Watch Out!

Wooooooow A band I have not thought about in probably 15 years. There was a minute where I was ALL in on City and Colour. Saw him perform at the Fox Theater in Detroit and he did a whole mini Alexisonfire set in the middle. It blew my mind! Thanks for the walk down memory lane. This album still absolutely rips.

I would find this far more impressive if it was from 1994. I would totally shit my pants if this was from 1984. I would question reality itself if this was from 1974. But being from 2004 it's just kinda there.

I submitted this album, so I should probably have a mini book typed up on why I like it, right??? I’ll try and do a short version. The intro to this record is incredible. The intro guitar riff gets me every time. And then those drums, that drum beat, even throughout the song, is incredible. George’s scream vocals, wow, WOW. Then when Dallas comes in???? Fuck me up man. GANG VOCALS???!!! ARE YOU KIDDING ME??? HOW CAN YOU NOT LIKE THIS. *ahem* sorry, got excited. But that’s basically how I feel about this entire record. The guitar riffs throughout are incredible. The drums are amazing. Even some of the baselines are incredible. George and Dallas going back and forth from screaming to singing, and the mix. The overall soundscape of this record is just so neat to me. No other band really sounds like this. If they do then let me know lol. And then that final song, Happiness By The Kilowatt???? *chefs kiss* even when Dallas plays it solo under City & Colour it’s an unbelievable song.

Extremely 2004. Like, I can imagine hearing this passing a stage, or stage sitting, at Warped Tour. Reminds me of fellow-genre-vets Atreyu, Thrice, and sounds like it was inspired by the likes of the Misfits and thrash metal. It's solid, and I like the bouncing between clean and screamed vocals, it's a nice dichotomy. The guitars are sharp (as was the style at the time). It's not entirely my bag, but I do appreciate it. Call it a 3.5. Favorite tracks: "Hey, It's Your Funeral Mama", "It Was Fear Of Myself That Made Me Odd"

Falls somewhere between evanescence and let the bodies hit the floor. Thinks it's rougher & tougher than those, but it's wrong about that. I like the album art, though.

This album had a chokehold on all the emo alt metal stoner skid kids at my Canadian high school. I'm always thrilled by the inclusion of more Canadian artists. Although this was never really my jam, I can appreciate the tremendous cultural impact of Alexisonfire. I've seen these guys live and they fucking rip man, they really do. For my skiddy metalhead husband who LOVES Alexis and all of their contemporaries, I rate this a full 5 stars. Undeniable great representation of Canada and its diverse musical talents.

Grandfathers of modern day post hardcore. Thank you to whomever added this. Love it.

One of my favourite bands from 2004 to 2008 seen them live 3 times, know this album off by heart. So good and I don’t come back to it enough these days now my tastes have changed. Thank you to who ever added this! It made my morning.

I cringe a little when I spot the "screamo" tag but this kept a decent balance, seemed like just solid hard-core to me.

Wauw, it's been a while since I heared some good ol' fashioned emocore. Sounded really good to my ears!

I like some hardcore where the screaming isn't too dominant. But the music here was lacking some power

I've never actually heard these guys, but I've kinda meant to some point. They were a vague joke when I cared about metal in the mid 2000s - something something emo pussies etc. But if they're anything like a whole bunch of other bands I wrote off as "gay" in 2004, they're probably alright. Yeah it's not too bad lol. Kinda catchy, anthemy, chorus driven pop punk. I don't mind it at all. 4/5.

Proper emo, a genre which was missing from the book. Good choice.

Not typically music that I would listen to or discover on my own. I was impressed with this one. It was unique from the albums listed in the book. My initial listen is a 4 but with more listens I might come to give it a 5

Watch Out! is a 20-year throwback to when a friend introduced me to No Transitory, which I still listen to regularly and enjoy a lot, but Alexisonfire are a band I never really dug deeper into. The whole album is pretty fun, full of youthful raging hardcore energy that creates an absolute racket yet manages to do a solid job of retaining musicality with defined melodies and making it listenable, which a lot of these styles of bands don't do. The run from Hey It's Your Funeral Mama to Get Fighted is top, not such a fan of the last track which is a shame but you can't have it all. A high 3 or a low 4, probably a low 4, more of this genre should've been represented on the initial list.

