Halcyon Digest

angst-wader

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Meh. It’s ok, I guess.

2.5⭐

I've always struggled with american indie. it seems like its good with talented musicians, a nice style and what appears to be a strong scene. it has a lot of the hallmarks of something i'd like but it's just wet. It's far too introspective and dainty, there's never any weight, anger or grit to it. if they whacked on a bit of fuzz and got pissed off they've got all the goods to make something really enjoyable but as it is you just get this feeling that the singer has got rejected by a girl, started crying about it and has inconsolably pissed himself on his bathroom floor after drinking shit wine. which is fine, but don't write a song about it and try to inflict your self loathing misery on to others. got enough of my own thanks.

As a regular hunter myself, I find it hard to believe that these kids have ever hunted anything. The lyrics are whiney and it's all a bit too angsty and teenager in love to merit my full attention. Of course, if it's only deer that these boys are hunting then I can't comment. They aren't real men like me. I hunt humans. In particular, vulnerable women and children. That's why any music I make is fuckin' badass, unless this useless shite. I could order this music at moonpig.com.

Easily forgettable.

Five, bit boring

Moderne indie, dreampop, svævende vokal

No review. I listened to it Friday, and it’s Monday and literally nothing stood out.

Full "meh". Possibly the most Meh album I've ever heard.

Chato.

Interesting & different… enjoyed listening

Almost every song felt like it was just a slow burn towards getting started but then nothing happened. Memory Boy was the first one that at least started with a quicker tempo. Haven't heard of this group before but I would have been comfortable not knowing for longer. Doesn't need to be on this list.

Nothing terribly bad about this album. Also nothing memorable about this album.

Атмосферно, но не понятно

Ehh.

Just so bland and samey

Weird indie. Not for me.

It waffled on for far too long

4.5/10

Not very good.

I don't care. This music is all kinda hollow. Nothing here to hold my interest.

Not really my taste

What have I heard?

OK sound, but too slow and soft for my taste.

Not especially interesting.

Not something I really enjoyed abit slow

Nothing to remember 🙁

le tracce interessanti sono poche. a livello musicale c'è qualcosa di apprezzabile, ma è troppo [o troppo poco] Indie per essere aver influenzato at qualcun altro

Not my genre. Tried to listen and just tuned it out.

Lo-fi psychedelia. My favourite. Only joking, this is terrible.

I wouldn't say this is bad, but I also wouldn't say it's good, interesting, engaging, or that there is any chance I will ever listen to it again. It's just a bit slow, gloomy, whiney, and dull. 2/5.

I'm not sure how I feel about this. It reminds me of Guided By Voices and various DIY indie bands from the 80s and 90s. I like the concept - songs about imaginary concepts - but it all starts to feel quite samey. Individually there's a lot to like about the tracks. I might listen to some tracks in a playlist among other artists, but I don't feel like there's anything significant about Halcyon Digest as an album. That's my first impression.

Hard meh.

Almost fell asleep but a few songs were alright

It was ok for background music but really low energy naval-gazing type alternative rock. First song led me to think this was going to be a lo-fi electronic beats but then realized it's not after. Not my thing, but when I was depressed I probably would have loved this.

Each song sounds like there is a germ of an idea, but it needs a lot more development to me. It just doesn’t sound that great.

One word Wednesday: disappointing. ⭐️⭐️

mmmm nop. Nothing particularly interesting here.

