Album Rating: 3.0

Seems my internet had a spasm, sorry for the double comment

I thought I was disappointed by this but I keep listening to it so I guess I like it??

hahah no worries. i'll lay off the sleater talk but basically if you like the first track, "the fox," you'll like the other stuff almost certainly and if you don't, you almost certainly won't. easy money

Album Rating: 3.0

It's all good, happy to always have new stuff to listen to I haven't heard anything about before

Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off

Almost done with my 3rd full listen-through and I still can't really make heads or tails of this. I definitely like it, but pinning down exactly how much, or even why, is proving surprisingly hard...

Album Rating: 4.5

On paper, there are a lot of things to dislike, as I mentioned in my review, but HOT DAMN, I keep returning to this and there isn't really a sign of slowing down.

The ending of Tourniquet is some madman maniac tempo shit.

Tourniquet is my fave track here hands down

I've listened to half of it in one go on headphones and no way I can listen to another 30 minutes of brickwalled clipping lol

Songwriting is top, drums and bass are god tier, really good stuff, some really explosive riffs too but John's singing is very repetitive. Love the interludes so far too.

We got just about the same feelings on this one Dewi
It’s a shame that the drums sound horrendous imo, dude is so good

Album Rating: 2.5

Doof is right that the sequencing in the middle is odd. Kills the momentum. But I do like Cold Blooded Angels, and honestly I really, really like the closer, Borderlines and the first few songs. The production really kills it for me, though, and I have no idea what to rate an album I really like but sounds as if they recorded it on an old rusty garage with nothing but a CPU, a monitor, a small mixer, and next to a toilet.

Give it the proper rating if it had a "normal" production job and then rest 1 point for having fucked up that aspect.

Album Rating: 2.5

I rated this in the normal fashion but I’d say the production put a 4 out of 5 max rating ceiling on it in case every other element I rated ‘perfect’ - if I was listening to a poorly recorded demo by a band I’d rate that based on what it gives me rather than docking it for the sound quality, but I don’t think a demo recording could ever achieve a 5, hence rating ceiling



So I pretty much ignored the production in my rating, it has only a small impact imo



I have listened to live recordings and poorly recorded demos, as well as purposefully lo fi stuff, and enjoyed them greatly, sound quality isn’t everything.



The production is a bit of a derp but I can still easily hear what album is contained within. That album gets a 2.5.

Fair enough Doofus.

Album Rating: 2.5

Maybe it's because it is more of a non stop hard rock/metal album but I definitely found getting into Purple harder due to the production.



Metal fans should have marched in the streets against the loudness of 'Death Magnetic', that's the one I first noticed was really bad

For me the worst offender in the wtf happened during the recording category would be last year's Summoning. True orc production that one.

Album Rating: 3.0

it hasn't grabbed a hold of me yet... i imagine this will get a bump from me somewhere down the road.

Only a few songs in, but I'm enjoying it so far. I see people are mad at the production so I looked up who produced it... Yup, same guy who fucked up the last few Thursday albums

Album Rating: 2.5 | Sound Off

Production is not the issue here keeping me from >3 this

This type of production is a bit of trademark on the band, though I must say I tried this in the car and it was pretty much inaudible.

Album Rating: 3.0

David Fridmann has produced a lot of albums I enjoy including Flaming Lips, Tame Impala, MGMT, Thursday, Mogwai and Low. I feel the more psychedelic sections on this album fit his production style. I can understand it seeming off during the more straight forward rock tracks. I guess I've just come to expect Baroness production to have this lo-fi aesthetic.