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Do you Easy To Find truthers put it above Sleep Well Beast?

 

I do! higher hit rate on IAETF imo. I respect the swings on SWB but it has some absolute stinkers for me

 

Hmm maybe I’ll give it another try, it just never really does anything for me outside of like, Quiet Light, Rylan, Soul, Light Years, and Kansas

 

I like IAETF a lot but Sleep Well Beast is the stronger album for me in a head to head match-up.

 

The only songs that I remember standing out for me on IAETF are Quiet Light, Rylan, and Light Years.

 

You Had Your Soul With You is incredible and it irks me it's never in rotation live anymore

 

For me, IAETF doesn't quite have the energy or fresh ideas to sustain its hefty runtime but it does have a ton of incredible songs on it.

 

the "if I yield to my trances..." bit in Soul is so fucking good

 

SWB is better as a whole than easy to find, but that's more about how highly I rate beast. I'd put both over anything that isn't Boxer and Alligator. You Had Your Soul With You, Quiet Light, Rylan, and most especially the incredible title track are as good as just about anything that came before and better than everything that has come since

 

Here’s how I’m feeling right now. SWB has fallen off for me lately.

Tier 1 Alligator; Trouble Will Find Me
Tier 2 Cherry Tree EP; Boxer; High Violet; Laugh Track
Tier 3 Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers; Virginia EP; Sleep Well Beast
Tier 4 I Am East to Find
Tier 5 Self-titled; First Two Pages of Frankenstein

 

yes

 

Tier 1: Boxer, Trouble, Beast, High Violet
Tier 2. Alligator, Virginia EP, Cherry Tree
Tier 3: Sad Songs, Frankenstein
Tier 4. Easy To Find
Tier 5: S/T

 

Oh boy. Laugh Track debuted tonight in the encore in Leeds. If I hear that tomorrow I'm definitely crying.

 

I was given IAETF like 2 or 3 months before it was released and two days before my wedding so my wife and I listened to it non stop before and at the honeymoon so I have an absurdly special place in my heart for it.

 

i listened to i am easy to find so so much the year it came out

 

Been listening to Easy To Find a lot the last few days. Anyone else feel like “HER FATHER’S VOICE, HER MOTHER’S HEARTBEAT, THE ORANGE COLOR INSIDE HER EYELIDS” is just super jarring? Always felt like that song was just incredibly out of place. The majority of the album is growing on me more though.

 

You guys know how easy it is to skip tracks right

 

Skip button is easy to find.

Relatedly:

 

Hoooooo

 

no, I had no idea!

 

I made a playlist without the interludes / deleted them and that’s how I’ve always listened to that album

 

I love that album but anyone that listens to the interludes is weird.

 

Me too.

 

Some interludes on albums are good

The ones on IAETF are not

 

See I think IAETF has more energy than either of the two new albums