Emery Band • Page 11

2400!!

 

Yea it's definitely going to get there

 

pretty impressive that they kept up a great rate after hitting the goal; expectations are very high for me, YWNA really raised the bar

 

We did it! Looks like we are getting two emery lps in the near future! Sweet

 

It's astonishing how little speed this has lost after hitting that 2500 mark, I thought for sure the project would fizzle a bit after. Everyone is about to get those future $7 tickets.

 

Break It Down with Matt Carter by Matt Carter on Apple Podcasts

New Matt and Toby song premiere at the 28:00 mark. They said it's pre-production, so not the finished product. I think I like it, it's definitely more religious though. Preorder packages for the new record at mattandtobyband.com

 

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emery are selling a live album and naming rights to various objects on their bus to raise money for renovations. album is sorely lacking in YWNA but what a great idea.

 

Love it. I'll have to contribute on payday.

 

Yea heard this on the podcast today. Kudos to them for always thinking of cool ways to keep the band going. When they first had bus problems and mentioned crowdfunding I was hesitant because they still owe a record for their previous one, but this seems like a cool thing.

 

Do you have to contribute $25 to get the album? I was all for helping but that's quite a lot (I may be mistaken as my phone is old and struggling to load the page).

 

Yea I was surprised it was that much too but it does appear so.

 

Yeah it seems like it's 25 but if you view it as charity then it ain't that bad to be honest.

 

Lol, Toby's meme game is decent.

 

But from a business point of view surely you'll convince 500 people to donate $10 and hit the $5000 target a lot more easily than at $25? I know you need less people at $25 but easier to convince people at a 'normal price' level. Whilst I wish them the best, I don't see it as charity but would have happily donated for an album priced as an album.

 

Maybe they were reaaally impressed with the crowdfunding for the album

 

They might have been but this is different for me. With the album crowdfunding they clearly treated it as a pre-order - I'm sure Matt has said that on the podcast before. With this we're funding a bus so they can tour - some, like @mattylikesfilms suggested, might treat it as a charity donation but personally I don't. In fact, I see it as a business choice. It's great that they have fans that support their business. In fact, there are a whole host of incredible Emery fans so I'm sure they'll hit their target. I'd actually have been more like to throw in $5 if they'd just done a 'donate here' button but when there's a live album involved I wouldn't be typing on here but would be over there donating if they'd put it at a reasonable price as £10-12.

 

Who knows if it had any effect on bus pricing or not, but they definitely were. Matt said on the BC Podcast (or Break It Down, can't remember...) his initial estimates before the crowdfund started were around 75k-80k.

 

Just looking at my iTunes library and I've listened to every Emery release in the last two months apart from We Do What We Want... which I haven't listened since 2013. Wow, I must not enjoy that album or something? I definitely hadn't realised that.

 

That album is pretty half baked in my opinion. It definitely was not a worthy follow up to In Shallow Seas (their best record by far if you ask me) and it was the only record with Devin gone.

It doesn't have some great songs though; "The Curse of Perfect Days", "Daddy's Little Peach", and "Addicted to Bad Decisions" are top tier... the rest not so much IMO.

 

Would love to see Emery rank their own albums in that Noisey piece.

 

Shallow seas
The question
Weaks end
Ywna
Only a man
We do what we want

This is the definitive ranking

 

YWNA
The question
The weaks end
Shallow seas
We do what we want
Only a man

I know in my head shallow seas should be higher but I was in a funk when it came out and didn't listen to it much

 

In Shallow Seas
I'm Only A Man
The Question
You Were Never Alone
We Do What We Want
Weak's End

...If you were to ask me.

 

only a man is aggressively high and weak's end aggressively low