I found this album last October. It has been a great addition to my life. Not even joking, this album has changed my life. Every single song is great, and Hum as a band is just one of my favorites since this.

While I personally prefer Downward is Heavenward, it's hard to have just that album or this one. They complement each other perfectly. I don't think I could appreciate that album as much without having heard this one extensively. That's not a diss to this album, which I ... read more

ONE OF MY FAVORITE RECENT DISCOVERIES

I found the band's previous album, You'd Prefer an Astronaut, last October after the zebra-adorned album cover popped up on my spotify FYP. I was instantly hooked on it- from the first shoegazey seconds of "Little Dipper", to the alt-metal worship of "The Pod" and "I Hate It Too", the quiet-loud dynamics of Suicide Machine and the bittersweet slowcore closing track, this album was everything I wanted in music. ... read more

Crazy how everytime I begin to expect a song on here to do something or sound a certain way, it instantly changes its sound with elements from like every genre with every instrument of all time

ezra and the boys really outdid themselves on this one, best vamp weekend so far. 9.8/10, only because the song Connect was just really good and not as mind blowing as the rest imo

This is rivaling Congratulations or LDA for their best album, hear me out.

I'll start with the themes in the album. For an album called "Loss Of Life", the sound of the music is surprisingly... joyful. Not joyful like, "Today is the best day ever!!!!" but more like "Wow, my life has been shit recently, but today I got a good grade on my test, things are okay for now!" Almost like an optimistic gloom. Specifically, tracks like People In The Streets and Phradie's ... read more

beautiful album

better than stratosphere. I'll say it. The songs here (while still lyrically minimal in slowcore fashion) are more complete than on the predecessor, the hooks are catchier, the songs feel more emotional and introspective, the instrumentation is similar but with some noticeably better riffs.

I especially LOVE Cooking and The Breakup Suite. Literally the two best slowcore songs ever. 10/10 songs for me.

Only complaints are the album feels a little one-dimensional at times ... read more

idk if anyone noticed but this sounds like the music from the lorax 2012 movie. If you love that soundtrack this is for u

Well, its here…

Now, I am aware that this album is going to get shit from people just saying “lmao dream bad” so let me preface by saying that this is NOT the worst thing I’ve heard by a long shot.

Instead, the main issue with the album is how forgettable it is. After listening a few times, I could only remember one chorus, which was also the chorus of the most tolerable track here imo (paranoid).

The production is good overall, most of the instrumentation is decent ... read more

Good overall. The fact that I would rank an 8/10 album as this band's 5th best shows the quality of their catalogue. While songs like Emotion Sickness, Paper Machete and Negative Space sound like classic QOTSA with refreshing new ideas thrown in, I feel a lot of the songs here are just okay. But, as usual for qotsa, there is nothing bad. I think tracks 4-6 were definitely the lull of the album, with 2 meh songs and my least favorite single from the LP existing in this run.

While the heavy ... read more

ONE OF my favorite deftone albums. perfectly combines the harsh sounds of alt metal with dense shoegaze and atmospheric dream pop. several perfect songs on here i.e. tempest, entombed, rosemary.

It may not be perfect, but it's got great personality.

Personally, I think queens of the stone age have 2 perfect albums. And because of these two monoliths in the band's discog, it makes me more critical of their other shit because it's not the same quality as their perfect ones. I'm admitting my bias.
That said, this album is really fun. It's noisy, unique, it's a special point in their discography because it's the most different album they've ever recorded. Sick Sick Sick, Make it wit chu, ... read more

The best debut of the 2000s???

A fantastic album. It's tight, concise, catchy, fast, everything you want in an indie rock album. There are no bad songs here. Trying Your Luck is one of the best Strokes songs. NYCC and When It Started are equally good, so US/EU versions are the same score.

Idk, not a lot to say. What hasn't been said about this album a million times? It's great. My only real complaint is the lack of diversity in the track list, but it's not a great complaint as the songs are ... read more

quirky strokes album ahh 🤪 /j

Definitely the weirdest strokes album... Venturing into more new wave, tecno brega, and even some disco stuff? an unexpectedly good album considering it has a ton of weird genres going into it. That said, I think this is actually a great album, in fact, a top 3 strokes album to me. I'm not a big fan of Call It Fate Call It Karma or 80s CDM, but otherwise, all the tracks slap. My favorites are the dancey-disco sounding songs like Tap-Out and Welcome to Japan, ... read more

The most underrated strokes album imo, also in their top 3 (controversial take)

The album continues FIOE's trend of being experimental, except this one goes in the opposite direction- while fioe went harder, angles sees the band going in a new wave style. Some of the songs aren't the best, i.e. Games and Metabolism, but otherwise, all the songs slap. My favorites include Under Cover of Darkness (the most traditional strokes song here), Gratisfaction, Life is simple in the moonlight, machu ... read more

The strokes have no bad albums. That said, this one is mid imo.

FIOE is not only the most inconsistent strokes album, it's also the longest, at almost a full hour and 14 songs. While some of the songs slap, i.e. the first 4 songs, a lot of them feel overly-long and boring. Songs like Ask Me Anything, 15 Minutes, Vision of Division, etc. all exemplify this. The album feels really bloated, and it sounds like the strokes trying to imitate punk rock bands of the 2000s... and they can't usually do ... read more

Room on fire is a good album, and I don't think anyone disagrees completely. Any album with Reptilia and MMITB on it is good.

That said, every time I get through a listen, I can't help but think it sounds like a slower, cleaner Is This It- and while that may not be a negative thing for many, it is for me in a way. Songs like The Way It Is and Under Control are good examples of this- the riffs are slower, the vocals are slower, and it's just not as exciting to me as the majority of the debut. ... read more

this album is weird as hell, the mixing is weird, the beats are weird, the effects are weird

That said, I liked it a lot. I liked Danny's parts the most, but JPEG was still great. The album feels like a combo of trap, abstract hip hop, electronica, and even some experimental rock at some parts- a very foreign combo to me, but can't say i'm not pleasantly surprised. Especially with the title track and Steppa Pig.

Speaking of Steppa Pig, the song titles alone give this album a good score tbh. ... read more

My other favorite LP album along with meteora. I don't love the band but I still consider this another solid work.

Linkin park going industrial is an interesting turn for the band- and it's a very unique album in their discography. If you are a new listener, I would not start with this one. It's weird, it's experimental (for LP), and it has a very end-of-the-world feel to it, where LPs other albums are, at best, angsty. This album has the best LP songs on it, such as the spacey-reggae sounding ... read more

I used to love LP, and I can't really say that now.

however, a relisten to this album tells me that it still holds up, and it's easily either the first or second best LP album (other is A Thousand Suns imo). Theres a couple skips, like Nobodys Listening or Figure.09 (not bad, but also just meh to me.) But the highs i.e. Somewhere I Belong, Breaking The Habit, and the overplayed but still good Numb are enough to make this one of the best mainstream rock/nu metal releases of the 2000s. Despite ... read more

One of the best hard rock albums ever

god damn this album is sad. who knew a song about sleeping on 200 couches could hit me in the feels? Jokes aside, this is probably the best Indie Rock album of the 2000s after The Strokes have been taken into account- the instrumentation is refreshingly sharp and simple, and in my opinion this is the opposite side of Indie Rock as The Strokes "Is this It." While the strokes are more lofi and garage influenced, Interpol is more clean and concise. I guess I could say this easier by ... read more