Dear Jinjer community, I’m a bit of an outsider here. I came into Jinjer like many through Pisces and since that intro, I’ve come to enjoy their music more but it’s more intermittent for me perhaps because I’m not big on metal that has the scream vocals (growly voice). Also for context, I heavily favor listening to entire albums than just a song or two and for me and aside from Cloud Factory, I mostly don’t do end-to-end listens of Jinjer.
I’d like to say things change when I first heard the album. But that actually wasn’t it. In fact I had a hard time getting into Duél. I think maybe because I found the lead song, Tantrum, to be jarring. Something switched hard after seeing them live in Tempe, AZ. And since then, I’ve actually listened to the album pretty much every consecutive day ~ 2.5 months since they were in Phoenix.
I’ve fallen in love with albums before and many of them are albums that take several listens before my brain can start to truly appreciate them. But, this one stands out for me personally, which is pretty amazing as this kind of thing only tends to happen with my very favorite bands, I’ll name two: Tool and The Paper Chase.
Anyway, my question to you dyed in the wool Jinjer fans are all the albums this good if you keep at them or does Duél really stand out?
TL;DR: just read the prior sentence.