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| 3.5 great | EK48 | December 23rd 21 |
Although being the weakest Vansire release, this debut album clearly displays the promise in
their songwriting and presentation. Although the mixing seems a little too shallow and
reverb coated on the surface, it serves each song well in executing their ideas. Josh's
voice is as mesmerizing as ever, and this remains a beautiful and mesmerizing dream pop
album, although Angel Youth blows this thing OUT OF THE WATER.
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| 3.0 good | Bedex | April 5th 21 |
Pretty by-the-book dream pop with some surf rock DNA in there somewhere. It is nice and has fun melodies, yet I struggle to shake the feeling of amateurism with this. A big part of that is the vocals which are frankly thin and anergetic and not great - though not awful either. Another aspect is how everything seems cheaply drenched into fx. The tones are cool at first, but it quickly feels amateurish. And there's also genuine bits like chatting bits on 9 that reinforce the impression that this was recorded in a garage. The tracks being so many, so short, and so washed out in fx (although the prod besides that isn't bad or anything), the whole album blurs very quickly into forgettable stuff. The intros on 2 and 4 are cool, and the album intro with r e v e r b is kinda fun. 10 and 13 have some pretty guitar work in them, and the latter especially stands out because its aim is more ambient, resulting in a more successful track, while 11 adds sort of synth pads that add substance to the sound. These few '''highlights''' towards the end bump this to a 2.9
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| 3.5 great | doofy | June 6th 20 |
| 3.5 great | Denis | March 3rd 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | Lucman | December 22nd 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | budgie | December 18th 16 |
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