ronawa i am sorry to pop that particular balloon, but this budding mall band is strictly collateral to the miasma in the periphery thread, and maybe that is their best look to date?

"my Henry St review will retire your main for good"

do this + we will talk later

Feel like the only one on this site that genuinely loves Cope. I f**k with the 90's grunge rock feel it has going, and it never loses that Manchester Orchestra'ness in my opinion.

I would love to see these guys take a risk like that again. Could totally see them pulling off a Pink Floyd and releasing a prog album in their style. That's something I need in life. Their music has always had that cinematic quality.

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

It's funny you say that because even though I dissed COPE just one page ago I re-listened to it and Hope back to back this morning and I have a newfound appreciation. Gonna bump my score. Still their weakest effort, but it's good.

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

Very purdy ep

Album Rating: 2.5

the vocals on the last song kill birds

Album Rating: 4.0

This was way better than I expected.

Whoever said in that news thread recently that they need to bring back the riffage kind of nailed it

Album Rating: 3.4

not against them going heavy again just hope they uhh... do it well



even if it wasn't recorded on a potato and mixed during an electrical outage, Cope is just so faceless and uninspired. feel like I'm watching a truck commercial every time I listen to that album



hopefully the theoretical heavy album they're working on is more Pride, Lead SD type material. aka actually still creative and dynamic

Album Rating: 3.5

One of those “jam one time and never again” pieces

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

Agreed with everything Rowan just said, unsurprisingly. I actually want to see them go heavy again just to keep things fresh, but they need to inject that COPE mentality with the high stakes emotion and flair for the dramatic that they're so well known for.



This EP continues to grow. Absolutely love the slower songs here now, almost as much as the two explosive moments.

Album Rating: 3.5

It's quite obviously a collection of b-sides with a whole handful of songs that are only just alright and that one song (Rear View) that would have been one of the very best songs on the actual album if there wasn't already that one song filling its role sliiiightly better.



I do really appreciate how the band used the collection as a way to experiment with production and style. I feel like a lot more creative effort and vision went into this than your typical b-side collection and hopefully a lot of these ideas continue to evolve and get fleshed out in their next full-length project

Rear View's final section is so close to being good, but then it wilts into nothing after one skimpy minute and you realise the entirety of this EP was built around a halfarsed climax ffs why is every alt rock band of this strain (looking at you, Seahaven and Foxing) like this

Am I the only one who thinks they peaked with mean everything to nothing lol

Peaked at simple math agreed

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

They peaked twice; first with Simple Math and again with Black Mile.

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Album Rating: 3.4

they haven't even BEGUN to peak

Hmm… usually only takes 2-3 hours

Album Rating: 3.5

decent little EP, spot on review Row

simple math is good i definitely don't care for much after cope though that album threw me hard i hate that album