Marianas Trench - Astoria - Album Review 

Brynn H CRYING.

+Caleb Tureai Just make sure you listen to the albums in full and in order. So many of their albums are concept albums that are meant to mesh together

+Christopher H. (Musicality) more like we Canadian's neat it to get them a band that has real talent to out beat that JB blah ! and show the world music is an ART !

I've been a trencher since then too and this album was so emotional, for the original fans, knowing this is the end of an era of trench music.😭great now I'm crying.

End of an era samples Marianas trench songs, which samples other Marianas trench songs. Woah.

+Alex Leslie OML wow

Yeah like the beginning of end of an era is similar to parts of the Masterpiece Theatre 1,2&3 tracks

checked the album out, and thank god I did, thanks for the recommendation.

That chorus on Who Do You Love is so infectious!

same 😭

It's got one of the most raw vocal deliveries on the album

+Alex North Yes It was a TITLE that ruined a 10

+TheMattGusta He said speak for yourself would have gotten a 10

+TheMattGusta I think he would've given Masterpiece Theatre a 10/10 had he reviewed it. In his "Defense of Pop" video, he said it was one of the best albums of the decade...so I think that warrants a perfect score.

+Alex Lustig On the other hand, he's also said that he can count the number of 10/10 albums on one hand...and like three of them are from the 70's. So even that might not cut it.

+Spectrum Pulse would you care to clarify here? I think we as loyal fans have earned an answer to this.

+music and band obsessed dude ok. it's joke a joke

PLEASE

A pop-but-not-exactly record known by some-but-not-many people? It's sure on the way. It'll receive a good review and it'll supposedly mean that he likes pop music.

+Pop Central It may not be a house hold name but its tooing charts all over the place..

Hayden Smith​ Good for them. Though now I assume the review won't be as positive.

+Pop Central I'm looking for an honest critique, not a compliment fest

I add one thing. Eighties references? A singer that sounds like Freddie Mercury? An instrumentation that reminds of Queen? GEE, I WONDER WHY HE LIKED THAT ALBUM!

He gave Justin Bieber 5/10 The Weeknd 6/10 and Drake 6/10 does he likes it that much?

I wasn't being serious though

+air two Like he said in the subtitles, "Pop 101" actually inspired him to do a whole video dedicated to the defense of pop as a genre. You should check it out.

Dude, I went to one of their concerts, and I was the youngest there. Most of the people there were 20 or over.

Another one of them purists, we got here. I don't know, the fact that some people actually like pop and think that it's a genre with dignity and depth never crossed your mind?

+Pop Central of course some people like it, and i even get why people like it. it's no different than astrology, for example: people dig the shit because it's vague enough to relate to, and it latches on to base emotions and instincts, and.. well, that's it. but this isn't astrology, this is music CRITICISM(!). that a music critic can listen to a song like Wildfire and call it "masterful" songwriting that does not rely on formula is, to me, absolutely absurd. first of all, because pop music is almost by definition formulaic--if not by definition, then certainly by routine, and it's a routine that is not broken here. second of all because this band does not shy away from its formula and we know it (Pop 101)--again, the song in question certainly doesn't, either. and finally, the lyrics do not offer a single unique metaphor, clever line, or even valuable insight into anything, least of all love. the music just sounds like your typical pop rock, so what about it is masterful? I don't get it. i do not get why this is any different from any other pop album or group. it's the same emotions, same metaphors, same music, same production, same formula, same everything. and again: though Mark says it's great, i could not hear a single example or argument as to why or how that is the case it's cool that you dig the band/review, but I think I am entitled to gripe just as much as you are to gleam, so we will just have to agree to disagree.

Actually I'm not a Marianas Trench fan. I don't think I'll ever try them because of Pop 101: sorry, I already see common people making fun of my favourite genre, I don't need an actual band to remind me that if I wasn't a pop fan my life would be better. I'm a pop fan that's proud to be. I like my songs to be on top of the charts but I still enjoy them regardless. I once wrote a Greek Mythology-esque short story about how one day, all the music genres received a gift from a god, for example rock was given the guitar skills, punk the rebellious nature, EDM the technology, and so on. When it's pop's turn, there's nothing left, so all the other genres give it a bit of their own gifts. Does that explain my vision? Pop has all the best elements of the other genres at once. Pop isn't just some corporate plot trying to pander to people's minds and sell as much as possible with no regard to quality or effort. It requires the work and the care all the other genres require, and calling it "formulaic by routine" isn't just an insult to the intelligence of the listeners, dubbed ONCE AGAIN as mindless sheeps who won't ever bother to try something better (usually the given example is metal or classic rock) but also to the people who work on these albums, the effort they put in them to try to make them appealing and interesting, to craft a good piece that can be enjoyed by people. Saying that it's not worth a critique is also an insult to the fans. We deserve the same treatments metalheads and rockers receive, and if receiving critiques is part of that treatment, we deserve them. We aren't stupid or brainless, we aren't victims of brainwashing. We are music fans like all the others, who appreciate what we listen to and think it's good by technical standards. Finally (allow me to be rude here), we don't need more "snobs" around. The ones that exist can honestly kiss my pop loving ass and leave me alone without reminding that if that night in December 2010 I bought The Dark Side Of The Moon instead of The Beginning I would not be a part of the "lazy, mainstream audience" and I would have pure tastes, and in the end, the hating I receive as a pop fan is my fault. HELL NO. Stop shaming on us and on pop music.

+Spectrum Pulse "tighter melodies" what the fuck does that even mean you can call it "radio friendly" and what I call it is "paint by numbers," it's the same kind of boring-ass cover band of a U2 cover band pop that populates Christian radio in 2016 I'm trying to figure out how you could possibly try to speak meaningfully about Kendrick Lamar's album (which I don't quite "get" even though I recognize its ambition, thematic scope and artistic prowess) and think that Astoria's derivative bubble-gum is the best music released in 2015 IT DOES NOT COMPUTE

+Spectrum Pulse I really cannot believe that someone who's a purported reviewer could listen to this and say it sounds different from anything you'd hear in Planet Fitness. I really can't believe it. I can't believe you just said this would have a bigger cultural impact than To Pimp a Butterfly. I'm speechless. I just have nothing to say. The four-chord structures, the over-compressed and quantized production, the mid-tempo shit that was meant for Disney radio.... I cannot believe someone who runs a critical music vlog thinks this has artistic merit. I'm fucking dead.

+Spectrum Pulse "weird tastes" = "I like Top 40" that's not weird that is the antithesis of weird

+Spectrum Pulse and yet this is #1 I have no words

+Spectrum Pulse you seem like a nice guy and I wish you all the luck in the world once you head to an audiologist and make sure you're not deaf