Album Rating: 3.5

Bump cause why not

Album Rating: 4.0

Album is better than I remember, pleasant surprise

Album Rating: 4.5

This things still crushes, Language of Injury is so good.

Album Rating: 4.0

Damn I haven't heard this in a long time

Album Rating: 4.5

I'm finally gonna get to see them in summer (at a festival called 2k trees) so thought I'd give it a spin again.

Album Rating: 3.0

This album's legacy is starting out 2019 strong and then never heard of again once other bands started putting out albums

Album Rating: 4.5

These guys are dropping new material this week, be a good week for British Hardcore with Rolo dropping their album too.

Album Rating: 3.5

oh sweet.



two thousand trees got cancelled last year right? i wanted to go to arctangent to see down i go perform live for the first time in like ten years but that got cancelled as well.

Album Rating: 4.5

yeh 2k trees got cancelled. I only ended up doing the Download Pilot and Slam Dunk.

Album Rating: 4.5

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajIqqJGtANE



New song is decent.

Album Rating: 4.0

huh. it goes hard but i'm a little afraid of how straightforward that song structure was

Album Rating: 4.0

yeah this album is great, going to try and not listen to any single to go in completely fresh

new song slaps

Just read the Kerrrang review for the new album and was genuinely dumbfounded at how poorly written it was lol, they're like a big deal magazine aren't they? Yeesh

Album Rating: 3.5

mainstream music journalism is atrocious yeh

Album Rating: 3.5

'While they were on their knees and screaming in pain on 2019’s debut The Language Of Injury, they’re got back up'





wow typo in the second sentence. yeah thats abysmal

They were struggling to write even a single coherent sentence lmao

Album Rating: 3.5

'And while there are plenty of bands out there who are adept at presenting themselves as powerful, the London quintet are towering above them all, with such gargantuan sonic heft that it feels genuinely threatening, and cutting lyrics that bristle with violent sass (has anyone uttered anything more potent than 'Wash your blood down the sink / ’cause we don’t keep souvenirs' this year?).'



overly long sentence with hyperbolic assessment of lyrics.





'Even though there are only so many ways to make big, heavy noises with guitars, Ithaca’s monolithic riffs hit with an earth-shaking impact that’s almost unheard of. The opening chugs of the bulldozing Number Five are tuned so low that they sound like the noises of industrial machines more than instruments, in the best possible way.'





'almost unheard of' and 'the best possible way', both superfluos. (and also hyperbolic).





'You Should Have Gone Back brings together the spidery guitar picking of We Are Not Your Kind-era Slipknot, the virtuosic soloing of Prince and the ethereal atmospherics of Rolo Tomassi in a majestic miniature epic, while the lush pop ballad Hold, Be Held is a gorgeous finale made all the more stunning when Djamila delves into the higher end of her range – it’s impossible not to have chills hearing her ask, 'How much more can I take? When will I heal?''



another massive run-on sentence. 'its impossible to not have chills' is again, hyperbolic and just doesnt need to be there.





'With an album under their belts as diverse and mighty as this, without a doubt, it’s Ithaca’s time for their flowers.' yeah thats a bad review and a bad send off

Album Rating: 3.5

they write like i did when i first started reviewing. they seem to understand the overall structure of a review but theres so much meaningless guff and not enough actual interesting description of what this band sounds like.



this is making me feel better about some of my reviews which is nice. still have a long way to go tho

Yeah idk it was the first magazine review I have read in a long time and I was just surprised lol

New album is sick tho, they got that right