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Rowan5215
Staff Reviewer
December 8th 2021


47584 Comments

Album Rating: 4.6

blank worker is one of my favourites here lol



Trouble is in a cage match with Afraid of Anything for their best song ever

TalonsOfFire
Emeritus
December 8th 2021


20969 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

The first half is solid, but Trouble and Infinite Josh are my two favs. More songs like the latter would’ve been great.

Mongi123
December 8th 2021


22034 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

But omg Fewer Afraaaaaid



Invading and We Saw Birds are stunning too.

JohnnyoftheWell
Staff Reviewer
December 8th 2021


60217 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

Invading is kinda good and kinda so needlessly overbusy that I struggle to remember a single thing that happens in it. minus points for indulgent guitar writing and a cringe dark souls title

Fewer Afraid is a litmus test for people too easily impressed by arbitrarily grandiose stopwatch exercises. Infinite Josh is the best song hands down

YoYoMancuso
Staff Reviewer
December 8th 2021


18850 Comments

Album Rating: 3.7

“Infinite Josh is the best song hands down”



Johnny and I agree yet again, what parallel universe have I entered

JohnnyoftheWell
Staff Reviewer
December 8th 2021


60217 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

the one where years of our lives have reset themselves like falling leaves or whatever drippy bs

TalonsOfFire
Emeritus
December 8th 2021


20969 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

We Saw Birds, Fewer Afraid, and Holy Office are my next favs after Infinite Josh and Trouble.

Agreed with Johnny that Invasion is fine but too busy to be memorable or a highlight.

Fewer Afraid is really good but the intro goes on too long. I really like the whole middle section of it.

WalrusTusk
December 8th 2021


1800 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

I still stand by the fact that the two last songs could have been cut in half and it would have changed neither of their messages but would have made the record INFINITELY more manageable.

Rowan5215
Staff Reviewer
December 8th 2021


47584 Comments

Album Rating: 4.6

nah but fr put blank worker on after you've worked two jobs in a day on 4 hrs sleep cos you've had the worst week of your life and you're on the edge of a breakdown, then tell me that shit doesn't hit



all hypothetical of course I'm not speaking from experience. probably

Project
December 8th 2021


5819 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Invading is extremely good and Infinite Josh is better than Fewer Afraid but only slightly, and both are incredible



they absolutely should not be trimmed, their earn every second of their runtimes

WalrusTusk
December 8th 2021


1800 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Totally just an opinion, but I bet they would work really well if they were released as a part of a live album at that length. Give the die hard fan more of a jam. But right now I haven't even listened to the whole thing more than twice because I can't bring myself to slog through the ending of it. Might even bump down because it's 30 minutes at the end of the album of wasted potential.

letsgofishing
December 9th 2021


1705 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

The objects

we're locked in,

immobile and violent.



Just fewer like that.



Fewer afraid.

Fewer afraid.



The last 40 minutes of this record are a damn once-in-a-decade masterpiece.

Pangea
December 13th 2021


10507 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

Blank // Worker is a very nice song

neekafat
Staff Reviewer
December 15th 2021


26052 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

"Invading the World of the Guilty as a Spirit of Vengeance" was inspired by Dark Souls are you shitting me

neekafat
Staff Reviewer
December 15th 2021


26052 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

ok this is picking up a bit nice

neekafat
Staff Reviewer
December 15th 2021


26052 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

yeah the last two are really great, the rest I was a bit disappointed in but still good stuff



Getting Sodas >>>>

Slex
December 15th 2021


16504 Comments


They'll never match the twofer to end Harmlessness, best song from debut is still Gig Life

JohnnyoftheWell
Staff Reviewer
December 15th 2021


60217 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

album title is also inspired by dark souls

"inspired" here meaning a direct insignificant meme reference that lands cheap as half these crescendos

mynameischan
Staff Reviewer
December 15th 2021


2406 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

That song title is lifted word for word, not inspired by.

JohnnyoftheWell
Staff Reviewer
December 15th 2021


60217 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

mmyes exactly

although the motivational mechanics of lifting something word for word without also being inspired by it are highly discomforting



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