Album Rating: 4.5
I think that was the reasoning for CHVRCHES but apparently with these folks it was because another band named Always was already signed to their label.
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Album Rating: 4.0
Okay. They are pronounced Always aren't they? Just realised I've never actually heard their name pronounced anywhere officially.
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Album Rating: 4.5
Haha same kinda. I think I’m a couple few listens away from a major breakthrough though - focusing on vocals/lyrics has helped the songwriting open up for me. It’s definitely still very much an indie pop album at the core (in the truest 90s/00s sense of the term) despite the noisy dreamgaze instrumentation.
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Album Rating: 4.5
Had to read that like 3 times to attempt to understand what you’re saying but I think I kind of agree - certainly there are fewer “big choruses” here than other Alvvays albums - lots of hooks weaved throughout though, and songs take a lot of unexpected twists and turns. Some surprisingly great guitar solos too. But a lot of this is “blink and you’ll miss it” stuff which I think is why the first few spins kind of slid off me.
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Album Rating: 4.5
Responding both to that comment and your latest in the Antisocialites thread, what this is doing pretty interestingly (as I kind of alluded to before) is doing the hazy noisy dreamgaze thing but using it as more of a tool to approach the songwriting rather than as the Point in itself (which is where most stuff of that ilk is operating). For most dream pop and adjacent things, even when the songwriting is actually good and important in itself, you can usually still just kinda use it for the #vibez if you wanna, but you can’t do that with this (which is why I’m gripin’ with the shoegaze primary tag on RYM). I mean maybe you can, but I haven’t tried it yet and doesn’t seem like it’d work too well. Idk. Still not convinced this is a crazy amazing album or anything but it’s definitely made me think more than I expected it to (Antisocialites I loved but certainly felt like I “got” it pretty much right away; the debut I never really got into but maybe didn’t give time to open up? Never seemed like it had enough going for it beyond the obvious highlights to bother though).
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Album Rating: 4.8
suck my fucking balls
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Album Rating: 4.8
anyway will i like this
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Album Rating: 4.8
this is more gazey/90s worship than Blue Weekend but I can't complain (:
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Album Rating: 3.5
dreamgaze more like noisy twee pop really
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Album Rating: 4.5
I mean yeah all I was saying up there was basically a long winded way of saying it’s noisy twee pop but the point is the aesthetic of a lot of the stuff here is defo aligned with dreamgaze.
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Album Rating: 4.5
already love this more than antisocialites
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Album Rating: 4.8
Was that a rebuke to me or am I free
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Album Rating: 4.5
I DROPPED OUT
COLLEGE EDUCATION’S A DULL KNIFE
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Album Rating: 4.5
Alas we could have had a blue Blue Rev review.
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Album Rating: 4.8
this shit rules
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Album Rating: 4.8
how does this compare to their other stuff, sonically/otherwise?
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Album Rating: 5.0
Their songs sound so damn great live
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Album Rating: 5.0
"how does this compare to their other stuff, sonically/otherwise?"
Other stuff is less noisy, more jangly/synthy
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Album Rating: 4.5
johnny check the self-titled it's a certified twee classic
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Album Rating: 4.5
Self-titled is due a revisit for me but I guarantee Johnny would not particularly care for it.
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