Japandroids - Near To The Wild Heart Of Life (Jan 27, 2017) Album • Page 21

well, the first half of the prediction is down, time to see if the second half comes true

 

I wish I liked this more. It's completely fine, but I think these are the least interesting songs they've written.

 

These guys not liking it either

Review: Japandroids - Near To The Wild Heart Of Life | Sputnikmusic

 

Serrano is the fuckin man

 

This is what I like to call a perfect post

 

Obviously Shea is good y'all good writers write for bad publications all the time pitchfork has and has had tons of fantastic writers, they still fuckin blow

 

I'm burned out on Shea's schtick for the most part. Good guy though

 

That's the problem with fork and ringer. Writing is too based around a schtick.

 

Who?

 

Sputnik is like the worst name for a music site ever

 

Jesus, the sputnikmusic crowd really hates this.

 

I feel like sputnik hates every album that I love, so I don't really value their opinion

 

they gave Cloud Nothings and Japandroids both a fucking 2. I can't take them seriously for that alone

 

It's a weird site and their writers aren't good. Can't stand the style they write in


Hyden's review of this is pretty good, he's quite a bit more into it than I am but his take is the closest I've seen to reality

 

I like this album more than most music writers, apparently.

Japandroids - Near to the Wild Heart of Life • chorus.fm

 

album sounds pretty good to me

 

If we pre-ordered, is there a digital download anywhere? I can't seem to find it.

 

Update: Japandroids continue to be the best band to play very loudly in the car.

 

Anyone who seriously would give Life Without Sound a fucking 2 is a dumb dumb.

 

What was the post?

 

what was the post you were asking what was the post about
HMMMM

 

I guess EngineDown's posts are getting deleted from this thread which is

 

I'am..... of the confused variety.

 

i have listened to the album three times today and i liked it enough to prompt me to #LogOn

 

this steven hyden post was a good read about it, and outlines the album's story pretty decently from what i can tell though i haven't dug into the lyrics too much yet: Japandroids' 'Near To The Wild Heart Of Life' Is A Minor Miracle

i thought craig's review was good but reading it right after the hyden one did not add much insight, they made several similar points and the pieces were structured semi similarly

then i checked out the pitchfork review which is lazy considering this is a high profile release and the reviewer draws on the black keys when there....doesn't appear to be any reasoning behind drawing on the black keys? i also wonder if pitchfork is still assigning site-mandated scores on reviews because the 7.1 by their standards doesn't match the text. the text gave that album like a 4.

the album definitely shows the band growing up/away from celebration rock but the reviews are making it seem like a more drastic change than it is on surface level. i wonder if my thoughts on that will change as i listen more though, only started listening to it two hours ago