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Review Summary: Shallow waters are deeper than any surface could ever be. This is liquid music for the sad-to-be. In the words of a very drunk and proud young Englishman splayed naked on a coffee table, "I wouldn't do music if music didn't do me first." Since hearing this, I have been unable to separate my conceptions of what music can and should be from sexuality, whether it be meaningless and sloppy or vibrant and life-affirming. The Antlers' Hospice is something like the soft cuddling following a bout of cankerous sex, with a host of emotional highs and lows, ejaculation and the realization that hey, I still haven't beaten my propensity to prematurely ejaculate, but I'm getting better.
Enter Mister Warbleman, his voice is smooth like chocolate telling you you’re too fat to keep eating, as though the sadness of his cancer-tale holds its own consumptive properties. You don’t want to be consumed, and yet you recognize that it’s the only way to truly feel another person’s sadness. He goes high through lows, you enter a candy pink hospital and everything feels like dreams. As though you’re walking in on this guy who can only air his misery with beauty, a Jeff Buckley boobalah who understands the toll of death. Slow theatrics, droning, enveloping instrumentals give way to explosions of haunting inevitability. Abortion, cancer, suicide and death paint the walls of your little candy-cane house.
You realize that death encapsulates everything, that every moment of pink-washed joy is a second spent with eyes averred from the clock that steadily illuminates the looming end, and for a while you don’t mind, for you are alive and there really is beauty in living.
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Album Rating: 3.5
u made an oopsie son
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Shit.
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hey there you go, great review apart from a few pretty lousy additions that you probably could have left out. You write very well though, and I like how you managed to say a lot with few words. I have trouble with that.
nice.
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qwe where you been
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sweet review, album is one of my all-time favorites
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"I wouldn't do music if music didn't do me first."
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5ive
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Dammit, LARRY!
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"Enter Mister Warbleman, his voice is smooth like chocolate telling you you’re too fat to keep eating"
pos
| | | Album Rating: 4.5
kettering is the most heartbreaking song
| | | Album Rating: 4.0
I love how Two manages to sound comparatively uplifting but still pretty sad
And yeah, Kettering ftw
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"Shallow waters are deeper than any surface could ever be."
what?
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Well, water has some thickness, but if you have a surface then it has no thickness.. by itself. You could argue that the surface has depth and that is the thing itself, but I guess I'm talking just about the surface. It's a metaphor.
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ah. I usually get these metaphors but my science-tuned brain lets one slip from time to time. I was thinking that sinkholes and depressions are pretty deep.
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It really doesn't mean anything, it's okay. Or at least it didn't when I wrote it.
| | | Album Rating: 4.5
Did you mean Burst Apart in the first paragraph?
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never got the hype around this album. pretty boring imo
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Thanks Aids, I did not.
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what a strange review, I liked it though
never listened to this album, might get on that at some point.
| | | Album Rating: 3.5
looks uncomfortable
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