i listened to this album for the first time Years ago because this is a band loved by a band that i love, and i tried again here or there over the years to connect with it for the same reason and it just never worked out. but turns out it's actually p good, idrk what changed but i'm glad i can actually Listen to it now. what i will say is the first track was Remarkably unpleasant to start with, but as the album goes on it just seems to get better and better and i think that's a ... read more

i think the extent to which i feel positive about the experience of watching this has more to do with my like of billie's music and public persona than it has to do with the actual film. it's got a kinda novel approach and presents the show as a Spectacle, but it's not exactly a true substitute for a concert, and it doesn't do enough to show what goes into a billie concert in the first place, or to build any kind of narrative around the show or this moment in her career or ... read more

came back to increase my rating from 85, this album would be Perfect if they'd just cut a couple of the last few songs </3 but it might as well be perfect for how much i appreciate everything else on it

don't feel like i really walked away with much of anything outside of tracks like Orange County and The Plastic Guru, which actually do a decent job at conveying the mix of feelings reflected in how you might respond to losing someone. on the former of the two the tonality of the song is almost happy, kind of a celebration of life despite the blunt statement in the lyrics about how difficult it is to actually move on. the latter of the two being about how self-serving a lot of our own ... read more

90/100, just putting that here so the score for what is: a reissue (albeit a reissue i quite enjoy) doesn't butt its way into my top 2025 albums list on my profile. for what it's worth the new mixes do actually bring new life into most of these songs, enough to make this my preferred way to listen to this album whenever i feel the urge these days. other than the bbc radio stuff which we'd be better off without. also for god's sake record new music

so i listened to this twice and i think it's acceptable, there's a couple of tracks that sound pretty good in the moment but my god does is it a boring listen as an album, consistently a bit too low energy for my tastes and from the first track through to the final track they never really do much of anything to add to or alter the overall sound palette to keep it from feeling repetitive or tedious imho. had the thought while i was listening to it that it's probably music ... read more

listening to this made me think that as tedious of an experience as it was, as homogenous and uninteresting as i found these tracks, it could always be worse, i could be listening to sleep token. and that's something i have to give them credit for, these songs (mostly) aren't too bad on an individual basis, they're just brutal as an album experience despite the quite short runtime. there wasn't a song that stood out much in either a positive or a negative way

past a certain point all the tracks kinda bleed into each other into an indistinguishable mush, but that's kinda just an inevitable part of the aesthetic and the experience of listening to music like this, and so i feel like the vocals kinda drowning in the mix are an artistic choice to complement that feeling of just being completely engulfed in these hazy walls of sound provided by the distorted, dense instrumentation of a track like infinite source (which happens to be my favourite one ... read more

i did not have sexual relations with that computer

this man sings like he's got a mouthful of water and the music behind those vocals is generally mind-numbingly uninteresting. it's not distinct enough to be bad, which might be odd to say considering it does kinda sound like someone took the most bland production choices/trends of the last couple of decades of pop and rock and slapped them together into an album where half the tracks are north of 6 minutes long for no reason. so i guess in that way it's more than the sum of its ... read more

jesus christ

this has an unreasonably strong run of tracks to start off with, and even though it does kinda taper off towards the end (in my opinion) that's still enough for this to be something i can see myself returning to consistently. there's a kinda ambient, spacy quality in how the vocals are produced that really compliments the moody, at times abrasive electronic soundscape they've crafted here. definitely more the type of music you@feel

sometimes you just need to remind yourself what trash sounds like to regain perspective on life

this song is unintentionally hilarious, and just from the entertainment factor of that alone i could very easily give it a pretty good score. but like objectively it's only fun because of how abysmal it is. i'd say the bar is in hell but there are simply no bars to be seen

the songs kinda blur together without enough to really distinguish them, which makes this suboptimal as an actual album experience, but a couple of these tracks are genuinely pretty cool and lagtrain is one of my favourite songs ever so it's not a lost cause by any means

for god's sake release a new album

tyler, the cremator

making out (with teeth) is in fact a life-changing experience

this is possibly the first time i've heard rock music with electronic elements integrated so prominently in the foreground across an album without it feeling hollow, incomplete or overbearing, and i was pleasantly surprised by how interesting or easy to connect with some of the lyrics were even independent of the quality of the vocals. the closing track really only works as well as it does for me because of the sorta ... read more

this is the most anonymous song in their entire discography. practically anyone in their space could've slapped their name onto it and it wouldn't be surprising. the live performance of it is genuinely great though,,,, studio version sorely missing that scream. still not a bad song

it took me embarrassingly long to get round to this album. accidentally hit play on "esc" and i just Had to sit down and run it back from track 1 to earn that. her prior project (which i loved) was obviously literally titled "a call from my dream", but this album feels much more dream-like. the soundscapes built up by the instrumentals, her airy vocals, the emotions captured in these songs, almost take you into a whole other world. and the production alternates wonderfully ... read more