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Solid Sophomore album

March 29, 2019

I'll start by saying that I love the four songs that were already released by the time the whole album was released (ordered by my preference):
6. wish you were gay
4. you should see me in a crown
7. when the party's over
10. bury a friend

Billie and Finneas are at the top of their game, both musically, and from the lyrics perspective. They write extremely punchy, catchy songs, and Billie's soft & sweet voice juxtaposes against the dark lyrics amazingly. I also love their use of extraneous sounds (like the sound of a knife being sharpened, and sirens in the distance in "you should see me in a crown", the distortion in “xanny”, the "The Office" sound clips in “my strange addiction”) to punctuate the message of particular songs.

Aside from the four listed above, I also liked the following (listed in my ranked order):
5. all the good girls go to hell
11 ilomilo
3. xanny
9. my strange addiction
8. 8
13. I love you
12. listen before I go: I wouldn’t say I like this song, as in I wouldn’t just play it to enjoy myself, but I appreciate how extremely dark it is, to the point of being disturbing because of how real that situation is to some people.

All in all, this is a solid second album.

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Jamie D

Defective!

April 3, 2019

** update**
The replacement was also defective. It is a real shame because I really wanted this record. Now the artist is losing sales because her record manufacturer messed up. :(

I love the songs, the artist, the color of the vinyl. However, the record is defective! On some songs it skips around, repeats certain parts, or skips parts altogether. If the replacement I've ordered is defective as well, I'll just return it altogether.

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What happened to #3?

March 30, 2019

Format: Audio CDVerified Purchase

Love this artist!
Song # 3 was blank.
I don't want to send it back and wait for a new one though. :-(

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The Music Man

Doesn't Live Up to the Hype

July 30, 2019

Format: Audio CDVerified Purchase

I work in the music industry and rarely want or need to buy albums based on hype. But for whatever reason, I actually spent money on "When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?" I think that it was partially the hype (including the recommendation of a friend of mine whose opinion I truly value) combined with the fact that I wanted to prove to myself that there's still some good "pop" music being made today.

Well... I can tell you that there really IS a lot of good music being made today. But this isn't necessarily it. "Bad Guy," the first proper song on "When We All Fall Asleep," is catchy and clever enough. But nothing else on the album really warrants a second spin. This is mainly unremarkable lyrics married to beats that anyone with a computer could have programmed. It's not terrible but it doesn't even come close to living up to the hype. If you're 15, I can understand why Eilish might be your thing. But very few people over the age of 30 would be able to find anything relatable or rewarding in her music.

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orlandocommando

Nice album but defective CD

July 3, 2019

Format: Audio CDVerified Purchase

Love the songs but I've tried to play the CD on two different systems (Bose and Onkyo) and the first few songs sound like the speakers are going bad which they obviously are not. I dilly-dallied and missed the return deadline. :-( So, make sure you play the CD all the way through as soon as you get it!

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GaylinG

Singing under water?!

June 27, 2019

Format: Audio CDVerified Purchase

This is a great album. But bootleg recording?
What’s up with this. Also doesn’t shows up as unknown CD and artist on car display.
Singing under water? Horrible sound!
Tried having replaced. Same problem.
Sad I loved all the songs and wanted album.
Going back and will not replace.

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Daniel

Confusing title shows up on CD Screen.

June 25, 2019

Format: Audio CDVerified Purchase

Even thou Billie Eilish's music is on the cd, the title, songs and artist are all of a man from India, the title is in the language of India. Just wondering if this is a rip-off cd, made in somebodys basement.

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K.O.

Very bad recording.

December 9, 2019

Format: Audio CDVerified Purchase

This is the absolute worst recording . Studio wise I have ever played on my stereo. I traded it at the record store.

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Kevin Pryor

Not what I expected.

June 4, 2019

Format: Audio CDVerified Purchase

I ordered this CD for my daughter thinking there were 2 CDs and that the tracks listed were what were on the CD. Come to find out, it's only 1CD and none of the tracks listed on the description are what is on the CD.
* Rating is for lack of proper product description, not the product itself.

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Charles W. Rokosny

Not

July 5, 2019

Format: Audio CDVerified Purchase

Not so good

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Darla Joan Moore

Music and words that build on depression.

May 19, 2019

Format: Audio CDVerified Purchase

Very dark words. Not for someone who is battling depression!

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E~R

Tries to hard to be edgy

March 31, 2019

Format: Audio CD

This album is ok. And I'm sure some basic teenage girl will probably want to kill me if I said this on twitter or something along the lines of that. Billie eilish is NOT one of the most talented artists working today. Her lyrics on this album are so generic it hurts sometimes. Some where so bland ever I could have written them! I'm maybe a 5% lyrical genius, and even I could have written some of these songs! I'm so tired of hearing all these dumb teenage girls worshiping billie like shes some god and that she so DEEP she's literally no different than you and me. Her music isn't anything special stop freaking out!

Ok now for the goods! There are solid tracks on this album. Selectively: xanny, listen before you go, when the party's over, ilomilo, and I love you (which lyrics are some of the most generic i've ever heard put to record, but I still enjoyed the track.) All those I listed are solid tracks but I can't say any of the other songs on this album are even worth having on it. She could have cut half this album and it would have been a great EP really the overall down fall of this album is that billie tries SO HARD TO BE EDGY. Just stop! Your 17 you don't know anything about being edgy, your not even an adult yet. Overall it's just meh. Not horrendous not amazing like everyone else says it is.

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