Welcome to my channel where we're doin music covers, original music, album reviews, song reviews, reactions, tier lists, a little social commentary here and there (barely ever), whatever the day calls for. You will be made aware of this until you are as tired of hearing me say it as I am of saying it. My original music is at robcary.bandcamp.com. We do not nitpick and gatekeep with music discussion here nor do we pretend to like everything. It's all about organic and honest discussion.
@@skyezultanky3579 I'm lovin these guys and this album more every day 😎 In fact, I'm about to sneak to the work bathroom to watch the new video for Affirmations that just dropped! Thanks for watching!
Great thoughtful reviews! I designed the Royal Grove album cover and the four single covers for Tropidelic. I'm biased, but I love it and think you gave it a good breakdown. The Aurorawave album is absolutely my #2 of the year too! I'm a lifelong metalhead and new to reggae as well, so both of these albums have been great introductions to what the genre is capable of being!
That's sick! I can tell from your profile pic. The album art for royal grove is sick! I love how busy the album cover is, it looks great! I'm gonna be seein tropidelic live for the first time in November! Thanks for watching!!
As of now, I already have my #1 album of 2024 picked but these will be high on the list for sure! We still got half the year to go! I'm hoping for some long awaited releases for heavy bands to come out this year ...shadow of intent and after the burial particularly. An actual full album from slay squad would be sick too! We shall see! Thanks for actually watching all this!
@@chrisbraddock9360 I will sooner give you a free copy of my new album when it gets here...which I was gonna do regardless...than give up this shirt lol
Saying the lyrics aged poorly is perfectly acceptable criticism. No one is coming for their art when they say that. "Censoring" is outright blocking aspects of the creative vision, which fans are not doing - nor do they have any control over. If anything, it's like you're trying to censor the criticism. I've been a long time fan of TSSF and I agree that their first 3 albums lack maturity. Parker gave us his one-sided portrayal of the relationship and didn't seem to take a whole lot of self accountability. At the time I loved this albums and I still do, but now that I've matured I can see that and I don't have the same emotional investment into those lyrics. Proper Dose was a breath of fresh air both instrumentally and lyrically, where Parker's maturity really showed. He takes a lot of accountability on that record and expresses feelings that he should be spending more time connecting with loved ones and trying to understand the decisions that they make. Fortunately this new record isn't a step back as far as subject matter, but the lyrics and instrumentals are TSSF at their weakest imo. I think Proper Dose is their last great album.
I disagree with the automatic assumption that Parker must have had something to take accountability for. Why make that assumption? For all we know, he coulda been great to the girl and deeply loved her and she decided to leave him to bang trash. It's definitely not something uncommon to see. I'm not really trying to censor the criticism as much as I am trying to make fun of it for even being a criticism in the first place. You yourself may not be someone who wants to censor people's art but there are definitely people that are and it's a slippery slope we're on. If the old lyrics were slurring or bullying or being homophobic or racist, id be critical of it too but none of that happened here and that venom in those lyrics are something many can relate to and make other guys going through the same thing and feeling the same way feel less alone in what they're going through. There's no reason to assume Parker had anything to take personal accountability for because we don't know him. I appreciate you watching either way tho.
@@Rob_Cary I have to make that assumption because two different people in a defunct relationship will give you vastly different takes on how the other person treated them. The truth is always somewhere in the middle. Maybe it's closer to Parker's account, maybe it's not, but I can't take his word for everything. I still enjoy the first three records, in fact WYDS will forever be my favorite album from them, but I just enjoy it vicariously through the less mature version of myself that related with it at that time. Relationships and people are complex. Parker has gone through a lot of growth as an artist and as an individual, which is evident in Proper Dose. That album confesses a lot accountability on his part and it's the reason why I can still go back and enjoy the first three records to this day. If he made a fourth album along the same lines, it would be evident that this guy is probably stretching the truth a bit and making himself to be the victim. Given that didn't happen, I can respect his growth and appreciate what he went through to get to this point. I think that's what people refer to when they say those albums aged poorly. Although I don't exactly agree with it, I do agree that they are immature - but that's okay, because we all were at some point.
Just found Bilmuri. Instantly amazed. Love the vid. Just found this band too. Might be a cool vid. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-UyTLzUBDzYY.htmlsi=dEY2dIxxIpyxsSzh
If all goes to plan, once my single has a release date, I'm hoping to release the single, the tracklist and the album cover art on the same day! Look for it in August!
As an old die hard fan, this is his best album to date. With Bilmuri you can't have a favorite song, only a favorite album, and AMS is my favorite for sure 💯 just my opinion lol
There are still a couple songs on here I haven't heard yet. I've heard quite a few people say that they find this to be the best album also. Id still probably put 400lb back squat the top for me. I really like the first one too, jaguar shark. This band rules live! I'm still waiting for him to have Gabbi sing on a new song! She is awesome! Thanks for watching!
@@Moldyvort I don't agree with that analysis but I didn't ignore your comment, I just wasn't notified of it for some reason. I thank you for watching either way. Looking back on this now, I probably should have put Music in the S tier so we can at least agree on that.
Bro the Bilmuri stuff always auto-plays after any tssf singles I listen to haha -- it's good. Great reaction. Also, you think you're gonna put out the album review for TSSF's latest record? I hope to see!
I put a post out about that. I got to get a new phone. There is an issue with the USB port, the computer isn't picking it up. That's the only reason why but my pre order came in, I do have the album and the sweet poster that came with it and I'm still digesting the album but there will 100% be a review of it. The only thing I wanna say ahead of time is....making the last two tracks these touching and moving softer songs...loved it. White shores is incredible! Review coming ASAP!
@@Rob_Cary bro I couldn't agree more, still digesting it myself - last two tracks are currently most gripping & exciting to me but I'm excited to revisit this over the next few weeks. good luck with the phone situation and I'll look out for your vids 👍
New phone acquired. Monday will be the absolute latest it'll be up but I'm hoping for Saturday cuz I'll have a little time to myself Friday night. Despite being as short as it is, I Want to Disappear definitely needed a bit of time to digest and focus on. Itll make for a better review. Glad you're digging Bilmuri! They're amazing live! Bilmuri and the story so far should tour together!
Man you nailed this review as well as the tier list. I also love the side quest. Bulla's hi-hat trickery during the build up is just a cherry on the cake on that one. Instrumental music is a funny thing. At first it was kind of hard to find the red string in them, but once you get into it you realize that the vocals just seem to hide all the great musicianship underneath it.
I really didn't talk about the drumming on this thing at all, did I? It's rad also. Nintendo needs to be calling Aaron up for some BGM on their games. Side quest reminds me of the Wii so much for some reason haha. Thanks for watching!