It's far from my preferred hardcore albums, but it was a nice discovery, and indeed the original list misses a lot of hardcore.

This is a new album for me but Hey, It's Your Funeral Mama is very attention grabbing.

My review of the Alexisonfire debut panned the latter, and there I said that the Canadian band's later LP *Watch Out* had the production values and compositional chops finally giving justice to their melodic post-hardcore / emo craft. I haven't changed my mind, even though I still think there are better things to be found in that genre. Some of the sung parts indeed still sound a little sickly-sweet for me. But that's a minor gripe for sure. Whether the music goes slow or fast, you have some very lush and enticing harmonies going on during the course of this record. Also, the post-rock tones discreetly sprinkled here and there work well (like at the end of "Hey, It's Your Funeral, Mama", a track that's otherwise rolling on all cylinders!). And the last track is indeed quite an effective and moving way to cap things off. I've also browsed through later album *Crisis*, by the way, and it looks like quite a good one, too ("You Burn First" is an extraordinary song!!!). So I probably need to dig Alexisonfire's discography further one day. Interestingly, the user who submitted this album -- who's a very open-minded listener, bonus point for that! -- asks in their review if "any other band sounds like this". Well, *exactly* like Alexisonfire, I can't really think of any good example, at least in bands balancing out sung and growled vocal parts... But if you broaden the scope to the overall post-hardcore genre, I'd say that there are lots of other bands displaying those sorts of emotions with that same energetic manner, while applying dynamics that I personally find at least as effective... The list is very long, from At The Drive-In (that you're probably at least aware of, benevolent user, and which probably influenced "No Transitory" and "Sharks And Danger" in *Watch Out*) to the Swiss act Coilguns (check out their genius last album *Odd Love*, by all means). In a more melancholic vein -- albeit one also more unnerving and uncompromising -- you have French band Birds In Row, once signed on the Deathwish label (they're as much fans of Cult Of Luna as they are ones of Alexisonfire, which will give you an idea of the scope of their music). Also, when Alexisonfire explore more straightforward hardcore turf, as in "That Girl Possessed" and "White Devil", they kind of remind me of other bands from the noughts such as Comeback Kid, Defeater, Modern Life Is War, and Have Heart -- all killer acts in my book. Hope those suggestions up there will help you discover new great bands. 😉 After all, that's why we're all using this generator, is it not? Now, I gotta say that what I found the most endearing in your review is your enthusiasm -- how you got all excited and carried away by your passion for this record, only to make fun of yourself right after, ha ha. The world needs more music listeners like you -- fun, enthusiastic and open-minded. Cheers! ---- My personal assessment of this LP: 3.5/5 for the purposes of this list of essential albums, rounded up to 4. 8/10 for more general purposes (5 + 3) ---- 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: 52 Albums from the users list I *might* select for mine later on: 71 (including this one) Albums from the users list I won't select for mine: 128 --- Now if you don't mind, I gotta reply to a friend in French in the space down there. I'm indeed also using this generator for correspondence across the Atlantic Ocean. Benevolent listeners of the world, unite! Yep, even those who gave Backstreet Boys' *Millenium* five stars, ha ha! 