VSCR54

As much as I love Mitski, to me this just feels very underwhelming . The choir is the only thing that really stands out, the melody doesn't really do much, lyrics are the focus but they are just decent, and she sounds the same as ever. It's just okay.

The songwriting is really awful. The song is wordy, yet it doesn't detail much, the melodical component is just not there, and I find there to be no hook. The lyrics are really terrible, and it doesn't help that it's just retreading old ground for Olivia. It also has that Melodrama knockoff production style that I hated In Sour. I can't help but think that olivia's sound and lyrical content continues to be on the nose bootlegs of her inspirations. Her singing is good, but her penchant to try to ... read more

As much as I love the ambition of this record, I think it ends up doing way too much a lot of the times, Thoroughfare being the worst offender of this. It wears its inspirations on its sleeve, like all of Ethel's music does and that can be quite distracting. I consider a lot of her music to be a Nicole Dollanganger knockoff without any of the aforementioned artist's subtlety, storytelling ability, originality and finesse and that criticism still holds true in this record, except I could say ... read more

I'm late to the party, but oh well University was killing me, anyway, someone please take Lana's piano away from her I beg of you.

The Grants, the title track, candy necklace and Paris, Texas are the only songs worth listening to on here. Unpopular opinion but I thoroughly dislike A&W and I think the only reason it made such a splash is because you're all sick to death of the ballads and will take literally anything else instead. I will speak of the positives before I get to my long list ... read more