Album Rating: 3.5

3 is my pick

Album Rating: 4.0

Bye Bye is so damn good

Album Rating: 5.0

Hell yes it is

Probably my favorite song here

Album Rating: 4.0

Nice! I think it's supplanted Hummingbird as my favorite track, although I still love that one as well

Album Rating: 5.0

That one part of Hummingbird where the vocals shine through in layers, "Leaving this earth is such a beautiful sound" is amazing and might be the best individual moment on the album, but as an entire song it lags just behind Bye Bye, Captain, Everything to Lose, and David for me. Hummingbird would round out my top 5.

Album Rating: 4.0

For the most part, those are my favorites as well, although Captain probably wouldn't make my highlights list and I do really like Burial Ground (my favorite of the shorter songs)

Album Rating: 4.0

Beautiful review, as per usual. I have this downloaded but haven't gotten around to listening yet because I'm waiting to be in the right space to take it in. Low Roar is probably one of my top 10 artists of all time so I'm expecting to fucking love it. Is this an AOTY contender you think?

Album Rating: 5.0

If I'm being totally honest, it's not an AOTY contender for me. It is high up though, probably top-10.

Album Rating: 5.0

It is a contender for me. It's on par with 0. Repeated listens=fantastic.

Album Rating: 5.0

Yeah I def think this benefits from patience. Lots of people will be bored of this after 1 listen and discard it, but the Low Roar diehards who know what kind of music this is will reap all the benefits.

Album Rating: 2.5

I tried again and still feel about the same… think this would benefit from a bit of resequencing

Like countless others I only discovered this band through Death Stranding. I would, no joke, start my days working from home with the DS soundtrack over coffee as I began my day for about a year. That said, I’ve never given one of their albums a full start-to-finish listen. I may start with this one later today.

Lol don't do that. Start with 0 or you're going to be very disappointed

Album Rating: 5.0

That vacuum of silence that hits on Fucked Up gets me every time.

Album Rating: 5.0

yeah that is such a stroke of genius

whole album masterfully handles quiet tension & release dynamics

this dude knows how to do album art

"The electronically altered effects placed upon his voice as the song swells to its most affecting pinnacle gives the whole experience an aura of buoyancy, as if the message is being sung through a wormhole in the ocean, from a future Karazijah."

Perfectly describes the center portion of 'David.' It's a very progressive and Pink-Floyd-esque vocal melody, and perhaps my favorite few stanzas of the album.

"This thing has its moments of reconciliation and transient optimism, but it's overarchingly melancholic and mostly depressing as hell, with themes of death and other forms of agonizing loss dominating Ryan's headspace."

This... this explains the overwhelmingly positive part in my dichotomy of judging this album. The album is a masterfully crafted expression of humanity's most poignant emotions - from optimism, to depression, to acceptance - and everything in-between. Actively listening to this album from start to finish, and embracing what Karazijah wants to give, is nearly transcendent. Yet, outside of a few standout moments (such as in David, Captain, and Bye Bye), it's hard for me to pinpoint memorable passages. This a starlit stream of consciousness more than it is a collection of great individual songs.

This is one of the few albums where the whole is much, much greater than the sum of its parts, which leads me to not wanting to listen to it in short bits or pieces, but instead as a meditation. I'm completely lost as to what to rate this.

Outstanding review, by the way.

only three songs in but Fucked Up is pretty incredible. getting a lot of Perfume Genius vibes so far

Album Rating: 3.0

So who's David?

Album Rating: 5.0

I like to think David is a childhood imaginary friend that came back to visit for one last adventure.