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| 4.0 excellent | ibringyoufire | July 9th 15 |
POISON SEASON APPROACHIN', FUCK WHATEVER Y'ALL BEEN HEARIN'
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| 5.0 classic | jercohen | August 28th 15 |
Wow, Kaputt is an amazing album but I felt that it at times lacked in sonic variety- This album surpasses Kaputt by expanding on the sound of that album, but mixing new influences drawing from showtunes and classical music. The moments on this album where Bejar lets everything loose, like in 'Dream Lover', and 'Midnight Meet the Rain', are some of the best moments in his career. Other softer songs like 'Time Square, Poison Season I', and 'Girl in a Sling' are beautiful and bring a sense of compositional complexity I didn't know Bejar had in him.
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| 4.5 superb | Lucman | October 31st 18 |
Come, take my hand as we stroll through the glorious Times Square.
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| 3.6 great | Erwann S. EMERITUS | April 26th 21 |
Another impeccably produced album - if anything this is even more lush than Kaputt - with the usual "eh whatcha sayin' mate" lyrics and where sophistication seeps out of every musical pore. What's the catch? Well, the catch is that this follows the best 2010s sophisti-pop record. You can thus propose an even more polished production, but it won't be enough to top the dude's best songs. There are some gems here ("Time Square", "Dream Lover" among others), but they do only represent a quarter of the album, the rest being "good but not Kaputt good".
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| 2.0 poor | TheManMachine | October 27th 15 |
This venomous juncture sees Bejar ditching the creamily opulent grooves and soulful femme-backups of Kaputt for something less quick-to-click -- which would be a-ok if it weren't so comically histrionic through-n-through. The ubiquity of baroque/piano/bongos sounds hifalutin and hokey more often than not and rarely is there a balance struck between underwritten and overwritten, a reprised Times Square trio seems fairly trivial, "Dream Lover" is a noisy one-off salvo of monumental stadium-rock that comes off as a premature jolt at track two. Furthermore, the nonchalantly delivered impromptu lines feel stock and curiously charmless this time around -- there was an extensive period where "It's a miracle every time I open my mouth" would've almost rang true. Now I just kinda like whenever he says "scum", or emphasizes the 'kok' in "Bangkok".
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| 2.0 poor | Sebinator | July 25th 15 |
This is pretty bad; biggest dissapointment of the year. I really enjoyed Kaputt and this is a weak follow-up
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| 0.0 | Slex | July 9th 15 |
so yep HOLY SHIT this has leaked as well got damn tonight is amazing
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| 4.5 superb | doofy | January 8th 24 |
| 3.5 great | nilsson | September 3rd 22 |
| 2.5 average | gschwen | January 5th 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | iGuter | October 26th 21 |
| 3.5 great | jlsg | September 27th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | 2ool | September 7th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | A.R.O. EMERITUS | September 26th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | Sunnyvale EMERITUS | February 4th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | Corney | March 31st 18 |
| 3.5 great | xuewen | March 6th 18 |
| 3.0 good | Rdv | December 3rd 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | Grimsby | November 21st 17 |
| 3.5 great | furpa | November 4th 17 |
| 3.0 good | Runeii | October 2nd 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | Ramon777 | September 23rd 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | Jan555 | August 21st 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | Miguee7 | August 20th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | Alexxx | August 18th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | Juanpa | August 10th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | PaabL | February 25th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | Piglet | October 21st 16 |
| 4.5 superb | d1ise | June 15th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | LOE | May 26th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | IVIII | April 26th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | tricky | April 23rd 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | tarkus | April 2nd 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | doqtor | March 11th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | BetMan | January 8th 16 |
| 3.5 great | iveau | December 28th 15 |
| 3.5 great | P0nto | December 20th 15 |
| 4.5 superb | teahead | December 19th 15 |
| 2.5 average | jtswope | December 16th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | Or220 | December 9th 15 |
| 3.5 great | Guigss | November 21st 15 |
| 3.5 great | Prole | October 20th 15 |
| 3.0 good | spur55 | October 18th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | tancrni | October 8th 15 |
| 3.5 great | Gurt | October 4th 15 |
| 3.5 great | Yotimi | September 29th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | MrCoffee | September 28th 15 |
| 2.0 poor | Hydra12 | September 28th 15 |
| 3.5 great | greg84 EMERITUS | September 28th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | parrot | September 22nd 15 |
| 3.0 good | ellagos | September 22nd 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | Rudy K. EMERITUS | September 9th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | progsun | September 6th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | imsopunk | September 4th 15 |
| 4.5 superb | TwigTW | September 4th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | JWT155 | September 3rd 15 |
| 4.5 superb | tjare | September 3rd 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | Matski | August 26th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | Rail | August 22nd 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | Veldin | July 11th 15 |
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