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| 3.5 great | TheManMachine | February 28th 13 |
This album has this big, mysterious, whatever/nonchalant thing going for it - the songs, the song titles, the (lack of) album title, the artwork, the liner notes - especially noticeable when compared to their more focused first album, Diary. It works both good and bad - while it may not be the big gamechanger that is their first album, it's obviously not supposed to be - LP2 does a good job at showing the band being looser, but not slacking.
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| 5.0 classic | Alabaster Jones | December 28th 15 |
I'm not going to sugarcoat it: Sunny Day Real Estate is a depressing affair. And it might not even be readily apparent to the listener, because it's emotions are pretty thickly veiled and distant. The whole thing sounds almost like they didn't care enough about it or anything else while doing it. This is pretty slow-paced emo, and the circumstances surrounding the albums creation renders it almost unfinished. It sounds like they didn't want to go through the trouble of getting up, getting dressed, driving to the studio, and recording the songs. It sounds like they wanted to stay in bed all day with the covers up to their chin and sleep. And whether or not this was intentional is irrelevant. The point is, they've essentially made the soundtrack to feeling that way. It's not incredibly obvious on a first listen either, but some patient listens betray this overreaching vibe of saddened disinterest and disassociation that makes the record extremely intimate and cathartic, ironic considering how it initially sounds.
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| 2.5 average | xDeathoholic | July 12th 15 |
i've been trying to wrap my head around this album for months. i absolutely love this band, but this just feels like such a let down.
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| 4.5 superb | TRMshadow | November 19th 12 |
In a word LP2 is a lot less "gritty" than Diary; some emo music fans may take that to mean that it's a weaker album seeing as the whole appeal of "emo" music to come off as raw as possible, but I feel that it works out better in this case. Either way, both albums are must-listens for any well-rounded music connoisseur. 4.3/5
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| 3.0 good | nbats | March 11th 25 |
| 4.2 excellent | Sunnyvale EMERITUS | January 30th 25 |
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| 4.5 superb | Josh | February 27th 19 |
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| 4.0 excellent | mttgry | January 18th 12 |
| 3.0 good | KUBT | December 11th 11 |
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| 2.5 average | jlech | November 14th 11 |
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