Brand New: emo beacon or lesser light?

can't get over how good the reworked demos sound. tbh I doubt they'll be on the new album, or at least I really hope they won't be, the songs are ten years old ffs

the full set of 2006 demos are on spotify btw. i remember being obsessed with them around the time they leaked, but i'm pretty shocked at how well they've held up. this is really good stuff

I've heard that "three cheers" chorus before, has it been a part of their live sets?

oh yeah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsKocqfHL7I

i am the watch you always wear but you forget to wind

one day in the future there will be a new brand new album and d*nald tr*mp will be dead

no one is allowed to bump this thread again until there is news of at least one of those things happening

NEW! ALBUM! IN! OCTOBER! http://www.procrastinatemusictraitors.com/

AAAAAAH

also many thanks brad for honoring my request!!

fuck a 45$ plus shipping price tag though

holy shit i hope this means a TOUR

what's the very best Brand New album for someone who likes melody + guitars

all of them? deja entendu maybe?

that or _tdagarim_, i sense the majority here would recommend the latter first

either of the middle two are what you want. i'd maybe recommend deja over devil bc of your emphasis on "melody"

as far as i can tell

1. this album is called science fiction
2. it's out there

!!!!!

what a day

I know everyone is going to say this but this sounds like the actual Devil and God followup so far, holy shiiiiiii

this is fucking unbelievable

when i grow up, i wanna be a heretic

this is emo christmas

i have so much work to do today!!!! whyyy did this happen now!!!!

ahhh (spoiler)!!

anyone got a link they can share? at work and want a trusted source

get thee to reddit

i dont do reddit but ill try

yeah i also had to brave reddit and ugh but

THE GUITARS

it's their jangle record, kinda!!

holy shit (spoiler)!!!!

kiss me one time each eyelid
so I can see how I dreamed it

definitely no second-half slump on this one, goddamn

oh man the talk talkisms with the organ and harmonica

about to start listen 2, I am so happy with this

i'm guessing the last song is called "batter up" anyway that's my fav

what a weird record

it's the epic closer Devil and God deserved

the next to last song is fuckin intense

tracklisting + non-$45 vinyl http://www.procrastinatemusictraitors.com/products/598731-brand-new-science-fiction

the cover is so good

download available immediately after order!!!!!!

That's dope.

oh if you buy it it's an immediate download. i hell of couldn't afford to do that but i did lol xp

smdh at the outlet who thought the band sent out CDs "accidentally"

god bless this day

I know people cringe at calling them emo but I feel like this is the ideal day for that Wrens album announcement

oh man the talk talkisms with the organ and harmonica

― just another (diamonddave85), Thursday, August 17, 2017 1:10 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

thank you for connecting "in the water" to talk talk

album generally has catherine wheel adam & eve vibes i think

http://flavorwire.com/528083/pop-punk-keeps-forgiving-sexual-harassers-to-the-detriment-of-its-teen-girl-fanbase

Great piece. Also this one from 2015 hints at how vast the scope of the problem is: https://medium.com/cuepoint/warped-behavior-sexual-violence-on-tour-8ad218d50bc9

Gotta imagine there's a reckoning coming. How many dozens of bands must have known this stuff went on and turned a blind eye to it?

i was once at a green day show when i was about 15, i was getting a ride home from these friends of a friend's older brother and they were huge nerds who wanted to stay and meet the band afterwards, which i wasn't really interested in but they were my ride home. tre cool (who would've been late 20s at the time) spent the whole time trying to convince a 15/16 year old girl to get on the tour bus with him, and pulled his cock out at some stage with some really flimsy pretext.

jesus fucking christ

When I was in university taking a shuttle bus between campuses, I randomly overheard a girl (roughly my age at the time so I'd say 18-20) talking about how she'd had sex with someone from GD after a show. That's pretty second-hand, obviously, but it's always stayed with me.

Have other band members responded yet?

Not that I've seen.

I finally brought myself to read the Pitchfork piece and jfc

If anyone ever wants to write a piece about #MeToo and artist fandom, which someone probably should, they'd do well to start with the wildly divergent (and still-unraveling) reactions on the Brand New subreddit.

can't bring myself to read that tbh. used to be a part of the brand new online fan community as a teenager and those people are nuts

sort of hate myself for loving this record as much as I do. but maybe that's what brand new's music is about, and why it speaks to me so much -- so much of it deals in guilt, self-loathing...it feels very earned.

October 2018? hell yeah