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I think everyone is an idiot an no one likes anything.
This is another great song. You know, I've been thinking lately. It's not liking bad things that makes us stupid, it's not liking good things. It's the things we don't have the capacity to appreciate, internalize and understand that make us into imbeciles. Missing the point and reverting to past darlings and emotional ground. No one has bad taste in music because they like a bit of cheesy shite, people have bad taste because they don't like, know or appreciate clearly excellent stuff. And aren't capable of turning perfectly serviceable 7/10s and promising b-sides into big things for themselves, via analysis and imagination. There is considerably more good music than good listeners. 
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10-03-2018, 15:36
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Love this
 can't make out the chorus tho.... "together the ... " what? It's going to be something really obvious but I can't get it 
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10-03-2018, 20:33
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I'm not buying another track that's on the album anyway but the acoustic version is lovely in its understated way. Doesn't sound at all like don't go breaking my heart though, maybe the recorded version does.
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The strings riff that keeps repeating over and over through the verses sounded so familiar it was driving me loco....bloomin' REM's "Nightswimming".
I like it but can we have another banger a la "International Blue" now pleasey thankings?
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11-03-2018, 10:53
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Can't stop playing this one, tho I should or I'll be sick of it by April "plays again"
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11-03-2018, 11:18
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11-03-2018, 12:58
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Why's everyone hate Postcards album so much? I like it overally, not their best work by far, but I love SKON, Balcnies rocks and Hazleton Avenue is nice and catchy.
Anyway, back to this new song. It's fine.
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It's too bright and too loud. It's too long. And songs are cack as well. All things considered, I'd argue strongly that it is their worst album.
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11-03-2018, 14:13
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11-03-2018, 15:13
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PFAYM was unbelievably badly produced. The worst sounding album of their career, worse than Generation Terrorists. No sense of space, not a single interesting sound. Really muddy and uninterestingly warm. Horrible textureless guitars. To go from Lifeblood to this in 6 years sounded like a medical emergency to me, honestly. I was so relieved with RTF, to hear that they still have their ears. I think Sean has taken over some of the production duties, actually. He's become an absolutely tremendous and unsung electronic engineer. The little soundscapes he's crafted since that horrid failure of PFAYM are precious and beautiful: Dreaming A City, Tokyo Skyline, the tape effects in Let's Go To War which he himself seems rightfully proud of etc. These new songs form RIF all have similar soundscapes under the more melodic guitar driven anthemics. They also have horizontal space, clean smooth bass. Listen to the verses in Distant Colours for example. I don't have towering hopes for the album but I do expect it will be an enjoyable spring listen, like Let The Dancers Inherit The Party from British Sea Power last spring.
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There is considerably more good music than good listeners.
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