by Shanae » 3/8/2011, 9:11 pm
Spiritual Machines -- It's just such a good record... it has undeniable flow as a collective. It's a full record meant to be listened to as a record.
Clumsy -- Some of my favourites are on here, and my love of those favourites and the excitement I get to listening to even the saddest of songs *cough* 4am *cough* is powerful enough to earn this position.
Happiness -- You definitely have to be in a mood for this album, but when you are it rocks your world.
Gravity -- I'm with the vocal thread, except I'll put my personal commentary less eloquently: Raine's voice is damn sexified in Gravity in such a non-typical OLP way. This whole record is just so easy to listen to.
Naveed -- Again, I have to be in the mood to listen to this, but when I am in the mood it's excellent. The rawness and anger gets my blood pumping, but I feel like this album doesn't stick with me as much as the others do.
Burn Burn -- It's not that I don't like Burn Burn. I do. It's just kind of passive and I'd have to be in a lazy mood to listen to it. It doesn't grab me.
Healthy in Paranoid Times -- This is the only OLP record that I don't physically own, and it honestly doesn't bother me. There are some songs I find intolerable to the 9s. Although it has its good moments... just, no.
Of course, I'm subject to my emotion, so if I'm pissed off I'm probably not going to listen to Spiritual Machines. Etc.