😉😀 ---- Émile... Avant de commencer le compte-rendu de mon écoute de ta liste de suggestions de cet été, je me dois de faire un long retour sur Emerson, Lake et fucking Palmer... Bon, disons-le tout de suite... J'ai eu BEAUCOUP de mal à juste supporter leur musique jusqu'ici, ha ha. Je connais assez bien le sujet, vu que j'ai un chum qui est très fan de ELP -- c'est en gros lui qui m'a fait découvrir (et généralement aimé) les grands noms du prog rock seventies (Yes, Genesis, Jethro Tull, le premier King Crimson, toussa, toussa...). C'était il y a vingt ans déjà, quand on était à la fac. Et ELP, il a essayé maintes fois de me les faire avaler (en gros du debut album à Pictures Of An Exhibition en passant par Tarkus). Sauf que gros rejet de ma part. J'aime vaguement les chansons folk-pop faciles du premier album ("Lucky Man", plus d'autres dont j'ai oublié les noms) mais je m'ennuie ferme sur le reste du disque. Et en ce qui concerne les deux autres albums cités ici, leurs envolées virtuoses au son d'orgues turbo-kitsch, le tout sur des rythmiques et des patterns que je trouve inutilement compliqués (même pas "complexes", ce qui est normal dans le giron prog-rock, juste... "compliqués"), tout ça m'hérisse automatiquement le poil ! En apparté, mon pote aime pas la discographie de King Crimson, hormis *In The Court Of The Crimson King* (qu'il adore, par contre). Mais en fait, je suis même pas sûr qu'il a sérieusement écouté les albums. J'ai déjà essayé de le convaincre que Lark's Tongue In Aspic et Red sont géniaux, mais il se ferme comme une huitre. Je soupçonne une vengeance inconsciente parce que ELP m'insupporte, lol. Tout ça pour te dire que j'attendais de Brain Salad Surgery qu'il fasse avancer un peu le shmilblick sur ce sujet hautement épineux d'ELP (honnêtement, je sais pas si mon pote connait ce disque -- c'est possible que oui, mais j'imagine qu'il a pas insisté en voyant ma réaction pour les autres, ha ha). Et donc j'ai écouté... Bilan ? Ben le shmilblick avance... Mais il recule aussi dangereusement parfois. "Jerusalem" est une jolie ballade. Par contre, "Toccata" rejoue la partition de tout ce que je déteste chez ELP. "Still... You Turn Me On" est hyper frustrante -- je trouve le titre et ses arrangements très cools, mais il est beaucoup, BEAUCOUP trop court ! Foutez la "Toccata" à la poubelle et finissez ce morceau-là à la place, tabernacle ! Quant à "Benny The Butcher"... C'est premier degré ou second degré ? C'est pas pour troller, je te jure ! *Sincèrement*, j'arrive pas à savoir !!! Et pour la suite Karn Evil 9, c'est un peu le même topo que pour les quatre premiers titres... Ça alterne entre des moments que je trouve limite parfaits (le passage "welcome back my friend, to the show that never ends...", ainsi que toute la deuxième partie de la "1st Impression"), et d'autres que je trouve simplement horribles (l'intro et le final de la "3rd Impression", que je trouve encore une fois d'une laideur absolue !). Dingue comme il y a pas de juste milieu dans mon curseur pour ce trio légendaire ! Ceci dit, quand Emerson range son orgue maudit et passe au piano classico-jazz sur la "2nd Impression", ça m'a fait un bien fou ! (Il réussit ptet là ce qu'il ptet pas tout-à-fait réussi sur la seconde face de Tarkus). Et puis sinon, un artwork d'H.R. Ginger, c'est toujours cool, hein. Voilà. Même si je peux toujours pas *totalement* adhérer, je suis content que tu m'aies fait la suggestion. Déjà parce que je trouve ce disque plus écoutable dans l'ensemble que Tarkus et Pictures. Et ensuite, parce que si j'essaie d'être "objectif", je vous pas pourquoi çui-là devrait être mis en dessous de ces deux autres