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| 4.5 superb | YakNips | February 6th 15 |
everything will be ok
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| 4.0 excellent | Bedex | January 11th 22 |
Like on the EP, pinkshiny prove that they are a band that can do both abrasive and chill, with lots of influences, lots of intra-song variety, and with an excellent mastery of their fx boards. That being said I do find their reverb-drenched sound to be a bit much on the longer run, and by 7-8 I felt a bit saturated and the album felt overlong, despite 8 being cool. The droney album outro particularly reinforced that feeling of lengthening the sauce like the frenchos say. Pinkshiny don't really do much in the way of memorable choruses or repetition, which makes for music that is very cool and full of ideas and surprises, but that is difficult to recall even minutes after you jammed it and adds to the blurry feeling. My last gripe with this is the dreamy, reverberated, high pitched vocals. They are cool sometimes, and fit very well in places like the intro to 3 or 5, but very often it feels like it would take a very specific mood i wasnt in to fully dig them. I would have liked something more abrasive to match the energy in the back. A cool intro like 4 feels like it falls a bit flat when it unfolds on those vox. But the music in teh back is always cool and full, and 1 is an incredibly well crafted intro song that takes its sweet time but is worth the wait, with cool vocal textures, synths and moog homage to the Floyd-inspired song title before an excellent abrasive opening. 3.85
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| 3.5 great | copgraveyard | April 8th 15 |
springy shoegaze or whatever this is pretty sweet and tastes like grapes
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| 0.0 | Mrs. Pain~~ | February 14th 15 |
Happiness in a damn can. Shake and enjoy. 50, huh? 50 rhymes with shifty. I'm watching you, Sputnik.
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| 3.5 great | cjbizzlebizzle | November 11th 15 |
My general inexperience in shoegaze probably helps and hurts my review. Many claim this is just another revival/typical nu-gaze effort but the boisterous bass and ambitious songwriting instantly caught my ear. Dreamy, intense, poppy atmospheres. While reviewing the tracks it was immediately obvious that something memorable was found in each one. The vocals may be "typical" but they are solid. The bass is the star and provides direction while guitar brings the beef and substance. Hectic yet smooth transitions between clean and noisy, energetic rocking out provide enjoyable listening throughout. Great mood swings. Production also plays a key role in a complex sonic landscape giving each element the right amount of freedom. Tops: Holy Forest, Metamorphosis, Umi, Land's End.
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| 4.0 excellent | m4nny | August 2nd 15 |
what have these people done? this is some next level shit. there's just a massive amount genre mashing here.
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| 0.0 | SmileNerd | June 26th 15 |
Superb shoegaze album. I can't wait to see what these guys/girls do next!
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| 4.0 excellent | Jared Floryan | April 28th 15 |
Everything Else Matters makes for good listening if you feel like sitting inside a pool of vibrant water. However, dare I say that it's fantastic if you're laying flat on your back in the middle of the night, as a calm rainstorm allows its presence to never leave our sights. What is it about shoegazing that's automatically so relaxing to hear, anyway? I wish the best of luck for Pinkshinyultrablast's future endeavors.
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| 0.0 | puntugruhm | March 30th 15 |
really fun album. it's not ecstatic or anything, but definitely a happy sounding album. great, dreamy post-rock-gaze type of thing.
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| 4.0 excellent | Cormano | August 5th 22 |
| 2.5 average | gschwen | January 5th 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | Oobaloo | November 20th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | Atari STAFF | June 2nd 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | TMTrates | February 26th 21 |
| 3.5 great | Emo | August 8th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | A.R.O. STAFF | September 12th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | Denis | May 15th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | Krelkin | January 27th 19 |
| 3.5 great | TwigTW | April 30th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | tyler | March 25th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | BadgerU | March 10th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | SimpleM | March 1st 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | Ellx | March 1st 16 |
| 3.0 good | bmelt CONTRIBUTOR | February 15th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | Tom R. CONTRIBUTOR | December 27th 15 |
| 3.5 great | DANcore | December 23rd 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | iveau | August 25th 15 |
| 2.5 average | mzeet | August 16th 15 |
| 3.0 good | Prole | July 9th 15 |
| 3.5 great | spur55 | April 13th 15 |
| 2.0 poor | Hati | March 28th 15 |
| 3.5 great | Rail | March 5th 15 |
| 3.5 great | Greem | February 17th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | progsun | February 11th 15 |
| 4.5 superb | djunior | February 7th 15 |
| 3.0 good | Runeii | February 3rd 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | irid | February 1st 15 |
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