You Either Die Satisfied
or live to hear every artist you've ever loved disappoint you. Here's what's rdisappointed me so rfar this year: |
| 1 |  | The Boxer Rebellion
Promises
3/5, they took a leap of faith off of the indie pop cliff and broke their legs but didn't
die [maybe next album they will though] |
| 2 |  | Dark Tranquillity
Construct
3.5/5, album is okay in terms of the standards they've set but their music has
become lazy. |
| 3 |  | The Saddest Landscape
Exit Wounded
2.5/5, they might as well have not even released this EP at all |
| 4 |  | Alice In Chains
The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here
3.5/5, heavy yea but lacks direction and only a handful of tracks have character to
them. |
| 5 |  | Classified
Classified
2.5/5, turd of an album with very few meaningful or interesting tracks |
| 6 |  | The Ocean
Pelagial
3/5, the instrumental versions of each song are better but the music overall is not
nearly as good as the band's earlier work |
| 7 |  | A.M. Architect
Pattern Language
3/5, what the heck happened to the beautiful bluesy electric guitar that they had
on The Road To The Sun??!? |
| 8 |  | Manilla Road
Mysterium
3/5, almost boring |
| 9 |  | Sharks
Selfhood
3/5, sounds like this album was recorded right after No Gods but they decreased
the recording's volume and ran out of creative riffs and lyrics |
| 10 |  | A City Sorrow Built
Motions
3/5, directionless |
| 11 | | The Milk Carton Kids
The Ash & Clay
3.5/5, the tracks are pretty good on their own when they come up randomly on
shuffle and play unexpectedly but the album in one sitting is a bit of a snoozefest |
| 12 |  | Kalmah
Seventh Swamphony
3/5, Kalmah writing music like they used to in the good old days except that now
because we've had over a decade to digest the music from back then all of their
hooks on this album are predictable and has diminished the quality |
| 13 |  | The Men
New Moon
3.5/5, not up to Leave Home or Immaculada standards and I think I may actually
like Open Your Heart a little more |
| 14 |  | Volbeat
Outlaw Gentlemen and Shady Ladies
3/5, too popish though there are some okay tracks |
| 15 |  | The Black Dahlia Murder
Everblack
3.5, no personality and nothing new. I'll just continue to listen to the six tracks I
liked as they appear on shuffle every so often. |
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