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| 3.5 great | Caleb Robinson CONTRIBUTOR | December 13th 21 |
Has some outstanding highlights, but also has some boring/skippable tracks. Those two spoken word interludes are so unnecessary though and add nothing to the listening experience.
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| 3.7 great | A.R.O. EMERITUS | November 3rd 21 |
pop rock exists
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| 3.5 great | Bedex | November 3rd 21 |
This is far better realised than the first LP and shows great signs of progress, although I don't think it is fully baked yet. The production is excellent, and most tracks, even the less convincing ones at first, reveal more elements a long the way and have almost always something good to show. Production is pristine and synthy, and whilst they are not a strong element per se I would say the vocals are no longer a weakness bar a few select places. There are lots of spoken samples/skits etc, which are cool and meaningful, but there's quite a lot of it for such a short album. 1 is mokay with some very brief goodness at 1:25. 2 is really where the record started to get good for me with a cool synthy track despite a semi awkward transition from 1. 4 is super catchy and gets catchier as it unfolds, and after a cute intro 5 also gets catchier as it unfolds until its soft conclusion. I am not a fan of 6's intro but the unfold works and it is an okay cute track. 8 is another highlight, with a beautiful intro I love, vocals that evoke Tame Impala, and a very successful much softer track, showing the band is not only about in your face music. In contrast after a speech, 10 is a bitchin fat track that is quite cool (though I feel it could get even fatter). The last two tracks lose a point, as 11 is a very meh tracks with vocals I dont like, though the backing vocals are great and the drums have bursts of good ideas, and then 12 concludes on a ballad that is okay although unnecessary at first, but grows to be just too much and almost annoying nearer the end. Not a great way to conclude an album that is mostly cool. 3.6
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| 3.8 excellent | Erwann S. EMERITUS | October 26th 21 |
Pop music as cute as it is bombastic, but whose more reflective and softer moments do not manage to grab me as much as the most inyoface ones - putting most of these softer tracks on the second half hinders the overall experience. Despite this, a great fucking record that uses interludes to explicitly enunciate its discourse.
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| 2.5 average | fog | December 3rd 21 |
| 3.0 good | Sunnyvale EMERITUS | November 22nd 21 |
| 2.5 average | Pangea | November 1st 21 |
| 2.5 average | IsaacBG | October 27th 21 |
| 3.5 great | alamo | October 26th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | Sowing STAFF | October 25th 21 |
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