How to Care for Flowers - For a Brief Moment I Felt the Sun’s Warmth…

2023 Rating: B+ Tier

2026 Rating: B- Tier ⬇

2023 Original Comments:

Connecting Emo with Post-Hardcore, How to Care for Flowers release a brief yet poignant ~12 minute EP in three songs. Strong songwriting and a disposition for desolation are wrapped up neatly by one of the year’s best vocal performances. If this release had one or two more fleshed out songs, it could have made it higher up.

2026 Addendum:

Looking back, while still quite good, this release feels a bit incomplete, and not in a way that makes me want to keep replaying it. Still, there are excellent ideas on display and the seamless genre-bending is a highlight.

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