Spotify told me to listen to this, enjoyed it.

16 year old me would have loved this album.

Some face-melters on here.

Still come back to this regularly. Free will is such a good track.

Ended up liking this quite a lot. Very dreamy, surreal / washed out soundscape.

I find people are overstating the genre-blend with this one. It has some folk stylings in the sense that some extra instrumentation adds some colour here and there. That being said, 99% of this record is emo like you've heard it done before. It's not bad but outside of some moments it likely won't surprise you either if you've spent some time with the genre.

Starts of strong with 'Angel' but fails to recapture that lightning imo. The rest of the album is enjoyable but doesn't really rise above its influences.

It's fine. None of the songs are bad, but for me only a few actually peaked my interest. Especially the first half of the record just went by without anything really registering. The back end has some memorable lines but nothing to return to for me.

Some solid riffing to be found and a fun listen overall.

The list of artists on this is crazy in and of itself and begs for a listen.

Love it.

I like some of the parts sung by Waters compared to the original. Breathe, as an example, works pretty well for me. For most of the tracks though, everything that made them sonically interesting is mostly gone. Slogging down the tracks further are newly added spoken word passages that mainly padd the length, adding little to the original tracks.
It's also mixed with the bass turned up to 12 for some reason.
This ain't it chief.

A satisfying ending to a legendary run.

It's good to hear Mark again.

Has A LOT of fat that can be trimmed. Too many of these tracks get swamped down in aimless, uninteresting and generally endless chugga chugga. The iconic riffing of older records is nowhere to be heard and 7empest feels like the only song where Maynard actually put in a bit of effort. Couple that with skits taking their sweet time and you have maybe 30 minutes of actual worthwhile content on a record thrice as long.
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Someone genuine joy to be found on this record. Especially liked Undae Dunes and Where You're Coming From.

This record always takes me back to a time and place. Linkous lyrics are often abstract and almost nonsensical but still retain a poetry that serves the atmosphere of the songs perfectly. Some have described the album as sad and while it does have those moments (notably Eyepennies/ Apple Bed) there's plenty of light shining through the cracks. As with Elliott Smith and other notable slowcore artists it sometimes becomes too easy to form a headcanon looking back knowing what we know now.

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This doesn't quite hit for me. It feels to me like the band is still discovering a new sound/ identity, which is understandable given the circumstances. I like the sentiments displayed though. All of them are clearly super talented musicians and I'm eager to see where they take BCNR.

Doesn't have the standout moments or beat variety Magic and KD III had. That being said, still a very solid project that continues the streak NAS has going with Hit-Boy.

Not an easy recommendation. Compared to Harvey's earlier work 'I inside the Old Year Dying' is very stripped back and introspective. Even compared to her last projects, you wont get the roaring fire from 'Let England Shake' or Hope Six Demolition' on here. If you decide to sit down with it and have the patience to sit it through and let everything soak in you might be well rewarded.