have you ever fallen in love with someone, shared interest in certain media with them, they break your heart, and it makes you never wanna listen to that media again because every time you do you just think about that person?

yeah

radiohead fans love to glaze a moon shaped pool (deservedly) but that album simply could not have existed without this between in rainbows and it

why do people want more mcr when this is the last thing they gave us

so given my thoughts on their first two albums, particularly that i enjoy post-hardcore mcr much more than the mcr that i referred to as "stadium emo" (which at this point is much more accurately described as just 'band kid music'), you'd think i hate this thing, right? well, no, but im still not a huge fan of this. and not for the reasons you might expect. this does that kinda music way better than on three cheers, but it has issues with scope and execution. i think ... read more

reviewbombing is lame unless it's a transphobe you're reviewbombing then it's based

sorry tyler but the album should have ended at track 15

i think people are too caught up on the big hits and the crystal clear production to realize that most of these tracks are just the same thing they offered on i brought you my bullets but with less bite

but who knows, maybe i like post hardcore mcr just that much more than stadium emo mcr (emo pop and pop punk should be 1st and 2nd in the primary genre list and post hardcore should be 3rd, this much is obvious just by listening to their debut and comparing that sound to this one)

i might just ... read more

holy SHIT can gerard way write a melody

edit: so now that danger days is out of the way, and this is officially my favorite mcr album, it feels weird not having a long, proper review when i gave one to three cheers and black parade. this is just one of those albums where its greatness is real simple, straightforward, and clear from the first listen. it's just incredible song after incredible song with no hangups. no sights set higher than they should be, no lofty concept, no bubbly ... read more

i dont really see what everyone else sees in headlock but that's okay because after that (and the relatively bland goodnight and go and have you got it in you) this thing just becomes absolutely unstoppable. i like frou frou as much as the next guy, but if that producer description is right and she did this whole thing front to back all by herself, she never needed guy sigsworth. everyone already knows how incredible of a vocalist imogen is, but that production is what really makes this ... read more

suffers from the same issues as imegaphone (so much so it feels formulaic) but instead of boring piano ballads it's boring pop music

i get that nothing is really done wrong here but idk, maybe it's just that pop really doesn't do anything for me unless there's enough spice to it, and a lot of this just feels really generic to me, even if the production is really good and imogen's voice is obviously incredible. there's still enough talent and effort here to put it ... read more

the first and last 2 songs are so incredible but everything else is so boring it's such a shame

weezer if it was good

i wonder if this will ever be dethroned as the worst album i have ever heard in my entire life

i imagine people who were really into deloused would also be really into this. for me what that means is the stuff i disliked about that album, i also dislike about this one. except at least in deloused, cedric was at the peak of his vocal capabilities. this is the worst cedric has ever sounded.

this is also an inverse of amputechture in that, in that album, the first 15% is not so great and then the remaining 85% of the album is excellent, but in this one, the first 85% is not so great and ... read more

WOW does this pick up from the 3rd track onwards

the production makes me want to give this a score in the 80s but the vocals make me want to give this a 0 so i will simply split the difference

please just stick to production next time, it is incredibly not okay the vocal tone they take on this album, i dont feel that i need to explain exactly what i mean by that, you should just know

i never want to listen to this again, or if i do i will only be listening to instrumentals

edit: fuck it i dont care anymore in my heart of hearts this is a ... read more

i was planning on making my review something along the lines of "it's like after the basically hour-long improvisation that was deloused they actually decided to just stop fucking around and lock in," but neither something as largely joking and facetious as that, nor any attempt to actually describe what this album sounds like, can really suit what it was like to experience this for the first time. so instead i'll simply say that this is like a top 5 album that ive ever ... read more

"we have rage against the machine at home"

edit: yapped under someone else's review and managed to get a more complete thought of how i feel about this thing and a bit about maruja as a whole

'throughout the previous 3 eps there have been plenty of songs where the lead singer is just as bombastic and in your face with the lyrics and delivery (see basically everything on connla's well), but idk, something about those is so much better. maybe it's just that ... read more

now you must acquire a taste for... freeform jazz.

idk why people are calling this psych rock or saying this is like a pink floyd album, there are like 2 or 3 songs max that that's an accurate comparison for but the rest of it is much more like the weeknd or post malone. anyway this is great