AllShallParish

wow. might be my favorite kendrick record to date, easily his best since TPAB

I will definitely hand it to this record, the production is quite good. the mixing is done really well to balance all of the different things going on in the songs, but unfortunately this record consistently leaves me wanting so much more from the actual songs themselves. I only found 2, maybe 3 songs on here that I can say that I had any desire to come back to after hearing them, and oddly enough those songs were the more understated and stripped back moments like Ten Dead and Evicted. I ... read more

honestly, there's some really good shit on here. the first 4 songs are seriously fanstastic, and most of the songs that aren't just completely stupid (children of the korn and all in the family) are genuinely decent nu-metal songs, but the record definitely goes on longer than it needs to and the songs that bog it down are truly god-awful.

wow. what a way to follow up their debut, this thing is a REMARKABLY smart approach to indie rock. pinning down the style on this record is a bit tough, there is plenty of PPR early 2000s NYC influence to this record for sure, but that's really all they are on the record is influences. the band approaches them with this remarkably calculated approach to innovating on that old sound in a way that's super modern, super well groomed and well assembled, incredibly interesting and bursting with ... read more