I listen to this album, and I see this album cover, and go “yeah this fits,” and then re-listen to this and kinda force myself to stare at the cover and get lost in the magenta violence.

The jazz and slower implementations are so pretty; I love life listening to this.

One of Imagine Dragons’ best songs and they vaulted that shit for 10 years.

It’s good, I still prefer Besties.

You’re only really listening to this on morbid curiosity. I don’t know what happened from Hello Nasty to here, but it’s a big step back.

I like this more than First Impressions of Earth; the more emphasis on keyboards and overall New Wave tones are very welcomed. Life Is Simple In The Moonlight does something that I absolutely love, where the “chorus/hook” isn’t a set of lyrics, but the melody with alterations to the lyrics, giving it a more engaging listening experience; it’s moving forward, not repeating.

Yeah it’s alright.

When people say “the first two albums,” yeah I get it. Is This It is such a monumental debut, but this has absolute BANGERS.

bmbmbm is one of the greatest songs and the closing moments is the biggest shot of adrenaline a song has given me, EVERY TIME I PLAY IT.

Essentially if you took the two spectrums of Deafheaven’s sound and took the shinning moments of both. Thank the lord for Deafheaven.

The two highlights for me were After I Confessed and Ever Lonely, the two most AFI-adjacent songs, if that even was a thing on this record. It’s fun but very forgettable.

This album is very good. Narrative aside, it’s blend of emo, post-hardcore, and pop punk along with alternative rock is… perfect. The fact that this album is 20 years old and still feels like it could have been released 5 years from now is absurd. Catchy ass shit, well produced, well sung, I was excited to hear the next song, time and time again.

Hidden gem; it’s very Bright Eyes folk emo centric but a bit more in the heavier emo rock realm. That’s just the shit I’m into. Borrowed Bones and Cathedrals were the highlights.

I’m really into this; it’s like the perfect blend of dream pop’s soundscapes but with a smidge of that post-hardcore influenced emo alternative rock. Take that post-hardcore comment with a grain of salt; it’s just like… it’s in there a little bit, definitely more emo.

It’s pretty alright, very dreamy.

This is a horror album. The entire record has a certain air of fear and paranoia, it’s frantic but also calm; it’s terrified and loud, it’s pulsating. It’s unpredictable yet consistent. Just lights flashing in your eyes at different speeds. You couldn’t ignore it, if you tried. It’s pretty perplexing because it’s soooo post-punk, but you’re getting these notes of screams and overall heaviness that begs you to acknowledge the near post-hardcore ... read more

Classic post-hardcore. Some songs I can live without hearing again but the big songs like Woolworm are very fucking good.

It’s evident that the band is very talented and wear, what I assume, are their influences like Coldplay and Jeff Buckley well, there’s just not enough in the way of consistent catchiness that makes me want to revisit half of the album. Songs like AA, however seem very earnest and I commend them, more particularly the vocalist for that. The album definitely got better as it went on, but overall it’s only okay.

I liked the post-punk approach; I felt like they were flirting with more pop sensibilities on songs, they just weren’t catchy enough.

I like Jon Mess as a vocalist, therefore it was much easier to listen to a full project of his type of “shake your shoulders” in your face screaming. With that being said, there’s definitely moments where you can tell “They probably would have liked a cleaner vocalist on this section of the song.” If you’re iffy on Dance Gavin Dance, you probably like this. If you like DGD, you’ll love this.