Another review is saying this 'could go way bigger, higher, noisier'. I am very glad it doesn't. Pared back and still very reflective. Every track becomes a recursive mantra that collapses in on itself (which also makes the album feel more like a collection of 9 singles). I've been listening to this for 3 months on/off and it is more potent with every listen.

Highlights: Say you love me, Everything is unreal (+ the Valentina Magaletti EDIT version), Staying here.

Absolutely excellent. Seen Raffy Bushman twice in person now and both times were amazing. Silver Lines and Horace are highlights but the whole EP is great.

Refreshing and a great joy to listen to. London has seen a indie jazz resurgence (of variable quality) over the past 5-10 years that has hardened my ears slightly to this style - I've seen some call it London Nu-Jazz. But this is a great kick in the butt. All 5 songs are great. The energy in Kaa is absolutely overwhelming in a good way.

Great, tightly wound tracks punctuated by judicious infusions of Middle Eastern influences.

Highlights: Jamil Jamal, The Space Between The Fish and The Moon, Bloom, Organ Eternal

5.5/10

Too much anxiety. Too messy. Small sprouts of an interesting style though.

Highlights: harvest sky, family and friends, obvious

Rating based on saved songs:

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2. 22 SOMRE [x]
3. ADRENALINER [x]
4. TIL EVIG TID [x]
5. SLUK LYSET NÅR DU GÅR [x]
6. TÆNDER MOD TÆNDER [x]
7. MINE BRØDRE [x]
8. MIN KNIV ER FLOTTERE END DIN [x]
9. FASTE RAMMER [x]

9/9 = 100%

I gave this 70 on my first listen but this time I booted up Genius and read the lyrics alongside it (and got some better headphones) and I was just blown away. Really hard to describe how good this album is. Will eventually get around to writing a review.

A wholly inoffensive rock album. A blurred amalgamation of a bunch of rock influences, with standout tracks being far and few in between. An album that definitely talks over you instead of to you - the type of songs to come on in a pub and for a moment make you feel like shazaming them, but then you get distracted and never think about it again.

'Comanche' and 'I Bombed Korea' are great in their own strange unremarkable way. The latter becomes darker the more I listen to it. The best anti-war ... read more

I thought The Color In Anything was a masterpiece. This is just something else. Album of the fucking decade. I can't write a proper review right now, I am just overwhelmed.

I am tryna do homework right now, and I just cannot concentrate while listening to this album. It is just so fucking beautiful - what is happening

If anyone knows how to utilize silence, it is Mark Hollis

Watch your limbs suddenly twitch in tandem with the beats, just instinctively surrendering themselves to the urge to dance. Every cell of your body is dancing to this. If you turn this up loud enough, your neighbor will be dancing to this. When you leave the house you might even see your neighbor all flustered trying to desperately shazam the tracks through the door.

purposely trash trash

This is so sad, Alexa play MMLP

So many important messages in this album!

At times dark, and at times inundated by aggressive - yet very well-written - socio-political commentary. Joy as an Act of Resistance is a treasure. Joe Talbot and his band are treasures.

Danny Nedelko is an instant classic.

Hot Pink, It's Not Just Me, and Falling Into Me are all tracks that set the tone for a synth/electro-pop record with powerful and meticulously well-layered production. Yet, the first half of the album feels underwhelming due to some arguably dull lyricism. The second half of the album manages to elegantly break down this barrier of superficiality that plagues the first half of the album. The post-rock-esque build-up in Cool & Collected, the sound of rain slowly coming into the foreground in ... read more

An exercise in worldbuilding and, as cliché as it sounds, teamwork. The list of features on this album is comprehensive and some moments, like James Blake on STOP TRYING TO BE GOD, are a testament to the skills of the artists involved in this project.

Despite often bordering on cliché lyrics (see: Hurrah) and some jarring moments that more or less remind me of Cage the Elephant (which I wouldn't personally say is a good thing), Iceage manages to impress with expansive pieces like Painkiller, Take it All and Catch it while falling short in songs like Under the Sun and The Day The Music Dies. Most of the shortcomings of this record, I feel, are because of the lack of vocal versatility from Elias. Songs like The Day The Music Dies are ... read more

First listen: I'm feeling some Exmilitary has seeped into YOTS. The distorted guitars, in particular, are amazing. This definitely requires more than a few listens, but god is it good so far.
To summarize before I actually write my review:

Fantastic tracks: Dilemma, The Fear
Great tracks: Streaky, Black Paint, Hahaha, Linda's in Custody, Disappointed, DG is Online, Disappointed, The Horn Section, Outro
Meh tracks: Little Richard, Flies
Poor tracks: Shitshow

I'm not going to pretend like I ... read more

Overall, a notch up from "Masterpiece" and a conceptually much grander and expansive record. The song structures can become quite repetitive, but this is alleviated by intelligent and powerful songwriting. A trademark we have come to know Adrianne Lenker for and who has become much more articulate since "Masterpiece", weaving clever symbolism into some of the bleaker and mellow songs. Watering and Great White Shark, in particular, stand out for me as songs that have much ... read more

Adrienne Lenker is an incredible songwriter. The tracks are definitely your classic run of the mill indie rock, but Adrienne Lenker stands out in her voice and eloquent songwriting.