Album Rating: 2.5 | Sound Off

didn't notice that



RIP

Album Rating: 4.0

Haha it was a fun ride. Nah bloc Jom told me it would happen eventually in a chill conversation a while back.

Band will never beat the second track on Language.

Album Rating: 4.0

I think they definitely have it beat with Pensive Plebby.

Not even jammed this but I don't love any of their albums tbh.

Album Rating: 4.0

They've really grown on me lately. Been jamming them a lot and this one has little to no "djent" sound at all to it.

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

yea Language I: Intuition is amazing and the band's best song, but the middle of this album rivals a lot of Language overall.

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

You know, for as long as you've had that avatar, I've wondered what interview that comes from. Or was Devito making a face for a skit? It's infuriating and I love it.

Album Rating: 3.5

Danny Devito is a myth

You know, my problem with this all m is that the music is just not dynamic enough to compensate for Lessard's undersinging. It ends up being pretty but uninteresting.

Can't imagine I'd like this more than Exoplanet

Album Rating: 2.5

I love parts of this album, but as a whole it somehow just falls flat. Usually when people find an album drags, I end up loving it the whole way through, but this dragged for me. The vocals are outstanding at times, but as other have pointed out, they take this bland zero-effort approach throughout most of the album. It's not that it's bad, I think it's a decent album, it's just not engaging enough to hold my interest all the way through.

Album Rating: 5.0

Check the lyrics and some meanings...this record actually have a lot to say in matter of lead you to somewhere, and it functions really well as whole. Cool intro, the in the middle space for some progression and experimentation and reach a high point on Return to the Earth (pretty emotional this one). There's also a lot of layers in sound that gives depth and some kind of darkness, that in my case i stripped them after several listens.



Far from average. I know it looks like an easy album at first but its far from it.

Album Rating: 4.0

Goddamn Pensive is outstanding. I love how dense and atmospheric they went here in general I love this.

Album Rating: 4.0

Just listened to it again yesterday! It's a favorite of mine currently. In the car rotation a lot.

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ugh, I hope that this grows on me after a couple of years. that's what happened to Language.

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

I think I was a bit disappointed once I read the lyrics and realized there wasn't any cleverness or insight. Obviously lyrics always matter, but a common denominator among my favorite albums is a passionate, thoughtful unifying lyrical theme.

I "get" what the theme is here -- the unfortunate death of his friend -- but the lyrics are so....pedestrian?

There's also a smaller number of "whoa" moments...the confluence of lyrics, a bittersweet delivery, and a crescendo. I fucking love moments like those. I listen to music for those moments. Clairvoyant ended up disappointing me where Language succeeded, but it still succeeds musically.

As I ranted obnoxiously a few pages ago, this is an album you put on with zero other distractions. Maybe a music visualizer. I prefer just staring at the vinyl while it spins. You gotta immerse yourself into it and pay attention to every little note, because instrumentally, it's dazzling. Complex in the most subtle ways.

Language I can put on whenever and it entertains me. Clairvoyant feels a little more one-note, one-flavor. Song-by-song it's a blur and you might just need to listen to the whole thing as a piece. But if you listen to it in a way that "hits" you right, it's immensely enjoyable. For me, again, that's a lot of pot, rainbow-cycling Hue lights filling my basement, and cup of scotch.

With very few big standout moments, Clairvoyant is better experienced as a whole piece. Better enjoyed when hypnotized by it, and giving it your utmost attention. The satisfaction, then, comes from focusing on different musicians at different times and following the rhythms around.

I can appreciate that that might not do it for most people or be enjoyable to them. It's the definition of a grower. I do wish it was more akin to Language, but it is what it is.

Album Rating: 4.0

I love everything about this. I think instrumentally it’s beautifully profound and the lyrics are stellar.

If only every song was as good and emotional as "Return to the Earth". I agree with everything you said Nomos.

Album Rating: 2.5 | Sound Off

"Better enjoyed when hypnotized by it"



okay, need to get the LSD next time