Yellow & Green

Damn, really long, but pretty good 4

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.

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 :-)

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.

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.

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.

A very long album that has more in common with Nickelback than the "heavy metal" that wikipedia promised me. Yawwwwwwwn

Double album may have been a stretch trying these guys out, but there's good stuff here to dig into.

It said progressive metal and sludge metal and I was thinking we were in for another slog. This was a really pleasant surprise. At times felt metal and other times felt very indie rock. The vocals were a bit buried and harder to hear. Also it does commit the cardinal sin of being way, way too long. Could have cut this in almost half and it would have been a great album. My personal rating: 3/5 My rating relative to the list: 4/5 Should this have been included on the original list? No.

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.

3,5...

My favourite Baroness record

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!

Progressive metal, indie rock, sludge metal. Ni fu ni fa.

This was a nice new find. Never heard of them before and now I’ll have to check out more of their discography. This album was pretty solid. The singer is very melodic while the instrumentals are heavy without being too excessive. This is a very good, and long, hard rock album. 7.6/10

Kinda dug it, not my favorite vocal performance but instrumentation and overall sound were solid.

There's some interesting stuff here, but it's a bit of a hodgepodge stylistically. Should have been a single disc. Fave Songs: Little Things, Take My Bones Away, March to the Sea

Really good hard rock album, just a bit on the long side for me to add to my frequent rotation.

Not my thing. But I enjoyed what they did here. I liked the scope of this. Usually a double record puts me off. That was my first reaction when I saw it come up. I think they executed it well.

another kind of oddball album. Interesting, but I can't exactly explain how or why.

There's too much metal in the user list. I say this as someone who listen to it a lot. Anyway, boring band. 2/5.

A very long album of heavy alternative I did not find that inspiring

Yellow & Green is really long, or seems really long given it's only 75 minutes, because there are 18 tracks, and while they have an interesting sound, the slow melodic epic nature of their stye makes it a bit of a slog overall. It definitely catches the attention, they do some cool stuff with their compositions and sometimes get to the sound I enjoy most (Eula, Green Theme) but mostly don't, and while it's classified as heavy rock or metal, it's an adjacent version of it to what I really like. It's a close 3 maybe, but not close enough, so 2/5 again.