paramore - after laughter - recording and anticipation

album is apparently also titled this is why, out february 10

5 minutes until the video premier.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9g0L5eiGgc

fucking fuck yeah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIYJ7VaSxYY

That new song is great, love hearing something that doesn't remind me of much besides the band playing it. pretty neat hearing these sort of subtle psych rock flourishes butt up against post punk.

Yeah that's good fun, that is.

xp: yeah, it really felt like Zac had a hand in the writing of the song.

oh this sounds so much like foals lol

it's decent, definitely hear that they're into silent alarm at the moment. looking forward to more simultaneously loose & spiky post-punk

i like that it hasn't left the after laughter sound behind entirely either but is intent on making it murkier like fog-clouded glass

i will be singing the chorus of this song to myself every time i have to leave the house for the rest of my life probably

also makes me think what if "now" got reconfigured by the much groovier band they became on the last album, down to the bridge being the emotional climax of the song

would listen to a whole album of just taylor york playing guitar, dude is so tasteful

glad they continue to be the best band of all time

Nice.

https://i.imgur.com/a4aEfY3.gif

hard times

even the typeface pic.twitter.com/NCnHC6HpdW

— Mark Pytlik (@markpytlik) September 28, 2022

i love this song, perfect direction for them to go in (if the rest of the album is like this)

I like this a lot, it reminds me of Lonelady which is not what I was expecting.

OTOH the only good reason to delay the album until next year is to maximise ILM poll placement opportunities.

Do any of you know what's behind long-ass album rollouts these days? There seem to be more of them lately, where the initial single will be released 5-6 months before the album comes out (see also Charli XCX's last album). I've seen people speculate that it is related to vinyl manufacturing delays. But if that's the case, why not just hold the single until it is closer to the time for the records to be ready?

Yeah, I don't know what the strategy actually is supposed to be, but for me it feels like an album getting perpetually released over the course of several weeks/months, to the extent that when it actually does come out I sometimes miss it or forget to listen to it. Happened most recently with Beach House, maybe, and perhaps the Beths. I worry it will happen with this and the 1975. For sure it happened with the Hayley Williams solo album.

the 1975 have regularly done absurdly long rollouts which seems to be in significant part due to their own disorganisation, but they also love drip-feeding singles

paramore go on tour next week so i'd imagine they probably already had the tour booked & wanted to have new music out before then but the release got held up due to vinyl manufacturing delays & this is the compromise

both of those are different to the beach house/hayley solo album cases though where they were released essentially as a series of multiple EPs - idk what's with that as an approach, it's been common enough in recent years, but i can't think of anything where i've appreciated it

opening 30 seconds sounds like poppy Broadcast. god if the rest of the album is even in that vein.

ah they're not working with jmj this album, that's a shame - guess he's too busy with st vincent recently. it's being produced by carlos de la garza who engineered & mixed the last two + hayley's solo albums

xxp: trying to line things up with tours could be a reasonable explanation. Another example that I heard people talking about was Muse. The first single off this year's album debuted in January, but the album wasn't released until August. However, it looks like their world tour started in April, so that scenario could make sense.

Anyway, back to Paramore.

It sounds to me like the guys are singing background on the chorus, but I'm not totally sure. Anyone else hear that?

Zac's drumming is great.

Add this to the long list of Paramore songs that use "falling" as a metaphor.

it looks like muse were just booked for all the summer festivals & probably would have liked to have been able to get the album out before them but couldn't. the dates before that were just a few promo shows it looks like. an eight month rollout is pretty silly yeah.

apparently in addition to all the 00s dance-punk influences they were also really into the second rhcp album during recording??

imo… hell yeah

Best Chi-Peps record to be into.

"Chi-Peps" makes them sound like a delicious early '70s vocal group lol

Chi-Lites first top 10 hit was called "Give It Away."

Do any of you know what's behind long-ass album rollouts these days? There seem to be more of them lately, where the initial single will be released 5-6 months before the album comes out (see also Charli XCX's last album). I've seen people speculate that it is related to vinyl manufacturing delays. But if that's the case, why not just hold the single until it is closer to the time for the records to be ready?

― peace, man, Wednesday, September 28, 2022 6:15 PM (yesterday)

i don't think majors would severely alter plans for any important album over vinyl manufacturing. this is just a personal theory but i think artists started to see fewer and fewer returns on the surprise or one week timeline style album drop. i think when that idea was fresh it was a way to cut thru the noise and get attention on the album, i think at a certain point it became so common place that it stopped having the intended effect of bringing the music world to a screeching halt. ari lennox just a really short announcement to release plan and her album underperformed pretty severely. my sense is that labels/artists are starting to swing back in the other direction and feel like a steady drip of "content" is what is going to keep a new album in people's minds for more than 48 hours

That sucks about the Lennox album.

More acts should do what Trent Reznor did and just leave new songs on thumb drives in public bathrooms.

If you use a streaming service that brings to your attention new releases by artists you've listened to before (as Spotify does), then a steady drip of content is also going to bring the artist to the top of your "feed" and more occasions, resulting in a greater likelihood of you remembering to listen.

longer rollouts make sense in a world where people are constantly moving onto the next thing. the longer the rollout, the longer the conversation lasts.

it reminds me of streaming television switching away from the binge model

it’s funny because in the cd era, album rollout would routinely take months, and now we’re back baby

longer rollouts make sense in a world where people are constantly moving onto the next thing. the longer the rollout, the longer the conversation lasts.

it reminds me of streaming television switching away from the binge model

Isn't that an attempt to stop people constantly switching between streaming platforms? If you release episodes over more than five weeks, users will have to keep their subscription for more than a month, rather than bingeing it all in a month then switching over to another platform.

beyonce's was pretty compact compared to all these other examples though - announced two months before release, lead single a month before release, that's it

yeah but still there seemed to be an expectation that it would just drop suddenly whenever but they clearly went a different route if not to the extent as some of these others

Isn't that an attempt to stop people constantly switching between streaming platforms? If you release episodes over more than five weeks, users will have to keep their subscription for more than a month, rather than bingeing it all in a month then switching over to another platform.

― The Ghost Club, Thursday, September 29, 2022 7:01 PM (thirty-eight minutes ago)

i think netflix et al saw the same thing about shows dropping all at once and then falling out of the cultural conversation a very short time later

Ugh! Imagine awakening to this news:

Hayley Williams and Taylor York are officially dating pic.twitter.com/OevKzJ23T1

— Etalk (@etalkCTV) September 29, 2022

So sorry, Alfred.

Fuck!

what if they become polymore, theres still a window here

lol

oh polymooooooorre
broke my heart
now I'm achin for youuuu

and after all this time…I’m still into you
and you
and you

album tracklist:

This Is Why
The News
Running Out of Time
C'est Comme Ça
Big Man, Little Dignity
You First
Figure 8
Liar
Crave
Thick Skull

unfortunately they're not playing any new songs on tour beyond the single yet

Here's the live debut of This Is Way

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYeqd6bB20g

Also MizBiz is back.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wNMulOAE84

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z33FuwWjit4