Mother Mother albums ranked by how much they scare me
7. Dance And Cry. It has very sweet and nice moments (It's Alright, Get Up), and Ryan is being as true to the heart as possible. There are some emotional peaks (Bottom Is A Rock, Give Me Back The Night), but they're more "fuck it" than angry. There are also super personal songs (So Down, Keep) that keep the album grounded in its creation.
6. Very Good Bad Thing. It feels very personal, and there's a nice emotional curve to it. There are some super angry songs (Get Out The Way, Have It Out) but they're balanced by kind of mournful songs (I Go Hungry, Kept Down), and also some calm, classical guitar-ish songs (Alone And Sublime, No One To Nothing).
5. Oh My Heart. It's so...young. It has a lot of feelings to express, but it does so in a calmer way than most of the other albums. Its most despairing points (Burning Pile, Body) are expressed through orchestration, which makes it seem slower, less aggressive. It has its calm moments as well (Ghosting, Arms Tonite), but they still aren't high on self esteem and serve as reminders that even here, not all is as it should be.
4. Eureka. This is a natural evolution from O My Heart. The self-deprecation has changed form, changing to distancing from the world and strange fixations (The Stand, Baby Don't Dance). There are some sweetness-in-decay songs here like in O My Heart (Simply Simple, Getaway) but they carry a slightly different and more ominous tone.
3. No Culture. This bad boy can fit so much mental illness in it. Not unlike other albums, but this time there's more distortion (The Drugs, Free). It also feels more melancholy than other albums (Letter, Mouth Of The Devil).
2. Touch Up. Angery. This is the most flaunting not-rightness of their discography (Verbatim, Neighbor) and the most biting in the sad songs (Oh Ana, title track).
1. The Sticks. This one isn't fucking human. It has the least hope, and is what happens when you take Eureka and make it evil. It detests society (Business Man, Latter Days) and has a very electronic sound, but whereas VGBT used a lot of high-register electronics, The Sticks uses a lot of low-register, particularly in the bass (title track, All Gone) and it makes it sound terrifying.
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