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Ruin

The Amazing Devil

2021

Ruin
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Batey is a vocalist and musician for the indie folk band The Amazing Devil, as well as the primary writer and composer. He and collaborator Madeleine Hyland met while acting for the Royal Shakespeare Company and together they formed the band in 2015, producing what Batey has described as music that “sad people can listen to at train stations.” The band has released three albums including Love Run (2016), and The Horror and the Wild (2020). Their most recent album, Ruin, was released on 31 October 2021.

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Rating

2.98

Votes

58

Genres

  • Rock
  • Folk

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Nov 04 2024
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5

Very west end musical sort of vibe. I was going to give it 3 stars but then I realised how much I enjoyed the drama of it!

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Nov 04 2024
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5

'The Amazing Devil' actually amazed me. It's folk, but with a high percentage of rock (and even slight traces of hard rock). Lyrically, this album is very poetic (I mean, have you read the lyrics of Inkpot Gods for example). This album went fast from "unknown to me" to "man, I love this"

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Nov 04 2024
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4

I liked this as music, though I remained on the fence about the sort of combination of a Folk Epic sound with twee cell-phone era romantic travail lyrics. I'll slide it an extra star for oddity and singularity.

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Nov 04 2024
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4

Rating: 7/10 Best songs: Secret worlds, Inkpot gods

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Nov 04 2024
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3

It was fine. It felt...I don't know...pretentious? But I didn't hate it. Harmonies were nice. It's not something I'd ever listen to again, but it wasn't bad at all. I guess indie folk isn't my genre. Inkpot Gods was nice, though.

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Nov 04 2024
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3

It's alright, a bit too theatrical for me. 3 stars.

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Nov 04 2024
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3

Tolerable for indie folk. I liked the vocal harmonies. Got a bit long in the tooth towards the end though, and overall still a bit too twee. The swearing was intentionally at odds with the music, but.... eh? I guess you'd have to like it before you'd say it was clever or effective. I don't think I'll ever like this genre. 3/5.

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Nov 04 2024
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1

Music that theater kids would make for their point-and-click fantasy game that’s a painfully unsubtle metaphor for being bullied in high school.

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Nov 04 2024
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1

The Wikipedia page is not correct, so I can't detect what story there is in this album. It seems to me to be more of an indie troubadour proposal with momentary high choruses looking for epicness to stand out. The truth is that, given the cover, I was expecting something more challenging in terms of rock, but well, we are always going to be surprised by album covers.

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Nov 07 2024
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4

liked it, it's very "theatre kids" though 3.7

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Nov 25 2024
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4

Indie folk. Me ha gustado. Un 4.

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Nov 06 2024
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3

Very dramatic hard-edged folk (British folk rock?)

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Nov 14 2024
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3

Yeah, this was a bit overwrought in places. I didn't particularly connect with it, but I appreciate the creativity. Fave Songs: The Calling, Ruin, Chords

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Nov 05 2024
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2

This is simply music for the theatrical people. This feels like something you would hear on an off off broadway show where you get a 10 minute introduction about the journey and how everything’s a metaphor for the new wave apartheid. Ok maybe that was a bit much but that’s exactly how this album is. It goes a bit further than the musical realm and brings performance too. If you’re into that then this is for you. 4.6/10

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