the album did not release in a vacuum so i think it’s totally fair to rate it based on the context of its rollout - which was shit. i love (most of) these tracks and have rated the respective EPs to reflect that. this album just feels wholly unnecessary. i can think of no context in which i’d prefer to listen to this cobbled together mess with 2 bad new songs that actively make the project worse over just listening to the EPs separately

Album Rating: 2.5

The two EPs are essentially Lowborn but better.

Album Rating: 1.0

Lowborn got some bangers though

Album Rating: 1.0 | Sound Off

Yea lowborn fucks

Lowborn is great the EPs ain't even close to it

Album Rating: 2.5

Hahaha. Imagine my disappointment when I think, hey, surprise drop of the new album with the new vocalist, I wonder if they buried the best tracks here and not as singles?



lol no it's just a compilation record



wildly unnecessary



love these boys though, I guess I'll go back into hibernation and wait until Stephen's return, with zero offense to Matty.

Album Rating: 1.0

Some offense to Matty

Album Rating: 2.5

okie dokey just a little

Album Rating: 4.5

I actually think Walk Alone does sound like Anberlin, if you imagine SC voice, i really can hear him doing it and has old NTFP era Anberlin going for it.



Seven however no way Anberlin, its nothing like what i come for the band for. And i do come for them for some heavier moments for sure, but its not what i stay for with them if you know what i mean. It just doesn't have their style, i think walk alone does after closer inspection imagining SC singing it. But cant say the same for seven.

Well I stopped listening to Anberlin a long time ago (by and large). Funny to see this on the staff reviews when I logged onto Sputnik for the first time in a long time to talk about something else.

I haven't listened to any of the EPs barring that one track from 2021 but I will give this a spin for old time's sake. I'd probably just rate it on the music given I don't know about or care about the context of the rollout

Every time I log back onto this website it's like a blast from 2010. It's great to hear people complaining about bands being way past their prime. Myself included.

Album Rating: 2.5

Walk Alone does indeed throw back to older Anberlin and it's a good, perhaps great song. The vocal disparity is just too big for it to feel like the same band. I don't even hate Matty in general he just feels out of place in this band.

Can’t imagine this band with a different singer tbh, seems like maybe just hiatus until he’s ready to go again and do something else

Album Rating: 1.5

“Do something else” [2]

Album Rating: 2.0

Really not digging this. Anberlin has some amazing music, not sure what happened.

Album Rating: 4.0

Album is a heavier Lowborn

Album Rating: 2.0

If this had the tracklist I posted at page 3 I think it would've been better received. Goes to show just how shitty and all over the place the tracklist is even for folks who don't know the context of this release because, as you already mentioned, this really doesn't deviate from the sound of Lowborn that much.

A perplexcellent moment in Anberlin's history.

I know very little about this band, but Lacerate jumped out at me when I heard it last year, so I should probably take a listen.

Album Rating: 3.5

As much as I dislike this album rollout in principle, the music for the most part still goes off. Hopefully Mullins has more of a presence during live shows.

I really couldn't care less about the album's structure, but I'm halfway through and I've yet to hear anything I like. I've been a huge fan for years, too.