Album Rating: 4.0
Alright, I think this may be a top ten of the year contender.
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Album Rating: 5.0
a bathtub in the kitchen is well on its way to being my most played song this year
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Album Rating: 4.0
"Her With the Blues" is one of the big stunners for me on first listen. "Giant at Galena" too.
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Album Rating: 4.0
"Indications" is such a wonderful throwback.
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Album Rating: 4.5
Cool to see so many people jumping aboard. "Her With The Blues" and "Grant at Galena" are also my two favorites right now although I also love the repetitive part of "A Bathtub in the Kitchen" where he just keeps singing "I can't keep saying thank you". Lots of brilliant moments across this album, I'm sure I haven't even processed all of them yet.
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Album Rating: 4.5
Every song is at least 'great' here and more than that, they all feel like they 'belong'
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Album Rating: 5.0
i was trying to find my footing, i was doing things i shouldn’t
francis let me crash out on his couch
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Album Rating: 4.5
was floored by the first half of this, not so much the second, maybe it'll grow on me.
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Album Rating: 4.5
Carmen, Holyoke and Her with the Blues is one of the best runs of tunes on the album for me.
'Once I start on something
I get obsessed about the ending
Like once we start a show
We watch every single episode
I'm sorry if I scared you
But I thought that I was dying'
Only Finn could deliver lyrics like this and them hit an effortless emotional connect.
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Album Rating: 4.0
I’m definitely going to have to go back and listen to the previous album again - I think I underestimated it a bit.
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Album Rating: 3.5
Being a massive Finn fanboy going on 11 years (I've reviewed every Hold Steady album on here in an massively pretentious and overly verbose manner), I should probably get on this.
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Album Rating: 3.5
I’m definitely going to have to go back and listen to the previous album again - I think I underestimated it a bit
^ It Hits When it Hits and Chicago are masterworks
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Album Rating: 4.0
First song is very early War On Drugs
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Album Rating: 3.5
One of the reasons I love the Hold Steady and Finn so much is the constant references to Minneapolis/St Paul aka the Twin Cities. I don't live there but I've been there probably 500 times and have gone 15 times just this year alone, so I usually get the references. It makes me feel superior to get Finn's inside jokes. Carry on.
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Album Rating: 3.5
jamming this now. While the words are amazing, Finn is and always will be a massive wordsmith, this isn't even close to the best Hold Steady records. Maybe I'm just a sucker for monster hooks, choruses, piano flourishes and riffs, but listen to anything on here, then listen to Constructive Summer, Stuck Between Stations, The Swish, Your Little Hoodrat Friend, Party Pit, The Weekenders, Magazines, Hurricane J, Killer Parties, You Can Make Him Like You, Stay Positive, and Stevie Nix. No comparison.
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I don’t know. I think this is bloody fantastic. Better than Hold Steady stuff.
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Album Rating: 3.5
Zak lol how many pints in are you?
Hold Steady have been one of my 5 favorite bands since 2006 so I guess I'm biased, but this is nowhere near that level. Even the slower, introspective Hold Steady songs like First Night, Citris, Lord I'm Discouraged, and Don't Let Me Explode, all of which are similar in theme to these tracks, are vastly superior.
Either way, still love the guy.
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Album Rating: 4.0
Hans you’re selling Hold Steady pretty hard, what’s their best album to start with?
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Album Rating: 4.5
I think Finn is better doing the understated storytelling, esp the subtle weepies - he never really convincingly 'rocks', it's always a bit ironic and knowing when he does it.
This solo stuff seems a more natural fit. Though 'You Can Make Him Like You' is an absolute classic tune from The Hold Steady.
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Album Rating: 3.5
Boney, Boys and Girls in America and Separation Sunday are both indie rock masterpieces.
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