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albummaster
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Location: Spain
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- #1
- Posted: 12/15/2015 21:00
- Post subject: Album of the day (#1842): Hospice by The Antlers
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Today's album of the day
Hospice by The Antlers (View album | Buy this album)
Year: 2009.
Country: 
Overall rank: 186
Average rating: 83/100 (from 442 votes).
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Tracks:
1. Prologue
2. Kettering
3. Sylvia
4. Atrophy
5. Bear
6. Thirteen
7. Two
8. Shiva
9. Wake
10. Epilogue
About album of the day: The BestEverAlbums.com album of the day is the album appearing most prominently in member charts in the previous 24 hours. If an album, or artist, has previously been selected within a x day period, the next highest album is picked instead (and so on) to ensure a bit of variety. A full history of album of the day can be viewed here.
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HazeyTwilight
boyfriend in your wet dreams
Gender: Male
Age: 27
Location: Elmo Knows Where You Live 
- #2
- Posted: 12/15/2015 21:19
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Don't listen to it as much/get as emotional when I put this on anymore, but I still dig it. I especially appreciate the insular and dampened production.
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Applerill
Autistic Princess <3
Gender: Female
Age: 31
Location: Chicago 
- #3
- Posted: 12/15/2015 21:29
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I haven't listened to this album in five years, but I remember it really rubbing me the wrong way when listening to it back then. I'm trying really hard to not post the "It stinks!" meme here, but I'm scared to risk letting my contrarianism go by listening to it again.
Also, Fun Fact: This has a 3.58 on RYM, making it one of the lowest-rated albums on the top 5000.
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meccalecca
Voice of Reason
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Location: The Land of Enchantment
- #4
- Posted: 12/15/2015 21:37
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| Applerill wrote: | | I haven't listened to this album in five years, but I remember it really rubbing me the wrong way when listening to it back then. I'm trying really hard to not post the "It stinks!" meme here, but I'm scared to risk letting my contrarianism go by listening to it again. |
For someone identifying as a poptimist, it's pretty incredible that you manage to have something negative to say about nearly every album of the day.
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RockyRaccoon
Is it solipsistic in here or is it just me?
Gender: Male
Age: 34
Location: Maryland
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MrFrogger
Where am I
Gender: Male
Age: 29
Location: Oakland
- #6
- Posted: 12/15/2015 21:57
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| Applerill wrote: | | but I'm scared to risk letting my contrarianism go by listening to it again.. |
Or you could just listen to music without freaking the fuck out about it relates to whatever bullshit musical zeitgeist to consider yourself to be a part of. Like jesus christ, it seems like every album of the day sparks some internal monologue with you.
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benpaco
Who's gonna watch you die?
Age: 28
Location: Missouri
- #7
- Posted: 12/15/2015 22:15
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An album it took me a while to "get" that I now feel like I've sort of seen done better (see: Foxing's "The Albatross"), but it's still a very good album
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Applerill
Autistic Princess <3
Gender: Female
Age: 31
Location: Chicago
- #8
- Posted: 12/15/2015 23:08
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| MrFrogger wrote: | | Or you could just listen to music without freaking the fuck out about it relates to whatever bullshit musical zeitgeist to consider yourself to be a part of. Like jesus christ, it seems like every album of the day sparks some internal monologue with you. |
 Sorry Bro, I was just thinkin out loud (that's a good song, BTW).
Anyway, I just listened to it again, and I think I've come to the same verdict that I've always had. If slowcore wasn't basically my least favorite genre, and I heard this as an angst-ridden fifteen-year-old, I could've loved this nearly as much as NMH. But at 22, this kind of pity-party melodrama just seems so painful to my ears. This is something Gerard Way realized with The Black Parade: Existential angst can be a great topic, but self-awareness is what makes it universal. And as I hinted at before, those indie genre-tag manifestations are as cringe-worthy to listen to as they are for me to read, and that vocalist was unbearable. I don't want to turn these into strict value judgments (though maybe I am, and I'm sorry about that), but this as far from my thing as Pitchfork-core gets.
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- #9
- Posted: 12/16/2015 05:05
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I feel like this is one of those albums that will take me a while to get into it but I won't have time to spend getting into it, so it will just be misunderstood by me forever. I liked it, but I didn't love it, and it didn't strike me as anything amazing or anything. That might be because I wasn't really paying attention to the lyrics, which I've heard are really good and sad. All that being said, though, Epilogue is a beautiful song.
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- Posted: 12/16/2015 07:14
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There's nothing to get, really. The album's kind of a one-trick pony, and if you aren't hooked by its emotional arc, it's unlikely you will be by forcing it on yourself over and over.
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