Album Rating: 5.0
Kill kill kill
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Album Rating: 4.0
Nice one Doof, I’m excited to dig into this more.
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Album Rating: 5.0
Hope you have a breakthrough with it, it's just such a purely enjoyable listen I'm finding.
If you're struggling then I've already done an edited down tracklist for a 50 minute listen:
1. Keep Me On Your Mind
2. Lover Take It Easy
3. I Know You Know
4. Old Dutch
5. When I Was Younger
6. Waiting and Waiting
7. Singing to the Mandolin
8. The Clover
9. Speak to Me Muse
10. Tumblin Down
11. I Wanna Be Where You Are
12. Over the Pass
13. Your Arms
14. See You Free
That's a really really non stop quality listen for me.
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Album Rating: 4.0
Nice read Doof!
I need to spend some time with this - only given it one spin so far, but it seemed to have greater depth than usual for this band. For reference, I've liked their previous two albums, but they tend to have five star songs intermixed with a fair amount of mediocre-to-good tunes.
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Album Rating: 5.0
thanks sunny - I'm with you in your assessment of the band's output before this one, I just feel this is super consistent with the expected five star songs still in the mix too.
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Album Rating: 3.5
Nice review. I've been meaning to check this out but haven't yet, band was always a "like" but not quite a "love". We'll see if this release changes anything.
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Album Rating: 4.0
Yeah, I can tell this is gonna be a grower for me. Feels like the more straightforward/trad Americana response to the latest Big Thief and Big Red Machine releases.
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Album Rating: 5.0
yeah this is more trad in a Fleet Foxes debut kind of way
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Album Rating: 5.0
Sowing - I think it’s one that even if it doesn’t personally connect it’s just so impressive for a double album.
Hopefully it does connect though!
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Album Rating: 4.0
Hm, not sure I hear the same lush/widescreen atmospheric thing you tend to get with FF, even on the debut.
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Album Rating: 5.0
It’s not identical, but the three part harmonies pop up and there’s just something ‘rustic n’ full throated n' bright’ about it. Coming from their old stuff I just thought ‘this is more Fleet Foxes now’…it might be me ;P
This album exudes confidence like that FF debut, it vibes with me in a similar way. I actually prefer this though, more personable, less obviously going for the faux rustic thing
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I found their other stuff really cheesy and boring, is this a step up/shake up or is this what they already do done better than before?
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Album Rating: 5.0
It’s better than before but if you find ‘em cheesy you find ‘em cheesy
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They give me a whiff of elevated Mumford and Sons but I'm gonna try this one out, good review
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Album Rating: 5.0
True, they have zero edge but in this case I like that about them.
Mumford I got that very photogenic ‘advertiser’s dream’ feeling whereas this still has an authenticity for me, and you get the feeling these old peeps have toiled away for bloody ages. They have a chemistry and they’ve now worked out this winning style that suits them 100%.
Super pleasant music like this is so hard to make with enough depth and character to not become fodder.
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Album Rating: 4.2
color me intrigued
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Album Rating: 5.0
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Album Rating: 4.0
Do I understand right that this started as a sort of trad folk revival project before shifting to original compositions, or did I make that up?
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Album Rating: 5.0
you are correct, first album was all reinterpretations of traditional folk songs - as boring as that sounds, the first three songs on the debut are quite a magical run.
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Album Rating: 4.0
Ah ok, I think that’s part of why I didn’t prioritize checking that out at the time.
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