40 > 80
Okay so I've listened to this a bunch since it came out. I honestly sorta hated it at first, but it's definitely grown on me over time. True Believer is far and away the best track on the record, but the rest of the album is frankly just so extremely well written and produced I can't help but give it the flowers it deserves, even if it may be near the bottom of my Biffy ranking
Two listens in
already feels like one of the albums
I need to
sit with a little while longer
before I know
how I feel
REAL REVIEW
I think the thing with this latest hot mulligan album is that it's a little bit frustrating for me because I think it's a near perfect album hidden inside a record that suffers from a couple of filler songs, some of their worst song titles to date and a little bit of the old "unfortunately your voice suffers a bit after years of screaming" ... read more
Score could go up or down but this is where I am after first listen. Really strong first 2/3 gives way to an incredibly weak back 1/3, not helped by the fact that the singles are very front loaded.
Lyrics are full of the band's normal, for lack of a better word, cringe but seems to have a little bit more of a tongue in cheek nature this time round. Instrumentally heavier and more interesting, some really fun moments and heavy breakdowns, Jim has clearly been working hard on his heavy ... read more
Y'all this is a fun, bouncy summer pop rap album. What more do you want from it?
Honestly currently my AOTY. Can't flaw it, every song slaps. Not a single weaker song, every single song has at least one lyric that made me go "ooh fuck" with how much it hit home.