thraed for the first glass beach album (and all subsequent glass beach albums)

It sounds like a dozen odd bands I was told I should like and didn’t so much, but I love this. Melody/chord choices are flattening

this is a total triumph, wow

Holds up after a week.

it's like the first cymbals eat guitars album if it were 10x more emo and 10x more prog

I gave this a quick partial listen, and my enjoyment to less enjoyment progression was sort of real time. Per fgti, it reminded me of lots of stuff all at once, which was both overwhelming and underwhelming. For some reason I kept thinking of Grizzly Bear and video game music and ... Vulfpeck? Don't really know why on that last one, lol. Dunno if I'll give it another shot, not everything is for everyone, but I do love the enthusiasm!

It sounds like Of Montreal (on paper) before that band consistently whiffs every aspect of its execution, it sounds like Black MIDI except designed for repeat listening rather than a single aggressive sugar rush, it sounds like a dozen jazz grad bands I know who haven’t mastered the delicate balance of knowledge and grace (except this band has done so). It basically sounds like the music in my head that I’m not capable of making

Grizzly Bear were defined (for me) by Chris Bear’s biff-clunk Tom Waitsian drumming, that band never attempted liftoff and that was fine for them, glass beach are pretty buoyant in contrast

grizzly bear occasionally dabbled in odd time signatures but otherwise that’s a pretty baffling comparison

I honestly can never remember what Grizzly Bear sounds like, lol. I know kind of prog, iirc.

When I listened to this album at first I assumed the drums were programmed. Then I wondered if the entire thing was programmed.

It sounds like Of Montreal (on paper) before that band consistently whiffs every aspect of its execution

yep!

scowling at both of you

This band does sound like Grizzly Bear, but also Mew, and a ton of other things. I would have never listened to it without seeing this thread being pumped, because Glass Beach is probably the most faceless band name i could ever imagine. anyway, great record.

this album is indeed great. they could've stopped making music after "classic j" with their legacy secured, but i'm glad they kept goin

jeez just a day after declaring julia holter aoty (shut up lj) i'm revisiting this and thinking it's so good we should've delayed the emo poll until this year so it could place in the top 20

amazed at how much it reminds me of j-rock, assuming that's a consequence of how jazzy it can be or how much anime the band members have watched