crying: beyond the fleeting gales

This is fantastic. The opening track is already my favorite song of the year.

Whoa, thanks. Cute shred alert? "Patriot" was my favourite song of last year. I think I liked the single version, where the vocals were more obscured, a bit more than this one. Not carping though.

The stretch of "A Sudden Gust"/"There Was a Door"/"Revive" is heaven. Less sure about the slower songs so far.

From RYM user MrMiniike:

this is such an exuberant fucking delight. This is exactly the album I need in my life right now.

^ OTM

Tempted to change my display name (for the first time in 12 years) to 'exuberant fucking delight'.

This is really awful.

The vocals definitely don't help but I'm not sure good vocals would save it.

The stretch of "A Sudden Gust"/"There Was a Door"/"Revive" is heaven. Less sure about the slower songs so far.

took me a while to realize that "well and spring" is about its build. almost none of the other songs here are about build as much as about being a dense mass of polygons

think my favorite is "the curve"

this is a band where i'm equally thrilled when people love them and when people hate them lol

"well and spring" is about its transition into "a sudden gust", which is truly spectacular

but yes, it does build towards this

yeah i can deal with this

wasn't sure if this is my thing from the sampled tracks but i'm about to give this a spin bc my faith in the brad ilm album thread brand is unshaken

(what's up with the tasteless album art though?)

ok this is in fact so great

the start of the last track when the van halen jump suspended synthchords come in is almost too much to take

i love the moments when stuff happens that doesn't really make sense outside the context of chiptunes like the wacko guitar solo on Wool in the Wash or the synth-trumpet fanfare riff in The Curve

bump bc i love this record

Good and necessary bump. Every single track is a joy, though my favourite right now is There Was a Door. One of my absolute favourites this year.

My brother just sent me the opening song from this the other day. After one listen to the album, it's immediately in my top five of the albums of the year. I couldn't believe what I was hearing.

yeah this is top 5 of year for me for sure

it's in my top 20 which is a pretty cool achievement for an emo record in (imo) the best year for music ever

my top 5 has multiple emo records, brad has infected me

i guess we are in a post post garage band world now but am i the only one who can't listen to this? it just sounds so bad. yikes.

also let's settle down w/the deerhoof comparisons

my top 5 has multiple emo records, brad has infected me

http://i.imgur.com/Dwwur4W.gif

Ums, do you mean in terms of production?

yes

like freepluginspalooza

It sounds like Sega's SST Band.

loving this album even with the christian rock cover vibe

this really rules even though it often feels like it shouldn't

the synth textures are odd and wouldn't really work anywhere else but here they're reminiscent of an n64 game or something

Just saw them play a good percentage of this album supporting The Hotelier. It was a pretty amazing performance. They ended on There Was a Door, which was pure space happiness. We spoke to them afterwards at the merch stall and they were very sweet. One of the best features of 2016.

I spilt beer on their merch but I wiped it up with my jumper and I'm sorry

Just got this album on vinyl. Wonderful record.

Hadn't heard any of this and would like to thank anyone who voted for it because it rules and is extremely my shit

Yeah this album rules. I've been digging this one's 1984 Van Halen vibes lately

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JveleSm7ddo

"revive" is my favorite song

would like to thank anyone who voted for it because it rules and is extremely my shit
co-sign. Listened to the whole thing yesterday. Quite brilliant.

live performance of songs from the worlds 41st greatest emo record <3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5L9XdD3VP4

oh my god the drummer

aaaaaaah i quit drumming

Great clip. Santos seems a little unsure in the first song but ends up delivering better than I've seen in any other clips. Guitarist and drummer are dead-on. How long has this drummer been with them? I don't think she was on the album? (And, apparently, they could explain Dream Theatre to us! Or at least the guitarist could.)

Yeah Elaiza kills it, really annoyed i missed them in the UK. Think the she just covered this tour for the usual drummer who plays in LVL UP as well.

