Who else thinks this is GY!BE's best album?
It has a lot of these sounds that remind me of psychedelic rock and I think that's hella cool.
I also think it might have some of the better drums out of their discography, not that their drumming is really all that impressive anyway, but I thought the ones on LYSF are kinda corny and on F#A# I just found it unmemorable.
What do you guys think about it?
>hella
>>65842999
Never understood the hate for this album. It's definitely the GYBE I listen to the most.
>>65842999
Nah, I prefer F#A#
>>65843719
this
>>65842999
This is the only GY!BE album I haven't listened to the whole way through. It's not bad or anything, but it just doesn't wow me like their other stuff does. It might be your favorite, but I definitely wouldn't call it the best; the scope of F#A# and Lift Your Skinny Fists was so much larger and they actually delivered on it.
That said, this is my favorite album of theirs.
>F#A#
>unmemorable
>not having The Dead Flag Blues burned into your mind
Shit's fucking haunting.
>>65842999
I agree. A lot of people didn't like it because of all the misinformation they printed inside the physical record but I think the music itself is pretty good.
Godspeed is my favorite band but this is the only one of theirs I can't get into. I've listened to it dozens of times but there just doesn't seem to be much there. There are a few good moments in Motherfucker=Redeemer but they pale compared to the highs on F#A#/LYSF and even their new stuff. I feel like they went a little too close to "normal" post-rock instead of more smoothly transitioning away from their vignette style (not that this is a bad thing, their new albums pull this off very well). I think they just tried hard to do something different without knowing exactly what they were going for. The album feels unsatisfying, vague. The clean production also put a damper on things.
Asunder is their most underrated imo
gonna be honest and say i've never been a big fan of their music (i tried, i really did. it's just a bit too slow for me) but they have some of the coolest album covers imo
>>65844576
Seeing it live made me appreciate Peasantry, the sound is just massive. The drones are much better than on Allalujah too.
>>65843085
>fucking
>>65844576
I really liked where the album was going, but I was disappointed that they didn't take it further. It sounds amazing, but it's like 20 minutes of content.
I'm not saying that they should have made each track longer; I like the break from their normal style of 20+ minute songs, but I just wish it had more. On Peasantry, I can really dig the gritty sound they go into after breaking from the initial drone. That low toned guitar that comes in around 3:15 is just fantastic.
