this album is so fucking brilliant i've been struggling to come up with the words for months now. sweet trip stripped back the noise and dialed up the songwriting majesty tenfold. i would kill to have written like, any one of these songs, and these mfers jammed them all into a single album. the hooks, the atmosphere, the textures, the harmonies, the sheer emotional resonance, it's all so familiar and catchy yet so distinctly its own thing.
Kicks their last album's ass, but that's not a high bar. Still not seeing whatever it is Coldplay sees to justify this three-album space "concept" that never gets off the ground. I'll reiterate again that Coldplay are a very capable band who casually dropped the best album of 2019 imo, and nobody cared. But shiit, they're fun to hate, right?
Overall, Chris is at least using a fuller range of his voice and delivers a nice performance over the entire album. But ... read more
It's good, I really enjoy a lot of tracks. Pretty bold overall, which is good to hear in the genre. But over half of this tracklist feels underbaked and not even close to the same caliber as stuff like Sympathy Is A Knife or Von Dutch
As an American sobby whiny suburban white boy who listens to indie folk and thinks he's the coolest for doing so... are you mocking me?
This was the fourth Foo album I listened to (after But Here We Are, Self-Titled, and Wasting Light) and so far the coolest thing about their discography is all the albums I’ve heard so far have been so distinct from each other in sound. BHWA is very tinny with prominent highs, WL has a fuller pristine mix, S/T is flat and demo-like, and now this one has a very bass-heavy garage quality to it. What I’m trying to say is the Foo Fighters have always been changing their sound and ... read more
okay so sufjan really did just drop his best, most consistent album 20 something years into his career? this is insane, every emotional beat hits super hard and he even dabbles in the experimental a little. will anybody ever love me is straight up his best song.
decent, great vibes, occasionally brilliant on tracks like dripping sun and fluffy kosmisch, i appreciated the folk fusion on the closer
dude what? this is the forgotten massive attack album?? what tf kinda time traveler releases smth like this in 1994? yeah idk what that closer is but yo the atmosphere on these tracks. even the instrumental tracks are so expressive and interesting. so much depth in all of these soundscapes.
unreal. transportative. google's telling me that's not a word. fuck google.
yeah there's some really good stuff here. first 4 tracks rule (i actually really dig glorified g, tyvm). rearviewmirror as well. a few other bright spots here and there but album does start to blend together into a bit of radio rock white noise. dissident is a rewrite of plush by stp, im sorry but it is.
i'll give it this, it's really unique. not fuckin with the punk aesthetic though, just plain isn't my thing. i dig the talking heads-like dance side however, and time to get away & us v them rule. i don't understand the appeal of all my friends yet, the hook on that shits one note on a piano
my experience with most (good) rap albums so far has been, there's those two or three EXCEPTIONAL tracks that hold the whole thing together, a few more that are still amazing, and then about as many that do nothing for me. Kids See Ghosts' strength is in its ability to really trim that fat down to the essentials. the result is immersive, emotional, and real.
i can't justify giving it more than an 7 though. its length is a good thing as the project is so concise but also damn ... read more
MAN that is a really amazing first 2/3rds of an album. very unique and heartfelt sound beneath sufjan's sweet and heartbreaking vocals with resonant and vivid lyrics.
and then the last like 25 minutes drop all of the album's pacing and excitement. and i don't mean it slows down, plenty of the previous tracks are slow. the last several tracks do start to blur together in a cacophony of indie folk mediocrity losing much of what made the rest of the project so unique. the outlier here is ... read more
EDIT: 8/10 => 5/10
everyone assured me tessellate and breezeblocks were the standouts -- nobody told me this album gets better the further you get in the tracklist?? it already starts pretty inventive but transitions into something beautiful and groovy. something good really stands out to me, a track that does what that one does with its atmosphere alone is rare and we gotta hold onto that shit.
great 90s alt rock, with that "idgaf what you think" attitude that works to its benefit and detriment. there are plenty of low points but the highs (car, reasons, distopian) are unreal
every song on this album: *starts*
me: "oh shit i love this one"
(carry the zero is the best indie track ever made)
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