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    Monomania - No Way Out - bit repetitive but well produced, a bit ambient, catchy, good songs.

    Searching For Glory - Another Year In The Shadows - Greatest Almost - this is a huge dip where nearly everything sounds the same and much worse than the first two tracks, throwaways really.

    Thank You - Numb Love (Misery 2) - K.F. - These three are fucking great, finally they have some sort of identities, heavier moments, guitars are finally doing something interesting, much tighter songwriting than previous 3, definitely very well done here.

    Burning Your World Down - arguably one of the worst tracks on the album lmao, just really a b-side at it's finest.

    Comfort & Chaos - I'm Sorry You're Sorry Now - fairly solid songs, but mad repetitive and chorus driven, mostly carried by Telle's vocal performance, not much else to write home about, even tho the the last minute of Sorry is p. tite.

    Closer - Not a bad closer, could've been even better, but it sort of encapsulates what the album is as a whole and shows off Telle at his heaviest (this album) so that's a nice touch.

     

    Safe to say this is an even softer album than their last one and they've nearly completely lost their identity as a band but it's still IMO a much less over the place clusterfuck that was Violent Noise and maybe is even a bit better overall, at least they dropped all the gimmicky features and fucktarded "experimentation" attempts (like that fucking no-name rapper lmfao), it might actually help them sell-out into mainstream more solidly, but honestly it's such a far cry from their stuff early-mid career.

    If this release doesn't end up a bigger commercial success than their last few albums they REALLY need to re-evaluate themselves as a band. They haven't written a consistently great album in years and they still try to do +12 tracks each album cycle when they can barely drop ~6-8 great songs per album MAX, just become an EP band at this point so you can still sell merch and get on tours because this is not working.

    I could see myself coming back to roughly half or more of these songs because when TWA are good, they're very enjoyable to me, the rest (like 3-5, 9) just hold no value whatsoever.

     

    6.5-7/10.

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    This honestly surpasses their previous album easily. The way they mix their heaviest bits yet with this borderline alternative rock in like half the songs so smoothly is a testament to how great as songwriters they really are.

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    The beauty of this EP is how each song is better AND longer than last lmao. Really did improve upon the first EP. A few songs on the last one were underwhelming but here it's perfect length and the songwriting is even better, last two songs are easily in their top 3.

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    I fucking adore the second half but the first half sort of takes a while to pick up and is a bit samey honestly, album's bordering on great on first listen but we'll see, maybe it'll grow more for me. Definitely dig their whole aesthetic though.

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    Listened to this yesterday and it has to be some of the freshest electronic music i've heard in months. The soundscapes created and seamlessness of it all really makes me want to easily slap on a 9/10 on this thing. I gotta relisten to his previous album now because I didn't quite love it when I was listening to it a year or so ago. 

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    Funny how technically on a songwriting and emotion level they're kinda doing everything right here, and I love the heaviness but at the same time these new songs don't make me as hard as Of Beauy & Rage which was such a gorgeous return to form and is easily as good as their first two LPs. Still, much better than last album.

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    43 minutes ago, TheHunteraciaStrain said:

    I don’t really get the hype for this band tbh. If I wanted to listen to something of this sound, I’d much rather just listen to The Gloom In The Corner. They do it way better. There’s some cool breakdowns and the occasional neat riff or vocal delivery on this EP, but mother than that, there’s really not much substance to keep me coming back. I already know I’m going to get downvoted because for some reason there’s this stigma that nobody is ever allowed to not like this band. 

    Hard disagree, Dealer as a whole are considerably better and last Gloom album is genuinely mediocre in my eyes. They had potential now theyre lost in the sea of bands not worth talking about imo imo.

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    This isn't a great deathcore record but it's definitely a solid one, and easily so much better than their attempt at nu-deathcore or whatever the fuck the last one was. First half is p solid but second half it really picks the fuck up tracks 7 - 10 are really good. Closer is kinda boring just like the featured vocalist's band.

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