Far too much filler tracks that sound almost the exact same as the last. Songwriting in some tracks is also laughably bad, and the production leaves more to be desired. I liked some of the songs (notably Florida!!!) but there isn't really much on here that makes this worthy of a full listen. I don't think it's outright TERRIBLE but Taylor can absolutely do so much better than this.
I was expecting this to be funny bad, but no, this was just boring bad. Basically just Dark Side of the Moon with everything that made it a good album stripped from it.
There is nothing here for you to listen to, it is empty and lifeless. Don't waste your time.
if you showed this to a modest mouse fan in 1997 they would probably have a stroke in an instant
At first I was wondering why people don't like Modest Mouse's "Strangers to Ourselves", the follow up to their 2007 release "We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank", but upon listening to it, I get it now. Some of the songs on here are straight up boring and horribly produced. It's also incredibly bloated with 15 songs in a 57 minute runtime. It also suffers from really bad lyricism at times.
This is probably the most all-over-the-place record I have ever listened to. ... read more