Album Rating: 3.0
This didn't strike me as an 80's-inspired album, but I also wasn't around during the 80's so I'm not good at picking up on that kind of stuff.
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Album Rating: 4.5
This is not an "immediate" album like Riot! or BNE and I think that's what throws a lot of people off (aside from the nostalgic sound). I think this shows a great deal of maturity and ability to have more reserved and concise instrumentals that rely more on groove than speed or aggression and I think this was a refreshing change for that reason.
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Album Rating: 3.5
That's fair I guess, it's just not particularly moving to me either
Like basing half of your songs on "irony" is one of the least interesting things ever, but maybe that's just because that's what my entire goddamn generation relies on. The best songs here are the most genuine and truthful, like "Pool" "26" "No Friend" "Tell Me How" are all classics and it's not sad music pretending to sound happy. That dichotomy is just not interesting. If I wanna listen to sad music I'll listen to sad music, and vice versa
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Album Rating: 3.5
It's okay
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Album Rating: 4.5
I getcha, I do agree that songs like Pool and 26 are the best here but I love pretty much all of this honestly. There's a few moments that bother me, primarily the weird incorporation of aaron weiss in No Friend, that vocal mixing pisses me off so much. You can tell he had a really interesting offering here and the mix of it is so god awful.
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Album Rating: 4.5
fuck this deserved a bump literally No Friend is what keeps this from being a 5 for me
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Album Rating: 3.5
Nah No Friend is fucking brilliant
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Album Rating: 4.5
I was looking most forward to Aaron on it and the way they mixed his vocals sucked ass
I guess I was more let down by that, I like the instrumentals on it a lot.
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Album Rating: 4.5
I completely disagree neek. My favorite approach to songwriting is "light and dark at the same time," that by overlapping happy/sad signifiers you achieve a new resonance. It creates an ambiguity that's far more interesting to me than sad lyrics with sad music (and the counterpoint). There's more than irony at work here, there's a negation/subversion of depression through pairing those words with an upbeat atmosphere. It's dance as emotional processing. I get a lot out of that.
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Album Rating: 4.5
I feel you on that luci, I feel it helps me when I'm down more than listening to the downtrodden music. There's definitely a time and place for that as well, but this genuinely helps to lift my spirits while still containing the emotions I'm feeling in it's lyrical constructs.
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Album Rating: 3.5
I mean the way its mixed seems like a very purposeful decision that I think artistically works, but I see why it would be frustrating--I just think it was meant to be thematically
And I get that, I just think it works sometimes more than others and it's got very mixed effects here
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Vocalist sounds kinda weird on this, almost as if it's just her raw unprocessed voice. Kinda cool tbh
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Album Rating: 3.5
idk i don't hear anything
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Album Rating: 4.0
Damn good album, still stuck on whether I prefer this or their s/t more.
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Album Rating: 4.5
This is a little bit better because it has no bad songs
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Album Rating: 4.0
Didn't you give the s/t a 4.3 though?
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Album Rating: 4.5
Yeah that's a little high need to knock that down to a 4
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Album Rating: 3.5
this aight
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Album Rating: 5.0
Classic rock album
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Album Rating: 3.5
"Yeah that's a little high need to knock that down to a 4"
sowing you stop that right now
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