Reviews by magsmusic

This album is really personally divisive, I feel really stuck on how to rate...
First impression, its awful. I get it writing short songs are their thing, but doing it over and over just feels like you don't actually know how to write a song, you just have an idea for what a song could be but you can't actually write a full song. The guy's voice is not great and after a while they all started to sound similar. They hide behind a label of punk to try and hide that they can't write a song.
Reflecting on the lyrics of some of the songs, I like where they were going. I also appreciate some of the songs that have more of the folk sounds (Corona was one). Which made me think maybe I am not getting it and maybe there is something here if I think about it more.
But then I went the other way again and after 43 samples I should like at least one or two of the songs. Punk is about making you think and causing a little discourse but its about the world around not the very essence of the album.
So yeah...I will rate on my gut impression

I feel like this was the conversation while they were not in their right mind on a tour bus somewhere between Indianapolis and Memphis
Member 1 "Hahaha, route 69..."
Member 2 "69...how f*cking romantic, haha"
Member 3 "Teenagers would totally buy an album if we named it 69"
Member 2 "And we could call say they were romantic songs but they wouldn't actually be to be ironic and emo"
Member 3 "Andy would bicycle across town in the rain to bring you candy..."
Member 1 "They will totally eat that up...haha eat up, candy, 69..."
*Everyone laughs like a 12 year old boy*

Yeah...not impressed and just confused by this weirdness...

I remember getting this album in high school because of the song Bittersweet Symphony and being disappointed with the rest of it. When it came up yesterday I was excited to listen again hoping that I would find some more on here that I liked. Still no. Nothing is inherently bad, but it just feels like a mess. It doesn't really go together except its late 90's emo. We have tech to alt to rock but none are great. Bittersweet symphony feels effortless and real. For the rest they are trying to hard making them so forced sounding that it looses much of the feelings in the song.

So at least this is music, compared to the Trout album this is a 10 star album. I really like the music and about half the time I really enjoy the lyrics. But, every time he goes into froggy voice it just feels like a joke and that he is making a mockery of the music or the genre. Sorry if that is his real voice and not the intent but it just feels that way to me.

All electronic starts to sound the same to me and this one fits right in there. Sounds like a teenage clothing store in the 90's that was trying to tell me it was too cool for me. Nothing is inherently bad, just all starts to go together and sound the same. If I was sitting outside looking at the clouds and maybe a little high this might be great, but this is just not my world so I don't connect with it.

I like the music, but not sure about the lyrics. It does give me long life in the desert vibes, but he just lacks something to make it sound sincere. He wrote things but doesn't fully believe them. I don't hate it, but I wouldn't come back to this one.

It is pretty, simple, and deep. Folk in its simplest and purest form is really beautiful. She plays the guitar beautifully and her voice is clear and delivers deep touching lyrics. With so little (voice and guitar) she can deliver such deep, touching songs, speaks to how amazingly talented she is. I know a lot of these are not her original songs (common of folk at this time) but she made them her own. House of the Rising Sun for example is so well known but hearing it from her was a different experience and made see the place differently.

The first song sounded very Rush-esque. I liked the banjo on The Clap. I really like the song I've Seen All Good People. Perpetual Change was also good. It was an interesting album in that it bounced between long songs to songs more typical in length. The back and forth was good, making it feel not too long but also getting some good guitar riffs in the album.

At first its fun, different, and interesting. After a while thought it becomes all one note and very samsies. I don't want that to take away from something different and that this is a good album for some mellow days. But it could benefit from just a little variety.

I liked it, she had a nice haunting voice and it was different but enjoyable

I don't know what he was saying most of the time, but it was fun and dancy. It made me want to dance in my chair and be at a club or beach and enjoy the day into the evening. It would have fit into a lot of 80's soundtracks for a beach setting.

Its pleasant, but very stereotypical 60's-70's music. It could have been the Beatles, The Who...really any British rock band of this timeframe that did a few drugs, but not so many that it became crazy psychedelic. I liked it but nothing grabbed me as fantastic.

I had mixed feelings, it was definitely unique and specific to them. It had some deep emotional themes, but I was in a more positive mood so I don't think it hit as well as it could have on a different day.

Its dance, its mambo, its fun. I think of a dance club in Miami or Cuba or somewhere else warm :)
Only negative is that it all really sounds similar after a while and is very one note. Its a dance party all night.

This feels so German.... In a way that lacks all emotion and is just bland.
This is the second album by this band and the first at least had an interesting concept. Was this bad, no but it felt like bland potatoes. It felt like pre recorded songs from a synthesizer that you would hear as background music at Hans and Franz's juice bar. It's not taking me anywhere or giving me any emotions, just feeling beige. The more I listened, it almost made me think it could be AI generated music because it's basic stereotypical and generic.

They are quirky and a little bit different, and it shows. But they are not so different that it makes them unlistenable or jarring, which makes me actually want to listen to their music.

Going back and forth on this one, early on I liked the lyrics but not the music. Then it flipped (specifically Musik). It was punk rock meets metal meets new wave electronic. It was unique and different but just a little more polish would have me enjoying it more.

Based on Smoke on the Water I expected this to be a lot harder overall but it was pretty mellow besides Space Truckin. Not bad but pretty mainstream, think a little more rock would have pushed it up a start

revelation was just ridiculous, where did that go and come from. I mean none of this was bad just weird and like it didn't go together or really go anywhere. Blip in the universe, don't hate it but probably never need to experience that again.

It was pretty and interesting. I also enjoyed the explanation at the beginning.