paramore - after laughter - recording and anticipation

they seem to be having fun. this is good

Hard Times went from 'ok' to 'great' after a day and I love this immediately

after staring lovingly at Taylor's mugging iirc

New one is good too. I haven't been a fan in the past but I definitely saw some of the appeal of the last album.

https://imgur.com/CuHNJL8 <3

I'm really enjoying the new song, but this part is nagging me a little.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEB6ibtdPZc&feature=youtu.be&t=3m3s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw-RPm1uOM4&feature=youtu.be&t=2m40s

Uh, that isn't showing up for me. So what I was trying to point out was the similarity between the moments at about 2:40 in Told You So and 3:03 in Hard Times.

tbh i like that the songs seem to talk to each other

That's a good way to look at it.

*relistens to "told you so"* ugh this is magnificent

lol

Love "Told You So". This looks suddenly (and, to me anyway, unexpectedly) an album of the year contender.

i can't listen to anything else. what a brilliant song.

I love it when there's something my daughter and I can both enjoy. It's much preferable to nefarious tween marketing tweaks directing her to bullseye shit like Panic! At the Disco and Twenty One Pilots.

http://assets8.pop-buzz.com/2017/16/paramore-reveal-meaning-behind-hard-times-lyrics-1492685488-list-handheld-0.png

https://res.cloudinary.com/kumpar/image/upload/c_fill,g_face,w_640/gzcoemybplwrqjw3istk.gif

https://media.giphy.com/media/X6XyKt13NIPSg/giphy.gif

Taylor looks like such a nice boyfriend.

Hey y’all.

https://68.media.tumblr.com/bf6db5536e1585ef0d6b717a7fd9d586/tumblr_ooo20u2i561uub7c0o2_500.gif

This album is fantastic. It's just the kind of album I needed in my life right now.

oh awesome! thought this wasn't out till summer for some reason.

Friday.

just when I thought this was their twist-free pop record, the penultimate track shows up

"Forgiveness" is either a blatant Haim lift or a working through of the same influences.

hayley has lately been enthusing about haim all over twitter fyi

Caramanica can't hide his sneer.

I was going to say, who needs a new Haim?

Two quick observations: drummer has some fallback hi-hat on the 2 and 4 beats, and guitarist really likes those little African-esque licks. Both of which work, to my ears.

yeah, lots of high life accents

"forgiveness" is easily the best song i've heard this year & will prob destroy anything on the haim album--and i love haim!

It's got sort of 1975 vibes about it, too. And, um, "Cherish." Lovely, though.

Fake Happy is my immediate favourite. I love how those synths come in after that misleading intro.

No Friend is the only one I'm not really into. I don't think they really pulled off what they were going for. It's the only misfire on the album though, everything else sounds so good.

think of "no friend" as a dark inverse coda to "idle worship" bc... well, it is, but i think those are the terms on which it works

Pool is my favourite at the moment, but the first seven tracks are all pretty fantastic

No Friend would probably be fine if it were like a minute, doesn't really need to be longer than the track it's an outro to

is that Taylor singing "No Friend"?

that is aaron weiss from the band mewithoutyou

http://nocountryfornewnashville.com/2017/05/11/review-paramore-5-10-17-at-exitin-photos/#more-84799

that setlist :)

i just filed my review so i feel like now i can say that i don't get caramanica's

i find it hard to get into these guys, a couple of amazing songs aside

I get the gist of Caramanica's review; he pretty much voices all of my initial reservations about this album (too schticky, a waste of a great rock singer). I do think the tone is off, though. He isn't really giving the band any credit for their range (he brushes off the s/t album), and seems to box them in with a style of music they aren't interested anymore. It shouldn't be any great shock that bands can evolve over 10 years

and using synths isn't a touchstone of '80s bands (also, after three listens, I don't hear an egregious use of synths; they're more for the occasional garnish).

a waste of a great rock singer

i think listening to the album basically dispatches this criticism

xpost Yeah, definitely seems more sophisti-pop.

first couple of listens and i'm not really feeling this at all. it did take a few plays for say-they-say-they-told-meeeyyy to get its hooks into me though

off the bat i'm liking idle worship, i like the tension in the vocals there

caught in the middle - wtf is this ace of base garbage?

I generally like Caramanica, but this line -- "some of her essential grit is lost to the machines" -- I mean, talk about your '80s revivalism. It's like reading Rolling Stone in 1983.

hard times

First listen to this, and it was really disheartening. I'm sure it will grow on me, because the songs are solid and Hayley brought her A game. But I find the whole Wedding Singer cosplay thing insufferably tacky, and all those brittle '80s polyrhythms just sound shitty and one-trick to me.