whinter

A solid first album, unlike the rest of their future LP’s this one feels more experimental pop and you can tell there’s an actual focus on the music and letting it breathe for a second. The other albums, although still not bad at all, focus more on the song structure and pop vocals and melodies than the music itself. This LP has some great cuts on here. Not disappointed.

The first four tracks are easily the best from this record, along with Follow You, which is beyond infectious….you can really hear the band returning to something more raw on this record but still not full of real human feelings. Songs like Wrecked, and My Life are solid and you can hear the emotion at least to an extent but the other cuts on here are about void of life and the screaming can be a huge turn off for some.
Over all a ‘good’ effort and it has some listenable ... read more

Now I do oddly enough consider myself a fan of blackbear...this album was in fact a bit too long for my liking and there are definitely fillers here. I really think the opening track is weak and the closing track is weak. I like a handful of the cuts on here like Swear to God, High 1x, Hate my guts, 1 sided love, & too close. All these are straight vibes of songs that you can play in the car with friends, in the back ground at parties etc...Yes he does tend to dwell in the emo depressed pop ... read more

Solid first song that I've heard from him. I did a full reaction/review analysis on my youtube channel and was impressed with his vocal range. The subject matter is also unique and creatively written from the lyrics to the melody and the plain but good enough instrumental backing it.