Hell is Near is a great opener, the outro is very captivating. Reckless is so good. Broken Man is obviously a SOTY contender and Flea definitely remains as my personal favorite on the album. That guitar outro alone is just insane. 
 

Not gonna lie the record kinda slows down for me a little bit after Big Time Nothing. I don't really love Violent Times and The Power's Out that much. Both have great melodies and production but something makes it kinda boring a little. 

 

Sweetest Fruit is definitely also one of my favorites (despite #that lyric). I kinda dig the "reggae" vibes. This song kinda proves how great of a producer she is. So Many Planets also kinda has this same vibe. The outro on that one is also so good and explosive. The title track is my 2nd fav on initial listen. That's a career highlight. Funk-rock music suits her so well. 

 

Overall 8/10

 

Top 3:

Flea

All Born Screaming

Broken Man

Edited April 26, 20242 yr by KatyPrismSpirit

Amazing album, way better than the previous one. Turns out the singles weren't even the best songs on the album, oh wow.

 

If I were to rank every song:

 

1. Flea

2. All Born Screaming

3. Broken Man

4. Reckless

5. Hell Is Near

6. Sweetest Fruit

7. Big Time Nothing

8. So Many Planets

9. Violent Times

10. The Power's Out

The fact that no-one's speaking about the ORGASMIC masterpiece the title track is.... O M G.

 

Violent Times

Sweetest Fruit

Big Time Nothing 

best 3 after that!

different eyes
you're the same but i've got different eyes
how could i ever have been so blind? 
blame these violent times

when all of the bombs inside, all of the wires i hide
all of the wasted nights chasing mortality

when in the ashes of pompeii, lovers discovered an embrace for all eternity

I must have been dreaming…

I fell down the well…

but I swear you were hearing me, through the noise and static and the CALLLLLLL!

AOTY

on track 2 now... yupppp this shits on Dud's Home 

right, on a first listen i thought this was good, esp

 

hell is near (great counterintuitive opener)

broken man (which is good rather than bad like i'd thought)

big time nothing (which deserves to be a hit but ofc it won't)

violent times (james bond vibes)

sweetest fruit (nice afrobeat turn tho the sophie line feels a bit yikes). 

 

as a 'daddy's home is good actually' truther i feel like this is an extension of that sound as much as a turning away from it, you need to go thru that idea of funk to end up here i think.

 

also, have been warming to the idea that st vincent should produce taylor: she's ditched jack once, now is the time to yeet him from his most powerful position

Edited April 26, 20242 yr by makeawish

finished first listen, an immediate hit which i think will age very very well. a surprisingly hopeful album! 

so many planets

 

Edited April 26, 20242 yr by Otana

we're all!

 

born!

 

screaming!

 

3 hours ago, KatyPrismSpirit said:

I kinda dig the "reggae" vibes

It sounds so good. Please produce Tori's next album, queen.

2 minutes ago, Kern said:

Thats how Zane Low described it too

 

I need some more time with it, 

but Reckless and ViolenTimes are good

edit: wait, Power´sOut just hit

Edited April 26, 20242 yr by Dragonfly

first album of hers that I listened in full. 

 

I really enjoyed the first few songs but then the album feels weaker in second part, although the last song is great 

The absolute SLAYAGE that Reckless is. 

no no no let's not with the daddys home slander OKAY 

Yeah, this is amazing.

The last minute of Reckless… oh, Annie! You didn't have to slay me like that! 

THE discography if you think about it

 

1. Hell Is Near

2. Big Time Nothing

3. Reckless

4. Flea

5. Broken Man

6. Sweetest Fruit

7. All Born Screaming

8. Violent Times

9. So Many Planets

10. The Power's Out

This is nothing but front to back quality, as expected.

 

My only complaint is that there isn't more of the industrial mania of Reckless/Broken Man. I also don't think it would have hurt to include one or two more songs to bring it all together.

10 hours ago, VENUSWAVE said:

The Power's Out is devastating actually

SOTY for me I fear.... I haven't gotten a chill through my body from a St Vincent song since Hang On Me, but this one is the MOMENT

Thats Why I Never Came Home