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| 3.0 good | Erwann S. EMERITUS | February 1st 24 |
Sea When Absent is one of those records where its pop aspirations are evident from the get-go, yet it constantly fails at being catchy despite its many melodies and overall dynamism.
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| 3.5 great | Bedex | February 29th 20 |
Continues the more straightforward style they started on AA, but executed better. It doesn't work on every track, but it works more often than on AA. Prod's always been a bit bizarre with this band, but while it complemented the more experimental LP1 and LP2 nicely, here I feel like the album would benefit from being cleaner. 1 is a great quirky opener, I would't want the whole album to be like that but it works nicely to kick it off. 2 intelligently becomes less weird and is kinda jammy, although some weird parts don't quite work - the syncopated vox early on or the break at 3:35 for instance. 3-4 felt a bit unremarkable and just pass nicely. 5 feels like a deranged Tame Impala a bit and is more impactful. 6 takes a chiller flavour but is nice. 7 is unremarkable again and 8's just an interlude. The end of the album is stronger, with 9 being a nice catchy synthy jam with a cool intro, 10 continuing in the same vein of catchier more straightforward songs and is kinda jammy itself, while 11 goes a more psychedelic route again and works in places but not everywhere. 3.6
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| 0.0 | Lewis EMERITUS | July 21st 14 |
Unlike anything shoegaze has seen since... you know.
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| 3.5 great | mallen- | February 28th 24 |
| 2.5 average | qt | December 24th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | TMTrates | February 26th 21 |
| 4.5 superb | BeeRyan | October 13th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | Futures CONTRIBUTOR | April 2nd 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | Kiran EMERITUS | March 20th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | gnardude | February 18th 20 |
| 4.5 superb | luci | December 27th 18 |
| 3.5 great | FelkFg | August 8th 18 |
| 3.5 great | TBH717 | March 30th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | Luisito | July 27th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | Rhyme | February 27th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | tyler | September 21st 16 |
| 3.0 good | Jade | September 21st 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | IVIII | June 14th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | p4p | April 19th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | doqtor | March 11th 16 |
| 2.0 poor | daFigz | November 22nd 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | Pels0 | May 10th 15 |
| 3.5 great | pumi | April 26th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | Denis | April 14th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | BrentV | March 24th 15 |
| 2.5 average | Runeii | January 12th 15 |
| 3.5 great | DANcore | December 31st 14 |
| 3.5 great | jtswope | December 24th 14 |
| 3.5 great | ellagos | December 17th 14 |
| 4.5 superb | ANJ45 | December 2nd 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | MKGaruda | November 20th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | chtrenne | September 14th 14 |
| 3.5 great | Prole | September 13th 14 |
| 3.0 good | Rail | August 29th 14 |
| 5.0 classic | spur55 | August 24th 14 |
| 4.5 superb | msm008 | August 18th 14 |
| 3.5 great | Yotimi | August 16th 14 |
| 4.5 superb | Pox | August 14th 14 |
| 4.5 superb | Irving EMERITUS | August 5th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | lou1000 | August 3rd 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | jimbon | July 24th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | Matski | July 18th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | djunior | July 18th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | CWBrown | July 10th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | robin | July 9th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | foxxxy | July 9th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | ti0n | July 2nd 14 |
| 3.0 good | Rudy K. EMERITUS | June 26th 14 |
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