The opener and closer are the only tracks really worthy of note, though I wouldn't call this album bad. It's just sorta alright
Strongest: Alphabet City, Smoke Detector
Weakest: ._.
While perhaps not containing the same highs of Sleep Well Beast, Trouble Will Find Me is actually better paced, and I found it more emotionally in sync, if you know what I mean
Strongest: Don't Swallow The Cap, Pink Rabbits, Sea of Love
Weakest: I Need My Girl
Like most people, I held a passive enjoyment toward Monsters and Men, but when they started releasing new singles earlier this year, I was finding myself consistently surprised by how much I enjoyed each release. Suffice it to say I was actually pretty happy to see OMAM release new music in an otherwise slow and disappointing year.
So yeah, the albums neat. Better than neat, it's good. Probably their most consistent album, AILAPITMP captures a perfect somber atmosphere. Fruit Bat was a ... read more
I have it one more try, but this is just mush. Every song blends together into the most monotonous and mind numbing psychedelic pop you've ever heard. It starts off as novel, but fails to do anything else throughout
Haley Heynderickx held morning back on her debut album, the emotions captured here are a perfect reflection of the somber emotions elicited by the autumn season
Strongest: Show You a Body, Oom Sha La La, Worth It
Weakest: The Bug Collector
You got these tracks that could be neat, and then you drop a line like"I promise I won't piss the floor again" and I gotta assume you're intentionally sabatoging yourself
Gotta be honest; I've never had a TOP album age as poorly as Clancy and Breach's singles hardly inspired any confidence in me, so I was never more skeptical regarding a new TOP album than here and now.
Well, the album's out and I can only say Thank goodness it isn't a Clancy 2. Clancy sours over time because it sounds like an attempt at a modern Vessel, but the production carries in all of Vessel's flaws without any of it's charm. Breach, on the other hand, ... read more
Shocked by just how much I enjoy this song, I think it's mostly the lyrics that get to me
Oh, sometimes I try so hard to hate these guys, but I just can't
Also great to see the best version of S+M is, in fact, on here
It's hilarious that the 0/100 spammers never take a second to realize this isn't even music, this is an art book for the album lol
The National was a band I'd click with in theory, but the only way to confirm would be to actually listen to an album. Sleep Well Beast certainly has a great atmosphere surrounding it, but over time things begin to grow stale. There's nothing bad persay, but I need a bit more variety in the soundscape. Even so, I got a lot out of this and was happy to check it out properly
Strongest: Day I Die, Born to Beg, Nobody Else Will Be There, I'll Still Destroy You
Weakest: Guilty Party, ... read more
Note that the ratings say this is good, but then you look at the track by track ratings... Something fishy is going on here
Again, great instrumentals but the lyrics are just off. At least this time, it flows a bit better
As much as I like Hail to The Thief, the production on half the tracks makes repeat listens difficult. Luckily, this live album fixes those issues for me. Now I can enjoy tracks like Sit Down. Stand Up a whole lot more
Half of these are now readily available on the EPs, and pro tip to anyone who just can't find darkness's audio quality tolerable: look up the Hell and Silence sessions playlist on yt
Expected the new Vide Nior, got the worse Long Lost instead :/
This album was really pushing the cosmic horror in its singles Looking Back and Who Laughs Last, but in truth this is just more of the same old Lord Huron you heard before. Nothing's bad, but it hurts to see half this album fail to reach the expectations that Looking Back set.
Certainly, the best moments are those that embrace the cosmic setting the album establishes itself in. It All Comes Back is the best song on the ... read more
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