It's a very nostalgic album for me because I heard it throughout my whole childhood. Got a lot of earworms on this album.
* Around the World - peak start to the album
* Parallel Universe - good continuation of RHCP jam
* Scar tissue, Otherside - 10/10 songs, perfect summer songs, funky with melancholy tones if you listen close
* Get on Top - Kind of stupid lyrics, but yes go white boy go! It's fun little bop if you don't listen to the words
* Californication - 10/10, just lyric-wise reminds me of Radiohead's 'Fake Plastic Trees'
* Easily - Meh, when he starts singing briefly it sounds good
* Porcelain - Pretty sad, short song, good one but I dunno if I'd listen to it on its own (maybe just as a part of this album)
* Emit Remmus - The guitar in the background of the verses is really grating
* I Like Dirt - I LIKE DIRT, peak song
This Velvet Glove - Decent song
Savior - I really like the overlapping of his voice in the bridge, relatable reflection on his father
Purple Stain - genuinely what the fuck
Right on Time - The chorus is nice
Road Trippin' - truly does sound like 'road tripping', not in a bad way though it's nice
This album is perfect for the day I listened to it on: a cold, cloudy February day. I've never heard of the band or any of the songs before so it was cool finding something fresh. It's a very good ambiance and a good album for background music. Some of my favorites were intro and VCR. The intro is really nice, honestly would've been fine if the entire album was like this. In VCR their voices sound very good together (in different verses as a part of the whole song and also when they're singing directly together). Overall I like the little guitar parts and their voices sound good together, but I don't know if this album could be anymore than background music or something to put on just to fill space. Not hate though, it's beautiful sounding! It kind of reminds me of "Of Monsters and Men" and feels very quintessentially 2010s.
YUMMMMMM! I really liked this one! I feel like this is finally an album up my alley. Big fan.
* Soul and Fire - guitar kind of sounds like sonic youth which I like, also really like the lyrics, especially "I think our love is coming to an end"
* Two years two days - again, I really like this sonic youth-ness, good lyrics again
* Telecosmic Alechemy - a little more grit
* Fantastic disaster - a looooot more grungey, the lyrics kind of remind me of the beastie boys, the harmonica was very unexpected
* Happily Divided - this song sounds like elliott smith to me, especially his singing, nice rhyme
* Sister - super exciting guitar, I REALLY like the riff
* Cliche - peak
* Sacred Attention - guitar at the beginning was nice
* Elixir Is Zog - The screaming is so funny to me 'cause it just came out of nowhere after the singing has been pretty soft in the previous songs, usually I don't like music with screaming but I like this song a lot
* Emma Get Wild - GUITAR IS SO GOOD ON THIS, the way he's singing he sounds like he's just about to run out of breath and i'm SO down for it
* Sixteen - the overlapping voices are peak
* Homemade - his voice is very pretty in this, at first i was like oh! but then i got what it was about and its very heartfelt
* Forced Love - I like the descending melody in the chorus a LOT.
* No Way Out - yummy, i like the fly taking a nap or smth in the middle
* Bouquet For A Siren - very much like the low and high voices, it feels like space oddity by david bowie
* Think (Let Tomorrow Bee) - lyrics are nice, "girl of my dreams, or a friend that one day leaves", yeah i like the lyrics a lot
* Flood - interesting song to end the album on
there's so many different things going on (birds, melodies, voices) and i love it. it was really cool. at first i was intimidated by the 18 minute long song but ended up listening to something great! i think it's better to have on in the background than something to actively listen to but great tunes
It's pretty boring, just 'classic rock'. It just repeats the same phrase over and over again and calls it a song. The only one I actually liked was "Tell me" and even though he repeated 'tell me' about 1000 times at least he sounded good doing it.
it's interesting...it feels like glam rock and reggae fusion a little bit. i could NOT get through this album when i first tried to listen - now that i am getting through it its pretty good... i would say 3.5 but ill round down because it was so hard to listen to at first. oliver's army is a good song but has a little bit of a jumpscare! my favorite was probably sundays best
BEAUTIFUL. immediately after the first 3 seconds i know i would rate it a 5! the backing is such a perfect platform for her wondrous voice. the stories of the songs are interesting too. just beautiful. it reminds me a lot of bob dylan and joan baez's lyrics
There is no bad song on this album. Everything is perfect: lyrics, guitar, drums, voice, etc etc etc. I LOVE THIS ALBUM SO MUCH. I grew up listening to it through my family so its sound is very familiar. It's just such a classic album. My favorites are "Good times bad times", "Babe I'm gonna leave you", "Dazed and confused" (obviously), and "communication breakdown"
