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― System, Thursday, 4 February 2016 00:01 (eight years ago) link
voted for Kamikaze but it's not hard to make a case for anything on here
― ufo, Thursday, 4 February 2016 00:04 (eight years ago) link
almost missed this and way to early to run this poll. voting "Memorial."
― Bee OK, Thursday, 4 February 2016 03:34 (eight years ago) link
love how after the 1-2 "Accelerate/Fade Away" punch "Silencer" comes in to perfectly setup the middle section of songs. Feel like a truncated-edit of "Kamikaze" would've run away with it on Eurovision.
remembering back to when I first heard Bjork's "Post" for the first time and having that same "holy shit!" moment with this album.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Thursday, 4 February 2016 16:31 (eight years ago) link
Voted "Darlings" because it's a perfect opener and I guess it needs my help. Some days I prefer "Slowly" or "Memorial" or "Kamikaze" or...
― conditional random jepsen (seandalai), Thursday, 4 February 2016 16:47 (eight years ago) link
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― System, Friday, 5 February 2016 00:01 (eight years ago) link
Nobody trusts Susanne
― Evan, Friday, 5 February 2016 00:02 (eight years ago) link
Trust Me is much worse than all the other songs. It sounds like a Radiohead b-side.
― artsvashen (imago), Friday, 5 February 2016 00:12 (eight years ago) link
Only 4 for Accelerate? madness.
― like Uber, but for underpants (James Morrison), Friday, 5 February 2016 01:41 (eight years ago) link
I voted for Accelerate but it was close between that and Fade Away, because, as said before, they run together so well they basically feel of a piece.
Was gutted that I didn't have the whole of this album on my iPhone for the walk in this morning, just those two and Slowly. Blame Bowie.
But anyway, I've been trying to listen to this as intently as possible, and the Patrick Wolf comparison makes a certain amount of sense - in some ways this is the album I hoped he'd make with Alec Empire after Lupercalia, but which he's failed to do because he's gone on weird sabbatical. The songwriting is really good, and the arrangements and mixing are fabulous. It's clicking into place.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 5 February 2016 09:14 (eight years ago) link
would have voted for Accelerate into Fade Away if that was a single track for sure, together they're certainly the highlight. starting with the momentum from Accelerate makes Fade Away even better
― ufo, Friday, 5 February 2016 09:23 (eight years ago) link
there's no album I gave more chances last year than this one, after reading the albums poll I put it on again - and it finally won me over. Got it on vinyl yesterday, great release.
― niels, Friday, 5 February 2016 09:57 (eight years ago) link
i got lost driving and fell in love with trust me tonight
― qualx, Friday, 12 February 2016 02:57 (eight years ago) link
i underestimated how good fade away is
― johnny crunch, Monday, 15 February 2016 00:35 (eight years ago) link
This has finally clicked with me - the gothy ABBA sound initially struck me as too camp and too scandi. But as repeatedly noted, the songwriting is pretty brilliant and some of the lyrics hit hard.Surprised "Accelerate" didn't walk this. So good.
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Thursday, 15 March 2018 08:58 (six years ago) link
i think my preferences switched from 'accelerate' to 'fade away' to 'slowly' over time
― nxd, Friday, 16 March 2018 09:23 (six years ago) link
fade away reminds me of stevie nicks. "slowly" would be my choice tho
― kolakube (Ross), Friday, 16 March 2018 14:06 (six years ago) link