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It's... awful.
It's awful on a level that I would never have expected from Glass Animals. Where I saw in Dreamland at least SOMETHING of conceivable value- in that I was able to tell it held meaning to the people who made it, at the very least- Creatures in Heaven has absolutely nothing.
I heard this song on the radio several times before I went and listened to it properly, and it took the DJ actually namedropping the band on the second or third play for me to realise that it was Glass Animals ... read more

Best MCR album. I'll fight you on it.

Look, I know that's an opinion that's liable to get me torn apart by other MCR fans, but let me explain some: I'm an MCR hyperfan, and I have been for my entire life. This is not coming from a position of "I like pop more than emo", it's coming from the fact that I think Danger Days is more cohesive and fully-realised than any MCR album before it. Of course I have to contend with the album generally accepted as their masterpiece; Black Parade is, ... read more

really cool that they give you a free fighting game with the new daisuke ishiwatari album

Guh.
Look, I'll admit it: Dreamland doesn't really deserve a 25. If this was an album by a band I'd never heard of, I'd give it a 40, maybe a 50. By giving it a 25, I am being mean. But I /have/ to be mean, because Dreamland is so much less than I know Glass Animals is capable of.
This review is going to be more about their previous work than it's going to be about Dreamland, but that can't really be helped, because I don't have much to say about Dreamland besides "yeah, it's modern ... read more