I drank right from your tears of plenty andI exchanged all the gifts you sent meDreary beats over fast rapped versesLeaked through windows in hatchback hearses
― k3vin k., Sunday, 8 July 2018 06:45 (five years ago) link
The new one is my favorite record of the year, by a pretty wide margin.
― kornrulez6969, Sunday, 8 July 2018 11:52 (five years ago) link
its perfect
― flopson, Sunday, 8 July 2018 16:10 (five years ago) link
yeah ok I need to listen to it
― k3vin k., Sunday, 8 July 2018 17:04 (five years ago) link
The one that finally brought me around to them after several false starts.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Sunday, 8 July 2018 17:11 (five years ago) link
#2 ou #3 for me, beaten only by Camp Cope and maybe Graveyard
― Dinsdale, Monday, 9 July 2018 04:59 (five years ago) link
saw their show recently & it was really fun
― J0rdan S., Monday, 9 July 2018 05:02 (five years ago) link
Just went back to revisit to Light Up Gold, and I was thinking that I actually like their new album better... that maybe my tastes have matured along with the band. Then "Stoned and Starving" came on, and I had that "oh, yeah" moment.
Anyway, glad to see Wide Awake getting some love on this thread after a rocky start.
― enochroot, Monday, 9 July 2018 17:16 (five years ago) link
Wow! What are you guys hearing in this record?
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Monday, 9 July 2018 17:52 (five years ago) link
I like it but don't love it... yet
― flappy bird, Monday, 9 July 2018 18:01 (five years ago) link
Praising its topicality is the easy line, but it's still gnomic in places if that's how you want'em. To my ears it's no better or worse than the others, which means it's damn good except when they mimic DFA bands circa 2002.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 9 July 2018 18:01 (five years ago) link
yeah otm... but that's part of what bums me out about these guys. I like all of their records but love none of them. They have moments of brilliance spread out over their ... 6 or 7? albums/EPs, but there isn't one that's great all the way through imo. I'd rather have a band that alternates between great/classic records and shit/failed experiments than a consistent lukewarm streak.
― flappy bird, Monday, 9 July 2018 18:08 (five years ago) link
See I feel like they've been "bad" before (the failed experiments), but they've never boring like this. This sounds like some band I'd hear and forget. But I also love "LUG," so I'm coming at them differently than you guys, I guess.
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Monday, 9 July 2018 18:11 (five years ago) link
the lyrics are good but the topicality isn’t a draw for me
What are you guys hearing in this record?
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Monday, July 9, 2018 1:52 PM (eleven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
every song has great hooks and the production makes them pop. imo good “punk” production often makes the band sound small, mechanical, cartooney. the basslines! tight econo songwriting. also like their voices a lot especially the more talky guy, tho the shouty guy is p great too
― flopson, Monday, 9 July 2018 18:12 (five years ago) link
The use of piano is terrific too.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 9 July 2018 18:14 (five years ago) link
new one is strong the whole way flappy
― flopson, Monday, 9 July 2018 18:15 (five years ago) link
They are pretty good in what they do, but bring nothing new to the table that you haven't heard before
― nostormo, Monday, 9 July 2018 18:16 (five years ago) link
that’s a boring way to think about music though. the most important new thing to bring to the table, is new good hooks/tunes... universe will never have too many. also this album is p innovative so idg that accusation here ?
― flopson, Monday, 9 July 2018 18:18 (five years ago) link
I'm not hearing the hooks or tunes! I'll shut up now though
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Monday, 9 July 2018 18:19 (five years ago) link
nostormo otm, though I don't mind when it results in songs like Borrowed Time, Everyday It Starts, Vienna II, Ducking & Dodging... but flopson yeah I need to spend more time with it, I've only listened to it while traveling.
morrisp - now I remember Monastic Living, which was definitely a failed experiment but one I admired
― flappy bird, Monday, 9 July 2018 18:20 (five years ago) link
freebird II is the shit
― J0rdan S., Monday, 9 July 2018 18:20 (five years ago) link
maybe this won't sit with most people but when I think of other bands accused of "not bringing much new to the table" (the strokes, interpol, pretty much all of those early 00s rock revival bands), they either had singers or players that stood out, also their influences were so multitudinous that it effectively did create something new. I just don't think AS or AB are strong enough frontmen or songwriters to have outgrown their very obvious influences, often feels like cosplay. Good cosplay, but cosplay nonetheless.
