Apparently, this is the most hated record by Bull of Heaven - and for a good reason, if I might say so myself. I love sound collages and outsider music as much as the next guy, but this seems to me just like a lazy experiment with some vocal samples.
Unfortunately not a no-skip, but most of these instrumentals and some of the flows/deliveries are impeccable; the lyrics are not a strong suit, from what I've heard without reading them
"So Long, London"'s instrumental has great potential to be even more punchier, the collaboration with Florence and "Who's Afraid of Little Old Me?" have some nice moments and "I Can Do It with a Broken Heart" is probably the only one I kinda like in its entirety. The rest of the record is not memorable to me at all, however I think this is an improvement from "Midnights" even though that one set the bar pretty low.
As long as I remember, I kinda like "Bejeweled" and the synth solo on "You're on Your Own, Kid". Many moments that sound as if she plagiarized herself; hope that after this the listeners gonna acknowledge that "reputation" is not that terrible.
How can one make such a great 43-minute long composition and than lazily finish it off in fade-out?! Was gonna say that I'd love for that to be a separate album or, at least, single (in order not to tarnish the author's vision of the album's entirety by pulling only that track out) - but after that underwhelming coda I sadly don't want it in my library anymore. The previous songs gave me a Mazzy Star vibe, which is another change of pace in their catalogue making them one ... read more
I definitely didn't expect for this to slap this great, it's criminal (criminally underrated here score-wise, also)! It's not at all one-note as that one YouTuber described it.
Maybe "Private" is even more disturbing than "Bird Seed" and Peter Sotos' "Buyer's Market" combined
This is too monotonous even for a power electronics record. At least it has the opening track and the instrumental "Death Penalty". Real feel: 49 minutes
I remember liking "So Bad" a lot, "Won't Back Down" and "25 to Life" - a decent amount, but "Untitled" is the only one to which I still come back to this day. The rest of this record I either don't remember or find to be very mediocre and unsatisfying/underwhelming - all of the hit singles, actually.
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