I'm curious if anyone will actually make this mistake.

I'm curious if anyone will actually make this mistake.

I've also seen them live a couple of times, and plan to catch them again on this tour. They put a surprising amount of muscle into the songs that allow it. Little Brother (Electric Version) legitimately kicked ass. It really belied their "puchable indie kids" look.

I've also seen them live a couple of times, and plan to catch them again on this tour. They put a surprising amount of muscle into the songs that allow it. Little Brother (Electric Version) legitimately kicked ass. It really belied their "puchable indie kids" look.

I was pretty damn terrified by the first one, found the second one still good but less so (over-reliance on jump scares instead of a creeping sense of dread and disquieting moments), and the third reduced me to a gibbering mess. I dunno how, but it just got direct access to the terror-centers in my brain. I'm…

I was pretty damn terrified by the first one, found the second one still good but less so (over-reliance on jump scares instead of a creeping sense of dread and disquieting moments), and the third reduced me to a gibbering mess. I dunno how, but it just got direct access to the terror-centers in my brain. I'm…

It's definitely the closest thing to a "dark horse" in the band's catalog. IIRC, there was a lot of critical backlash against the group and post rock in general around that time. But in retrospect, I don't see how one could unfavorably compare it to everything else they've done. It feels like a pretty natural…

Oh god. It's found its way out of starcraft downtime commercials. Somebody save us!

Oh god. It's found its way out of starcraft downtime commercials. Somebody save us!

Counterpoint: fuck you, yanqui u.x.o. is fantastic. The brass breakdown in rockets fall still gives me goosebumps. It may be the godspeed album I listen to the most these days.

I think the King of Limbs just needs more time. When one of the biggest criticisms is "it's too short", it can't be that bad. I usually see Amnesiac referred to as their worst album. Hail to the Thief is another contender, but everybody, even the people who like it, seem to forget that it exists. But for what it's…

The Hazards of Love is the one that conventional wisdom has as their worst, which is what the article is talking about. But I've always liked it a lot… Shara Worden never stops being mindblowing.

The Hazards of Love is the one that conventional wisdom has as their worst, which is what the article is talking about. But I've always liked it a lot… Shara Worden never stops being mindblowing.

The post-Final Cut albums are just dull. At the very least, The Final Cut is interesting.

The post-Final Cut albums are just dull. At the very least, The Final Cut is interesting.

What I miss most about Mastodon is the restlessly creative, "holy shit did they actually just *do* that!?" feeling that was all over Leviathan and Blood Mountain. They're still good, but their songs are… predictable. It used to be I was constantly doing the aural equivalent of a double-take (there's a section in…

What I miss most about Mastodon is the restlessly creative, "holy shit did they actually just *do* that!?" feeling that was all over Leviathan and Blood Mountain. They're still good, but their songs are… predictable. It used to be I was constantly doing the aural equivalent of a double-take (there's a section in…

I agree about the mid-tempo hard rock. It made me realize that the best comparison to draw for this record is actually Queens of the Stone Age — which is totally okay with me.

I agree about the mid-tempo hard rock. It made me realize that the best comparison to draw for this record is actually Queens of the Stone Age — which is totally okay with me.

Too low — I think this release works a lot better if you treat it as two separate albums (which seems like the point of structuring it like this). Listening to it all in one stretch, yeah it starts to drag a little, but each disc is pretty damn awesome on its own terms. I'd probably bump it to a B+ or A-.