Album Rating: 3.3
I'd say So Far So Fast and Not In Kansas are p bold for this band even in terms of structure. Nothing as overt as SWB t/t but something like that would have disrupted the album anyway
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Album Rating: 4.5
Some of the textures on here, especially parts of SFSF, are as wild for this band as the SWB t/t was tbh.
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Dust Swirls is easily their weirdest and most bold song imo
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Album Rating: 3.3
yeah but it's not that great idk. if it was anything else but the subtitles of the short film I'd love it but it just feels like a soundtrack song that snuck into the real album
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Album Rating: 2.5
So far so fast is very good.
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Album Rating: 3.5
so far so fast is a preliminary favourite for me too! spun it thrrice and liked it more each listen, though weirdly it reminds me most of new American Football in a way i can't yet articulate - something about interlocking male/female vox used not for meretricious effect to construct a kind of dialogue and narrative, for lack of a better word. anyway early misgivings easing; it's good, really good
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Album Rating: 2.5
Agreed. Dust swirls just feels out of place. The first min is annoying af too
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Album Rating: 2.5
I hear new American Football too.
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Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off
Fifth listen finished and I'm comfortable with handing the new one a 4.5. Gotta praise the production on it. It sounds so crisp and full of life.
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Album Rating: 4.5
^ Very tasteful write up and I completely agree.
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new one is their second best this decade after TWFM. gorgeous record
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Album Rating: 4.0
Quiet Light just broke me into a million pieces
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Album Rating: 4.5
How many songs have no female vocals at all?
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i couldn’t tell, they’re so intertwined with matt’s
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Album Rating: 4.5
yuck, Matt's the chalk they're the cheese
I just hope I find 5 or 6 songs I like on this one - DESPITE the overriding style
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Album Rating: 4.5
I found the film they put less a 'Tree of life' more a 'Tree of Strife'.
How many songs had clips taken from them for the film. I def heard the much talked over Raylan/Rylan/Roland and that clip sounded real bad :/
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Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off
Doof, I haven’t heard it yet but it’s sounding like the best way to approach this one is going to be to not approach it as a National album. I’m sure it’ll be hard, expectation is a killer, but I respect the style may not be for you though.
I think I’m gonna duck out of this thread till I’ve heard the album, too many “spoilers”.
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Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off
Doof from what I’ve heard about half the songs are in the film in some form, but the ones in the film were given to the director as demos/not fully finished tracks, so a lot of them were modified later, so some of the album tracks are completely different takes.
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it sounds like a chamber pop/art rock take on trouble will find me, feels like a sister record in many ways. not a radical departure in style that would require it to be approached as a non-national release
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Album Rating: 4.5
Thanks Boney, pleased to hear the clips weren't lifted directly from the album - there is hope :D
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