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| 4.0 excellent | Erwann S. STAFF | June 29th 21 |
As busy as any Brainfeeder release, Mood Valiant compensates its background bleep bloop overcrowding with lovely textures, a phat bass tone ("Chivalry's Not Dead", damn), and overall a sense of songwriting that's more acute than ever. Their best record.
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| 3.5 great | Bedex | October 26th 21 |
One thing is sure: HK have the raw talent, instrumental n vocal prowess, and songwriting ability to make music with immense depth that might easily reach in the 4.5+. But for my taste, I'm not sure the relatively marked change of direction they took here is the one to achieve that. It is very successful in places but also carries problems. After an incredibly smooth entry on 1-2, 3 feels very aggressive and almost epileptic with how busy it is. Usually HK excel at keeping the groove alive on weird start/stop polyrhythms; on 3 it actually feels disjointed. Bass is huge tho. 4 goes much softer and plays superbly with vocal prod. 5 starts amazingly and shows the album at its best with this new busier, more electronic, more hip-hop, Fly-Loesque Brainfeeder sound. The track does get very full with strings, brass and a long ending section. That worked for me, but in another mood it might not have (plus it's a slight issue for playlists). 6 is also great, but also gets very, very busy. At a gig that would be insane, but here idk if the band wants me to relax or go apeshit. 7 is an incredibly pretty song with its cassette distorted piano, 8 finally has more of a stripped down classic HK groove, and 9-10 are great but you do see that the second half of the LP is a lot calmer, when I think it would have worked a lot better the other way round. 11 is the final mistake costing the alb anotha pt as it is a well sung but ultimately not that interesting ballad that could entirely be done away with, as 12 is also a softer song but that is much more interesting and concludes the album well. Lots of problems, lots of greatness, 3.7
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| 3.5 great | Gene Gol-Jonsson CONTRIBUTOR | October 15th 21 |
100th rating for this album, woooo. I am not a big fan of Nai's voice, even though she can definitely pull off a great performance. Other than the occasional sleepiness, her presence was the biggest downside of the album. However, this is probably Hiatus Koyote's most well-written work thus far, their most infectious hooks and crisp production. If they keep going like that, maybe I'll soon get used to the vocals too.
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| 4.0 excellent | PrincyAli | August 13th 21 |
A more tame record compared to their previous LP, but still good nonetheless. 4/5 Favs: And We Go Gentles, Get Sun, All The Words We Don't Say, Rose Water, Red Room, Sparkle Tape Break Up, Stone Or Lavender, Blood And Marrow
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| 3.0 good | Britch2tiger | July 2nd 21 |
'Chivalry Is Not Dead,' 'Get Sun,' MAYBE 'Rose Water,' and 'Stone or Lavender' are pretty good. Red Room is sonically good, but the lyrics are lacking and went on too long. Some of the shorter tracks are pretty catchy. Collectively though, this album lacks compared to the funky bite of their previous two LPs.
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| 4.0 excellent | Uzumaki | August 28th 22 |
| 3.0 good | jmh886 | February 2nd 22 |
| 3.5 great | Mojito | January 14th 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | alamo | December 20th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | JS19 | November 23rd 21 |
| 3.5 great | Alex C. | November 22nd 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | nash1311 | November 22nd 21 |
| 3.0 good | Piglet | October 27th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | Thuckabe | September 23rd 21 |
| 4.5 superb | Jake | September 19th 21 |
| 3.5 great | greg84 EMERITUS | August 14th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | Mac | July 10th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | Veldin | July 6th 21 |
| 4.5 superb | chunto | July 4th 21 |
| 2.5 average | HugoG | July 4th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | NBA | July 1st 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | lksrdgs | June 30th 21 |
| 2.5 average | Risodo | June 30th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | Nine | June 30th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | chwe | June 30th 21 |
| 3.5 great | lg433 | June 30th 21 |
| 3.5 great | bmelt CONTRIBUTOR | June 28th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | Handers | June 26th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | Ryus | June 26th 21 |
| 5.0 classic | Mser94 | June 25th 21 |
| 4.5 superb | Wolfe | June 25th 21 |
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