Dense, beautiful, intricate, haunting, explosive, and dangerous, this is everything rock music aspires to be: intense, incredible songs arranged perfectly and performed with skill and passion. Source Tags and Codes will take you in, rip you to shreds, piece you together, lick your wounds clean, and send you back into the world with a concurrent sense of loss and hope. And you will never, ever be the same.
A driving, incredibly solid album, Source Tags & Codes proves just how much more the members of AYWKUBTTOD have to say -- they're just as combustible as they were on their debut, but now express themselves with a clarity that makes their intensity all the more breathtaking.
The catharsis of Source Tags & Codes is simple and easily disposed of, by necessity, after such a dense and debilitating listen. It’s the only fitting conclusion.
Many songs on Source Tags start off with fierce energy but eventually segue into a slower, quieter section that entices the listener, only waiting to explode again.
How is it that for Pitchfork this album is perfect and better than Let It Be by The Beatles?
Solid post hardcore that sonically reminds me of Cursive and At The Drive In mixed together with a Bright Eyes level of weird lofi ambient pieces inbetween songs. Hands down a solid album in this genre and one that is deserved of it's praise across the board.
yeah yeah pfork gave it a 10 (and they just re-scored Madonna dropping an 8.7 this passed Sunday). These guys were CRAZY live back in the day. Swapping instruments throughout, destroying stages and ears along the way.
This album comes out swinging and doesn't let up much. Good old classic indie ROCK record.
Solid post hardcore that sonically reminds me of Cursive and At The Drive In mixed together with a Bright Eyes level of weird lofi ambient pieces inbetween songs. Hands down a solid album in this genre and one that is deserved of it's praise across the board.
I wish they did more piano centric songs, and incorporated more piano in their noisy songs in general.
1 | It Was There That I Saw You 4:02 | 88 |
2 | Another Morning Stoner 4:33 | 81 |
3 | Baudelaire 4:16 | 80 |
4 | Homage 3:29 | 84 |
5 | How Near, How Far 4:00 | 87 |
6 | Heart in the Hand of the Matter 4:48 | 81 |
7 | Monsoon 5:53 | 77 |
8 | Days of Being Wild 3:27 | 87 |
9 | Relative Ways 4:03 | 85 |
10 | After the Laughter 1:15 | 83 |
11 | Source Tags & Codes 6:08 | 87 |
#3 | / | Pitchfork |