Less an album and more a challenge to see how much shitty obnoxious overly-sentimental dubstep garbage I can handle before I end up wanting to blow my brains out. (The answer is about 4 songs)
I'm generally a big fan of AJR's other work, but this shit is so ass.
There's a few decent tracks but they still suffer from the horrendous production and general veil of lifelessness that permeates the whole album. The entire project feels like commercial music in the worst way ... read more
Every time I relisten to this album (probably approaching the double digits at this point). I just end up completely bewildered.
Not so much at the album itself (although some of the shit here is pretty appalling.) But at the fact that there are some people who actually like it. How do y'all exist.
The vessel demos range from just feeling unfinished to being completely unlistenable, and while the original tracks are better (most of the time) they're still mostly not great.
Every ... read more