pass

tfw you're physically 36 but mentally still 14

is snide banned yet

i don't want to like them but the one song they released with the pretentiously-artsy music video was pretty cool.

@sauce my feelings exactly D:

"COMA"? it's not even good, just acceptable

band is garbage but i kinda dig them

bummed yall can't dig this because it's got hooks 4 dayz

No thank you

i'm good thanks

Album's gonna kick ass, gonna start listening now.

This is so fucking funky, jazzy and varied, I love it so far.

cringe.

...that bass tho

Gonna keep an eye on the comments here.

band is just as dull and cheesy as usual

boyband with instruments. a funky bass line is not enough

This still has a lot of the cringecore elements and the lyrics are terribad, but instrumentally its pretty great (especially the rythm section) and catchy at times. A bit of a chore to listen the whole way through, but at least it's listenable unlike most modern "core" music.

Yup. It's bad.

Their first album was quality entertainment for me when it came out. Sure, I despised every single second of it, but it was so outrageous, I revisited it over and over. Mostly to show it to my friends, so they could have a good laugh.

With this right here I can see more talent and way stronger songwriting as a whole, at least musically. Tyler sounds a lot better than on the debut, and even Michael surprises me from time to time. Yeah, the lyrics are still pretty horrible, but when you tune them out, this is a rather decent record. Reminds me of some S.C.I.E.N.C.E.-era Incubus for some weird reason. Pretty solid, I'm impressed.

Yeah sounds better than the earlier lp which was a 1-1.5.

They are cruising around trends, mixing what works on pop music and what works on the mainstream core scene. The guitar work is the same thing we have heard in core music for the last ten years and the choruses are taken from some b-tier pop punk act.

There is also less variety than the single suggests, they probably gave it all on those 2-3 songs and used a similar scheme on all the others (3-4-5 if it weren't for the awful strings on the fourth would all be the same stuff)

Lyrics are abysmal, one direction-like almost in the way they evoke cringe, read Young and Dum (I mean, not that the title suggested anything profound but..). Don't throw in comparisons with amazing discs (S.C.I.E.N.C.E.) please.

But the instrumental work reminds of old-school Incubus. What else do you want me to say? Fabricate some weird comparison that doesn't make sense to me?

I do think the guitar work of theirs is definitely above average than most of their core-peers, and the bassist is a definite highlight as well across the board. Also, they definitely become way more comfortable in the style they are playing, I think that boosts the musicianship up a notch as well.

Idunno, I really enjoyed this.

The guitar work is bland because it's basic djent-ish/core tunes that have been around for ten years in the metal underground and six years in mainstream metal.

Maybe you're not that familiar with the scene, but I'd check Periphery, Monuments, Tesseract, Animals as Leaders, David Maxim Micic, Disperse, Skyharbor and the other thousands and thousands of acts the scene has spawned. (I just rapidly checked your rates and haven't seen any of these bands) I'm not mentioning the fathers of all this stuff, Meshuggah, which have been around for 20+ years or so.

Some guys that have been mixing pop-rock influences with this type of music are Novallo, Art by Numbers, Mandroid Echostar, the already mentioned Periphery (some old Issues tunes had riffs taken straight from their debut) Micic in his other band (Destiny Potato), Good Tiger..

Thanks for the recs, I know most of these bands, but I completely forgot about Mandroid Echostar and Good Tiger, wanted to check them for a rather long time.

Anyways, yeah, most of your criticisms are pretty valid, but I really don't know, I still dig the hell out of this album. To each his own, I guess. But still, thank you for reminding me to check out ME and GT!

Oh man, hope this rips hard.

I do not agree with the guitar critisisms at all though.

In my opinion it sounds like radio ready rock songs. There is hooks, catchy melodies, and head bangers, but none of those elements make it any good either way. Issues has improved since their debut I will give them that.

Blue Wall would be a huge jam if the lyrics weren't atrocious.

better than Radiohead

Nope, can't do it. Rather not listen to anymore.

so so bad

It's good guys. Flojo is mad groovy.

3.5

Oh my god. This is fucking embarrassing to watch.

god damn horrible, not surprised

Band is a human toilet

The EP was a guilty pleasure, any dance Gavin dance woe is me type soul vocals with core instrumentals is going to sound good to me.

Then I listened to the last full length these guys put out and it was obvious their sound couldn't hold up an entire album. The two singles I heard off this were kind of shit but I can't bitch about the self titled being stale then skip this because it's changed too much.

These guys are far better now than they were in Woe, seriously.

I can't believe some people think this is better than the self titled

Band has always been an abortion

Nah, this album is good.

^no fucking way

this is boring. Michaels singing made me physically cringe