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| 4.0 excellent | McMegaMountain | April 21st 14 |
There must be two versions of this album because I'm hearing something totally different than what everyone else is describing. I hear no Post-Rock, or homogenous rock. I hear another gorgeously assembled Antlers album.
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| 5.0 classic | letsgofishing | April 18th 14 |
This calls for strategic listening. At three in the afternoon this album will be a rousing
disappointment. At three in the morning, it will be the musical accomplishment of the year.
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| 4.5 superb | JohnGrady | April 18th 14 |
Well fuck me in the asshole, this is a goddamn grower.
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| 2.5 average | NinoKuni | April 18th 14 |
I'm honestly at a loss for words. How can a band this musically diverse put out something as painfully homogeneous as this? Don't be deceived by the arrestingly beautiful opener: Familiars is tediously slow and aptly titled.
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| 5.0 classic | MagmaWalrus | May 6th 14 |
With this release, The Antlers establish themselves as true masters of instrumentation and atmosphere. You can hear their incredible attention to detail in every track, each one flowing at the perfect pace. And damn, Peter's vocals are unreal on this.
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| 4.0 excellent | fangbutt | April 26th 14 |
Beautiful, undeniably confident and wonderfully poignant in a way different from their last two albums. Haven't we suffered enough?
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| 0.0 | ethos | April 21st 14 |
RIP Hogan's Grandpa
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| 4.5 superb | atomicmann | April 21st 14 |
Definitely not as bad as yall are making it to be. Actually pretty good imo. Some nice bass lines, I suggest a few listens and some good headphones.
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| 4.0 excellent | Brady Hayes | April 20th 14 |
This really is a "goddamn grower". Ending tracks are almost as good as palace, just wish it was a little more bombastic.
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| 4.0 excellent | foxxxy | April 2nd 14 |
cant be worse than hospice
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| 0.0 | badkarma765 | April 28th 14 |
This is better than Zao' last album
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| 4.5 superb | Capablanca | April 26th 14 |
The production is crystaline and even though they've used it many times before, here the horn and piano arrangements are put to the forefront with brilliant results. Silberman's vocals have also improved considerably since his humble mumblings in Hospice, resonating now with confidence both in the high and low notes; and while the songs do seem to merge one with the another, this gives the album an almost dreamlike quality. And fuck me, if Revisited isn't probably the best song I'll hear this year.
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| 4.5 superb | SpritzSpritz | April 25th 14 |
digging this really hard. it is a bit homogenous, but i find it to feel more cohesive than boring. i like the really patient, slow plodding of this album. sieberman's vocals are gorgeous and the bass on this album is fabulous. dreamy and expansive, and really beautiful. each track is great.
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| 3.0 good | Jade | April 22nd 14 |
It's a bit like an expensive marshmallow, you see - it's nice, soft, fluffy, hard to dislike. rIt's got those subtle twists of flavor that separate it from the average Jet-Puffed. But not rin a million years would you be able to explain just WHY your marshmallow is better. You'd be rbetter off just telling Sylvia to hold on while you fetch the bag from the pantry.
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| 3.5 great | pauldzioba | April 21st 14 |
not as good as Hospice, better than Burst Apart. I think this will grow on me over time.
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| 2.4 average | Erwann S. STAFF | April 6th 22 |
I've always had trouble getting into this band, and this album epitomizes why: there ain't no dynamics, its introspection borders on inoffensiveness, and it's one-dimensional as hell. Also I'm a non-lyric motherfucker. At least it's pretty.
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| 4.0 excellent | Lucman | January 7th 19 |
The Antlers make the most gorgeously evocative and enchanting album of their career. It was love at first sight for me and as time continues to tick by I've only grown more and more fond of it.
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| 4.5 superb | AlmostSeriousOpinion | June 23rd 14 |
yes, this is a giant grower, and one of the biggest demonstrations of a band's evolution in the past years
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| 4.5 superb | Bokonon | June 18th 14 |
This is an album to take on a walk through the neighbourhood you grew up in and be hopeful
for the future or to drive with on a rainy day.
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| 3.5 great | JS19 | June 13th 14 |
Why does no-one have any idea what post rock is ffs...
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| 3.5 great | whaka | June 13th 14 |
This sounded pretty average the first time through, but now it's late and my mind is ready to feels the feels, so giving it another shot.
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| 4.0 excellent | MeatSalad | June 8th 14 |
why are people hating on this, this is even better than burst apart and that undersea EP
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| 4.5 superb | skeames1214 | May 13th 14 |
i love the irony in all the 'homogenous and boring' comments. anyway. parade/surrender are the best thing
the antlers have done. this album feels a lot 'bigger' than the last two but it feels like they came by it honestly.
i've liked watching this band's progression.
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| 4.5 superb | m4nny | May 8th 14 |
two weak tracks towards the middle, but the excellent string of closing tracks make up for it.
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| 1.5 very poor | MegaJake1024 | May 6th 14 |
This might be beautifully put together, but the fact is that it doesn't come close to capturing the emotional power of a song like The Kettering at any point. It is unbearably bland and homogenous in my opinion. Can't believe I even managed to listen to the whole thing. This is honestly one of the most underwhelming albums I've ever heard in my life. Musicianship aside, this fucking sucks.
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| 4.5 superb | gotsthedewsdood | May 2nd 14 |
The songs here aren't individually awarding like the songs from Burst Apart or Undersea were, but they float along with the kind of precise beauty found in their previous albums. I quite enjoyed 'Palace', 'Parade', 'Director', 'Surrender' and 'Refuge'.
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| 0.0 | praise jimmy EMERITUS | April 24th 14 |
Time for people to call this an underrated classic and to falsely claim it has some of the most emotional music ever but you just don't understand it. Just like any of their other boring albums, especially Hospice.
