So Bring Me The Horizon kinda just dropped a huge album out of the blue... for certain, that's a cool and strange move from such a popular band. This album is sort of a compilation of insanely long, often instrumental pieces, filled with experimental sounds and samples. I loved their Amo record released earlier this year, so I really had no reason to doubt the band. But this record is like... ambient pieces, and strange demos and unfinished stuff. It's definetly interesting but most of these songs aren't too song-like I guess. But let's get into it.



Also the album and a lot of its songs have OBNOXIOUSLY LONG titles. I'm gonna shorten them quite a bit.



Steal Something is a 10 MINUTE lo-fi hip-hop jam with beautiful soft guitars, strange effects, 808 bass, sad synths and pianos, great horn riffs and a sample from I Apologise If You Feel Something, from Amo. Meanwhile, Oliver screams a little bit about wanting to steal something. It's a great vibe for sure, but it's not a song you can listen to on a regular basis. It's a chill laid back track for casual listening. It serves it's purpose.



Candy Truck / You Expected (I refuse to say the entire title because it's long as hell) is a two-part track. The first half has an UK Garage vibe going for it, with a sample of Oli talking to somebody about getting some candy from a candy truck. It's got some subdued poppy vocals so it does sound like a real song for the most part, and it's a great vibe just like Steal Something. It's like a poppier amo. The second half of the song is way shorter, and it's a really soft piano tune with eerie autotuned vocals and more samples from the candy truck. The entire track is 7 minutes long and it's another favourite for me.



A Desvastating Liberation is the shortest track on the album at 4 minutes, it's a big instrumental and orchestral piece. Its mix leaves a lot to be desired since it's pretty bad actually; some of the horn hits are so loud they actually scare me a little bit since I wasn't expecting their high volume. For the most part it doesn't sound like a BMTH song, unlike the rest of the songs here, which have a certain electronic twist that recall to Amo quite a lot.



¿ is a WEIRD song. Halsey makes an appearence, and the track has no vocals from Oliver. Halsey sings a verse with the exact same melody from In The Dark, from Amo. It's a weird, kinda gnarly remix in a way. It does quite a lot in its 5 minute runtime. It sounds like a poppier take on a TNGHT song, with cool vocals edits and high pitched alien synths soaring away. But seriously, I have no clue where this even came from.



Underground Big is the weirdest song in here, and also the longest at 24 goddamn MINUTES. It's Bring Me The Horizon's longest song ever actually. It's literally an industrial rap song with a BEXEY verse of all things. His bars are a little strange but not bad at all. The head full of hyenas hook is actually pretty great in here. This section of the song lasts about 5 minutes, dropping into a deathcore guitar and screamfest at the last minute. It's actually fantastic and heavy as hell. But... what follows this is just undescribable.

At five minutes, a chopped vocal loop starts playing that repeats until the last second of the song. This goes on for more than 19 minutes, and meanwhile Oliver literally meditates. Seriously, he tells you to close your eyes and then starts speaking about imagining stuff and having secret powers and getting bullied and shit for 19 minutes. This part literally goes on for a quarter part of the album or something. It's... interesting I guess? But I have no clue who would want to listen to this for so long. The vocal loop gets insufferable after a while.



After this nightmare, we get one of the more song-ish tracks in here, ''like seeing spiders running riot on your lover's grave''. Oliver's vocals are slightly off in here for some reason, but I do enjoy the vibe. It's a sad and slow electronic song with a killer chorus. It sounds like it could have been a bonus track on That's The Spirit or something like that. I love the sad horn sections. I also really enjoy the featured vocalist Happyalone's verse. It's really lovely and its got great melodies. The song then erupts into a super glitchy and harsh and epic section and it goes so fucking HARD, it sounds like something Oneothrix Point Never inspired. The song ends with a minute and a half of sounds from the sea.



Death Dolphin Sounds is another 10 minute lo-fi hip-hop ambiental piece with strange sounds. It has some summery synths which I don't like too much. Somebody called Toriel has a short verse that gets repeated at a ladder part of the song. At two minutes, the main beat gets replaced with a super simple but effective house beat, and that verse I mentioned gets glitched up and pitched in a very interesting way, while being accompanied with a great metallic percussion loop. Everything goes away at the last minutes, and we hear Oliver talking weird things for a little bit, but it doesn't last 19 minutes this time so it's fine. Not a bad song.



Astis, a 7 minute song, closes out the album, with a great vocal performance from Yonaka. It's filled with effects and it's really interesting. It has another UK Garage sounding beat, and some epic sci-fi synths. The lyrics are nothing to get too excited about, but they do work. At 3 minutes Oliver gets to sing a little more, and at 5 minutes or so there's a very interesting piano break with subdued vocals, it works quite well. The last section of the track is futuristic as hell. The first verse of the song gets repeated again until a strange and super short low noise stops the song and the album mid-bar.



This is a super weird, experimental, challenging listen. It's seriously a lot to take in and I do expect some more metal-loving fans to be truly dissappointed in this. But you don't get a 19 minute spoken word meditation piece on a mainstream album everyday.



Favourite Songs: Steal Something, astis, Candy Truck, You Expected, like seeing spiders running riot, ¿



Least Favourites: Underground Big, A Devastating Liberation