TomoLust

Is Lovely Summer-chan still in this band?

Would suggest their other albums, they're actually good. This is...probably their worst album song to date.

The first four and exactly half of After The Party. Dawg, this is literally the same song as the last two singles. There's no dynamic in Greg's songwriting anymore. I'm worried Tom isn't even gonna have any songs on this record. The songwriting is flat as could be on every single so far, the same structure down to the chorus which has absolutely no big transition in, it always just kind of...starts. Really really stale production, everything is the same volume, the guitar tone is ultra blend and fucking compressed for some reason. It's not awful, not by any standards, but it's beyond boring; it's a safe bet. They're not breaking any new ground here, it's just the same shit. The Menzos didn't blow up because they were playing it safe. No punk band in the early 2010s had the fucking cajones to make an album like On The Impossible Past. You think that album is so cherished because they played it safe? Fuck no. And if you can listen to this and even compare it to something off of OTIP, Chamberlain, or even the better songs on After The Party like the title track or Lookers, you're out of your fucking mind. They should start doing what The Lawrence Arms (clear inspiration too, the Chamberlain cover is literally an homage to Ghost Stories as was their original font on their old records) and just not make an album until they know they're gonna do something groundbreaking again. That's why Metropole took like 8 years and why there's already been another 6 between that and the one they're dropping next year. So uhhh...nah, I'm not good. It has nothing to do with hating what's "new", I love new music, I fucking live for new music. I just fucking hate seeing bands I've loved and cherished for years settle for mediocrity. And this is mediocre at best.

I can not fucking believe they released the same song for the third time in a row lmfao remember when this band actually made good albums Why are you booing me, I'm right. This doesn't even compare to how groundbreaking the other albums are.

Still think she should just drop XCX World as a mixtape. If Can You Hear Me had a proper release as a single it would have been a #1 hit.

Imagine being 50 years old and still forcing yourself to sing the same old shit. Careful talking shit on this site about emo/____core/pop-punk, there's a lot of grown men here that still haven't aged any way but physically since graduating high school. Hence why a fucking Sleeping With Sirens album is trending on here rn lmfao

Haven't caught up with PassCode recently but they were one of the first bastions of the post-BiS movement that actually seemed like they were doing something interesting and then the entire chika-idol scene turned to shit and started to look and sound the same. They appropriated BiS's image while ignoring their actual politics. All bark, no bite. So disappointing. Oyasumi Hologram is about all the scene has left as far as being genuine to those ethics goes.

lol

Still no proper leak yet, huh?

Fuck they get more and more boring with each single. They're playing it too safe, they're not pushing any new territory. They're sticking to their guns but instead of keeping it with an M16 they're sticking to nerf guns. It has nothing to do with not like anything "new", it's quite the contrary. They're not doing anything new enough. Not a flex but I've been with them since Hold On Dodge and I've seen them release three groundbreaking and gamechanging albums. It has nothing to do with just not liking it because it's "new"; when OTIP came out and it was "new" I was the first person to start pushing that album on everybody that I've ever fucking met. This album so far is making me want to do exactly that: not even mention this album and tell everyone to go listen to OTIP or Rented World instead. It's the songwriting, really. There's no dynamic to this, the hook is really stale, and there's not much in way of actual songwriting - it's more or less four power chords, Joe basically does the same thing on drums the whole time, no real transitions or ups or downs or different songwriting styles than a simple ABABCB, no pre-choruses, no real memorable melodies, the lyrics have gotten so much less poetic and way more corny. It's just...ughh these guys showed the promise for years to be the band that wouldn't make exactly what this album is shaping up to be and about half of what After The Party was. I guess I'll wait to see if Tom saves the day, because Greg's songs have all been really boring so far. Never thought I would actually be more excited for Tom's parts lmao, Cemetery's Garden is the only good song they've put out since After The Party tbh

Honestly care more about what Neige is doing with Vampillia right now but this is still a really solid new track.

