By Storm are extremely inventive on My Ghosts Go Ghost but are ultimately missing a little bit of punch...though the thought and spirit are there, there's room to grow.
was not really expecting a tallah/fleshwater djent mix going in, but holy hell this album bangs and crushes you in ways you do not expect
i like the tape cutting and the vibes, but I don't see myself coming back to it super frequently
honestly. awesome. women do everything better
On this album, a man lets every fleshy emotion unfold. He explains his very ethos and reason for being, expresses his most hollow grief and deepest sorrow, explores his unexplainable connection to the natural world; he grapples with his morality, mortality, and very humanity. On this album, a man bleeds himself dry, gutted by his own hand.
And you expect me to rate this on a scale of 100?
zionist sucks at making music part 20000!
he wants to be lcd soundsystem so bad but its still has the parasite of generic pop production sucking every enjoyable thing out of his music.
the choice of kick pattern honestly takes so much energy out of the song. its a plodding dance number. absolutely soulless.
bass has no right being mixed that loudly too, but thats more of a personal gripe.
The many faces of depression are perfectly displayed on The Glow pt 2; a diaspora of self destruction explored in various desolate vignettes, sometimes noisy and sometimes minimal. Every second is near-monolithic, dismal, and, more than anything, human. So many things can and will and have been said about this album and its power to express the human condition. It lives and breathes. It ends with nine minutes of the ominous bells of doom and a heartbeat.
I love The Glow pt. 2. It's truly ... read more
even though "The Glow" is one of the best songs i've ever heard, It was hot, we stayed in the water feels a little less polished than the debut. Organs, the glow, and the pull are all unbelievable.
you ever lay down and think for an hour? immunity is the soundtrack to that hour.
Boring and Mindless indie emo rock, ugliest cover I've seen since that one David Bowie album, repetitive and monotonous and boring. Points for having a pretty coherent sound vocab.
thicker kick drum texture replaces chainsaw-esque distortion to create a much cleaner sounding heaviness than is present in previous converge records. the side effects are as follows: some track-to-track identity is lost. you need to rebalance the bass. they lose some of their consistency.
yeah, converge is great. this album is great. it has some impeccable moments. not near their best.
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