Have we had this thread yet? Always good to see what people didn’t enjoy or felt underwhelmed by, and to get a good irking when people nominate your contenders for album of the year. Here’s 2018’s, just retrospectively got annoyed by all the hate for Mitski - Most Disappointing albums of 2018
Only one place to start for me - The National. I’ll go into bat for any of their last few albums which certainly aren’t universally popular, but on this one it feels like they took all the (incorrect) cliches I’ve been defending them against from people for the last 15 years, and wrapped them into this absolute turkey of an album. Didn’t feel like the female vocals added much and sadly it seems like Matt Berninger’s lyrics are starting to become a parody of themselves. And to round it all off, far too long and quite difficult to get to the end of without dropping off. They played a five minute walk from where I live and I didn’t bother going, which would have been unthinkable a couple of years ago.