albums (il s'est grave fait démonter, ce disque, à sa sortie, ho la la...). Ce qui valide d'une certaine façon ton sentiment subjectif. Tes suggestions de cet été maintenant... Ikebe Shakedown - Ikebe Shakedown Cool cats. Nice instrumental cuts. J'ai écouté que quelques titres en passant -- un peu trop "dérivatif" dans un genre qui me passionne pas toujours, mais c'est vrai que dans une BO de film, ce serait diablement efficace. Ça me rappelle un peu The Meters, en moins minimaliste. Tu connais ? Chiac Disco - Lisa Leblanc Heu là, je peux vraiment pas -- j'aime pas sa voix. L'instrumentation funky est objectivement chiadée, hyper riche. Mais tout aussi objectivement (ou subjectivement ?), c'est... ultra-kitsch, une fois de plus, non ? Bon c'est assumé au moins, et elle s'amuse, ça ne fait aucun doute. Et le dernier titre est très joli, c'est vrai (modulations d'accords mineurs - majeurs sur la partie de cordes, carrément ma came, ça). Mais le reste... Heureusement qu'elle a c't'acccent acadien, au moins ça rend le truc un minimum fun pour moi. Si j'avais eu affaire à la même chose avec l'accent français plate, je trouverais ça carrément horrible. Sorry! Ping Pong Go - Ping Pong Go ENORME ! J'adore ! "Objectivement", les sons sont kitschs aussi, mais là ça me transporte dans un autre monde. Joies de la subjectivité. "Corvette", c'est littéralement du Jean-Michel Jarre des tous débuts sur du groove basse-batterie qui tape, mélange parfait pour moi. Et si l'album va aussi dans d'autres directions parfois (de l'électro-ambient à la jazz fusion) c'est très souvent trippant, fun ou hyper intéressant. Ça me rappelle un groupe ricain qui s'appelle (s'appelait ?) Maserati, qui fait certes ce genre de chose dans un registre beaucoup plus sombre, pas si loin que ça de Goblin, d'ailleurs. Et ça me rappelle aussi un autre truc ricain qui se nomme Trans Am. Tu connais tout ça ? Anyway... Thanks a bunch for that one. Je viens de checker discogs. Y aucune sortie physique de Ping Pong Go !!! 😭 Y a même pas un Bandcamp de l'album (y a juste leur dernier single, "Racket Man"). JE VEUX UN CD !!! Tu peux leur faire passer le mot, ha ha ? J'ai pas trouvé de vidéoclip en ligne pour Corvette non plus d'ailleurs, que des live (supers, d'ailleurs). Dommage, ça m'aurait ptet permis de voir sur quel genre de projet tu travailles ! Any Day Now - The Brooks. Pas mal du tout, dans une veine George Clinton / Parliament / Funkadelic, voire un peu Sly Stone. Je dois dire que ce qui me transporte le plus, ce sont les interludes orchestraux. Mais le reste a l'air cool. King - Gnome C'est très bien, ça passe tout seul. Après, je trouve que les éléments progs auraient pu être plus appuyés, un peu comme fait King Gizzard quand ils s'approchent de ce genre-là. Et sinon, dans un registre stoner / sludge, y a tellement de groupes qui sonnent comme ça pour moi. Le bar que je fréquente le plus chez moi, au Mans, passe beaucoup ce genre de groupe sur leurs enceintes. Pour presque chaque morceau qui passe, je trouve que c'est entraînant. Mais en même temps, mon oreille distingue pas exactement ce qui fait qu'un truc est au dessus de l'autre. Et ça me fait le même effet pour Gnome, en dépit de deux trois fantaisies très "belges" dans le disque, certainement. Ces autres cousins de la France (ou des Pays-Bas, si on parle des Flamands) ont le chic pour faire les choses de manière décomplexée, du rock au rap, en passant par l'electro et le jazz. On aime ou on n'aime pas, mais c'est souvent plus original que ce que font les français ou les modèles anglo-saxons. Et en dépit de ce que je viens de dire au-dessus, j'avoue que ça ressort un peu dans King, aussi. Lost Knights - Orgone Alors