bit hit and miss here, and even then, the hits aren't amazing

interesting

Not a fan of the first track, although I do enjoy the atmospheric clean guitar. Too much space, gives me anxiety. The samples are cool though ngl. (Earthquake - 1/5 Second tracks beginning reminds me of Elliott Smith. The fuzzed out guitar right panned sounds incredible. Still undecided on how much I enjoy the vocal deliverance. Vocal harmonies are amazing. Don’t really like the ending though. (Don’t Cry - 3/5) Third track starts out more upbeat, feels like the album is beginning to go somewhere. I love the instrumentation here. There’s an absolutely FUZZED OUT guitar track hidden in there, again, incredible touch. “It doesn’t make much sense” Woah! That punchy delivery was incredible! (Revival - 3/5) Fourth track is returning to the moodiness. Intro clean guitar and vocals, drowned in hall reverb. I find the vocals kind of hard to discern in the mix, I can’t hold that against the album though. This track fails to catch my attention. Out of the songs so far, this is my second to least favorite. The least favorite being the opener. (Sailing - 1/5) The fifth tracks intro is great, it feels like a set up for something greater. Vocals hit, and I instantly love the song. By far my favorite on the album so far. The droning note at the end of each phrase sends goosebumps down my arms. Pre-chorus is really catchy. The drums are incredible in this track, I absolutely love them. The vocals are clear, less whispered. Middle instrumental interlude is tasteful. The guitar walking up and down the scale sounds great. A very long cut, over 6 minutes long. Middle instrumental begins to drag on. No return to vocals, instrumental permeates through the ending. (Desire Lines - 4/5) Track six’s intro is unconvincing at first. Return to hard-to-hear vocals. Two-three chord song, until clear break towards the 2/3rd of the song, pace change, not bad by any means, but just mediocre. (Memory Boy - 1/5) Track seven has a cool instrumental and vocal drone intro, I really like when the drums come in. I like the chord progression, very reminiscent. This track shares DNA with the previous track, but for some reason, I find myself finding this song much more. (Basement Scene - 3/5) Track eight is incredibly underwhelming, I don’t like the drum sample, and the lyrics sound like every other word that has been uddered on this album. (Helicopter - 1/5) Track nine, Another underwhelming song. Seems to me the song quality drops off dramatically towards the latter half of the album. Nothing about this song catches my ears in anyway. (Fountain Stairs - 2/5) Track ten has a very bare piano and acoustic guitar intro that builds into a mass instrumentation. I do NOT like the vocals, I just find them incredibly annoying where they sit in the mix. God bless the sax solo though. (Coronado - 2/5) The final track has quite an interesting slap back delay acoustic guitar intro. You can HEAR the vocals in this mix, but they are still drowned out with hall reverb. I don’t get the appeal of this track, although the guitar riff is very catchy. (He Would have Laughed - 2/5) The album is a 2/5. An underwhelming experience, just feels like an electric Neutral Milk Hotel. The album definitely has a feeling, don’t get me wrong. It’s very consistent and I applaud it for that, but none of the tracks, besides two, do anything for me.

Rating: 5/10 Beat songs: Desire lines

A decent album. But not super memorable.

teilweise netter Gitarrenrock, aber warum das in die Liste muss, naja...

Chill background noise. Not as good as Wilco imo.

not for me

Not very exciting

Like a less accomplished mix of Arcade Fire, Vampire Weekend and MGMT. Of course Pitchfork loved them.

Deerhunter is clearly talented. That said, they are not my cup of tea. A couple of alright songs are peppered in but mostly the album was a grind for me. Sad, lonely, depressing shoegaze is just not my forte. I'd give it a 1.5-2/5. Lotta filler and messing around, but clearly talented musicians trying new things (for 2010) that's just not my style. Definitely could have died without hearing it.

medio indie, shoegaze, no me gustó. Sonido como pop fiestero inglés de los 90. También tiene un sonido que me evoca a las canciones de los 60".

Eindelijk weer iets moderns. Klinkt zeker niet verkeerd, maar doet me te weinig om mijn aandacht voor een heel album vast te houden.

meh his vocals annoy me

did nothing for me

It was OK. I thought at times it was a 2.5-er. As I've been grumpy this week I may as well keep that going.

Ok

I dont know if i like this album or not. 2 seems low and 3 stars seems high. Its really confused me

Generic indie rock. Might be good for its genre but no sympathy from me for the genre. Sounds Beach Boys-ish at some point.

Rock pop indie. Aburrido.

Not my style, very boring and making me sleepy. I think if you like beatles, you would like this one.

Soft, experimental, entertaining.

Nothing really stands out about this album, I almost forgot that I listened to it earlier. 2.5

Wow this is so boring. "I didn't even realize music was still playing."

mellow listen

Good background music but wouldn't put it on to listen too.

pretty boring. a little slow for my tastes today

I really liked the song desire lines, I will say that it gets boring near the end. The rest of the album is ok.

It was ok background music, but it didn't stand out much to me.

Ok the album cover is creepy as fuck and ordinarily I get jazzed by this kind of music but just wasn’t feeling it

Before listening: no idea what this is going to sound like but I'm kinda expecting hipsters. While listening: yep, hipsters. Alternative indie rock type stuff, no clue why it's on this list. Boring. 2/5. After listen: yeah, that was just hipster drivel. Hope someone enjoyed it, cause I didn't.

Enjoyable, but forgettable

Not bad.

Much of this sounded like noise or like a teenage garage band that did not understand musicality. The only song I would listen to without turning off the radio is Desire Lines - that might actually be good, although my ears were so numb after 5 songs that it is hard to know if my definition of good had fallen to "not terrible" by that time.

