I'll always regret not buying The Season on vinyl when I saw them open for La Dispute. I even had the money! Instead I bought a bunch of shirts and Separation Acoustic on 7". Shame.
So do you like, work with this band or something? Haha I know this probably sounds like a silly question but I've wondered since the AGO thread on AP.net. People always seem to go to you for inside info, I can't tell if you're a friend of the band or just a really big fan, or what the deal is there. Just curious!
Oh no way! Haha, well that solves that. Always wanted to ask but felt embarrassed or something because it seemed everyone else already knew the answer.
I laughed very hard at this but don't be embarrassed! I'm not especially close with "the band", but I've been friends with Nate, Mel, Mike for close to a decade now. I talk to them occasionally. I met them a long time ago at a dive bar when they played with O'Bro and they ended up crashing at my house that night.
I'm usually not a fan of bands restraining their aggression however, in the case of Nate (After becoming obsessed with his solo album) I am more than confident that this will be a good thing.
These guys remind me a bit of Say Anything the first time I listened - great music, interesting songs, but a vocalist who is perhaps a bit too quirky. I love Say Anything and Max's style, but Nathan's just doesn't grab me as much as it grates. I tried his solo album too and only made it a few songs in, his vocal histrionics are not my thing.
That's unfortunate. I personally don't see how you thought of Say Anything. Hiw do you feel about Manchester Orchestra? I'd say Nathan's vocals are much closer to Andy Hulls
I don't mean that Nathan and Max sound alike, I mean their vocal styles either mesh with your ears or they don't - Max's does, Nathan's doesn't. I don't hear much of a similarity to Andy Hull either, Andy's got a more poetic and delicate feel to his voice, whereas Nathan's I just find comically pitchy sometimes - good range but far too strained.
Check out the movement ep I would say that's his cleanest vocally but I was slightly thrown off by those things at first as well but then I realized how well they helped convey urgency in those songs
Yeah I don't know if you compare Nathan to current Andy then I would agree. But Andys more unpolished sound on ILAVLAC I think him and Nathan are pretty comparable. I bet we will see Nathan really come into his own vocally.