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| 3.0 good | butcherboy | March 12th 18 |
another serviceably bland album from an indie band whose heyday (their one great album) was more than decade ago..
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| 2.5 average | McMegaMountain | March 12th 18 |
Doesn't break any new ground, but it's an enjoyable enough listen.
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| 3.0 good | Antonius | August 24th 19 |
This is the second album I have listened from this band. Despite the songs being catchy and memorable, they lack substance and creativity. There are no stand-out tracks despite the charming and amicable melodies. Recommendations: "Starwatcher", "Once In My Life", "Sucker's Prayer".
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| 3.5 great | judasgoat | March 24th 18 |
I'll Be Your Girl is a mixed bag for sure. It's easily The Decemberists' least consistent and coherent album from a band known for crafting thematic, flowing listening experiences. Some of the synthesizer experiments on the album are totally at odds with Colin Meloy's rustic lyrics (Cutting Stone being the prime example) and some songs just seem a little underdeveloped.
And yet, despite all of this, I'd still recommend this album. Why? Because The Decemberists have learned to have some fucking fun. Not weighted down by their concepts, they're free to charge ahead musically with recklessness, resulting in the exciting dance groove of Once in My Life, the tense synths giving energy to Severed, and grin-inducing harmonies punctuating Your Ghost. The eight minute Rusalka, Rusalka/Wild Rushes shows the band still has ambition, and Meloy even lets his sardonic, darker humor show in his songwriting for once, resulting in album highlight Everything is Awful. (Yes, I'm serious.)
All in all, it's a lower tier Decemberists album for sure, but I'll Be Your Girl proves that a lower tier Decemberists album is still incredibly enjoyable on its own merits. As far as gauging where the band will go, direction and quality-wise, the next album will do far more to show us, and it's easy to see this record as a stepping stone.
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| 2.5 average | Jack Fraser | March 20th 18 |
Really wish they had just done a 60s hippie rock worship album. This is just nothing really.
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| 3.0 good | mvdu | March 16th 18 |
I found too many the lyrics to be quite simplistic and the songs wildly inconsistent. Sometimes the synths work and other times they are just head scratching.
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| 2.5 average | iGuter | April 30th 23 |
| 2.5 average | Oobaloo | February 9th 21 |
| 2.5 average | Luminol | November 23rd 20 |
| 3.0 good | Sowing STAFF | May 11th 20 |
| 2.5 average | wwf | October 19th 18 |
| 3.5 great | FelkFg | August 8th 18 |
| 3.0 good | timbo8 | April 24th 18 |
| 3.0 good | Juanpa | April 22nd 18 |
| 2.5 average | gilly | April 9th 18 |
| 3.0 good | PaabL | April 3rd 18 |
| 2.5 average | JS19 | March 25th 18 |
| 2.0 poor | Isola | March 23rd 18 |
| 3.0 good | Xhoven | March 23rd 18 |
| 3.0 good | ariich | March 22nd 18 |
| 2.5 average | bharry | March 20th 18 |
| 2.5 average | John L | March 20th 18 |
| 3.0 good | Veldin | March 20th 18 |
| 3.0 good | wg98 | March 16th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | Alexxx | March 16th 18 |
| 4.5 superb | fdrc | March 15th 18 |
| 3.5 great | TwigTW | March 12th 18 |
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