― flappy bird, Monday, 9 July 2018 18:23 (five years ago) link
interpol suck ass lol
― flopson, Monday, 9 July 2018 18:24 (five years ago) link
yeah I'm really into the new one -- haven't heard anything between this and "light up gold" but there's a tenderness to a song like "free bird II" and elsewhere that I didn't think this band had in it. that song in particular is, despite the irony and acid, a really touching take on how you can appreciate and love someone (in this case his mom!) despite your relationship being full of regrets
― k3vin k., Monday, 9 July 2018 18:25 (five years ago) link
I know I'm alone in this but Paul Banks is my favorite singer & lyricist ever. but just Bright Lights and Antics. take that as you will
― flappy bird, Monday, 9 July 2018 18:26 (five years ago) link
One of them is quite distinctive, vocally
― Mark G, Monday, 9 July 2018 18:26 (five years ago) link
yeah the main vocalist is great
― k3vin k., Monday, 9 July 2018 18:27 (five years ago) link
riyl the more taut punk stuff (‘almost had to start a fight’) on here -> ‘fast metabolism’ by tyvek, one of my fav albums of the 00s
― flopson, Monday, 9 July 2018 18:30 (five years ago) link
Savage? he has brilliant moments but most of the time I find him really tiresome, also my man is flat as fuck a lot of the time, not in a good way.
― flappy bird, Monday, 9 July 2018 18:31 (five years ago) link
"maybe this won't sit with most people but when I think of other bands accused of "not bringing much new to the table" (the strokes, interpol, pretty much all of those early 00s rock revival bands), they either had singers or players that stood out, also their influences were so multitudinous that it effectively did create something new. I just don't think AS or AB are strong enough frontmen or songwriters to have outgrown their very obvious influences, often feels like cosplay. Good cosplay, but cosplay nonetheless." Yeah Thats what i meant with extension
― nostormo, Monday, 9 July 2018 18:32 (five years ago) link
human performance is my favourite, light up gold only slightly behind. i am still listening to the new one and it's still growing on me, i'd say it is catching up to a similar level. some of the tracks on the second half that seemed a little anonymous on earlier listens are grabbing my attention more now.
― Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 9 July 2018 18:35 (five years ago) link
yeah second half isn’t as immediate
― flopson, Monday, 9 July 2018 18:41 (five years ago) link
oh man he’s totally flat in a good way imo
sometimes
― flappy bird, Monday, 9 July 2018 18:48 (five years ago) link
actually... maybe not? he's not flat in Borrowed Time, that's a song that rocks on the edge of a cliff
― flappy bird, Monday, 9 July 2018 18:49 (five years ago) link
I have no problem with guitars or indie rock or wherever these guys fall, but whenever I play them it sounds fine and I think, man, I am so sick of guitars and indie rock. Which baffles me, because I have no problem with guitars or indie rock or wherever these guys fall.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 9 July 2018 19:19 (five years ago) link
(resists getting into an ‘indie rock’ discussion)
― k3vin k., Monday, 9 July 2018 19:27 (five years ago) link
I have pretty much all these guys albums except the real debut and the noisy instrumental one so I’ll probably get this eventually but so far none of the songs have really grabbed me.
― o. nate, Monday, 9 July 2018 19:28 (five years ago) link
i like that all the objections to this album boil down to “a rock album..... in 2018??” yep
― flopson, Monday, 9 July 2018 19:29 (five years ago) link
it's a rockin' vibe
― lowercase (eric), Monday, 9 July 2018 19:38 (five years ago) link
Event the goofy-gnomic stuff like "NY Observation" and "Normalization" and "Back to Earth" sound like they could've fit on earlier albums but they bloom around the spacier material like "Death Will Bring Change" and "Mardi Gras Beads," the latter my favorite song this week.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 9 July 2018 19:48 (five years ago) link
This album has made me realise just how tired I'm getting of '80s revivalism and synthpop - I'm ready for a new wave of guitar music now, preferably stuff that doesn't fall into the shoegaze or metal categories.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Monday, 9 July 2018 19:51 (five years ago) link
“a rock album..... in 2018??” yep
― flopson, Monday, July 9, 2018 12:29 PM (thirty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lol
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Monday, 9 July 2018 20:00 (five years ago) link
my two faves are the title track (yeah what Alfred?) and In and Out of Patience.
There's one song that is exactly like Range Life by Pavement
― Gâteau Superstar (dog latin), Monday, 9 July 2018 23:24 (five years ago) link
^(one of Pavement's worst songs! LOL)
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Monday, 9 July 2018 23:32 (five years ago) link
The song Normalization could be on Double Nickels on the Dime.
― kornrulez6969, Monday, 9 July 2018 23:37 (five years ago) link
The Minutemen are the album's biggest influence.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 9 July 2018 23:39 (five years ago) link
Freebird II is actually the Mountain Goats' Letter From Belgium II
― Gâteau Superstar (dog latin), Monday, 9 July 2018 23:53 (five years ago) link
I like Range Life
range life slays fuiud
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 10 July 2018 03:46 (five years ago) link