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gimaad replied to the thread Band Foxy Shazam.
[MEDIA] This song sounds like the music that I want foxy releasing
Aug 5, 2025 at 7:24 AM -
gimaad liked elphshelf's post in the thread Band Anberlin.
It’s made worse by how dishonest they’re being about everything. They’re going to painstaking lengths to avoid saying Stephen is gone for good when all signs point to that.
Aug 2, 2025 at 6:51 PM -
gimaad 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 6:50 PM -
gimaad replied to the thread Band Anberlin.
But on a serious note, I hate the direction of the band, both artistically and how they interact with fans. Leaves a sour taste in my mouth.
Aug 2, 2025 at 3:46 AM -
gimaad replied to the thread Band Anberlin.
Me, a relatively sporadic user who has been trying to be more involved and check a few followed threads every day returning here after checking the last time at around noon https://tenor.com/zEsf.gif
Aug 2, 2025 at 3:45 AM