Talk:The Waterfall (album)/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Calvin999 (talk · contribs) 19:32, 21 October 2015 (UTC)

Info box

• Artwork needs an alt=
• Don't really see the point of listing one studio then covering up the others with a collapsable?
• How can an album be four different types of rock music?

Lead

• and group → and the group's
• My Morning Jacket rose to prominence in the 2000s with a string of acclaimed albums and praised live performances.→ Irrelevant.
• Its sixth album → Their
• was equally well received. → remove
• located Stinson Beach, → located at Stinson Beach,
• A deal of the album → Makes no sense
• to its album art → to the artwork
• His lyrics, likewise, → Wrong use of 'likewise'
• including folk, R&B, and psychedelia. → These completely contradict the info box
• who considered → many of whom considered
• on the Billboard 200 in the U.S., → on the U.S. Billboard 200 album chart
• and represented career bests in several countries' national album charts. → Like?
• with a large → We don't need to know the size

Background

• Most of the first paragraph is pretty superfluous to be quite honest. Background shouldn't be dating back 18 years. Background is what is linked directly to this album, usually the last 2/3 years.
• Albums need dates
• touring behind his solo album → Odd phrasing
• These individual side projects, rather than detach the musicians, worked to strengthen their skill as musicians, according to Blankenship. This led to a greater appreciation of the group upon their return to it. → This is a bit long winded and unclear

Recording and production

• largely idyllic recording process. → A process isn't idyllic. A location is.
• The band first began recording in late 2013, and took eighteen months to complete. → The band began recording for the album in late 2013, and it took eighteen months to complete.
• For the album, → Remove
• The band approached creating the album with a sense of freedom, → Bit clunky and awkward, could be simplified
• material in 2016, although material → Repetition of 'material'
• "existentialist R&B, nature-boy folk, wigged-out psychedelia, and jam-friendly arena rock." → These are attributed to the source, but other genres mentioned elsewhere in the article are not
• Likewise, → Don't use this word

Artwork

• Does this really warrant its own section? There's hardly anything in it.

Release

• No release dates for countries?

Commercial performance

• Very sparse. It charted in more countries than what you write about here.

Reception

• Curiously, → Don't start a sentence like this
• The whole section is like a WP:QUOTEFARM

Touring

• Again, this is sparse. Background? Dates? Reviews?

Track listing

• I'd just write Jim James for track one, then James thereafter. It looks odd having a column of writers without any writers in it

References

• Ref 15 has a red link.
• What's up with 20 and 26?

Status

I'm concerned that this article has a slightly bias tone to it. On hold for 7 days.  — Calvin999 19:54, 21 October 2015 (UTC)

Fail incurred due to no response in 7 days.  — Calvin999 15:54, 28 October 2015 (UTC)