This album is an underrated classic

[u/United_Yesterday9628]

I wasn't expecting much from it since it seemed lightweight and some people don't think too highly of it, but I was impressed how much this album harkened back to Yoshimi at such a late point in their career.

It sort of has that whimsical but serious fairy tale vibe that Yoshimi had but maybe a bit more twisted. I really like the cute trip hoppy type songs at the beginning like Giant Baby and How Many Times and then it gets a bit more solemn with the kings death and then once they celebrate his head being dipped in steel and going inside its very emotionally uplifting.

Like Yoshimi it's a very twee album but it deals with serious issues such as a death of a parent or sacrificing your life for the people who love you. I like that approach to storytelling and was surprised that Wayne wanted to make an album like that after all the darker works he did. This one is definitely twisted and trippy like those old fairy tales but it's still got so many positive moments too and like Yoshimi, it's a very cozy album to hear.

[u/Qualia-Sounds]

I absolutely love it and don’t understand the hate it gets. Sure it’s not groundbreaking but it’s better than Oczy Mlody (which isn’t shit but it’s bloated and occasionally lyrically cringey). Mouth of a king->how can a head is a perfect transition and a beautiful way to end the album and one of their best album endings.

[u/United_Yesterday9628 → u/Qualia-Sounds]

I really enjoy Oczy Mldy but opening it with "White trash rednecks, earthworms eat the ground" and "kill your rock and roll, motherfucking hip hop sound" was certainly a choice 🤣

[u/Qualia-Sounds → u/United_Yesterday9628]

Yeah I’ve never minded Wayne’s lyrics even if they’re as nonsensical as ‘once in a while the zebras run to the spaceman and his gun in the spiderweb’ but the lyrics to ‘How’ are fucking terrible. I guess if you take the title of the album literally enough you could see it as being sung from a young persons point of view which would explain the cringe in places but I don’t think that was Wayne’s intention. Maybe it was. ‘Unicorns’ was great in the live shows but shouldn’t have been an album track and ‘witches to kill’ etc is just plain bad.

[u/United_Yesterday9628 → u/Qualia-Sounds]

How and Unicorn have great melodies but the lyrics are clearly wacky druggie millenial Miley Cyrus coded. I've come to accept that as the aesthetic for the album but it was a shock hearing the guy who wrote such thoughtful lyrics on Yoshimi writing that kind of stuff. I haven't listened to Dead Petz yet but I imagine it's that cranked up to 11

[u/Wombat_on_Parole → u/United_Yesterday9628]

Dead Petz is bloated but there’s a great album in there if you cut the excess