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| 3.5 great | grandfather | July 2nd 25 |
By and large I agree with the nitpicks here. The shift toward a gazier production style has stolen the dynamics that made them so interesting and a lot of the vocal lines are repetitive. Even so, Greet Death is one of those bands where they're great even when they're not at their best, so I'm enjoying the record.
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| 4.5 superb | StephenWolf | June 29th 25 |
So far the best album of the year, I don’t know what the fuck this pennyroyal person is on
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| 2.5 average | pennyroyal22 | June 28th 25 |
Kind of a let-down. I find the songwriting and arrangements to be bloated and repetitive, drowning in reverb that just makes the whole production sound murky and diffuse. There are entire passages where guitars just play one note like they weren't sure where else to go, or they beat a chord progression or vocal melody absolutely to death. There are certainly some highlights where they overcome these tendencies -- Logan Gaval's singing remains admirably unique and tonally pleasant while Harper Boyhtari's vocal style has improved much since their previous full-length, but it's overall an underwhelming miss. 'Emptiness is Everywhere' is the quickest microcosmic way to hear what is wrong with this album as a whole -- the production lacking dynamics, boring chord progression and vocal melody, uninspired and timid lead guitar runs, and nearly six minutes of this drudgery.
Addendum: To be clear, I think the good songs are really very good -- 'Same But Different Now' in particular is a really strong track, and I like 'Die in Love' (for the most part, I do think the vocal melody is overdone by the end). But the bad (like I said, 'Emptiness is Everywhere', which is just a simply awful, awful track in pretty much every regard in my opinion) just drags the album down to average mediocrity as an experience, and while that is far and away the worst offender, almost all of the songs to some degree suffer from being overly repetitive and drawn out in one way or another.
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| 3.0 good | Marxman | July 1st 25 |
Certainly not a bad album, but there is absolutely nothing here that stands out. It's even boring in places. Pretty disappointed with this compared to New Hell.
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| 3.0 good | chasehoffman99 | July 12th 25 |
always weird when people will defend a mediocre record just because they love a band or genre so much. greet death are cool people, but this album is mostly forgettable. the songs sound much better live in a basement in the suburbs.
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| 4.5 superb | THummerz | July 1st 25 |
Pennyroyal - Very bad take. Look forward to seeing you at the next release.
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| 4.0 excellent | RedRightHand | July 2nd 25 |
Fantastic stuff, not sure what penny is on about but it's like we heard two different albums!
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| 4.5 superb | gregorgojira | June 30th 25 |
i don't think it quite reaches the same high that new hell did for me but it's still incredible, red rocket is one of my best songs of the year.
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| 4.0 excellent | Jumph1963 | June 30th 25 |
2.5 is so far off the reservation. pennyroyal , I hope the bad trip is over soon friend.
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| 4.0 excellent | Comatorium. | June 27th 25 |
Pennyroyal clearly downloaded a fake torrent of this or something. r?do torrentinf sites still exist?rThis album is delightful. If an hour of slowcore with tasteful gaze and post rock structure that?ll make you wanna kill yourself is your idea of delightful.
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| 3.5 great | Santet | December 28th 25 |
| 4.0 excellent | DANcore | December 19th 25 |
| 3.0 good | Yotimi | December 15th 25 |
| 4.5 superb | pjmoose | October 15th 25 |
| 4.0 excellent | karlulol | September 17th 25 |
| 3.5 great | emmny | August 6th 25 |
| 4.0 excellent | mikep87 | August 6th 25 |
| 4.0 excellent | Matty CONTRIBUTOR | July 24th 25 |
| 4.0 excellent | Simerix | July 17th 25 |
| 4.0 excellent | Lassie | July 11th 25 |
| 4.0 excellent | botb | July 7th 25 |
| 4.0 excellent | flaffy | July 7th 25 |
| 4.0 excellent | Futures CONTRIBUTOR | July 6th 25 |
| 4.0 excellent | Sowing STAFF | July 6th 25 |
| 3.2 good | Ryan P STAFF | July 5th 25 |
| 4.0 excellent | Teal | June 30th 25 |
| 3.5 great | Slex | June 30th 25 |
| 4.0 excellent | Tara | June 28th 25 |
| 4.0 excellent | mallen- | June 27th 25 |
| 4.0 excellent | Prancer | June 27th 25 |
| 3.5 great | Snuron | June 27th 25 |
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