the awareness is incredible in the song writing

From outside looking in at the death of your closest one. Bleak, brutal, but at the core humanist.

for the longest time i thought the shadow on the belly was pubes

The contrast in Painters, both in the movie and in the music, is magical. It's the quiet one - Kube looking at flowers, letting the images reignite his will to live, versus the loud one - Nishi preparing for the heist to march on the road of no way back

Only the first three tracks and Mirror Man are memorable

A kaleidoscopic complex yet short piece of prog classic. Experimental but not overwhelming at all.

fantastic gothic pop under lots of *influences*

One thing that sets this apart your bland everyday post-rock is, the use of pauses and space, the time that pulls you into the emotional picture, in the highs of this album they did it great, from track 1-5 and 11-12, but some tracks in the middle are just there to add unnecessary variety? I'd say remove track 6, 8 and 10 this record would be another post rock classic.

Used to love this album a lot ten years ago, listen to it now the production sounds pretty directionless... kind of the sound I expect would win grammys. Parachutes sounds intriguing right from the start but this is more like a random collection of songs. Amsterdam is their best track ever though.

The Essence sounds like they're no where near the essence of their source of influence but seeing no evil this thing must sounded as fresh as they wish back then

No bad songs here but feels way heavier than a 45 minute album

How is this less heard than his last album? TBF though the main weapon in the last one is what made this one special - the guitar, I don't remember hearing any of those enchanting melodies in any post-punk albums ever.

10 years ago this album made me cry. Probably 10 years from now on this album would still make me cry. Not because of it says anything new to me, but it says somethings that will always stay true, it opened up a black hole that could suck up any life that I would ever imagine.

Noise + bad mixing = cock and ball torture

not jazzy enough

Miles Davis kidnapped by a cult

The guitar solos on this thing is otherworldly.

Wasn't a huge fan of this one until the 2022 remastered version came out. Really elevated the sound to another degree for me. Probably their most melody-focused album that will make you forget that they did Pornography.

One of those albums that for me the subject matter overall and on every song outweighs the musical creativity, even on The Stars Are Projectors, which sounds like a really messy post-rock track. Whenever I need new perspective to untie some knots inside me I would return to this, and it always works.

The title track is definetely about a sexual fantasy with the cow