pretty emotional by the end.
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Album Rating: 3.0
Doof, that 3 rating of Lighght voids all your arguments.
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