oui, c'est du funk, mais du funk LOURD. Et ça change pas mal de choses pour moi. Ce mélange entre Sly Stone et de trucs plus rock des seventies (que je saurais pas parfaitement bien situer -- Grand Funk Railroad ?) fonctionne à merveille sur moi... "Lay Your Life Down" est un énorme BANGER, ha ha. J'adore comment les hooks s'enchaînent au début et montent la mayonnaise avant d'aboutir sur un putain de bon refrain, qui sort de la gamme de départ sans prévenir. Les suites d'accord sont mortelles, catchy mais aussi originales. Les riffs défoncent. C'est le genre de truc que je kiffe, peu importe le genre. Je viens de checker, c'est un assez vieux groupe en fait. Et s'ils gardent toujours une base funk, ils ont l'air de changer de formule (et de line-up) assez souvent. Au passage, les chansons de Lost Knights ont pas l'air d'être dans les plus gros streams du groupe. Ce disque de 2022 était ptet un peu trop "rock" pour le public de départ ? Ils ont l'air d'être un peu revenus de ce style sur le LP suivant, d'ailleurs. Dommage. Bon, si je le trouve à pas cher, je l'achèterai peut-être ce disque d'Orgone, en tout cas. Choses Sauvages - Choses Sauvages. Tu dis que c'est du "bon pop-rock lofi d'ici", mais c'est très souvent hyper funky aussi, non ? T'es vraiment un funkhead, en fait. Je pense que tu bois les lignes de basses groovy comme du petit lait le matin, au point que tu ne vois même plus à quel point le monde et la musique autour de toi sont imprégnées de couleurs funk, rien parce que t'es dans le coin. 😀 Pour preuve, ce disque, que tu présentes comme du pop-rock. Y a un petit côté Hot Chip version francophone, aussi. C'est pas vraiment ma came (ptet à cause de la voix ? Bizarre, parce que je sais que la voix est pas si loin de ça de Corridor quand on écoute bien). Mais y a des moments incroyables quand-même (ces flûtes psychés à la fin de "Le palais des erreurs", magnifico !). Nuages est un morceau cool aussi, là encore pas très loin de Corridor dernière mouture. Voilà, je crois que j'ai fait le tour... Ah au fait : le dernier disque que je viens d'acheter est canadien/montréalais : c'est l'album de Yoo Doo Right sorti l'année dernière, *From The Heights Of Our Pastureland*, découvert seulement maintenant. Bon, j'imagine qu'il doit y avoir des gens par chez toi pour dire qu'ils lorgnent un peu trop du côté de Godspeed You! (avec une dose bonus de kraut et de post punk, quand-même).. Mais c'est tellement bien fait que je peux pas résister. Le post-rock qui sait à la fois être viscéral et sonner de manière organique est pas si courant que ça... Ah, et sinon, Yoo Doo Right a sorti un autre disque de jam cette année, avec Population II et Nolan Potter (que tu connais certainement). Je me demande s'il ne te plairait pas encore plus, ce disque de jam rock, d'ailleurs (ça commence par un truc motorik avec toutes sortes d'arrangements un peu foufous, donc je crois que c'est dans les cordes d'un Gizzhead comme toi). Le truc aussi, avec Yoo Doo Right, c'est que Mowno en avait parlé avant ces deux derniers albums (quelqu'un de la "boutique", comme on dit, les avait même interviewés, vers 2022), mais qu'on est totalement passé à côté des deux derniers, je sais pas trop pourquoi. Et c'est franchement dommage. Si seulement, j'avais un contact au Québec qui pouvait m'envoyer un mail une ou deux fois par an quand il y a *vraiment* un truc rock à ne pas rater là-bas... 👀 A bon entendeur... ? 😀 Bon, le temps de digérer tout ce que j'ai écrit, et que tu répondes à certaines de mes remarques, on se dit à dans deux semaines / un mois ? Je suis content d'avoir écouté ta liste de suggestions en tout cas ; j'ai découvert (et aussi aimé) plein de trucs ! A+ Cyril

