Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off
Agreed, such a consistently excellent band.
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Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off
The two new tracks are both killer. Glad they are back on a track of consistency.
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Album Rating: 4.5
Mad Stone is awesome! Other single is pretty good.
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Album Rating: 4.0
might be everything that I want, you
might be everything that I want, you
might be everything that I want, you
might be everything that I want, you
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Album Rating: 4.0
Sad we never got a RDF album tour but I’ll take a new album too
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Album Rating: 4.5
I guess they did the pre-album tour with the singles, would've loved to have heard more of the album live though (especially Metroland and Kevin's Car). Hopefully they play some of the favourites on the new tour.
Did you get tickets choccy?
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Album Rating: 4.5
Idk what I think of these guys. I remember back in the day hearing Get To Heaven and I thought it sucked, and then out of nowhere this gem comes along. This album is fucking great but relistening to GtH and Reanimator makes it abundantly clear that they’re very inconsistent.
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Album Rating: 4.5
If you really like this there's a good chance you'll like Cold Reactor (lead single from the new album). GTH is their only album as catchy as this I think, you might like Arc?
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Album Rating: 4.5
Not sure how you can love this and not also love Get To Heaven. Anyway I'm so excited for the next album after the singles
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Album Rating: 4.0
fuckin hell do these guys know how to write catchy hooks
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Album Rating: 4.5
New single is top tier! Can't wait for this new album, it's shaping up really well so far.
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Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off
new album slaps like crazy. i love how it almost sounds live-recorded. even the singles i did not care for at first grew on me significantly
also, the linguistic border between "fucks" and "sucks" is way too thin for me to feel comfortable in using "this album fucks" as a compliment
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Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off
They really can do no wrong, new album certainly slaps.
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Album Rating: 4.0
hyped for the new one
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Gotta hear this band. Guess I'll just start with the new one.
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Album Rating: 3.8 | Sound Off
first track of the new one slaps hard, excited for the rest of the record
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Album Rating: 4.0
they need to now shorten their albums and get tighter on quality control...they seem to be losing the art of self editing or getting so conceptual they think a song's meaning 'as part of the story' justifies it's inclusion...when the tune is either subpar or a retread.
seems as patchy as the last one (50% of that album was fire, the rest chaff)...this one seems similar only the highs don't seem quite as high (probably blame the choruses - there were a tonne of good choruses on the last one, this time you have "can---Aaararay" etc or the same phrase just parroted over a not catchy melody).
they've overused nearly all the lead singer's vocal melody ideas too now.
for me it'll prob be their weakest since 'Arc', or at least the one I'll engage with least due to fatigue of overfamiliar sounds and ideas.
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Album Rating: 4.0
I feel this one will have either seven or eight keepers out of 14 which honestly isn't bad but I'd rather tighten up and they have 10 winners and wrap it up in 40 minutes.
They've released an awful lot of material now.
Yeah second listen I'd say the following stuck out:
1. Wild Guess
2. Cold Reactor
3. R U Happy?
4. The Mad Stone
5. Don't Ask Me to Beg
6. Your Money, My Summer
7. City Song
8. The Witness
Every other song has something not quite right (the chorus of Canary, the 'customer is always right' refrain in 'Dagger's Edge', etc)
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I don't disagree with you doof in that the sheer amount here (and in general) kinda casts some diminishing returns and there is nothing radically different, but I also don't think there are any really obvious skips. I am really digging it so far. Need some more time to sit with it. Might be their best in a while, but it's at least on par with Raw Data Feel
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Album Rating: 4.0
For the record the last album would have functioned better as just:
1. Teletype
2. Bad Friday
3. Pizza Boy
4. Jennifer
5. Leviathan
6. My Computer
7. Kevin's Car
8. Software Greatman
If they released album's this tight I'd believe they were approaching Radiohead greatness but the bloat on each album proves they're very much fallible - 'Get to Heaven' is the only one I'd maybe argue wouldn't improve from editing it down.
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