FlockofCrows

When I first heard "the whaler" in 2023, I pushed it aside. It sounded like something I would like from how people described it, and for the most part, I did like it. The instrumentation, the vocals... but I was really put off by the screamo aspects. And that kind of ruined it for me. I wanted to like it, but it put a wall between me and my enjoyment. And that led me to discard it like a piece of trash for a while.

It wasn't until May of 2024 that I revisited this album. I ... read more

Never has an instrumental album moved me as much as Lift Your Skinny Fists. The anticipating buildups, the rises to the cacophonous climaxes, the field samples, everything has this special quality to it that makes me so entranced every time I listen to it. The screwdriver guitars on Sleep instill this feeling in me that I can't describe. When I first finished listening to this album while lying in my bed and staring up at the ceiling, I knew that I had just listened to something that was ... read more

In seventh grade, I had a poetry unit in my English class. We were assigned to write three poems - a free-written poem, an ode, and a haiku - in a specialized journal the teacher had given to us. When we began writing the ode, our teacher explained that we could also write an anti-ode - the opposite of an ode, an expression of hatred towards one specific thing. When my teacher explained that, one thing came into my mind - I was going to write an anti-ode towards bro country.

...okay, I mean, I ... read more

This album is like if you put rock music into a blender, and then poured battery acid inside it, and had that for a breakfast smoothie. It's a soundscape of strange noises that leave you wondering whether that was a guitar or a synth. You can barely hear the vocals sometimes, which are drowned out in a sea of noise. It feels like your ears are being assaulted for 48 minutes.

THIS IS A GOOD THING, by the way.

Loveless drowns you when you first hit play, and it stays that way for the rest ... read more