exanctile's Recent Activity
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exanctile liked WeWereGiants's post in the thread Hayley Williams - untitled project (July 28, 2025).
I have the sequencing I like and that works for me, I’ve listened on shuffle the last few times and it works too. They are just good songs Relient K’s Air For Free has a different sequencing on Vinyl and I love listening to it both ways so I’m not worried about the sequencing for a physical release.
Aug 5, 2025 at 8:26 AM -
exanctile liked Greg's post in the thread Hayley Williams - untitled project (July 28, 2025).
Please kill me if this is the new standard.
Aug 5, 2025 at 8:25 AM -
exanctile liked StatusAilments's post in the thread Band Yellowcard.
Why'd they have to Mike Wazowski Sean there?
Aug 5, 2025 at 4:13 AM -
exanctile liked AlwaysEvolving21's post in the thread Band Yellowcard.
Hell yeah. Looking forward to that. Future blink and Yellowcard tour
Aug 5, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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exanctile liked Micah511's post in the thread Band Anberlin.
Matty isn't any good, but it is 100% about how they've handled everything with Stephen. If the announcement was, "Stephen doesn't want to tour right now, and he may not want to do recorded music moving forward either. Stephen brought Matty to us, who he knew was a huge fan, and we jived with him and he will be the singer moving forward. We know everyone loves Stephen, but let's give Matty a warm welcome, because we believe he is the best option for Anberlin moving forward" the whole thing would've been a lot easier to swallow. I wouldn't have liked it, but I would've understood that Stephen put them in an unenviable situation, and they're just trying to make a living on the road. But instead, they are super vague, troll fans online, and re-record old songs that had no business being re-recorded.
Aug 4, 2025 at 8:09 AM -
exanctile liked Luis1988888's post in the thread Thrice - Horizons / West (October 3rd, 2025).
I can't believe we are like two months away from new thrice, it really has felt like an eternity since east
Aug 4, 2025 at 4:50 AM -
exanctile liked irthesteve's post in the thread Thrice - Horizons / West (October 3rd, 2025).
whooah what the fuck, Gnash is immediately my favorite thing from this band in a long, long time. What a song
Aug 4, 2025 at 4:50 AM -
exanctile liked bobsheiskawy's post in the thread Band Anberlin.
It seems like most of the holdouts are the people who were the biggest fans of the band before (i.e. not the casual fans who only liked Never Take Friendship Personal or Cities or just the singles). If you're a casual fan, you might just want to hear the song(s) you already know, but more dedicated fans of a band like this are going to have more of an interest in hearing growth/development and new music (maintaining some core of what the band is). I don't think Matty's ever going to be our real dad, and making/remaking music that imagines what it would've been like he was in the band in 2006 isn't the going to get any of the holdouts to buy in. I think the biggest part of what made this band special to people (unique singer/lyrical perspective aside) was the consistent progression and exploration of different sounds. It's what made the melodic/hook jump into Never Take Friendship Personal fun, what made the overall creativity and darker sounds in Cities and Vital so successful, and what made the edge of Lowborn and the EPs exciting on either side of the hiatus. Maybe they genuinely feel like they want to be calling back to the older sound at this point, but it's dissonant in context of every other moment of their career. I'm personally not in on Matty rerecording things and I'm really not interested in seeing this weird knock off nostalgia act approach live, but I'm also not opposed to hearing them expand parts of their sound that are a good fit for Matty's voice while not pandering to what they were doing 20 years ago. There are definitely versions of this lineup that could get people like me to buy into this as something new instead of feeling like a failed regression. I don't think "Seven" is anywhere near the best song on Vega, but it's at least somewhat interesting on the whole and it's moving forward instead of backward. Even if the chorus is pretty paint-by-numbers, the verses of "Walk Alone" have some cool instrumental stuff and some propulsion in the vocals that feels meaningful. "High Stakes," though, is the exact opposite of what I want them to be doing. I absolutely don't need Matty to be writing awful lyrics over unused music from a past era of the band (and it would probably be best if they cut back on the vocal processing more generally). I also really don't need them being vocally shitty about fans not liking their approach to things. I'd love to support the guys, but they're regularly making it hard to want to before even getting to the merits of the music. tl;dr: Yes, he could potentially win some people over, but the band currently doesn't seem interested in pursuing the ways it could happen.
Aug 2, 2025 at 7:03 PM -
exanctile liked Ricky's Law's post in the thread Thrice - Horizons / West (October 3rd, 2025).
Oh, I wasn't saying my take is more accurate than yours. That's just where my mind went first, but yours is better.
Aug 1, 2025 at 4:05 PM -
exanctile replied to the thread Thrice - Horizons / West (October 3rd, 2025).
That's fair, but my point was more that these clearly have to do with the album title (sun setting in the western horizon) than H/E did. To me, that's more specific than just light in the abstract.
Aug 1, 2025 at 8:25 AM -
exanctile liked Ricky's Law's post in the thread Thrice - Horizons / West (October 3rd, 2025).
I was also thinking that they're light-themed, which is on brand for the band that wrote Hold Up a Light, Northern Lights, Torch to End All Torches, Silhouette, Stare at the Sun, Salt and Shadow, The Dark, etc.
Aug 1, 2025 at 3:12 AM -
exanctile replied to the thread Thrice - Horizons / West (October 3rd, 2025).
Speaking of song titles, I'm just noticing how much these have to do with end of day: Blackout, Dusk, Dark Glow, Crooked Shadows, Distant Suns, Vesper Light... I didn't necessarily feel H/E lacked cohesion, but I'm optimistic this record will carry a more consistent thread from start to finish. Two more months!
Jul 31, 2025 at 7:09 PM -
exanctile liked aoftbsten's post in the thread Movie Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (Christopher McQuarrie, May 23, 2025).
Thinking about this again since it was bumped. It’s funny how the central theme of this movie is that we have to trust one another to survive and yet it demonstrates no trust in the audience to figure out what’s going on for the first 90 minutes. The sub and plane scenes still absolutely rule though.
Jul 31, 2025 at 1:50 PM -
exanctile liked bd007h's post in the thread Foo Fighters - But Here We Are (June 2nd, 2023).
some of my favorite bands out here making better trades than my favorite hockey team
Jul 31, 2025 at 6:33 AM
