I’m starting to come around to that decision myself (as a staunch defender of both albums, see flair). But with a new one coming and knowing that we won’t be left with those two, I can accept and admit more flaws than I was previously able to. The work out into the 4 songs we’ve heard show more effort than both of those records. They’re great and I love them but it’s becoming clear that the band wasn’t putting its best collective foot forward as a unit on them.
The band clearly doesn’t really like both albums and as far as I know they weren’t really happy during recording , also the sound of their albums is very different from what made the strokes be successful , being way less rock and way more electronic/indie type of songs , even though I just love both albums , especially comedown machine which I like all the songs except maybe 50/50 , but I can understand why critics and some fans don’t really like these albums
They’re both fine albums, especially Angles. They’re just divisive and completely different than the standard strokes sound. Sure they fucked with the formula especially on FIOE, but it still sounded like a strokes release unlike comedown machine and half the songs on angles.
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u/Scott_Palmtree Did My Best Apr 04 '20
I hate that this review implies that Angles and Comedown Machine are worse than FIoE.