Album Rating: 4.0
Found this band the day this album came out from a “similar artist” to Kayo Dot (I guess bc of avant garde tag). Enjoyed this album and definitely going to jam their discog. Great review as always!
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Album Rating: 4.0
V nice. No wrong way to go about it, but if ya want the real meat n potatoes of the band, spend some time with An Evil Heat and The Narcotic Story.
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Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off
Seems a bit odd that they stick to their learnt guns to make a love sick record and not go all haywire or sth
Would have been curious to hear Oxbow take the piss out of pop song writing
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Album Rating: 3.9
I feel they've already done that on TBD to an extent - Gentleman's Gentleman and Other People kinda cover the extremes there. This is disarmingly earnest in that respect for sure lol
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Album Rating: 3.8 | Sound Off
Great read Johnny, album indeed feels like a 3.9 on first listen
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Album Rating: 4.0
This one's gonna take it's time to click.
Great review Johnny.
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Album Rating: 4.0
Album starts on Lovely Murk for me. All Gone is my favorite off this so far and one of the best things I heard this year.
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good stuff
the Nick Cave bros know about this right?
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Album Rating: 4.0
yeah strange the influences I'd mention for this are Nick Cave, Afghan Whigs and Soundgarden
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Album Rating: 3.5
not sure I hear Soundgarden here
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Album Rating: 4.0
'Million Dollar Weekend' - I actively can't not hear Soundgarden/Chris Cornell on that song now, uncanny tbh
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Album Rating: 3.5
Even 1000 Hours has that Soundgarden influence on the voice for me at least, some part of the The Night the Room too, but maybe it is just because I saw this here.
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Album Rating: 3.9
Are we vibing the Lingua Ignota vocalise/folk-like bridge in Lovely Murk? Dig the rest of that one a lot but not rly a fan of how that section tears away from the song
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Album Rating: 4.0
It works ok, she’s really hammy as ever but in that song it sort of meshes
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Album Rating: 3.5
it’s almost disappointing that feature wasn’t a massive blood-curdling scream / soft soulful cleans but in the gender-reverse of what the heavy-music world expects
After I got over that it’s decent enough, if nothing Earth-shattering
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feel like Julie Christmas would fit this vibe. what happened with her; anything besides that Mariner album?
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Album Rating: 4.0
Lingua bridge was jarring the first few spins, but now I find myself waiting for it. She is such an amazing talent.
Julie released a pretty good single a few months ago, didn’t hear anything about an album. Only thing I want from her is another Made Out of Babies record tho tbh
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Album Rating: 3.5
yeah I've never heard a Lingua moment I didn't like if not love. This hits often when it's able to, somehow think this could have been more though in the end
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Album Rating: 4.0
I reckon it’s tough to know what these guys are capable of and not think that. This is nowhere near as monolithic, schizo, and riff laden as their opuses, but it *is* as intimate, and beautiful, as the band may well ever get. Not to mention their pacing remains impeccable. Absolute masters of the slow burn.
Will say the drunken bull rush of The Second Talk was a wonderful surprise, would've dug more of that
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Album Rating: 3.5
Seeing these guys on Sunday! I can’t believe it. Nearly missed them, as I only just booked. First time on tour in England for 23 years (apparently) and they’re playing my local city, wtf?!
Fortunately I noticed just in time
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