Emery Band • Page 29

The transition from Tooth and Nail to independent was a little rough. YWNA is solid, but yeah, the art is kinda bleh, especially if you aren’t that invested in the band. And marketing for the album was very lackluster. Eve had the buttcrack controversy that pissed off a lot of their religious fanbase, White Line Fever isn’t even available anymore, but I remember that one barely getting pushed. And then Rub Some Dirt On It, if I remember correctly, had a live version out for close to a year before the studio version which just made the roll out of the studio one very clumsy. I almost wish a label like Rise, Equal Vision, or Hopeless would pick them up for a release just to pump a little marketing back into the band and kind of push one clean release cycle.

 

Nah, I love this take. You Were Never Alone is easily the band's best record outside In Shallow Seas... and maybe The Question. Opening trio of songs is insane.

I have a theory that the album art does it in. It makes it look like some sort of compilation album. I also think the production is lacking just a tad compared to prior albums, but the songs themselves (all of them) are absolute dynamite.

 

I forget this a lot, but yeah, the production seems a bit too clean and safe I wanna say? Like the record sounds fine, just could've been mixed with more energy intact.

 

id like to think that at least in our chorus community it could’ve caught fire but those are all good points I didn’t consider. Def agree the album art was a disastrous choice. Feel bad saying that given how much I’m sure it means to the band but even as a collage (which is too corny for me to accept under almost any circumstance) it just looks bad. The color tape is cool I guess.

 

it was actually a perk on indigogo! you paid a certain amount and your photo could be on the cover. so idk how much it means to them lol

 

What are your thoughts on Rub Some Dirt On It?

 

Wait, when/why did this happen?

 

It might still be available in their merch store, and I think Emeryland members can download it still, but unless I missed it being put back up, they removed it from streaming/general sale I wanna say like 2 years ago now. It's been awhile so memory might be slightly fuzzy, but pretty sure when they talked about it on a podcast they basically just cited not being happy with the mix so they were gonna remix and then put it back out.

 

I have it downloaded on my phone. They really messed up the master for that one. The eps were mastered a lot better than the album versions of those songs.