Album Rating: 4.5
I actually watched the doc on the plane, pretty good watch but I just found myself trying to love the music but I just couldn't. I liked them being about for their attitude and interviews, a lot of good quotes in the documentary too. Saying that celeb culture/the internet has killed off the potential for any sort of huge collective movement in music that makes people feel connected/of the moment.
Music wise I'd much rather listen to these paranoid whingers, probably the closest to a British band who've successfully tapped into that 2010's queasy feeling of 'the show is starting to come off the rails'. All you can do is either laugh or scream.
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Album Rating: 4.5
"All you can do is either laugh or scream."
Doof that's a perfect description of the feeling in this music. These guys capture the Internet era worry better than most
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Album Rating: 4.0
Yes Doof, I rated the the previous one at a 4.5 - it was colorful, vibrant, energetic, and really inventive, this one just falls flat in comparison for me. Each time I listen to this new one it starts becoming background music about halfway through.
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Album Rating: 2.0
I’ve tried and tried and it’s not a bad album, but it’s not good either. Night of the Long Knives is one of their best songs I think though. If the album had that dark, danceable groove throughout, it could rival Get to Heaven.
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Album Rating: 4.5
Another really good release from these guys IMO, will need a few more spins before I can say where it fits into their impressive discog
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I can't get into this... I don't know what it is.
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No grit, no bite, no vigour, no rabble rousing, no connection, nothing said, nothing meant, a stylised bleating of a sociophobe with no friends who hasn't lived and yet makes music about nothing.
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Album Rating: 4.5
I agree, the new Steven Wilson LP does suck
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Tired of Facebook rings true tbh
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Album Rating: 4.5
When will those darn kids put their phones down
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Album Rating: 4.5
Of all the bands to say 'makes music about nothing' this is a weird choice. I'd say it's easier to accuse them of over ambition if anything.
More like a 2017 UK version of Talking Heads in some ways. Subversive music that can get radio airplay.
Musically I really love the tone of this which is 40% Radiohead, 40% Hot Chip and then 20% the rock stuff that makes the charts.
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it just seems like their hearts aren't in it.
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Album Rating: 4.5
The air of detachment is very Brit, very Radiohead.
Radiohead recorded Ok Computer.
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OK Computer is all about detachment, this is too flouncy.
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To be fair i should actually listen to the thing :D
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Album Rating: 4.5
I'm actually surprised this band are so popular because they're really strange and yes a bit flouncy. Strangle-vocal'd day dream death-fantasies surprisingly mainstream, must mean we really are brewing for the big one.
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Album Rating: 4.5
'Do you wish to see fire in the clouds? Desire desire desire'
Catchiest song of the year and gets to the crux that deep down we're gagging for a bit of nuclear action in 2017
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Album Rating: 4.5
If the last 3 were stronger this would probably be a 4.5
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Album Rating: 4.5
ivory tower is a banger tho
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Album Rating: 4.5
I like the short tune too. The closer is a little bit off, not majorly, just something not quite there.
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