Mehhhhhhhhh

boring

When I first began this journey, I obviously wanted expand my horizon. This included resolving my ongoing battle with 2010s music. I have never liked music of any genre in that decade(other than some major hits of course), so I figured that maybe, just maybe, I wasn't giving it a fair shot. Unfortunately, this generator has only confirmed my disdain for music in this decade. It doesn't help that it's a Shoegaze album(puke), and that combination has made this a truly agonizing experience. Favorite Track: "Sailing".

Apparently, this is their 5th album. Who the fuck is buying this dull and dreary mush?

Yeah, I don't get this one. Not that I don't get this music (I do, anyone with a Bandcamp account or an ex boyfriend with a delay pedal would) but I don't get why this is the one that's on this list. If there are more shoegazy, noisy indie-hipster hell rock albums on this list, they'll almost definitely be better than this one. Less boring, at the very least. All I can do is pray for My Bloody Valentine (or christ, even Duster!) and wait for this whole thing to blow over. I feel bad being so mean, but this album constantly skirts the line between being pleasant enough and pissing me off. Final song in tribute to Jay Reatard? Pleasant enough. Annoying vocal effects making the sincerity of that tribute seem dubious? Pissing me off. If my friend was in this band, I'd probably go to the VFW shows and take their picture for Instagram.

nahh niet weer shoegaze

I lived through this era I was probably supposed to be the demographic here. The era of Pure X, Grizzly Bear, Foxygen etc. I feel like this band bounced off for me several times because based on the name alone I would have checked them out. I disliked this album. It feels like style over substance in a way similar to the Black Keys. The actual songcraft is completely missing. There's no hook at all, the tracks were frustratingly aimless. This should not be on this list.

nowp

fine i guess, but boring as anything

The only redeeming quality was the springsteen-esq horns on the penultimate track. Boring

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Caught me on the wrong day

De hoes doet het ergste vermoeden, en het is precies de pretentieuze prullaria die je verwacht. Vervorming, takkeritmes, jankerige zang. Alsof de maker van My Bloody Valentine een blond pruikje heeft opgezet en stiekem nog een plaat heeft gemaakt.

Oh man, damit kann ich wirklich gar nichts anfangen. Ich erinnere mich, dass das Album 9.irgendwas auf Pitchfork bekommen hat und ich es einfach nur belanglos und scheiße fand. Jetzt habe ich es noch Mal ganz gehört und finde es immer noch belanglos und scheiße und kann mich nicht an irgendeinem Song erinnern.

What the fuck was that. More American shit from people who think their the best. Big headed and loud. Go and do your flag shagging somewhere else. Tossers

Zzzzzzzzzzz

1. quake - 1 2. cry - 1 3. revival - 1 4. zailing - 1 5. boy - 0 6. linez - 0 7. zcene - 1 8. helicopter - 1 9. ztairz - 0 10. coronado - 1 11. laughed - 1

Huh....what? ... No i was awake the whole time! I did not sleep! I loved the album especially when they were singing and the part were they played instruments.

Mal wieder unerträglich für mich. Einfach nur langweilig!

competently made but i couldnt stand this

This was just noise for most of it. Hope I get something good next.

Couldn’t finish this.

You couldn’t sell this shit in a discount bin. Not sure you could give it away. Naval gazing moaning boring repetitive BS.

Meh

Three stand-out tracks for me. The rest was pretty forgettable.

Much more atmospheric than I was looking for. Didn't make it too far

Soullessshit

another indie/psychedelic maalsef

What a way to close out a week. Could have used something more interesting, enjoyable, upbeat, fun, less low-fi. If you like low fi bland, mopey, aimless folk rock, well, here's your album. I'll pass.

so schlecht habs gar nicht zu ende gehört

Even the band seems to hate this music

Maybe it's the fever from this flu taking over, but did this even exist? I just finished listening to it, and I remember nothing. When I'm not dying, I might give it a second playthrough to see if I can retain ANY of it, but based on the first listen, which I'm positive I attempted, it's a fail.

This vocals were in audible at times. The production seemed so sloppy. Even if I tried to look past that this was very boring. It sounded all too similar, nothing distinct.

Not for me

• weirder start ins album • geht bisschen lame weiter

Good thing I wasn't driving with this shit on. I would have fallen asleep and hurt someone.

