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Just now, prézli said:

WHAT

WHAT

how dare you sabotage that lovely Wolf Alice song :shakeno:

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32. Beabadoobee - Yoshimi, Forest, Magdalene

Score: 7.675

10 - Touch It

5 - prezli

 

The closer to Fake it Flowers is a quirkier number that has some noisy guitars.

Rough around the edges and featuring a pretty repetitive hook, this bolt of energy is honestly a secret highlight.

 

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31. Indigo De Souza - Kill Me

Score: 7.7

11 - Sanguine

10 - minho, Touch It

1 - diogo

 

A second closer... "Kill Me" is everything about why Any Shape You Take is fantastic. The lyrics are rooted in fairly simple but stream of conscious style writing, supported with an earnest yet gritty delivery. The result is something that captures the aesthetic of the album in a single song. You almost don't even recognize who she is at this point, making the "bare it all" style of the preceding songs all the more powerful.

 

That's it for now! 30-1 will be revealed sometime tomorrow. Summary is coming shortly and I will update the first page.

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Just now, K$Ellie said:

how dare you sabotage that lovely Wolf Alice song :shakeno:

who CAREs

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not me dragging bea again lol

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Oh this is very sick and deranged

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Day One: #65-31

 

31. Kill Me

32. Yoshimi, Forest, Magdalene

33. Safe From Heartbreak (If You Never Fall in Love)

34. 17

35. Crawling In My Skin

36. Lucy

37. Real Pain

38. Blouse

39. Pretty Pictures

40. Royal Screw Up

 

41. Management

42. Horen Sarrison

43. Joanie

44. Stain

45. Headlock

46. Forever (Sailing)

47. Glory

48. Reaper

49. Zinnias

50. Back to Mars

 

51. Night Swimming

52. Bambi

53. Gray Light

54. Up the Walls

55. Madonna

56. How Was Your Day?

57. Harbor

58. Just for Today

59. Automate

60. Little Changes

61. Light Blue

62. Partridge

63. Wade

64. Mia

65. c. et al.

 

remaining:

Fake It Flowers - 8/12 - 66.66%

Color Theory - 3/10 - 30%

Valentine - 2/10 - 20%

Blue Weekend - 10/11 - 91%

Any Shape You Take - 6/10 - 60%

Sling - 1/12 - 10%

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Care FTW

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There will definitely be some... surprises in the upper part of this rate :fan:

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So glad Snail Mail got deservedly dragged here 

 

the two best albums doing so well is great as well. Wolf Alice and indigo easily had the best albums here :swan:

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2 hours ago, minho said:

 

 

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37. Indigo De Souza - Real Pain

Score: 7.35

11 - Hikari

10 - Sanguine, minho, greento, Touch It, MP2K

2 - diogo

1 - Ellie

 

The rate title! Anyway this is easily one of the grittiest, darkest songs off the album. I mean it features a solid section of distorted screams after all.

Definitely one of the most divisive songs in the whole rate.

Deserved so much better! I knew f words like @diogozsz @K$Ellie would not appreciate this masterpiece

 

Yall also did SM did wrong (I know the album was still disappointing but still better than the clairo album x)

 

 

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Clairo is the queen of pop.

 

When I do the Bedroom Pop version of this rate and Immunity occupies the entire top ten!

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30/29. Wolf Alice - No Hard Feelings

Score: 7.725

10 - minho, greento

2 - prezli

 

30/29. Wolf Alice - Feeling Myself

Score: 7.725

10 - Touch It

3 - prezli

 

We were feeling a tie

 

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28. Beabadoobee - Further Away

Score: 7.73

9.5 - greento

6.5 - Sanguine

 

A dramatic but emotional take on growing up and moving past the tough years of youth.

 

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27. Wolf Alice - The Beach

Score: 7.75

10 - diogo

2 - prezli

 

Opening up Blue Weekend is this crescendoing number that reaches a climactic mood-setting, the perfect opener.

 

26. Wolf Alice - The Last Man on Earth

Score: 7.7825

10 - diogo

3.5 - Sanguine

 

A piano driven number, released as the lead single, many people would consider this cinematic track an album highlight... but not us!

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25. Indigo De Souza - Way Out

Score: 7.825

10 - Sanguine

4 - diogo

 

Repetitiveness was used throughout this album to anchor itself in many ways, making the lyrics more of a declaration.

This is a good example of that being used, especially with the final refrain.

 

24. Indigo De Souza - Die/Cry

Score: 7.85

10 - Sanguine, minho, MP2K

4 - diogo

 

An emotional highlight off the album, the repetitive chorus of "I'd rather die before you die" really sinks the sentiment in. Truly a masterpiece!

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23. Soccer Mommy - Yellow is the Color of Her Eyes

Score: 7.875

10 - Touch It, Hikari

5 - prezli

 

A slow burner but sweet song, in a lot of ways this feels like a centrepiece for the record. It's just such a mood idk.

 

22. Soccer Mommy - Bloodstream

Score: 7.95

11 - Sanguine

10 - minho

5.5 - diogo

5 - Green Tea

 

A truly incredible track opens the album. With the right hit of nostalgia this song feels right out of the Avril Lavigne playbook to me. But of course Soccer Mommy makes it her own with tremendous emotional delivery.

 

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21. Indigo De Souza - Late Night Crawler

Score: 7.975

10 - minho

4 - prezli

 

This dark brooding track always struck me as a secret highlight.

The juxtaposition from how the song opens with how it transcends throughout the rest is incredible.

 

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This leaves Soccer Mommy with 1 song and Indigo with 3 songs

 

Originally I wanted to finish the rate today but ATRL has been kind of finicky for me so I'm going to leave it here and do the top 20 another time. In the meantime please discuss the results here... Thanks!

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Day Two: #30-21

 

21. Late Night Crawler

22. Bloodstream

23. Yellow is the Color of Her Eyes

24. Die/Cry 

25. Way Out

26. The Last Man on Earth

27. The Beach

28. Further Away

29. Feeling Myself

30. No Hard Feelings

 

remaining:

Fake It Flowers - 7/12 - 58.33%

Color Theory - 1/10 - 10%

Valentine - 2/10 - 20%

Blue Weekend - 6/11 - 54.54%

Any Shape You Take - 3/10 - 30%

Sling - 1/12 - 10%

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The 2 albums with the most entries left were definitely the best and the 2 with the least the worst so let's celebrate that!

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Die/Cry and Bloodstream </3

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As far as what's left:

 

Care
Worth It
Dye It Red

Charlie Brown
Emo Song

Sorry

Together

 

Circle the Drain

 

Valentine
Ben Franklin

 

Delicious Things
Lipstick on the Glass
Smile

How Can I Make It OK?
Play the Greatest Hits

The Beach II

 

Darker Than Death

Bad Dream
Hold U

 

Amoeba

Posted (edited)

Late Night Crawler and Bloodstream should be higher :shakeno:

Ben Franklin, Darker Than Death, The Beach II and Dye It red can leave now

Edited by K$Ellie
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Why on earth is the last man on earth out already??? 

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4 hours ago, minho said:

Fake It Flowers - 7/12 - 58.33%

Color Theory - 1/10 - 10%

Valentine - 2/10 - 20%

Blue Weekend - 6/11 - 54.54%

Any Shape You Take - 3/10 - 30%

Sling - 1/12 - 10%

bea is winning :heart:

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