Yellow & Green

Damn, really long, but pretty good 4

Fuck yeah that was a great listen. I really liked how the singer had a strong emphasis on melody. Guttural sounding guitar and rhythm section, but with strong hooky melodies over the top. Sucked in from the 2nd track onwards. Definitely a band I'm looking forward to exploring further. Thank you to whoever submitted this album :-)

Baroness always makes a quality LP, and I think that's because the band has such a strong focus on the fundamentals. There's no flashy solos, heavy chugging, or edgy lyricism here – just straight, well-done metal that speaks for itself. There's a great focus on melodicism here, with some amazing guitar harmonies that make the tracks memorable and just sound great. The distinct tonal shift between the Yellow and Green sections is clear and well-motivated, and it's impressive how the band was able to squeeze two whole LPs worth of great tracks into a cohesive album. The end product is perhaps a bit overlong, but given the high quality throughout it's more than a joy to listen to the band power their way through 75 minutes of rock-solid metal.

Rating: 8/10 Best songs: Take my bones away, March to the sea, Cocainium, Eula, Green theme, Board up the house, The line between

I prefer Red and Blue but this album still rips. Baroness are really slept on in my eyes.

A fine hard rock / metal album. The songs are good, but the production and vocals weak. I like the mosquito sound in Twinkler. And the "I can't forget the taste of my own tongue" part in Eula is great. Too bad it's much too long and the second half has a lot of weaker songs.

When I saw another Heavy Metal album I kind of thought I was done with this before it started… but this surprised me with how great it is! Bombastic in all the right ways!

I had a collegue recommending this band once. But did not look them up until now. Very strong album! Love the match of the vocals with the heavy metal music.

Yeah, I never really spent the time to find the proper entry point to the discography of this band, having a very original, and quite accessible melodic take on the stoner metal genre, to the point where it can even sound like classic seventies rock. "Professional critics" were not really helpful given that they provide the same sort of (positive) grading to all their albums. So it's nice to know where to start. Actually, checking Baroness' streaming numbers also clearly indicates *Yellow And Green* as the one album to listen to first -- "March To The Sea" is a banger for sure, for instance. But it's nice to have confirmation from a fellow human being here. As I'm writing this tentative review, I haven't listened to the second disk yet (I have a big day at work), but on its own, the first is already a very nice self-contained album. The only real criticism I can give to those tracks is that some of them might go a little too long without their content always really warranting it, but I also understand the point is to be a little hypnotic, and it's not because that intent doesn't always work for me that it's not working for others. Anyway, looking forward to listening to the second part of this double album... 3.5/5 for the purposes of this list of essential albums, rounded up to 4. 8.5/10 for more general purposes. Number of albums from the original list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 465 Albums from the original list I *might* include in mine later on: 288 Albums from the original list I won't include in mine: 336 ----- Number of albums from the users list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 43 Albums from the users list I *might* select for mine later on: 52 (including this one) Albums from the users list I won't select for mine: 99 --- Émile: voir ma toute dernière réponse sous le disque *Triage* au-dessus.

I like the music quite well, though I wouldn't exactly call it metal. Lyrically it didn't do a lot for me (but I appreciated the vocal style).

I prefer hit 2011 song Black and Yellow by Wiz Khalifa, streaming now on Spotify!

Appreciate their stylistic adventurousness. Had this been a straight “metal” record, I don’t think it would’ve kept my interest for its 75 minute runtime. It ends up being kind of an indie/metal hybrid, which was good, but somehow it feels like it didn’t offer up too many surprises.

Struggled to get into it, metal (is this really metal?) has to be exceptional for me to get into it, and this lyrical style put me off too.

Wow. Epicness with the epic dialed up to 11. Im struggling to think of many things on the list that are as EPIC as this. And that sure gets tiring over the duration of the double album.