Both are awkward transitional records but while amo is more experimental and creative the execution on that’s the spirit is far and away better imo. Doomed is the best song they’ve ever written, and then you get follow you, avalanche, and drowned? Epic. Happy song is the only real misfire for me, but that’s probably deeply unpopular. Meanwhile the best song on amo is ouch lol. Honorable mentions to apologize, nihilist, medicine, and don’t know what to say.
I think That’s the Spirit sucks, almost nothing redeemable from a stinky milquetoast rock record. Amo rocks
Listening to this band's early records and thinking how much better they'd be if I could understand what the fuck Oli was singing.
nah its just a bland faceless radio rock album. im not really a fan of this band as much as i am particular albums of theirs, and part of it is because that album does inform a lot of their writing. i can see why people more into them would think that but it ultimately is an album that keeps me in casual tier because it has generously a song i like to be fair, yeah, definitely a good amount of dud moments on amo. they havent had a fully good album in a long time
CYB has terrible lyrics. The worst one may be 'It's 3:18, mouth tastes like corpse of every pregnant teen' idek know that means nor do I want to
Forgot amo existed for a while there. Still have not returned to it in full. Post Human was a great follow up to it.
i think nex gen is the worst of their sort of 'modern' period, for lack of a better term i probably only come back to about half the record
you know what, i'm looking at the full tracklist again and i do like more of it than i remembered. n/a and bullet are skips for me for sure though
N/a is actually one of my favorites lol my only big knock on the latest is that so many of the singles were out there for so long, I was well past done with them by the time the album came out
My only complaint on Next Gen is that it's not "cohesive." However, when I think back to it, there's a lot of preludes and interludes that link songs together and overall it's very similar sonically. I think the main reason I feel it's not cohesive is that we heard 8 songs over the course of a year + and then they were all put out on an album together. I wish I had just held out from listening to the singles. It's still my favorite of their newer/"modern" albums.
Nex Gen has way too much fluff outros/interludes that don't really do much. Also I'm not a massive fan of youtopia, n/a, die4u, or dig it. But there's a bunch of bangers on it still