I’ve been lukewarm on some of the singles and wasn’t sure I’d be into this album but I was wrong, holy shit it slaps. There are songs here that sound like the best parts of Coheed and Cave In mixed together. I can’t believe how good it sounds from a production perspective, the bass absolutely thunders. People here are going to love this. There’s a think piece to be written contrasting their earnest hopefulness of their earlier albums with this album as a reflection of how the world’s changed in the last 12 years.
I always thought Trouble had such a strong Coheed influence and hoped they expanded on that, excited to listen to this tomorrow based on this post lol
This album is astonishingly good and like others have said, very interesting how dark it is. Agreed on the mix being stellar.
Holy shit. This goes hard! Dimmed Sun and Captagon are probably my favourites so far. I didn't get to the closer before work though. Gonna listen to that one in a bit.
I am probably the odd one out here but I am not into this at all bar Augeries! Feels like that tune could have been an Illusory B-side, very different to the rest of this LP.
Captagon is awesome, and I respect what they’re doing, but as a whole I’m not sure this one’s for me.
Chris Teti always gets the best drum sounds. They really nail this looming feeling of apocalyptic devastation throughout.
it’s not the grand emotional wallop that we got with illusory walls, but i’m not sure how much further they could have gone in that direction anyway. i can’t say it’s not sad to see this band lose a sense of optimism that used to undergird even their end of the world narratives, but it’s hard to blame them, the world being as it is right now. the album is cool, different, and cathartic. and it sounds amazing. i’m looking forward to digging in deeper
This is their The World is a Horrible Place And I Don't Care If I Die pissed-off rager record and I'm here for it, you just need this kind of catharsis sometimes