Man, AOTY users can cook so hard sometimes...
I don't even know where to start, I guess first I should say that for a debut album this already feels like a band with a clear understanding of what they want their sound to be and they are able to work with it very well, making it very diverse and ear-pleasing. The first 3 songs fr might be my one of my fave album openings this year, especially Nothing's Easier. I can't even personally relate to the words and it still made me tear ... read more
Jesus dude...This is very very good.
The guitar work on this is spectacular, whoever played it popped off. The guitars range greatly from heavy and chaotic to tingly and very expressive, and I absolutely love it. The songs are really dynamic, although they do tend to follow somewhat of a samey structure which I started to notice around my 5th listen (yeah I listen a lot to this) and the screaming is also really really great even if it at times was lost in the loud instrumentation.
But even ... read more
While this ain't anything extraordinary, I loved it a lot. It's a great dance record, every song felt different enough, introducing new interesting sounds and twists without which the record of course would be boring and would've gotten stale pretty fast. Although I listened to this while on the bus, I still was at least aggressively tapping my feet and shaking my head and I know for a fact if I was at home I would be shaking my ass every single second of this record cause ... read more