Estoy a favor de que los artistas usen la música como vehículo para el reclamo y la disconformidad social, de hecho lo prefiero a que sean sólo meros divertimentos sin sentido, cuestionables, o propiciadores de ideas toxicas y peligrosamente contagiosas.
Es necesario que discursos propuestos como en The Art Of Losing sean compartidos por los demás, es muy seguro que algo así no hubiese podido ser lanzado algún tiempo atrás por la mentalidad de la ... read more
The Anchoress - The Art of Losing
Genre: Art Pop
Country: UK
Final Verdict: 65% (Good Album)
Yearly Ranking: 69th / 235
Highlight: The Exchange
Made me think of:
Hooverphonic
Paatos
Tori Amos
Anneke Van Giersbergen
Phoebe Bridgers
The instrumentals are good. I feel this would have been better as just that - an instrumental release. This album just doesn’t work for me. Nothing really fits or makes sense. Maybe the vocals need to grow in me, but I don’t really see them doing that. I also wish the songs had a less traditional structure and continued the style of the prelude. This kind of gave me Florence + The Machine vibes for some reason. Maybe I’m just having a moment, idk.
I feel like the singer is trying too hard to be Tori Amos, and it's not really working. Some of the instrumentation is pretty, but most of these songs lack melody, nor do they have any energy or movement.
1 | Moon Rise (Prelude) 2:50 | |
2 | Let It Hurt 3:36 | |
3 | The Exchange 4:18 feat. James Dean Bradfield | |
4 | Show Your Face 4:27 | |
5 | The Art of Losing 4:06 | |
6 | All Farewells Should Be Sudden 5:01 | |
7 | All Shall Be Well 1:39 | |
8 | Unravel 4:04 | |
9 | Paris 2:00 | |
10 | 5AM 4:02 | |
11 | The Heart Is a Lonesome Hunter 4:05 | |
12 | My Confessor 3:56 | |
13 | With the Boys 5:56 | |
14 | Moon (An End) 2:51 |
#1 | / | Prog Magazine |
#6 | / | God Is In The TV |
#14 | / | Record Collector |
#16 | / | The Sunday Times |
#29 | / | musicOMH |
#36 | / | The Line of Best Fit |
#53 | / | Under the Radar |