gems and rhinestones wrote:With all the hype I was hearing for Beautiful War, I thought it would be way better than it is.
Zane Lowe is a twat. He hyped it up to such a ridiculous extent it was bound to fail. It's nice enough though.
Ya it's not a bad song at all but Trani is a billion times better and so are several other KOL songs.
Well nearly the entire last album was worse, so that's OK for me
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gems and rhinestones wrote:With all the hype I was hearing for Beautiful War, I thought it would be way better than it is.
Zane Lowe is a twat. He hyped it up to such a ridiculous extent it was bound to fail. It's nice enough though.
Ya it's not a bad song at all but Trani is a billion times better and so are several other KOL songs.
Well nearly the entire last album was worse, so that's OK for me
i didnt care for that song, but I didnt care for that Lowe guy about a million times more
He liked all the cool music in the 90s but more recently I guess he'll push anything that makes him money.
RisingTides wrote:There is more kindness on the internet than we would care to admit to ourselves. Sometimes we are so afraid of falling victim to a ruse, we miss out on actual opportunities.
RisingTides wrote:There is more kindness on the internet than we would care to admit to ourselves. Sometimes we are so afraid of falling victim to a ruse, we miss out on actual opportunities.
Listening now. A couple of Counting Crows-style moments, and the start of 'Temple' sounds a bit like 'Friday I'm in Love' by The Cure.
Think I'm really loving this.
RisingTides wrote:There is more kindness on the internet than we would care to admit to ourselves. Sometimes we are so afraid of falling victim to a ruse, we miss out on actual opportunities.
There are 8 great songs here, I think, possibly 9. It's mostly very atmospheric and mid-tempo but that's my favourite side of KOL, all in all. It wipes the floor with the last album and is probably better than Only By the Night, but I have a sentimental attachment to that album so we'll see. Now I need to see whether the two penultimate tracks will grow on me ('Tonight' sounds as bland as its title so far), and whether I like the bonus tracks enough to wish they'd replaced the two I don't love... But let's see.
7.8 out of 10 and might climb higher.
RisingTides wrote:There is more kindness on the internet than we would care to admit to ourselves. Sometimes we are so afraid of falling victim to a ruse, we miss out on actual opportunities.
'Work on Me' has a *very* similar verse melody to 'Notion' but that's OK because it's a bonus track.
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And I *know* they've used the chord structure of 'Last Mile Home' before. Which song? Again, acceptable because it's a bonus track.
RisingTides wrote:There is more kindness on the internet than we would care to admit to ourselves. Sometimes we are so afraid of falling victim to a ruse, we miss out on actual opportunities.
harmless wrote:'Work on Me' has a *very* similar verse melody to 'Notion' but that's OK because it's a bonus track.
Yeah, the vocal melody sounds like "Notion" at times. I like the guitar work on this one.
Yup.
RisingTides wrote:There is more kindness on the internet than we would care to admit to ourselves. Sometimes we are so afraid of falling victim to a ruse, we miss out on actual opportunities.
RisingTides wrote:There is more kindness on the internet than we would care to admit to ourselves. Sometimes we are so afraid of falling victim to a ruse, we miss out on actual opportunities.
'Tonight' can't possibly succeed after 'Comeback Story'... I'll have to judge it on its own terms.
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