#383

oh, and it took me years to fully adjust my brain to it

but that was like… a formative change, I think. a long passageway drug rather than a gateway drug, perhaps.

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#384

the timbre, texture, pacing, mood, production, it’s just stunning

can’t think of a more fully and distinctively realised album within punk music as a whole. it’s as evocative as any grainy indie art film.

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#385

do you like Tweez? I can imagine you dig that

but also </3 !

I thought it was so dull when I first got it. took me maybe four years of coming back now and again to get it, but oh man, when I did

how many times have you tried with it?

#386

noooooo

they’re crucial and gripping mood pieces

Don, Aman was my favourite for a while

#387

Just listening on my way to work (still a 10) and honestly what on earth are you babies crying about? The distortion on Don, Aman is exactly the same tone as the rest of the album and therefore fine. It’s only noticeable because its on an otherwise quiet track!

Also fuck me I forgot how amazing a drummer Britt Wolford is

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#388

don’t understand people particularly disliking a certain track from this, if anything it’s all a bit too cohesive and samey

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#389

I like the first 30 seconds or so, then I’ve had enough

#390

I like the ones where things happen but get a bit bored in the tracks where nothing happens

#391

i guess because I just listened all the way through and wasn’t looking at the titles I wasn’t aware of what was part of each track

#392

Songs and films and books where nothing happens are the very foundation of this forum. How bloody dare you.

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#393

Not really a thing but ok :wink:

edit reason: safety wink

#394

I agree, you’re either into it or not, their sound is so singular that it’s literally like you buy it or sell it

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#395

Think he just likes spelling words wrong (Sumday, Chartsengrafs, Chek Injin)

#396

Honey, I Shrunk the Proto Post-rock Drummer

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I voted a 10, because the album is a 10.

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#397

Reckon if you’re doing a quiet guitar-only song and you hit your distortion pedal at any point it will almost always sound shit

#398

my favourite bit is the last half a minute where the guitars buzz away down some dirty back alley like the fucked up and manic dude in the lyrics

:smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

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#399

also the bit before the first buzzy guitars where the guitars pose questions

then when they get rusty and trouble’s a brewing, and the dude in the lyrics gets aggy

…with malice
…for being
…a stye
…in their engagement

then

…he felt he knew what that was

and the guitars first kick off

the whole thing

ahhh I fuckin’ love it

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#400

then the tense, creeping brood of ‘For Dinner…’ as it sets the scene for ‘Washer’

pure fucking cinema… (figuratively)

aw man, it’s just so, so good

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#401

unless you just woke up in the dust under some bleachers next to a pile of used tyres

#402

When I said ‘i like it a lot’ I meant all this but you’re more eloquent than me :grinning:

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