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| 2.5 average | ILJ | April 24th 14 |
Homogenous and boring.
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| 3.5 great | Oneironaut | April 24th 14 |
Album is sick - 'Hotel' and 'Intruders' are killer. Album will grow like fungus, I'm sure.
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| 3.5 great | nalapoke | April 24th 14 |
yeah, this is another killer antlers album, like, for sure, man.
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| 3.5 great | i want to mort. | April 20th 14 |
well shit they went like full post-rock on this. recommended if you need a soporific drug
edit: biggest grower of the year damn they did it again
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| 4.0 excellent | slaythesocialists | April 18th 14 |
on repeated listens this record does exactly what the Antlers have always done best - create the perfect atmospheres - and punishing them for not being mind blowing is unfair
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| 4.5 superb | Wadlez | April 7th 14 |
I nominate Foxxy for Shaqtin' A Fool.
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| 3.5 great | SAPoodle | April 2nd 14 |
I was disappointed at first, but this is really growing on me. I think it might be a little
better than Burst Apart, if only because of "Palace" and "Parade".
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| 4.0 excellent | doofy | January 7th 24 |
| 3.5 great | Timmy | March 9th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | memnite | December 27th 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | BoerK | October 17th 21 |
| 3.5 great | iglu | July 2nd 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | Pangea | May 9th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | Raqinq | April 8th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | Josh | October 12th 20 |
| 4.5 superb | Sowing STAFF | May 10th 20 |
| 3.5 great | Crushd | March 31st 20 |
| 4.2 excellent | Sunnyvale STAFF | January 6th 20 |
| 2.5 average | Alexxx | November 25th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | furpa | November 17th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | Lender | March 18th 19 |
| 4.5 superb | LRS94 | March 11th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | Hawks | January 2nd 19 |
| 4.5 superb | luci | December 27th 18 |
| 5.0 classic | crab | December 27th 18 |
| 4.5 superb | Mathias STAFF | December 14th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | Akifexx | October 16th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | ellagos | August 21st 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | Revarf | July 25th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | bSmith | April 5th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | Essence | December 18th 17 |
| 2.5 average | Rdv | December 7th 17 |
| 3.5 great | Lassie | December 2nd 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | hamid95 | November 11th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | Luisito | September 25th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | Gueero | August 26th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | Jan555 | August 21st 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | PaabL | August 16th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | Juanpa | August 7th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | Geomi | July 12th 17 |
| 3.0 good | Pon EMERITUS | May 1st 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | Bozilla | February 22nd 17 |
| 3.5 great | hep | January 2nd 17 |
| 3.5 great | Thef | December 15th 16 |
| 4.5 superb | wojodta | December 6th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | FakeOne | December 6th 16 |
| 3.0 good | p4p | November 16th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | benkim | June 19th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | artyzmu | April 27th 16 |
| 3.0 good | Yep321 | March 26th 16 |
| 3.5 great | Moments | February 18th 16 |
| 3.5 great | Shempt | February 10th 16 |
| 5.0 classic | kloot | November 28th 15 |
| 4.5 superb | daFigz | November 22nd 15 |
| 4.5 superb | Photon | October 4th 15 |
| 4.5 superb | Tom R. CONTRIBUTOR | September 5th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | tjare | September 3rd 15 |
| 3.5 great | Collis | August 27th 15 |
| 3.0 good | mzeet | August 16th 15 |
| 3.5 great | RobotE | August 15th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | auxilia | July 25th 15 |
| 5.0 classic | CJandM | May 28th 15 |
| 3.5 great | Mojito | April 29th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | pumi | April 4th 15 |
| 3.0 good | Skoj | March 18th 15 |
| 3.0 good | Copper | December 27th 14 |
| 3.0 good | Prole | December 10th 14 |
| 3.5 great | Arave | November 30th 14 |
| 2.5 average | EWBAITE | November 25th 14 |
| 3.0 good | Rudy K. EMERITUS | November 19th 14 |
| 3.5 great | Berserk | November 12th 14 |
| 3.0 good | Meuric | October 31st 14 |
| 4.5 superb | gijsr | October 9th 14 |
| 3.5 great | ariich | October 3rd 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | progsun | October 3rd 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | J | October 2nd 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | limbs | September 30th 14 |
| 4.5 superb | Kolexi | September 18th 14 |
| 4.5 superb | behappy | September 11th 14 |
| 4.5 superb | MF79 | September 10th 14 |
| 2.0 poor | Dan H. EMERITUS | August 8th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | jimbon | July 24th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | Xaeln | July 18th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | mike197 | July 18th 14 |
| 4.5 superb | tene | July 16th 14 |
| 5.0 classic | wwf | July 15th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | Adam | July 12th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | fev | July 6th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | lou1000 | June 30th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | Filling | June 27th 14 |
| 4.5 superb | eXxist | June 26th 14 |
| 3.0 good | Kiran EMERITUS | June 24th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | SgtPepper EMERITUS | June 24th 14 |
| 5.0 classic | akimbo | June 24th 14 |
| 4.5 superb | Banion | June 24th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | Irving EMERITUS | June 21st 14 |
| 3.5 great | Nrap | June 18th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | SmersH | June 18th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | ryan10 | June 18th 14 |
| 5.0 classic | F177 | June 11th 14 |
| 2.5 average | Lotus | June 6th 14 |
| 4.5 superb | JinBey | May 25th 14 |
| 2.0 poor | qwe3 | May 23rd 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | Smevin | May 18th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | Goyle | May 17th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | viri | May 5th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | Lettuce | April 21st 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | RedSky | April 21st 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | Aids | April 20th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | blabony | April 19th 14 |
| 3.5 great | NBA | April 18th 14 |
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