Between this and Charlie XCX I am on auto tune overload tonight.
I am neither 21, rolling, nor do I have the calves to dance to this. My Achilles are going to be sore tomorrow just from listening.
Copious amounts of gratuitous guitars. Sometimes they work but at the end I feel like I ate two holiday dinners with triple dessert.
This album is a vibe as they say. I love the self released indie stuff because it leads to more creative art. I personally considered adding Headroom. Regardless, Men I Trust is a band deserving of being heard.
I understand this is a live album, but I’d be more into if it were 35 minutes instead of 70. I definitely enjoyed listening to the album. It solidifies one of my takeaways from the 1001 experience: I like punk adjacent music.
Definitely a unique sound and I can hear why one of us picked why everyone should hear it. But it’s not for me. The vocalist kinda talk-sings and mumbles while the mix has his vocals buried under the music.
Some improvement but not over the top. Coltrane is great on the sax while Hartman’s vocals are soothing. Overall, this is stomachable jazz.
Need more interesting music to pair with these repetitive lyrics.
I totally thought Bon Iver was a dude, not an band, until just now. 😂 I only knew Bon from the Taylor Swift collab, exile on folklore.
The music breaks rules in a good way. The instruments feel loosely in sync at times. The lead line breaks the expected pattern some, like the descending guitar part at the 5th beat of Holocene. It doesn’t appear again until about 23 seconds.
Mr. Iver keeps me listening on my feet, which keeps me engaged, which keeps me interested.
Thankfully this isn’t like the screamo non-sense of their first two albums. The only person I knew who liked that shit thought trolling people was a personality trait. The music was as annoying as he was. Fortunately, M. Shadows worked with a vocal coach to be more melodic here.
This album feels like what I image a speed freak experiences. Unfortunately after 72 minutes I feel like a speed freak in that my heart is going to explode.
My simple mind appreciates the straightforward lyrics. I don’t have to guess what the songs are about. And the bottle the guy is singing into offers a unique and refreshing sound. I can’t figure out if him being a mediocre, and I mean I was better than that at one point, is a plus or minus. Either way an enjoyable album.
These guys certainly have talent and a different take on music. Not my thing though.
Honestly a lot better than I expected, but I hate the vocals, particularly the growling shit. +1 to 2 stars if this were an instrumental album.
I’m ready to concede that progressive rock is a failed genre. Most albums in this category fail to form a cohesive story. Most of the genre sounds like a competition to jam the most dissimilar riffs together and the most keys changes as possible in a grandiose sounding way.
Aside from Pink Floyd, I’m happy to forget prog rock ever happened.
Uneven at times which I like at times.
Lots of energy to enjoy here. Thanks for the discovery!
The skit type passages are fun but man his flow is sloooow and the music doesn’t make it very interesting.
Sounds like the vocalist has a theatrical background.
The show sounds decent but a jammy live album isn’t my preferred way of discovering a band.
Disappointed in the end. Ophelia has a killer hook…that’s gets old real soon. And there were too many tracks I wanted to skip. Feels a bit harsh, but there it is.
Bad vocals and mostly bland music. Not a great combination.
I feel like I’m sitting on Jack’s porch, hanging out, with a light rain and sunshine in the distance. Simply lovely.
I can’t this much auto tune for a whole album. A song at a time, sure. But not all at once.
I have to be in the right mood for this, which I was, otherwise I might fall asleep.
I’m more of a Ben Gibbard 📫guy than a Ben Gibbard ☠️🚕 guy.
This is PJ’s go to album for me. Raw. Energetic. Enveloping. Not a weak track among them. It’s telling that Better Man was recorded during the Vs. sessions and couldn’t make the album. I would sub it for Rats, but I’m nitpicking.
Paid in Full may not be the peak of hip hop, but it is an all-time crowning achievement in the genre. It’s akin to Vostok 1 launching Youri Gagarin, the first human, into a 108 minute orbit. Sure, later on people landed on the moon, probes on other planets, and other probes left the solar system. And gratuitous launches of astronaut dummies in roadsters followed too. We can always look back on Eric B.’s and Rakim’s Paid in Full as a marvelous marker along the way.
A couple things bother me about this album. Much of the time, the drums are a constant metronome at the forefront of the mix. It’s not so much Travis Barker, but the punk pop genre. And the vocals sound like a teenager in the basement whining at his mom to make him a grilled cheese. When in reality it’s a dude in his mid 20s perfectly capable of melting cheese on bread in a buttered pan his damn self.
Adam’s Song is amazing though. The drums are present but in a supporting role. Moreover, the vocals don’t sound whiny, but rather like loneliness oozing through the speakers earned from months and months on the road away from home.
BRILLIANT, top class instrumental album. Move over Shostakovich and Beethoven, make room for Daft Punk!
