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| The Albums That Let Me Down: A 2019 Retrospective
Every year there are those few records that leave you feeling-for lack of a better word to describe it-betrayed. In some ways, these are the records that hurt more than the worst the year had to offer. | | 5 |  | The National
I Am Easy to Find
I Am Easy To Find has a pretty and colourful sonic palette and gorgeous vocals. But it lacks a memorable melody and aesthetically it’s all very beige and hollow. It’s pleasant but it comes across as a work of performance art and that’s just not what The National is to me. | | 4 |  | Death Therapy
Voices
We’re two years removed from Death Therapy’s debut LP, The Storm Before the Calm, and it has become one of my favourite heavy releases of the past few years. It was tightly written, innovative, and wholly original. It was a truly exciting release for Christian metal and Voices is almost its opposite. It’s a bafflingly unfocused record; at once intriguingly experimental and disappointingly generic. | | 3 |  | Tiny Moving Parts
Breathe
Although breathe is a gentler interpretation of their sound I can’t help but feel the band has come to a bit of a standstill creatively. It isn’t a bad record, merely an underwhelming one that almost makes it certain they won’t top Celebrate anytime soon. | | 2 |  | Starset
Divisions
Rob Graves is, by quite a large margin, my favourite producer in rock music. Is it any coincidence then that Divisions is a major step down and perhaps one of the dullest rock albums in recent memory? I was happy to say style won out over substance on Starset’s previous material because the hooks were that well-written but this time I just cannot be as forgiving. | | 1 |  | Wolves at the Gate
Eclipse
From my top five most anticipated albums of the year to the most disappointing, Eclipse is the sound of selling out. The vocal dynamics between Steve Cobucci and Nick Detty are less pronounced and exciting, the production is deceptively sleek, many of the guitars, bass, and drums are drowned by out by the vocals, and the songwriting is cookie-cutter and stylistically cliche. | |
Lucman
11.19.19 | Let year-end list season begin! | KjSwantko
11.19.19 | Tried listening to #1 not long ago, not being very familiar with the band, and just turned it off as it bored me. So I feel ya there. | SlothcoreSam
11.19.19 | I would add, Bad Religion, Say Anything, Have Mercy, Fidlar, L7, and Frank Carter.
Then there were these expected letdowns, Korn, Weezer, Blink-182, Kanye, Bring Me The Horizon.
Lastly, The Menzingers, still a good album, but let me down with the terrible production. | Lucman
11.19.19 | A few weeks ago the Menzies would have been here but, for some reason, that album really clicked with me. | SlothcoreSam
11.19.19 | Yeah, I still enjoy it, but when 2 of their albums are gonna be in my decade top 20, I had high hopes, that were shattered by the vocal production. | Lucman
11.19.19 | Very understandable. I think the production kinda works aesthetically and I can see what they were going for. | oltnabrick
11.19.19 | Then there were these expected letdowns, Korn, Weezer, Blink-182, Kanye, Bring Me The Horizon. | ToastSandwich1
11.19.19 | 5 was the biggest letdown for me – It made my internal organs bleed. Menzingers let me down too, and The Early November. | sixdegrees
11.19.19 | haven't heard any of these albums | Lucman
11.19.19 | And there's no need to start now ;) | sixdegrees
11.19.19 | probably not going to yeah | deathschool
11.19.19 | Well, I found the problem. All of these bands are fucking terrible | dedex
11.19.19 | 5 hurt so bad | dedex
11.19.19 | and Fear Inoculum AMIRITE | Lucman
11.19.19 | When you're right, you're right. | nightbringer
11.19.19 | Yeah 1 was really bad and definitely felt like it had a cringe-worthy generic sound. | ConcubinaryCode
11.19.19 | I'd add Oh, Sleeper, Chelsea Wolfe, After the Burial, Baroness, Swallow the Sun, and SeeYouSpaceCowboy on my list. | Lucman
11.19.19 | Yeah almost everyone I know loves 1 and I just don't get it. It's so generic and stale. Nothing in the production pops out. I tried it again as I was writing this list and I found nothing enjoyable about it :/ | nightbringer
11.19.19 | As Cities Burn was a bit of a bust too. | Pangea
11.19.19 | i agree with 5. biggest dissapointment of the year for me |
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