Surprisingly good background music while I just did my FFXIV dailies. Cruel Summer, Cornelia Street, and Death By A Thousand Cuts are fucking bops, and Lover and Soon You'll Get Better were actually really pretty and kind of emotional tracks. It's hard for "sad" pop songs to really get me feeling a way but those actually had me feeling a way for a sec, but it might be cause I just got out of the hospital a few days ago so it kind of feels more relatable than it otherwise would have last week lol

Fuck Heaven Belongs To You tho. If I wanted to listen to fucking Slowthai I'd go listen to Slowthai, but I don't want to listen to Slowthai. Fucking lazy excuse for a song too, same beat as Boy Bye but it doesn't even flow into it. Fucking boring. Everything they do IMO will always be held to 1999 Wildfire, and nothing on this gives me the sense of amazement and blows my mind the way that joint did once Bearface's verse hit up to the end. No Halo, Ginger, Big Boy, and Sugar spank, but the rest is kind of middling. I'm sure it will grow, I'm starting to realize right now that Iridescence might have actually been their best record, that shit aged like wine, if wine only needed like 11 months to age into something top shelf. I'd honestly reckon Puppy was gonna. The 1997-99 songs blew everything on Saturation besides QUEER out of the water. If they finished that joint it would have fucked.

Imagine not being able to enjoy all music. Like for real, imagine bragging about enjoying and settling for less.

The thing about lossless is that most audiophiles are just convincing themselves there's a massive difference. It's certainly there, but between 320 and .FLAC it's almost indistinguishable. Audiophiles only complain about something not being "true lossless" because they look at spectrograms. Their ears aren't telling them something is wrong, their eyes are. It's hardly noticeable as far as the actual spectral quality goes, but the only difference to me between 128 and 320 is that from my experience 128 rips have more often than not been a little bit quieter, but that might have just been at the hands of the idiot converting the file I'm listening to to 128 than the actual nature of it. But audiophilia is mostly a myth tbh, those people don't actually tell the difference with their ears, they use a program to tell them that it's "wrong".

It's fun.

My ding-dong got hard until I saw the uhhh...quality. I'm not even a stickler with quality and I think "lossless quality" is a borderline myth/placebo effect, but below 320 really is noticeable if in volume level alone. Guess I'll just wait. Saw someone on Twitter say that a track is missing anyway, so?

Definitely worth checking out his other stuff if you liked this. His output as of late has been pretty weak, this at least feels a little better than the last album and a half, but Love Ire & Song and England Keep My Bones are two of my favorite records, just absolutely phenomenal. Oh god, I've been with him since OG Asbury Lanes days and he's only now a decade later coming out as a chud, fuck everything. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/artists/frank-turner-interview-capitalism-enriches-everyone-indisputable/

This compilations functions as a better album than Scorpion ever could have. This is also just like some peak era Drake - mostly Take Care and If You're Reading This singles and leftovers. Fucking exquisite.

12 songs. Now that's a perfect length. Still feel dizzy after even trying to get thru Chance's album. Let's see if this is any respite. Edit: This is fantastic. Artistic growth at some of its finest. This is the potential he had promised but couldn't quite deliver on Amen.

Holy fuck 22 songs is too much, just zero self-awareness. He should have learned from his contemporaries that nobody wants 22 songs. Nobody has ever made a 22 song album that I want to listen to front-to-back again. Even those 6 Singles he dropped earlier this year would function better than this as a Ye-length album. Just cut out all the fat and leave the meat, Chano. YBN Cordae Rich Brian really did make what this album should have been.

Kind of bummed Locationships ain't on this, but based on the singles, this is gonna be one of the best rap albums of the year.

Why does every fucking album have this same album cover but in a different color lmao

Damn, KL, y'all wild for this one. Edit: Fuck, this is like the modern Pet Sounds

Holy shit, this is like a fucking revelation.