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The Birthday Massacre - Walking With Strangers results

The participants sorted by deviation from final results:
Snake5555555555 (19)
Seanchan (21)
ChichiriMuyo (29)
MetalmindStats (32)
Raetsel_Lapin (32)

General Album Comments

ChichiriMuyo: Yeah... whoever nominated Birthday Massacre - thank you. I doubt I would have ever found this without you.

Seanchan: This is one of those "going in completely blind" albums for me. I'd say it was a generally enjoyable listen. My maybe slightly odd thought is that a lot of these songs sound like what you'd hear during the end credits of some movie.
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I enjoy the general sound of this album, but two listens in it's hard to separate out the individual songs. ...which unfortunately is something I feel like has been an issue with the last few albums we've covered... (I'm hoping I'm not the only one...)

neonreaper: If you folks like this album but it feels a little samey from track to track, I advise you to check out their album Violet. Imo has some obvious standouts

ChichiriMuyo: It is a bit samey from track to track even though I really do like it.
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I like this album, I really do. However it was very difficult to actually rank the tracks. Let's just say the band was very consistent throughout. There's nothing wrong with a band or an album having a sound, but it does leave me feeling like the ranking is less defined than usual. If I had discovered this years ago and listened to it a lot more I might feel better about this ranking.

MetalmindStats: I was looking forward to this album after voting for it before, and it definitely did not disappoint me, from front to back. Thank you for nominating it, Snake!

Great_Paul: I hadn't heard Walking With Strangers before, but I was pleasantly surprised with how much I enjoyed the album. Unfortunately I wasn't able to listen to it enough to properly rank the tracks.

Seanchan: A fairly arbitrary ranking but there was nothing here that stuck out much either positively or negatively. As I've said previously, I generally enjoyed listening to this, but at the same time, I've a strong feeling this album won't stick out in my mind at all in 6 months.

Raetsel_Lapin (agreeing with neonreaper's earlier comment): Because while WWS is a fine album and possibly more accessible, I didn't think any of the songs really showcased the full ability of the singer. Besides the clean pop vocals heard on WWS, she can also deliver raspy & almost inhuman growled vocals--easily switching back and forth between them. That duality is my favorite part (see their song "Blue" for an example), but WWS was just so... normal.

Which is fine! It's not that I disliked Walking With Strangers. But I do suggest anyone that wanted to hear more variety from the band check out Violet and give them another shot. You might be surprised.

Johnbobb: For what it's worth I did listen to Walking With Strangers and really dug it, great recommendation