Empty Country - Empty Country (early 2020) Album • Page 8

It really is fantastic

 

wow that's even better than the album version

 

seems like a lot of folks here feel as strongly about this one as i do which makes me happy. i wrote a lil something about it Album Review: Empty Country - “Empty Country” - The Alternative

 

crazy how "Becca" was my upbeat toe-tapper of the year until I read the lyrics and now it scares me

 

Empty Country: Empty Country

 

southern cloud too good

 

this is a coward's review. it's not poorly written exactly but it talks more about cymbals than this record and is about as descriptive as a press release while saying nothing in particular that engages w the music itself on its own terms :/

 

Wow I am a fool for waiting almost a whole week to listen to this.

 

Swim is like, breathtakingly gorgeous

 

it's crazy how much more i like the singles in their respective contexts -- like, this is just a really well sequenced album to me. nothing here kills the momentum

 

also gave this a cheeky review. think I did better than pfork but talk about extremely low bars lmao

Review: Empty Country - Empty Country | Sputnikmusic

 

wish he had broken up the stretch of untitled -> chance -> emerald

 

Wouldn’t be mad if that instrumental bridge in Swim went for 5 minutes.

 

this is the album i will think of when i think back to these times

 

This, Dogleg, Nnamdï, Waxahatchee. my quarantine sounds

 

Dogleg, this, waxahatchee and all things Ben Gibbard since we’ve been watching his streams every day.

 

Porridge Radio, Waxahatchee, Dogleg, Empty Country, U.S. Girls, Soccer Mommy and Yves Tumor.

 

me at karaoke

 

she was a blue baby

 

I was just coming in here to say that I really like how this album starts out, then it starts to lose me around Chance.

 

Untitled thru Emerald is my fav stretch heh.

 

I wouldn't have thought it given how beautiful Marian is but Ultrasound might be the best song on the album

I don't even know how to describe the music and I have no idea what he's singing about but the energy in the song is so undeniable

 

I love the whole album but I can see why that part of the album might drag a little for ppl

 

idk, i mean i "get" why it might drag, but i don't think those songs make sense in very many other places. the album is half ballads and even among those "chance" and "emerald" are outliers (tonally darker than the rest), so i feel like it makes more sense to group them together along with "untitled" as a sustained mood piece that transitions well as opposed to separating them and having these question marks that end up either interrupting the bangers or just having a different set of ballads run together but less cohesively. i guess i could see sticking "diamond" between "chance" and "emerald" to pick up the energy w a banger that's not as bright sounding. i think "ultrasound" would become the sore thumb then but there's def an argument to be made about one song sticking out vs three ballads killing the momentum (if the latter is how you feel). or you can put "ultrasound" between them and have the autobiographical family songs be the triptych heart of the album, but unless it's a concept album i think a musical connection is stronger than a lyrical one for sequencing