Brand New: emo beacon or lesser light?

apparently the countdown was a hoax

can anyone explain why wikipedia says "planned disbandment" and the RS review says it's their last album? i haven't been able to find any info on that

they released shirts last year that said "brand new 2000-2018"

ahh ok

they're a cryptic band though and i don't really trust them to follow through on it

i'm finding myself really moved by "in the water". this album is basically reminding me why i was obsessed with this band in high school

and yeah, "batter up"....damn

this album gets better and better with every listen. so many unexpected turns

yeah loving it. still getting to know it.

That opening to "Waste" sounds so much like The Cranberries' "Zombie" it throws me off every time

ha!

this album is so richly varied. the flawless shoegaze of "no control"; "desert", which basically sounds like jesse doing a stephen malkmus song; and of course morrissey all over.

my current favorite moment is the bridge to "could never be heaven"

godddddd is dead

well said

I do love this album but it's so despairing I find myself having to limit my exposure to it somewhat

K this is good

That opening to "Waste" sounds so much like The Cranberries' "Zombie" it throws me off every time

I'm going to have to edit the shit out of all these interludes tagged to the end of a lot of these songs. Wish most of them were their own songs.

i love the unresolved punk song at the end of “no control”

The guitar solo in "137" is the most glorious musical moment of 2017.

I'm going to have to edit the shit out of all these interludes tagged to the end of a lot of these songs. Wish most of them were their own songs.

― Rod Steel (musicfanatic), Friday, September 29, 2017 8:17 PM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

can you YSI if you do this? after listening to it for the 20th time theyre really starting to get on my nerves

You can easily do this yourself with a lossless MP3 editor. The best one I know is MP3DirectCut (Windows only).

ya i could do it on audacity right now tbh i'm just bizy and figured if someone else had already done it

the skits are rly cool and creepy the first 20 listens tho

yeah i like the "skits" (not sure that's what i'd call them tho)

Every night you were tripping out
In the morning you were coming down
If it's breaking your heart, if nothing is fun
Don't lose hope, my son
This is the last one

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

i don't usually get that stoked about live concerts even for bands i love but this is one of the albums where i need to see them touring this material

largely because i need a socially acceptable outlet to singalong to some of these choruses in public

is this band/album too normie for the rest of the 1975 cru?

tim f is a fan of the devil and god iirc

i have a new favorite every night. this album gives and gives. listening to new music from this band (my favorite in high school/early college 10 years ago) when it's THIS GOOD fills me with a unique sort of nostalgia. or a sense of completeness/closure, idk

kev you should check out
thread of best rock album of year 2017, 'a black mile to the surface' by manchester orchestra

ha yeah i remember digging manchester orchestra a little back in the day, they toured with brand new at least once iirc. ill give it a spin

yeah I saw them together around 2009

first time I listened to the intro to SF I was afraid Jesse had gone full Tom Delonge

and then the first few strums of Can't Get Out had me thinking he'd gone full Jeff Mangum

jesse is an obsessive NMH fan, if you heard something it's quite possibly intentional

I THOUGHT I WAS A CREATOR
NOW I'M JUST HANGING AROUND
GOT MY MESSIAH IMPRESSION
YEAH THINK I GOT IT NAILED DOWN

otm

cool show last night at the worst venue ever. jesse said we're gonna see them a couple more times in the next 14 months in chicago, whatever that means

I only just caught the "nailed down" pun lol

+ hangin around

i just realized that the reason "i am a nightmare" is so awesome is because it's basically a gaslight anthem song

The show was amazing tonight but two notes 1) Jessie clearly hates deja ententu only played two songs from it and before sic transit he sarcastically said “the hit song” 2) I think he’s super depressed? I mean the new material is bleak af he’s playing lots of daisy not really engaging with the audience lots of dark imagery of soldiers in the background. But great show. But I hope he’s okay.

honestly that was one of my first thoughts when I first heard the new album

he’s playing lots of daisy

is this a euphemism for.. drugs?

the album

lol i don't know the first thing about their catalogue other than having sic transit gloria on a burned cdr in high school. checking out the 'devil and jesus' album u guys were talking about rn tho

flopson!

starting my emo phase late at 26

haha i just listened to YFW -> DE -> 2006 all in succession on a car ride last night and it brought be straight back to high school, screaming out all the lyrics in the car alone. if you like the new album i'd start with devil and god and then work backwards to see how much you can stomach. the old stuff is good for what it is (music for kids) but it's not something i can really imagine listening to all the time anymore

this new album has pretty much cemented brand new as one of my all-time favorite bands tho, or at least made me a little more willing to say that in public lol

2006 demos, i mean

JUST JEALOUS CAUSE WERE YOUNG AND IN LOVE

starting my emo phase late at 26

I did this too and I recommend it highly