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| 3.5 great | Bedex | April 26th 21 |
Look, I'll concede that they really tried and that their effort shows. It's actually infuriating how many ideas this has for such a flat result. Feels like a cake that refuses to raise in teh oven. One aspect of this is that the tracks are almost all very short. The boring ones don't have time to annoy, but the good ones don't have time to stick. There loads and loads of fun melodies here, beginning with the splendid intro ambient track. Rapidly in the album we are introduced to the idea that this will have lo-fi type beats to it, and builds a new direction for the band. Great to see, well executed, but ultimately the band's flaw catches them. While at first it feels like the lazy vocals work better with this inherently lazy hazy style, after a short while they make the songs feel all flat and underbaked. 2-3 is cool too, bit groovy even, 7 is a perfect example of the dream-hop style at play here, 11's got a great beat, 13's quite groovy, and the band intelligently tries to help with guest vox that are all really positive contributions, especially the female vox on 9, but also other ones including 5 and the rapped 14 and 17. The fact is, the songs are instantly made better by the presence of guest vox. For the rest I'm saddened to report that although I was hopeful at first this progressively bored me - I just can't stick with the band. Clearly their best effort yet though for sure. 3.25
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| 4.5 superb | Lucman | November 28th 18 |
Vansire craft a gorgeously warm and subtle lo-fi dream-pop album that erupts with young adult sentimentalism, melancholy, and childhood nostalgia. All of this they wrap up in a wonderfully cosy aesthetic that sounds and feels like a lazy early morning. I cannot get enough of it.
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| 4.0 excellent | jesper EMERITUS | June 25th 18 |
Some really pleasant lofi/dream pop with lots of well-placed features.
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| 3.5 great | Tom R. EMERITUS | December 30th 23 |
| 3.5 great | Lurian | December 26th 22 |
| 4.5 superb | EK48 | December 23rd 21 |
| 3.7 great | Sunnyvale EMERITUS | September 6th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | progsun | March 24th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | TT | January 21st 19 |
| 4.5 superb | Mathias EMERITUS | December 21st 18 |
| 3.5 great | A.R.O. EMERITUS | December 15th 18 |
| 4.1 excellent | Rowan5215 EMERITUS | December 13th 18 |
| 2.5 average | ellagos | December 13th 18 |
| 3.5 great | Prancer | December 12th 18 |
| 4.5 superb | Faraudo | December 12th 18 |
| 4.5 superb | Risodo | December 11th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | mallen- | October 23rd 18 |
| 3.5 great | bmelt | September 13th 18 |
| 4.5 superb | Rudy K. EMERITUS | August 23rd 18 |
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