A fun hard rocking romp to get the energy going on a Monday morning

At the beginning I was thinking a 2, but some of the less hard-core tracks showed up and I was having more fun with those.

Retrospect is easy with a crew like Alexisonfire, but this second album, consistent in gimmick, easily avoids the flash-in-a-pan label. Each track a justified variation on the multivocal multivolume setup, the LP doesn't really do anything with the softer emotional material within. Get it out there for joy and music and catharsis: Fair enough.

5/10. Yelly screamy, couldn't be me

Solid

I liked it. Great album

Decent balance between screaming and more melodic singing. Post-hardcore is a genre I have not delved into too much but I enjoyed this energetic album.

not normally a fan of screaming vocals but this is actually pretty good. 2.7

Rating: 6/10 Best songs: Side walk when she walks, The girl possessed

Post-hardcore. Ni fu ni fa.

This isn’t really my jam, but I didn’t hate it since they only screamed at me half the time.

Cringe

If this is the caliber of user selected albums then we are in for a treat. Always down for some hard rock emo type music. Great art too, very spooky.

It's so far outside what I personally like, but I do remember a lot of people loving them in my youth. With an objective eye, I totally get it now. Not for me, but clearly great.

Alexisonfire is one of those 00s emo scream bands that was right in the middle of melodic emo and screaming thrash. Dallas Green helps bring the tone down on Alexisonfire’s albums that make me enjoy them, yet I find his city and colour to be lame. Yet impressive the musical range and audience he reaches. The instrumentals are solid and are expected from a heavy rock band of the 00s. Crisis is probably my preferred album as it has their more palatable songs but this album was also very good. I enjoyed most of the songs. 6.9/10 (nice)

This album leaves me conflicted: On one hand, I appreciate seeing more post-hardcore representation. On the other hand, this is the type that teeters right on the line of being tasteless. I’m giving it a 3 instead of a 2 because at the end of the day, I did enjoy most of the music

Unfortunately the scream-o aspect of this seems a bit overplayed and out-of-balance. It works in places but loses a bit of the emotional edge when it becomes a trope. I do like the rock and energy.

Pretty decent. Lots of screaming. I hope he's ok after a set. I like that it's not all screaming. Ultimately, I think it lives up to what the band should be about.

An okay listen for once but likely won't return.

I remember being about 14 and having a couple of friends who were really into Alexisonfire (and singer Dallas Green’s solo work City and Colour, which I’ve somehow only just noticed is a pun on his name). I never really got into them but always thought they were pretty good Listening to them again for the first time in another 14 years, I feel kind of the same. It’s aged a lot better than some of the similar bands I was listening to around the same time, but doesn’t quite have the intensity of a letlive. or a La Dispute. It’s a solid post-hardcore record and I like the interplay between the two vocalists (Green providing the cleaner vocals and Wade McNeil hitting the screams before his slightly weird tenure fronting Gallows after Frank Carter left). The songs are just not especially memorable though, and it lacks those big impactful moments I look for in this kind of music. Again, I can’t really get into them, but they’re pretty good

This is a bit better than the other Alexisonfire album on here. Some more song diversity and the switch-ups between singing and screaming seem less random. Opening track's a banger. Still, not really my type of Post-Hardcore.

Solid. Love the bass in particular going furiously. I like all the Canadian entries on the user list. Unfortunately not my most favorite genre, really.

Real good

It has a real 'amateur' feel to it- not sure why but it scores points since otherwise this sort of thing is devoid of originality and just about as generic and stereotypical as it comes.

Screamo

It’s pretty good, but unfortunately not my thing.

6/10 another album that I can appreciate, but REALLY isn’t for me - but if you love this, good for you!

It’s strange that I hadn’t heard Alexisonfire until today. I remember them being in Kerrang a lot read I read the magazine as a teen, but I guess I just never got round to listening to them until today. This album is pretty decent. The vocals and the guitars are quite good. However, I think that (bar a few exceptions) I’m just over this whole scene. Maybe I’d have loved it a decade ago, but with today’s ears, I think that “pretty alright” is a reasonable take on this.

This album was fine, but really not my thing 3/5

It’s not terrible. But I don’t like screamed vocals.

Musically I can appreciate the energy and drive this band manages to create. But these screaming vocals are just aweful. I know of several other bands that work according to this M.O. and they all annoy me tremendously. There is literally never a moment I would want to listen to this.

Nice rock-screamo like. Fine listening

Noise, acceleration, loud voices...I know that's what the genre is like, but it's not something you'll enjoy if it's not exactly what you're looking for. The musicians with their instruments, however, are great.

Music isn't over-the-top heavy, but lacks hooks and strong melodies. Singing is passable, but the screaming is not! Generally not my thing but not as awful as my 1 star reviews.

