A pretty decent, albeit one-note, pop punk album full of catchy hooks and lots of fun ideas.
A decent debut that works better when rooted in hip hop as opposed to the deathcore that makes for more than half of the record.
I should not like this as much as I do. I guess nostalgia is one hell of a drug
If you or your doctor have an erection that lasts more than 4 hours, pull over and call your dad immediately
It's like some 60s psychedelic band snorted a fuckload of cocaine and then listened to a bunch of 80s hardcore punk and immediately went and recorded the first few ideas they could think of. It's fucking awesome.
I want to like this album more but the mix is incredibly muddy which is very disappointing considering how great the first 4 songs are. There's not really a bad track on here, the album just feels very bloated, with most of the second half kind of just dragging along.
On Avery Island tends to dwell in the shadow of NMH's second and more influential record In The Aeroplane Over The Sea. But this album is also incredible in its own right. From the soothing lullaby-like melody that appears throughout the first half to the record to the 12 minutes of gradually fading noise that completes it, every piece within this weird psychedelic folk-fuck feels absolutely necessary. Oh, and Song Against Sex is the best Neutral Milk Hotel song.
A beautiful, heartbreaking - yet in the next breath, hilarious - masterpiece. The imagery on this thing is what makes the record so fantastic and the already great songwriting skills of John Darnielle greatly benefit from a full band backing.
Sempiternal will always be my favorite but I enjoyed this far more than I had anticipated
False advertising! I ordered this and expected to receive a coloring book in the mail and all I got was this big cd. So mad 😠😤😒😑🙄😐😠
So this new Melvins album kind of just exists.. If this album had been released when I was like 13, I would have loved it. Unfortunately, I am no longer 13. I don't think this album is QUITE as awful as everyone seems to believe, but Buzz sounds incredibly bored on this. Not that they've ever really been the most diverse band, but christ these riffs sound so lazy and half-assed and not a single one really stood out to me in any substantially memorable way. Some of them (such as the main riff on ... read more
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A fantastic album that gets some of its best moments drowned out by the abysmal mixing (this shit physically hurts to listen to. That's fine if it's noise music but not the wonder years). That being said, I still love the shit out of this album and it contains some of my favorite songs they've ever done and by far the best lyrics Soupy has ever written. And while the last three songs are probably the weakest of the bunch, it's still a pretty satisfying ending considering everything the band had ... read more