Awful

I remember back in 2010, after growing up with the big rock burst of the 90s-00s, I went off new music because it felt like every album that the critics recommended was a boring, atmospheric snoozefest. This is the exact sort of thing I mean

Pretty boring really

i did not like it

meh

Mmmmm, nei. Enten krangling i ørekanal eller helt anonymt.

Trendy too clever name? Check Concept album with a weak concept? Check Dead band member? Check Sorta not bad but not good? Check Not really remembered outside a small clique of white boy critics? Check A mishmash of bs genres? Check Extra points for dedicating a song to a no talent, in this case jay reatard? Double check So mediocre that the universe turned itself inside out rather than suffer this. I present 1001 albums you must hear before you die poster child.

I can't even get snarky about it.

More wishy-washy indie that never actually goes anywhere and sounds like it was recorded in a shipping container. I try to pick a highlight from every album, but I genuinely cannot differentiate between or remember any of the songs. It wasn't offensively bad, but I'm tempted to give this 1 star because of how fucking boring the entire thing was.

Sick of these wishy washy modern indie records that are just so shit!

Is it "Deerhunter" by Halcyon Digest or "Halcyon Digest" by Deerhunter? I'll never know because this is unlistenable dreck.

Somehow haven't heard of them? But I didn't miss out on anything. Worst type of indie bullshit, some sad boy strumming his guitar with shit vocals that make it hard to understand what language he's even singing in. God, what a bad album 1/5

Drivel

couldnt get past the first 10 mins, just not my type of music

Kjedelig

Wow ... that was pretty awful! I love how Wikipedia states that this album was released to Universal Critical Acclaim! What!? I can already see this album has a solid 3 star average rating which means people either give it 5 stars or 1 star. Well I am definitely giving it 1 star. Absolutely nothing happens in this album. It's like they come up with some simple riff, and then just play it over and over none stop for 3 to up to 7 minutes. I just have to wonder, when you think of a band going into a studio, there has to be a sense of excitement creating a record. We're these guys actually excited creating this album, because it sure doesn't translate onto the finished product.

det er meget kedeligt. nej nej nej. coveret er et billede af mig, der beder til at det snart er ovre

Dull, too dreamy for me

Eiih...

Nääh.. Arppa on paaljon parempaa

Ei, tämä on kuraa!!

★½

1 stern

Not for me

Really

Was just not in the mood for this, and skipped most of the songs half way through, when it was clear it just wasn't something I liked.

Not my vibe, muchacho

I think I need to do another listen LOL but I was bored.

We get it, you're cool. Too cool to try, too cool to care, too cool to even lift your head up. Wait, are you dead?

Hard going.

Couldn’t really get in to this, felt a bit flat and boring

I can tell that this is art, but it is not art that I like

Nothing moved me here - not gonna be coming back to Halcyon Digest by Deerhunter

I didn't care for this album

just not a fan, the lo-fi was really hard to get into specially after listening to violator... a decent listen but was hard to get into it , right afte the first 5, we have the first 1 !

Dreary

halfway through i figured id just say "painfully average" and give it a 2/5, but it got worse somehow? its so fucking bland and boring and repetitive, maybe 3 songs on this album are any different from the grey mass of whining and sad fucking guitars god the guitar riffs sound like shit, this isnt music, this is angsty fucking losers jamming together anyway the 2-4 songs that are different arent good different, they still fucking suck. god whats a waste of fucking time NNN

twee 2010s indie pop rock drivel

Alternative music from the ‘10’s.kinda boring music. Pass.

I was sooooooo bored. Bands that take themselves this seriously and without any joy or whimsey really have no place in any musical lexicon. Let alone a list like "Must Hear".

Sleepy and repetitive.

Generally uninspired background noise.

Some music is so bad it’s offensive, and you just want it to stop. Some music is just so boring that you don’t want to listen to any more of it. This one is much more of the latter, with a touch of the former.

A distinctively forgettable American indie album.

Oh jeeeez is this dull. Maybe I'm wrong but I don't even see this as being influential or anything. It just feels derivative and a slog. It was hard to finish. Boo!

I actually like the first couple dreamy songs but the rest of the album is boring tame impala wanna be indie man music trash.

Was there a Producer for this album? It doesn't sound like it. The band also appear to have given up after the first three tracks. They couldn't be arsed. And neither could I.

Juat another indie group with mello depressing music. Not a fan.

no.