A genuine example of mid-2000s screamo right as emo is about to hit peak popularity. So you get some aspects of mainstream emo (such as the anthemic live sound and pop hooks) while still focusing on heavy riffs, busy instrumentation, and unusual sudden changes in tempo, volume, and rhythm. It does fall into some lame tropes from time to time, and half the tracks are unremarkable or repetitive. There are several standout hits, and there are cool tricks I do like, usually put at the end of the songs. Above average for its genre, but I'd still shrug it off, especially for how exhausting it can be.

While there’s plenty of dynamic contrast across this LP, it somehow manages to feel quite flat – at a certain point, the combined wails of the vocalist and guitar become a sort of white noise that fades into the background. This is a typical problem for albums in this genre, and while I support more early-aughts representation on the list I don’t think this is the best contender to rep the era.

Musically this is pretty tight, but I can do without the "unclean vocals." IMO, that style of vocal would work better if they went harder musically. Fave Songs: Side Walk When She Walks, Accidents, Control, No Transitory

I can't with the screaming, I think I'm too old

Nah.

There are so many great post-hardcore albums and this is not one of them. Songwriting is bland and performance mediocre.

Shouty vocals over fairly heavy but a bit poppy music. Not for me. Rating: 1.5 Playlist track: Accidents Date listened: 08/11/24

Kicking off the user picks with, well, not a bang nor a whimper, more of a scream. When I say I don't like metal, I'm talking mostly about screamo-type metal. Not sure if that's derogatory or what, but some of this album is that kind of rock or metal, and it's frankly not for me. A couple songs I'll hang on to for posterity, but otherwise this doesn't do it for me. Favorite tracks: Accidents, No Transitory. Album art: Really, really love this one. Awesome art style, bold colors, the picture is nice and spooky. Frankly, wish I liked the music more because this is one I'd enjoy keeping around. 2.5/5

Dither why you would add this one. Pretty generic

My best friend loves this band and we normally have similar tastes in music but this is one that I’ve never been able to get into no matter how many songs he recommends. This album was just as lame with the power screamo emo thing going on this I’ve never liked.

Not a fan of the mic in mouth shouty style but this was a better example of the type

Can’t remember it. That speaks volumes.

Too anthemic, too melodic not in a good way, and even the parts that have a bit of a harder edge are boring.

Shouty rock. ...sounds quite like a lot of other bands i am not keen on.

I initially got smacked in the teeth by the staunch guitars and rampant screaming, but after 3-4 tracks, it sorta turned into background drone. Energetic? Yes. Need to listen to before I die? No.

Was not bad, but it felt hollow. Like, I am playing notes, but I don't have any heart behind them

I was ready to really hate this but it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, still not great though...

It's a no from me! Just no. In some many ways

So much screaming

Hey, I think I talked to the person who added this on the Subreddit when they got done with the generator. Hi!!! Unfortunately, album wasn't really my cup on tea. Felt a little too on the nose for the kind of music here, and the vocals just flashed me into a Hot Topic in 2004. Instrumentally, it was solid but probably not enough so to lift this up. Liked the ideas, and I may like their debut more, who knows!

Not a genre I enjoy

Just a noise

Sorry, I just can't with those vocals. 1 star.

It's not great. A lot of screaming which is unnecessary. I didn't need to hear it. I know that some people like this type of music. It's a no from me.

Nothing special

I think I have never listened to a song or an album from them because I was told what kind of music it is and I know I wouldn't like it. Thanks to whoever put that album up, now I know for sure I hate it. It's just so bad, it tries to be hardcore/metal but it fails at it, and the singing parts are just horrible. I thought 2 would be fair, but no thanks, it's a 1

Low IQ music.

Oh lads! You’re bringing me all of this rage and “poetic” angst and fury and all these tumultuous emotions… I’m 44 guys, the best I can do you is tied and annoyed.

Just can't abide. Seems more metal or like thrash-alt than post-hardcore. The scary voicings are extremely hard to take seriously. Rounding up (from zero to one) because Canadian. Definitely would have it replace any of the bottom 10 on the list proper, but that's the type of company it would/should keep. Watch out indeed!