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| 5.0 classic | Mathias EMERITUS | May 14th 19 |
WDHEO sounded like a stripped down Wonder Years with ornamental instrumentation (which isn?t a bad thing). Routine Maintenance sees Aaron West creating his own sound and continuing the narrative in a beautiful way.
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| 3.0 good | Erwann S. EMERITUS | May 13th 19 |
Excellent narratively and emotionally, but much less engaging musically imo
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| 4.0 excellent | Orangentorte | January 3rd 20 |
Dan Campbell ist ein Ausnahmetalent. Das stellt er sowohl in seinem künstlerischen Schaffen als Sänger von The Wonder Years, aber vor allem in Bezug auf sein Nebenbandprojekt Aaron West & The Roaring Twenties unter Beweis.
Bei „Routine Maintenance“ handelt es sich um den zugehörigen Albumzweitling. Und der sticht nicht mehr ganz so sehr ins Herz wie das Debüt „We Don't Have Each Other“. Auch nicht so sehr wie die Nachfolger-EP „Bittersweet“. Das ist jedoch nicht den nach wie vor mitreißenden Folk-Klängen mit Emo-Einschlag geschuldet. Sondern eher der Tatsache, dass der fiktive Charakter Aaron West langsam aber sicher zu sich selbst findet. Dass er allmählich mit der Vergangenheit und den Erinnerungen an seine Ex-Frau Frieden schließt und nun neuen Herausforderungen entgegenblickt.
Alle diese inhaltlichen Entwicklungen führen eben zu weniger Herzschmerz und mehr hoffnungsvoller Euphorie auf „Routine Maintenance“.
Abgesehen davon bleiben uns aber auch auf dieser Platte wunderschön sinnbildliche Lyrics wie etwa „We used to smoke on the fire escape, now we just smoke in the living room“ erhalten.
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| 4.0 excellent | ellagos | November 12th 19 |
Man Soupy has been at his songwriting A game for so long now I think people are just sleeping on him because he is so consistent.
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| 2.5 average | Ambrosian | May 21st 19 |
Would have worked better as a country album, the sadness of this album just isn't communicated through this vocal and production style.
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| 4.0 excellent | MaySun91 | May 13th 19 |
Something about this isn't clicking for me, especially after revisiting We Don't Have Each Other.
The lyrics are really good and emotional. But something about the instrumentation has taken a step
back for me. A lot of the songs feel samey and I think it's due to the overuse of the horns. They
don't work for me in a lot of the songs and feel shoehorned in.
EDIT: I've almost completely done a 180 on this. It finally clicked for me and it's been on
constant repeat since. The overuse of the horns still kinda bothers me but this is one hell of an
album and narrative.
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| 3.5 great | Luna | August 18th 25 |
| 3.5 great | c396 | July 22nd 25 |
| 3.5 great | Tara | April 15th 25 |
| 3.5 great | Lacking | February 21st 24 |
| 3.0 good | Prole | January 19th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | woxdy | December 9th 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | furpa | September 25th 22 |
| 4.5 superb | Daedus | June 1st 22 |
| 4.5 superb | Ebola | December 2nd 21 |
| 3.5 great | Lassie | April 10th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | bSmith | February 7th 21 |
| 3.5 great | Mojito | January 4th 21 |
| 3.5 great | Brabiz | November 11th 20 |
| 4.5 superb | Sowing STAFF | May 11th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | haley | May 1st 20 |
| 3.5 great | J | December 30th 19 |
| 3.5 great | Rowdy | December 11th 19 |
| 2.0 poor | fog | July 29th 19 |
| 3.5 great | Dama | July 26th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | Pkod | July 1st 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | Vaio | June 29th 19 |
| 1.5 very poor | alamo | June 24th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | 5am | June 18th 19 |
| 4.5 superb | chris. | June 17th 19 |
| 1.5 very poor | TT | June 6th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | ArtBox | May 17th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | LRS94 | May 17th 19 |
| 3.5 great | JS19 | May 14th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | Josh | May 14th 19 |
| 2.5 average | anat | May 13th 19 |
| 3.0 good | Sarah | May 13th 19 |
| 4.5 superb | stasar | May 12th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | Atari EMERITUS | May 12th 19 |
| 3.5 great | Adamn | May 11th 19 |
| 4.5 superb | elioto | May 11th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | jesper EMERITUS | May 10th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | Brad | May 10th 19 |
| 4.5 superb | Rawrz | May 9th 19 |
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