Man - not gonna lie, this album is just dreadful... With albums like these, I used to say "what warranted them getting onto this 1,001 list in the first place" - BUT now I'm looking at it in terms of what potentially great albums got left off because of this trash... There were 2 songs that I flagged in "Desire Lines" & "Helicopter" the first-time through - but upon subsequent listening - it's NOT that I sorta like them, it's just that they sucked less than everything else... "Basement Scene" is by far the worst song on the album... Sorry - no redeeming qualities in this swill that I can find... This gives true "indie" a bad name, as this is just lazy and self-indulgent all-the-way-around...

Not for me. It may be well done but what do I know. Not enough depth of sound in the instruments or voices.

Schon wieder eine US-IndieRockBand von der ich noch nie gehört habe. Und nach dem Hören weiß ich auch warum.

Meh

Wikipedia gives the music genre as Psychedelic Pop / Dream Pop / Indie Pop / Noise Pop - change pop to pap and you'd be close. Prentious boring noise!

yuck revival desire lines

olvidable

In what world was this, "released September 27, 2010 to universal critical acclaim."?!? There is nothing here. It's a total waste of time and the band should be ashamed for having made this. This is 46 minutes of filler.

Oh my god. I don’t know how I’m supposed to get into music that sounds like the musicians are bored out of their minds even while making it. There are two tracks that DON’T do this and they’re nothing special. (Prior listen)

Shoegaze: mumble rap for white hipsters

Not a fan. Pretty dull.

Tässä on niin uskomattomasti potentiaalia mutta ei osu vaan tarpeeksi hyvin.. heh.. kuin ammus joka mennee ohimmolle...heh.. ei silmien välliin... Jokainen biisi indie pömpötys.. laitas eri tunteita biisiin ei samat jutut uudestaan yritetä joka biisissä.. Jää tässä pömpötyksen takia sanojen vastuulle.. sanoitus ei vie mennessään osaako tämä ihminen nähdä kauneutta.. Sanat ovat niin pinnalla ja mitään ei yritetä.. pinnalla kuin kuollut kala.. artisti kuin mikäkin surströmming.. iljettävä.. Mutta maistuu kesällä.. heh.. tämä oksennuksen kera.. Lurps lurps ja helle kuivattaa märän mahan märkimän paidan.. kun ei se kala siellä mahassa ui.. pihalle tulee morjesta antamana..

Someone please pull me out of this dream pop hole in the ground that I've been shoved into. I didn't like Cocteau Twins bullshit dream pop from the 80's yesterday, and I don't like it any better flashing forward 30 years into the '10's today. The album cover tells me absolutely nothing about the band, I hate that, and it's not even a good photo, it doesn't mesh with the actual album content in any way. Annoying. Pretentious tripe.

“You can’t take too long, Making up songs”— Sailing by Deerhunter They definitely didn’t.

This did nothing for me. It felt like a bunch of demos, recorded by a guy who couldn’t afford a microphone, but that’s okay because there’s always this megaphone…

It's indie music. It didn't make my ears bleed but I may need to go to an audiologist. Not the worst album on the list but it is not really a two.

My heart sinks when I get a recent album I've not heard of and this is no exception. A baffling entry into any list of any albums. It’s ‘OK’ and no better than that

Never listened to this one either, but was really bored.

No one really likes this

I imagine people have sacked this list off because this was the first album they were generated and thought if this can make it why the fuck am i going to bother with the rest. It's just such a boring album for a band that describes themselves as 'ambient punk'. If this can be labelled punk then punk is dead. Fair enough if you like this stuff, but within the 1001 albums to listen to before you die? Behave.

Sounded like some lofi indie beats. Got bord

No jive at all.

Not my cup of tea

Listened but didn’t listen to it.

I listened twice and liked it even less the second time. I had trouble even having it on as background music.

One of the more tedious albums I have had the misfortune of listening to. Thought it had finally got interesting but then discovered that Spotify had moved me on to other artists ...

It's probably an overstatement to blame the death of rock music on rock music becoming this...ignorable? But after 46 minutes of this that felt like 46 hours, it doesn't feel like THAT much of an overstatement.

I don't like this at all. Now it's finished I couldn't even tell you what the difference between one song and another is. The lasting impression this leaves me with is 'why?'. Not for me.

Not one part of the album did anything for me. Boring from start to finish.

They are the exact description of alternative. Well played instruments but not a fan

Didn't enjoy it, bit tedious

meh, typical super singer alternative indie junk

Generic hipster crap

Strokes + Wreckless Eric = why is this a genre

Disapproval look

Forgetable

dreamy trippy... meh

Awful

not very good... sounds like old stuff i would am not interested. i didn't have one song i liked there...