Circa Survive - The Amulet (September 22, 2017) Album • Page 51

something like that

 

Yeah that was quite the spectacle. Never 4get

 

Everyone associated with that band seemed like a real winner

 

yep i believe so

i remember this he took the photo of u in that adorable christmas sweater. what a D O R K

 

i'm still gonna stand by saying that anthony's voice being "too clean" on the first 3 albums is what made them so great. it's the main reason why i haven't been able to enjoy VW and Descensus as much, and i really love The Amulet but, it still sits just behind those first 3 albums for the same reason to me. and please don't tell me that hitting the notes regularly compared to the album version is the problem, i've heard him hit the highest scream in get out in a perfectly clean tone, live. its purely a conscious choice for him to preform on the newer albums that way. will yip is definitely the enabler at this point and it doesn't seem like anthony wants to record with anyone else. and, it certainly doesn't sound bad, and it worked especially well for descensus. but after the saosin album and hearing how these new songs and the production turned out, i strongly feel the album could have truly been right up there with the first two, if the growling vocals were kept to "rites of investiture" only for this one. it just doesn't fit with the other songs (except the "we don't give a shit" part in Never Tell A Soul) in my opinion.

but that's my only complaint about this album, so i'll take it for what it is. the songwriting is better than i could have hoped for at this point, and i'll always support circa, they are truly talented and they deserve the best!

 

I think those ARE the only two songs with the growling vocals on Amulet. And the end of the closer.

 

Yep. He's obviously still capable of doing it to a large degree and just chooses not to. I'm not saying it wouldn't be difficult or impossible to reproduce live, but it was well worth that tradeoff on the first couple records.

Just listen to "Stay." That sense of total serenity in the vocals, as mass chaos unfolds beneath it, is the pinnacle of what this band does best.

 

Listened again, still like it a lot. Not sure Amulet feels right as a closer, despite being one of my favorites on the album.

 

i'm being super picky for sure, mainly talking about most of "never tell a soul", especially towards the end, a few notes in the bridge of "the hex", the end of the title track, even the couple of higher notes in the chorus of lustration get to me sometimes.

i do love the head voice and falsettos, but if he's not using those, all of the other high notes have a lot of grit to them. i'm usually all about that, but it annoys me when listening to this album for some reason. it may just be the production. it sounds good but there's a particular thing that i can't quite pinpoint in the way anthony's voice is recorded, that i don't like ever since hes been working with will yip.

 

I think I would have liked flesh and bone as the closer a bit more.

I also wish there was one more flesh and bone tempo song. They crushed that

 

Because the lyrics, title track makes more sense as a closer, i think....

 

Okay....the album is growing on me. Loving the production, but I still wish it had heavier songs. 7.5/10 right now for me. Very happy we finally have more new music from these guys. This one is grower and not a show-er.

 

the drums sound off especially the kick.

 

I think the drums sound way better on this album than they did on descensus

 

Low bar...but aight

 

What about the kick/drums bother you? For me they are sitting pretty nice, I can really hear the kit well and make out a lot of the intricacies

 

the kick sounds mad boxy and they're really up front in the mix kind of sucking the depth out of the rest of the instruments, had the same problem with descensus

 

You both got me super curious about those teaser vids, so I heard them all on youtube. At :51 & 2:51 is that the unreleased song mentioned?

 

I mean I get why. I just meant tempo whise. The ending jam doesn't quite feel right for the album. For me.

 

I remember how hyped I was on these sequence vids. Feels like yesterday.

 

Another example of a band responding on AP was people taking digs at Aaron Gillispie's (Underoath) worship album, he replied to a post of someone hating on it. Felt bad for the guy.

 

I just can't get into post-BSN Circa. Maybe it's Yips production but everything just blends together, everything feels super linear and the other-worldly vibe is gone
But Circa has always had problems with production. Best example is probably Frozen Creek. It sounded amazing live, but the recorded version messed the original vibe up completely and turned the song into a weird ambient 80's power ballad.

 

Wow, crazy how these little changes make this song make more sense. Moving the bridge to a previous makes the whole thing a million times better.

 

Yeeeess, that's it... sounding little creepy.

It wasn't in BSN, and so i waited to it be included in appendage... but wasn't there

 

Yes, I totally agree... Frozen creek sounds sooo good live...the acoustic version played in last months is good too... Anthony included the "falsetto trick"...