Album Rating: 4.5

Volition rules but Pacific Myth sucks yeah.

Album Rating: 4.0

Volition rules, Pacific Myth has Caravan and Harbinger, the rest is forgettable.

Album Rating: 3.5

Caravan is a top tier PTH song but yeah overall Pacific Myth was just fine. I love Volition though I will not accept the slander

Album Rating: 4.0

Yeah Caravan is underrated, it's so fucking good. I appreciate what they were trying to do w/t the Pacific Myth release but it was definitely a miss overall and I think the band mostly realized it.



But yeah idk I've been a fan since Kezia and Scurrilous felt like a bit of a misstep that Volition wound up correcting. Arif leaving before Scurrilous also threw Rody into lyric writing duties that he was clearly not quite up to snuff for at the time and he did improve a good bit from there.

Album Rating: 4.5

Volition felt pandering to appease the fans that didn’t like the scurrilous direction

Album Rating: 4.0

Making better music is pandering to people that like better music yeah

Album Rating: 4.5

Making boring music is pandering to people that like boring music



Volition is fortress light with none of the fun

Album Rating: 4.5

Volition has Mist and Drumhead Trial so it's got that going for it

scurrilous >>> volition

Album Rating: 4.0

scurrilous >>> volition [2]



both are good tho imo

I barely remember any of the songs from volition. scurrilous is weird and flawed (especially the lyrics lol) but its way more memorable and fun imo

Album Rating: 4.5

Scurrilous is an incredible album, but I think it was at an interesting point for the band where it both worked out some kinks behind the scenes for how the band would operate moving forward and also the logical endpoint for the band sorta operating in the space of making their music as technical as can be. It's probably their least approachable album and Rody's lyrics are downright bad at points, but still has a ton of highs and I appreciate the band willing to just go to the lengths it does.



Volition feels less like a correction and more of a clarification, that the band wanted to forge ahead with a sound that was a little more structured and accessible



Pacific Myth was a weird experiment that I am still not really sure what to make of, but Caravan is one of their best and the whole project is almost like one long meta punchline

Album Rating: 4.0

They've never topped Scurrilous musically

Album Rating: 4.5

I think Fortress is the peak musically for me. Scurrilous is just a shade too wonky for me, but I still love it

Album Rating: 4.0

I feel like every musical problem I see people say they have with Scurrilous is far more represented on Fortress.

Album Rating: 4.5

Didn’t expect to be joined by so many scurrilous lovers giving it the love it deserves

Album Rating: 3.5

Scurrilous is great don't get me wrong but Volition has way more variety. All the songs on Scurrilous are almost the exact same tempo and have similar energy. My favorite song from both albums is probably C'est la Vie though, what a track.

Album Rating: 4.5

Yeah, I think my biggest criticism against Scurrilous is that it hardly ever seems content or confident in itself. Practically every song does the start-stop thing, seemingly in an effort to inject some unneeded complexity into the songs.



Sextape rules because it doesn't do that and lets itself just be a normal song, albeit with their incredible technical prowess. C'est la Vie rips, but feels the closest thing to feeling like a Fortress b-side to me.

Scurrilous has just as many fist pumping shout along moments as fortress and only falls behind a slightly if you amplify the handful of somewhat cringe vocal lines

Album Rating: 4.5

The way Rody sings, "I hope she knows how much I respect her!" is so funny.



Most days I probably like Scurrilous better than Volition because Chris Adler's drums are way too loud on Volition and it is EXHAUSTING to listen to through the full run time.



Palimpsest = Fortress > Kezia > Scurrilous > Volition > Pacific Myth.



There's a wide gap from Kezia to Scurrilous for me, but Palimpsest and Fortress are two of my favorite albums ever.