Glad to see the guitarist is a fan of The Go! Team.

my dream is that someday they become big enough that i'm able to do 'wool in the wash' at karaoke

Just hearing them for the first time today but heard the name from friends...awesome stuff!

i love this record

same

I remember when Barry Johnson of Joyce Manor raved about Crying, pre-BTFG. I checked out their bandcamp and all I heard was this 8-bit emo band. I was so confused. But this new album is perfect, definitely one of my favorites of 2016. Get Olde Second Wind is still pretty unlistenable tho

Ha, I even like some of that one OK. Beyond the Fleeting Gales was a major step up, though.

Played "Revive" for my co-worker and he said it was "refreshing" and seemed notably jazzed

hey, this is pretty good

I only listened to this after the year-end poll, and I liked it but I had a hard time placing it. That's not a bad thing, I just wasn't really sure what I was hearing. Watching the live clip is helpful, because it made me think of Marnie Stern. These guys are sort of similarly adrift, indie prog or whatever you want to call them. She's talented. Will need to explore more.

(And now I see Marnie is referenced in the OP, so, yeah.)

"i hear perfume" would be a good way to describe this band even if I didn't understand it as a reference & interpreted the words literally

yesterday, this was pretty good. today, three listens later, it's the best album i've heard in ages. love everything about it (except the merely good bass playing and the softer "indie" vocals, maybe). memorable songs, hilarious range of winks & influences, killer keys & guitar, powerhouse vocalist, and zero flab. last four tracks are especially great.

yah the closing run is incredible

they could do with a full-time bassist though maybe yeah, especially live

there's a bit of Trans Am in there too

i love this record and i'm glad everyone else does

there's a bit of Trans Am in there too

yeah, spiritual headbands, definitely

and here they are covering "run away with me"

http://www.avclub.com/video/crying-delivers-spirited-cover-carly-rae-jepsens-r-257015

that doesn't quite come together but i'm not sure if it's just the guitar being way too low in the mix

I dreamed about this album last night

the beat shift in the chorus is weird but imo that cover is great

av club commenters extremely unimpressed

yeah not sure what they were going for on the feel change in the chorus--felt like one or more of the band members didn't understand what was going on.

love the verses tho

I wish I had a little more time
The current moves me forth, but I still look behind

still the best album of the last 5 years

their new drummer is f---ing amazing

one of the best albums of the decade, if anything i underrated it at the time

i still listen to this shit all the time. wonder if there's anything new on the horizon.

love watching videos of them too, just for the big dude calmly shredding on an ernie ball music man

i would really like another crying album

that glass beach album tt mentioned in the emo thread yesterday might scratch the itch

lol was what brought me here!

whatever happened to Crying?

I'm ready to put out an album every year, but you must promise to put me on more than zero playlists.

— C R Y I N G (@cryingband) July 31, 2020

A few tweets down, the extremely unsurprising news that they are a huge Cardiacs fan :)

Nice!

release album u fucks

https://www.stereogum.com/2096976/japanese-breakfast-crying-new-project-bumper-ep/music/ !!

just came to post about this ^^

this is a really excellent little project, offering a poppier, smoother take on crying's chiptune wall of sound. i hope these two can get together for a full-length.

remembered "there was a door" today

Just put on "Patriot".

revive made me look at their twitter & ryan has a new side project as of a few weeks ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Chw-Db6kKbE

Happy 5th anniversary to Beyond the Fleeting Gales! pic.twitter.com/1arzu1taO5

— C R Y I N G (@cryingband) October 15, 2021

i just keep coming out to myself

on one hand this is the best record ever, on the other hand they should make another one

still the greatest album of all time

not inaccurate

new album when (ever)?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMXXiYzA2w4

was checking in on what they've been up to and the guitarist/songwriter put out this collaborative single last year

don't see any reason to ever expect a second album though unfortunately, maybe eventually one of his other projects will put out a new album