Really excellent, but in the same year we had Modest Mouse and Arcade Fire, got lost in legendary status
Another album you need to listen too even if you think you won’t like it.
Much like Funeral from Arcade Fire, this was an album I thought was a meme, but then I listened to it and like Frank Reynolds in Always Sunny In Philadelphia said “I get it”
I mean, it's good, but absolutely a downgrade from their earlier work
The raw energy this debut sticks with you forever
Man, critics were really harsh on this album. Yeah, it's not as good as MCR and Brand New's albums of this year, but don't act like the first half of this album isn't consistently producing banger after banger. My Blue Heaven is without a shadow of a doubt they're best song they ever produced.
You know, this is one of those albums you hear about that you think "there's no way it lives up to the hype". But it more than lived up to it, it absolutely expanded my taste in music when I listened to it decades ago. Like butter on the ears, this album is so easy to digest and revisit over and over again.