Circa Survive - The Amulet (September 22, 2017) Album • Page 88

I'll post about it later tonight or tomorrow when I eventually listen to Juturna, but We're All Thieves is just so powerful. It's by far my favorite on the album.

 

Wish Resign and Glorious Nosebleed are forever the zenith of this bands work. Nothing else like it anywhere. Alien even. + HoL

 

Holding someone's hair back
Great golden baby
Stop the fucking car
Act appalled
In fear and faith
Nosebleed
House of leaves
Wish resign
Montauk
Always getting what you want
Thieves
Hello

Really hard, great album, this would probably change each listen

 

Onto on letting go, these first two always seem like a pair to me, they're more comfortable in their sound but still very young as a group and trying things. The first two tracks match about the same intensity levels as on Juturna, I never liked the hook of in the morning but the bridge where it slows down is so good. These songs are great.

 

I was always confused why The Greatest Lie was the 3rd most popular song according to Spotify behind Get Out and The Difference Between... I mean, it's a good song, but that's a little perplexing to me.

 

I will never forget the first time I heard Hair Back. Just listening to it right now is enough to reduce my skin to a valley of shivers

 

The Difference Between
Your Friends Are Gone
In the Morning and Amazing
Travel Hymn
Living Together
Kicking Your Crosses Down
Mandala
Semi Constructive Criticism
The Greatest Lie
On Letting Go
Carry Us Away
Close Your Eyes to See

 

The difference between is such a perfect circa song, and the greatest lie is great but I never thought that popular

Mandala has such a tight groove. I get why this is people's favorite album, it's so consistent, they really come into the sound they were finding on Juturna.

 

On letting go is harder to rank, these songs are all so fucking good. I think Juturna has clearer highs person to person, but this record is so tight all the way through. Semi contructive criticism rips

 

BUT THERE ISN'T A CHHAAAAAAAaaannnnnccceee!

 

Your friends are gone -maybe my all time favorite
Difference between
Semi constructive criticism
Kicking crosses
Greatest lie
Living together
Mandala
On letting go
In the morning
Close your eyes
Carry us away
Travel hymn

The differences between these ranks are all pretty small, very consistent record. I still like Juturna more overall but it's close.

 

I don't care what you're ranking is, BSN sounds the best by far

 

"Your Friends..." has to be the most unique song they've recorded, and really one of the most unique sounding songs I've heard in post-2000 rock, in general. It's tough to make a song that doesn't sound like anything else these days, but they really pulled it off there. OLG is just incredible, backed up by what has to be close to my favorite opener-closer pair of all time.

 

Get Out is just an unfair song

 

Like production or what?

 

Those two songs are no longer my favorites but they were super important for me back when the record came out. Back then, I was pretty narrowly into stuff like Tool and Radiohead, and thumbed my nose at music with even the slightest emo or punk tinges. I decided to give Juturna a chance and that sequence grabbed my interest cause of the spaciness and prog vibes. In hindsight, that was a real lightbulb moment in broadening my horizons to include a ton of stuff I love now.

 

Ahh I wish I could rank now

 

Yeah, it's so crisp and clear. Anthony is belting everything and it sounds amazing

Song wise I feel like these blur together the least for me, it's very straight forward, which I can see why it'd be polarizing

 

Living together
The difference between
In the morning and amazing
Travel hymn
The greatest lie
Carry us away
Mandala
On letting go
Kicking your crosses down
Close your eyes to see
Semi constructive criticism
Your friends are gone

 

I was just wondering bc you said the last page back J was your fave and I've seen your song ranking excel file lol

I thought you were flip flopping for a sec

 

We’re all thieves
I’m fear and faith
The glorious nosebleed
Act appalled
Oh hello
Always getting what you want
Stop the car
Holding someone’s hair back
The great golden baby
Wish resign
Montauk

 

It's so weird how different our rankings are, just goes to show that when a band is this good they gather some shitty fans with terrible opinions

It sounds objectively better, I still like the songs on Juturna and OLG more.

 

I complain about the muddiness of Jut and especially OLG, but I also don't know that BSN's production verbatim would jibe with the content on those first two records.

 

I think Fever Dreams is the most similar in style to those first albums, and it's probably the best song on BSN. That's probably a good estimation of what those records would sound like with the BSN production style