Can someone get a hold of Jack and let him know I'll be very disappointed if he doesn't play upstairs at els this tour?
How much of these podcasts are ads? I have a hard time with podcasts in general and the two hours is pretty daunting, but the content seems awesome
10ish minutes of ads, maybe? I skip through them so I don't know for sure. There's an ad at the beginning and an ad break between each of the three songs featured. Their Patreon has video episodes which I assume are ad-free but I haven't signed up. I don't really notice the length because this is shorter than most of my favorite podcasts. Truly is the best music production podcast out there though, and Jack's episodes are some of the best.
Revisited s/t this morning. Some of it is so good, the first handful of songs in particular are a perfect meeting point for the songwriting, the other band members’ contributions, and Jack’s studio wizardry. But overall the mood after Tiny Moves is a real slog, especially in comparison to the new one. His best work almost universally makes sure to have fun and as high quality as a lot of s/t is it’s just desperately missing that outside of a couple songs. the day that Kobe fell from the sky/the day that Kendall Pepsi smiled is a hall of fame funny bad line
night and day. they usually deep dive on 3 songs for about 30min each, but it is much more production focused. both 1975 episodes are fantastic if you're into that band.
I got the ELS pressing, showed up yesterday. Songs are all the same, mix is maybe a little different? I’m not great at describing these things lol but compared to the stream its warmer, more midrange and a little more distorted/buzzy. Hear it most in his vocal.
My package came with the ELS one and a copy of the regular album instead of the Tamarind one, so I'm waiting to see how support handles that haha
For it to happen to (at least) three of us here, I'm assuming there was some sort of warehouse labeling issue. I got a reply from them saying they'd work on getting the Tamarind copy out and that they'd follow up with info about me sending back the regular copy.
Had the Stone Pony show on in the background this morning. Almost (not really) makes up for not being able to make the Chicago shows over the weekend.
Ya the setlist was pretty much exactly what I was hoping it would be. Opening night was phenomenal, the new songs sound great live. Bleaches forever indeed
Amazing show in Toronto las night. A huge step up from the last time they came through as a co-headliner with Carly (where the crowd was majority her fans and...definitely didn't get on Jack's wavelength, and you could tell he was frustrated). Jack is a top-tier frontman and the band sounds incredible live and puts on a hell of a show. Also very pleased at the likely generational shift that appears to have happened that means Toronto audiences are no longer lame as fuck.
Loving this more with every listen. Such a fun album. Upstairs at els is constantly stuck in my head.
I really love about 75% of it, but it does lose me in the sections that I feel like they retread musically and kinda sound like AI recreating Bleachers. "sideways" is honestly the biggest offender for me, I don't like it as the opener. The back section of tracks 7-10 is a bit too much balladry back to back to back, individually they are solid tracks but strung together in this order, it slogs a bit by the end
Feels like things have settled down enough in here for me to say that I am sad that I don’t like this at all. A lot of the rich people lyrical content irks me and I just… don’t care about any of these songs melodically or instrumentally either.
Agree with this, except I wouldn't lump in "i'm not joking" with the rest of these, but maybe because I already had listened to it a bunch as a single. And of the rest, "dancing" is a pretty great song, so I'd keep that one as the ballad. If this had a better opener, and replaced "I can't believe you're gone" and "she's from before" with even just one song that had a bit more life to it, then this would be on par with the first two records. As it stands, it's at a comfortable #3, but not like way behind #2. I think it's a pretty incredible album