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benkim
July 17th 2022


4813 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Well that is how you've chosen to deal with the info I see. Imagine I'm still living life the same way I did a few hours ago, so your attempt was quite feeble. Try harder, maybe it will get me to rethink my life choices lol come on you can do better than that

Mongi123
July 17th 2022


22035 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

It’s not a problem and unreasonable to be suspicious of someone when they get accused of being the p word. And I’m talking totally lucid, sober and sane when it’s said. Don’t matter if there’s evidence or not.

Voivod
Staff Reviewer
July 17th 2022


10717 Comments


Read the last few page and the maxim that comes to mind

In god we trust (and that’s debatable as well), everybody else brings (hard) data

DoofDoof
July 12th 2023


15034 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

returned to this...cheerful thread

cuervoww
July 21st 2023


55 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Underrated tbh

Hawks
July 21st 2023


87469 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

I still have to hear this and Distant Satellites. Rest of their discog is amazing though so I'm sure I'll dig. m/

onionbubs
August 2nd 2023


20847 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

ughhh kinda wish i opened up this thread before diving into their stuff bc i might not have were i more clued into whats (allegedly) happening. now i am upset : /

Egarran
August 2nd 2023


33970 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

"There's no way of knowing the dream I'm creating." Has a different sound now.

Ectier
August 2nd 2023


2596 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Onionbubs dont worry about the drama its all vauge and not confirmed or anything and plus the bands fucking amazing. The only thing to be really upset about is that the band imploded as badly as it did.

Ectier
August 2nd 2023


2596 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Onionbubs dont worry about the drama its all vauge and not confirmed or anything and plus the bands fucking amazing. The only thing to be really upset about is that the band imploded as badly as it did.

onionbubs
August 2nd 2023


20847 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

fair ig i j have a particularly weak stomach consuming stuff w any relation to such behavior



it is true that they are pretty spectacular tho judgement and a natural disaster are pretty jawdropping

Ectier
August 2nd 2023


2596 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Oh so do I but these guys scratch an emotional itch that no one else does really. Im just going to chalk whatever happened to being one horrible clusterfuck that only the band will know what happened or why.

DoofDoof
August 2nd 2023


15034 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

It's one member of quite a large ensemble of a band and do we actually need to know? - needing to know all the 'personal bad stuff' is a relatively new phenomena and if the bloke isn't proven to have done anything criminal I think I can live with whatever it was.

JohnnyoftheWell
Staff Reviewer
August 2nd 2023


60384 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

The way the rest of the band has reacted spells doom and grossness to me ngl, and the 'one member' being both a founder and the principal songwriter does not bode well

DoofDoof
August 2nd 2023


15034 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

Like Kozelek this band are beyond the realms of being cancelled in any personal way for me, it's not something I'll mull over while actually listening to their music, the music has just established itself to too great a degree in my life - the associations with my own life are already there and they're set tbh.



Notwithstanding a Lostprophets level of revelation I'll be listening to them a lot.



I'm cancelling Lizzo though and deleting my three 'Juice' scrobbles on LastFM.

JohnnyoftheWell
Staff Reviewer
August 2nd 2023


60384 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

Agreed re. their back catalogue - Judgement, Eternity and A Natural Disaster were absolutely huge mid-teens records for me and my personal associations are always gonna be stronger than short n sharp bursts of contemp discourse. Would still feel massively icky about any future material unless we get a substantial clearing of the air (which seems highly improbable)

DoofDoof
August 2nd 2023


15034 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

Agree there'd need to be an explanation if they got back to recording new material, seems unlikely right now.

cuervoww
January 21st 2024


55 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Been listening to this on and off for a whole 2 years. Solid 4.5~ with nostalgic songs. Except for leaving it behind.



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