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Appropriate .gif, but I've tried (and tried) and tried with Y&G.  Even held onto my deluxe pre-order for a year or two in hopes I'd come around.  I don't know what memo I missed, but to me, it's definitely the most filler-packed Baroness release I've heard.  And the moments that shine don't really hold a candle to anything they've released in the past.

 

From a melodic perspective, it's one of the best albums I've ever heard, not isolated to Baroness.

 

Really?  To each his own, I guess.

 

...ly terrible. It sounds like the shit my local hard rock station would sandwich between a song from Metallica's Load and a Linkin Park song.

 

True story: back when I worked retail / graveyards, my night crew would carry around a boombox tuned into our local hard-rock (butt-rock) station – aptly named Z-Rock – and I've heard Take My Bones Away blared down the aisles on more than one occasion.  Followed by Volbeat, but before Papa Roach.

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I think I just miss some of the aggressiveness they used to show. All this singing is fine...it just needs to be punctuated by something else...there are spots where I fully expect it to get heavy and aggressive, but they just pull back again.

Baizley had such an interesting gravel to his voice in the past that's entirely gone on this album, too.

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I think I just miss some of the aggressiveness they used to show. All this singing is fine...it just needs to be punctuated by something else...there are spots where I fully expect it to get heavy and aggressive, but they just pull back again.

Baizley had such an interesting gravel to his voice in the past that's entirely gone on this album, too.

Ssshhh. Don't say anything negative about the new Baroness sound – Clerk's gonna' get butthurt and passive-aggressively downvote your posts, opinions be damned.

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