After almost a month of listens, I've come up with my revised perspective on curve!
1. Allowance -
4.75 (+0.25) Nice and upbeat; love Duncan's bass and the intro, good to listen to repeated times I think.
2. Fire In The Henhouse -
4.5 (+0.25) If it stayed as The Wolf, I'd
STILL rate it better, like a 5 lol. But it's grown on me a lot. Just not enough chemistry and excitement to me in comparision to The Wolf.
3. Heavyweight -
5 Just a great hard-rock song.
4. Window Seat -
4 (-0.5) A bit slow, and I skip it a lot, but a great song when in the right mindset. Quite unique for OLP.
5. As Fast As You Can -
5 Forget what I said about wishing this wasn't their #2 single, it's too infectious to not think otherwise! I've listened to this song the most out of every song on Curve, my favourite
. Feel-good song of the year?
6. If This Is It -
5 Loved the demo, love this even more. Epic vibe, epic solo, one of the best feel-good songs they have!
7. Will Someday Change -
4.5 (+0.5) REALLY nice change of pace, but to me, it still feels a bit too much like Raine's solo stuff to be "OLP".
8. Find Our Way -
4.75 (-0.25) This is where Steve surpasses Mike.
THE BEST OLP SOLO TO DATE, bar none. I will play this song for the 2nd half alone lol.
9. Rabbits -
5 Love the vibe in the verses / outro, and the chorus? pure catharsis. My second favourite.
10. Mettle -
2 (-1.0) Just boring to me, I'll basically only listen to it with the whole album. Nevertheless, it's a decent way to summarize the Chuvalo-boxing theme / the album, and it's still well-produced / as emotionally-driven compared to the 1st listen. I'd just rather have Rabbits as the closing song, and have this as a filler / hidden track, like in Spiritual.
OVERALL: 4.5