Album Rating: 4.0

"Revisiting this and it’s just so much better than Radical Romantics"

On my second listen of the new one, I tend to agree. I know for a fact that I liked 'Plunge' more on first exposure. Standard's still very high, though.

I went back through discog also and determined that this had more highs than Radical Romantics but is less cohesive / has more lows as well. They even out ti about the same for me. Self Titled is less bold and daring than either album but doesn’t have a single bad song and is the most cohesive. Will always be the best one.

Album Rating: 3.5

That’s how I feel currently re highs / lows vs cohesion etc.

I’m gonna give this another once over to properly compare to Radical though. My memory ain’t THAT bad as I’ve heard this loads, but you never know I guess… things change

Gonna do a song rating average for this one and see how it actually compares to my average for new one just for fun

He’s gonna take the plunge

Wanna sip - 3.5/5
Mustn’t Hurry - 5/5
A part of Us - 4.5/5
Falling - 3/5
Idk about you - 2.5/5
This Country - 2.5/5
Plunge - 3/5
To the moon and back - 5/5
Red trails - 4.5/5
An Itch - 3.5/5
Mama’s Hand - 5/5

3.82

Tracks for Radical Romantics averaged out to 3.85

Album Rating: 4.0

En-gee-el, the closer on the new one bugs me... musically it's good and atmospheric, but the "oh-oh"s I find grating... and it's overlong.

I usually appreciate the more avant-garde stuff that comes from the Knife camp (worked big-time on 'Shaking the Habitual'), but in this instance, feel it works to album's detriment.

Album Rating: 4.0

"An Itch - 3.5/5"

This is my fave from this one. Glorious.

Album Rating: 4.0

Never understood the hate this one got, new one is on par



"To the moon and back - 5/5" Yes

Length doesn’t bother me as there is nothing after it, it’s just an meditative cooldown. It’s like closing your eyes and zoning out after doing yoga or something lmao. If it was placed anywhere else on the album I could understand the thought that it works to the albums detriment, but as the closer I think it costs it nothing.

“ Never understood the hate this one got”

What hate? I remember reception being mostly positive.

I could bump an itch up to a 4 but I could also bump tapping fingers to a 4.5 so the averages would inflate the same amount lmao

Album Rating: 3.0

will be revisiting this off the back of rad rom, I don’t honestly remember much so might have been hasty with my initial reaction

Album Rating: 4.0

“ Idk about you - 2.5/5

This Country - 2.5/5”



Potsy’s ratings make it hard to fuck tbh

Album Rating: 4.0

Fever Ray needs their 4th album to be all annoying abrasive tracks to even it out (pun intended)

Those two songs make it hard to fuck

Or too soft to fuck rather

Album Rating: 4.0

"it’s just an meditative cooldown. It’s like closing your eyes and zoning out after doing yoga or something lmao. If it was placed anywhere else on the album I could understand the thought that it works to the albums detriment, but as the closer I think it costs it nothing."

Well, I think some of that applies... but as I said, the ever-present "oh-oh"s kinda undermine the experience for me (making it hard for me to zone out). In terms of sequencing, I felt it because it's the final impression it leaves you with (wouldn't go as far to say "bad taste in the mouth", but I guess you'd get the general gist).

To me tapping dingers is the dramatic closing scene and bottom of the ocean is the credit crawl. It’s wasnt so much my final impression as it is a moment to gather my impressions. Also the oh-ohs don’t bother me at all. It’s at the very least far less annoying than listening to bjork make any sound

Lol tapping dingers