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| 2.5 average | Toondude | July 21st 16 |
rather dull and predictable, by the fourth track it all just ends up sounding the same
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| 2.5 average | Snide | July 24th 16 |
I'm more than fucking disappointed in this. Unbelievably stagnant and repetitive, and this is coming from someone who adored their first two albums.
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| 2.0 poor | Erubalcado | July 23rd 16 |
I wanted this to be good, but the production is bad and music bland.
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| 3.5 great | hobblepot | July 22nd 16 |
Are You Coming with Me wouldn't sound out of place on Thirty Seconds to Mars' self titled
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| 4.0 excellent | c0nf1n3d | September 7th 18 |
Never was a fan of Crown the Empire until this record. Their music was fine, but nothing really clicked. "Retrograde" is not just their best album to date, but it's just a really solid record overall. Lead single "Zero" borrows the chorus hook from Taking Back Sunday's "Error Operator", yet it remains the catchiest and best song on the record. Other great songs like "Hologram", "Kaleidoscope", and "Are You Coming With Me?" evoke this hybrid alternative rock/metalcore...perhaps 'Alt-Metal'? There's no real dud on this one, save for maybe the instrumental "The Fear Is Real"...but the tempo shifts make it unique. No, the real dud is "Lucky Us", which is repetitive and boring. Personally, I was blown away at how GOOD this was coming from this band...then I learned that they didn't even write any of the music on this one. Now, I feel indifferent.
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| 3.5 great | LoLifant | December 28th 16 |
What a surprise! With their newest effort, Crown The Empire strikingly proves, that even risecore bands are able to step out of their comfortzone and deliver something enticingly fresh. The whole album shines with a cohesive, space-ambient style, while all tracks remain varied and keep their own identity. Instead of overloading everything with edm-sounds to blatantly shove us their intention of change into our faces, electronic effects are placed exactly where they belong and fit, never feeling inadequate. After such a successful venture beyond the sky, one can hardly imagine what should come next. But for now, let's just enjoy a little bit more of neat spacecore.
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| 0.0 | Tom R. EMERITUS | July 22nd 16 |
art like that should not be wasted on bands like this
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| 3.0 good | Piem | February 24th 24 |
| 2.0 poor | Verdr | November 8th 23 |
| 2.0 poor | Matty CONTRIBUTOR | June 12th 22 |
| 1.5 very poor | Elynna | April 8th 22 |
| 2.0 poor | STEA | June 10th 21 |
| 2.5 average | Maximo | July 8th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | Frogge | April 5th 20 |
| 3.0 good | AGFoot | March 26th 20 |
| 3.5 great | haley | September 21st 19 |
| 3.0 good | babb | July 22nd 19 |
| 3.0 good | josh | June 10th 19 |
| 2.5 average | tellah | April 8th 19 |
| 3.5 great | gilly | January 2nd 19 |
| 2.5 average | CutMan | November 14th 18 |
| 3.5 great | Josh | September 23rd 18 |
| 3.0 good | Sarah | August 12th 18 |
| 2.5 average | pcr00k | July 25th 18 |
| 3.0 good | Krpa | April 30th 18 |
| 3.0 good | nbats | November 30th 17 |
| 3.0 good | Mikpol | October 17th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | twig42 | October 6th 17 |
| 1.0 awful | doc23 | August 31st 17 |
| 3.5 great | jesper EMERITUS | August 10th 17 |
| 2.5 average | ORTCEZ | June 25th 17 |
| 3.0 good | elry2k | April 22nd 17 |
| 2.0 poor | NickRF | April 21st 17 |
| 2.5 average | betray | April 18th 17 |
| 3.0 good | Xav | March 3rd 17 |
| 2.5 average | A257U2 | January 25th 17 |
| 1.5 very poor | Spec | January 21st 17 |
| 3.0 good | zmol | October 25th 16 |
| 5.0 classic | LoganVT | October 1st 16 |
| 3.5 great | Decolu | September 12th 16 |
| 3.5 great | Linx | September 9th 16 |
| 2.5 average | Antigen | September 7th 16 |
| 2.0 poor | Poykki | September 3rd 16 |
| 3.0 good | jzzlrd | September 1st 16 |
| 2.5 average | SYL | August 16th 16 |
| 4.5 superb | Nuhead | August 11th 16 |
| 3.0 good | Trey STAFF | July 26th 16 |
| 3.0 good | ATTA | July 24th 16 |
| 4.5 superb | Shamus CONTRIBUTOR | July 23rd 16 |
| 3.5 great | tycobb | July 22nd 16 |
| 3.0 good | spech | July 15th 16 |
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