Dark Matter: Official Album Thread

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Rank Dark Matter

5 Stars
119
56%
4 Stars
65
31%
3 Stars
19
9%
2 Stars
2
1%
2 Star
1
0%
%#*! Andrew Watt
5
2%
 
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Birds in Hell wrote:
dimejinky99 wrote:Wouldn’t mind but it’s the worst three song run opener on any album.

They’re trying to do vs and they fucked it. Then a shite in hiding cover to follow


This album Fucking sucks
RM really needed this energy following the album’s release when people were weeping with joy.
Translation: "Oh sweet validation for my unpopular point of view." Kind of silly though, seeing as the little group of haters has been hating on it since that time as well as before that time, so, um, that energy was here if you looked under enough rocks.

I still weep with joy over this album. It's fucking great.
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RockPusher wrote:
Birds in Hell wrote:
dimejinky99 wrote:Wouldn’t mind but it’s the worst three song run opener on any album.

They’re trying to do vs and they fucked it. Then a shite in hiding cover to follow


This album Fucking sucks
RM really needed this energy following the album’s release when people were weeping with joy.
Translation: "Oh sweet validation for my unpopular point of view."
Not at all.
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yeah we're cooking in here now
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Birds in Hell wrote:
dimejinky99 wrote:Wouldn’t mind but it’s the worst three song run opener on any album.

They’re trying to do vs and they fucked it. Then a shite in hiding cover to follow


This album Fucking sucks
RM really needed this energy following the album’s release when people were weeping with joy.
I like this album a lot, but at times things may have been a bit too cheerful. Could always use some darkness amongst the light.
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try and say that fossils ain't profound
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Good to see this forum coming to its senses. Now that the hype has died down, we can view the album with an objective lens.

The conclusion is thus: a mediocre album that's a touch better than Lightning Bolt, but still bottom shelf PJ that will be forgotten about in a year.
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lecherouslittlestump wrote:Good to see this forum coming to its senses. Now that the hype has died down, we can view the album with an objective lens.

The conclusion is thus: a mediocre album that's a touch better than Lightning Bolt, but still bottom shelf PJ that will be forgotten about in a year.
Your conclusion, not mine.
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best album since yield.
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I find no fault on this album still with song writing and choices they made from a performance standpoint. Pretty spotless there. It is admittedly the mixing of the drums that sounds synthetic as the only drag on this thing. If it were remixed to give the drums a more organic sound, this thing would be perfection for me.
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warehouse wrote:best album since yield.
this is where i am still
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Leatherhead wrote:
Birds in Hell wrote:
dimejinky99 wrote:Wouldn’t mind but it’s the worst three song run opener on any album.

They’re trying to do vs and they fucked it. Then a shite in hiding cover to follow


This album Fucking sucks
RM really needed this energy following the album’s release when people were weeping with joy.
I like this album a lot, but at times things may have been a bit too cheerful. Could always use some darkness amongst the light.
Binaural has the worst 1-2-3 start to any album, hands down.

SoF and RR are mediocre/ decent - but Wreckage is great.
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guitar_davey wrote:
lecherouslittlestump wrote:Good to see this forum coming to its senses. Now that the hype has died down, we can view the album with an objective lens.

The conclusion is thus: a mediocre album that's a touch better than Lightning Bolt, but still bottom shelf PJ that will be forgotten about in a year.
Your conclusion, not mine.
I said it was objective
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basically_infirmed wrote:
warehouse wrote:best album since yield.
this is where i am still
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Not sure i can inch it above Binaural but its definitely best since Binaural.
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pearl jam sucks now
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tragabigzanda wrote:
Strat wrote:Not sure i can inch it above Binaural but its definitely best since Binaural.
lol
why is this funny to you
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I see we've gone back to the RM hamster wheel
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pearl jam sucks now
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its so much better than both of those records
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which is not particularly funny. just a thing that is true
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