Simon1

I feel like I should've listened to this album before the new one, because the songs on here feel right in between the two albums stylistically. I don't know when they were written, but I'm pretty sure they were written without Isaac.

This album's inconsistent, but still really good, having some great tracks here and there. Honestly, my biggest complaint about this record is Lewis's vocals. It was clearly a good decision to make Tyler the vocalist, because Lewis's ... read more

Well, it was good enough to keep me up at 5 AM, and that's mostly it. I didn't know what I was getting into, it didn't turn out too bad, I just don't see any replayability, because I probably don't wanna play these parts on their own, but I sure as hell wouldn't sit through the whole EP too often.

For me, there have always existed two types of post-rock. The blissful, heavenly-sounding type (GY!BE, Talk Talk, etc...) and the dirty down-to-earth sounding type (Slint, Black Midi, etc.) The heavenly type often had longer songs, with little to no lyrics, while the down-to-earth type had shorter songs, with more lyrics, and clearer song structures. Now I feel that on the first 2 albums, BCNR was more of a down-to-earth type band, but on this album, they are reaching toward the heavenly type, ... read more

Grunge Classics: Pt. 1

Trying to come back to reviewing albums on a daily basis, and this is my new idea. I'll go to some of the genres I like and listen to the best albums in those genres that I've missed. Decided to start with grunge, because I've never heard a grunge record that I didn't like (until this one, kinda), and, while I like the genre, I haven't heard a lot of the albums that are considered classic. I've mostly heard just Nirvana.

So, anyway, this ... read more