Erra - Cure (April 5th, 2024) • Page 7

Echo is really good, Gore I don’t really care for

Starting think I just don’t like JT in this band that much lol

 

There are bits from the studio video they posted that aren't in either song. The solo at the end of the video and that riff after Dan says "Alice In Chains-y."

 

holy shit the new song is unbelievable wow

 

I can't wait to see these live. These two tracks are really special and we are for sure in for an all timer from them.

 

im one of cures biggest glazers, i think that album is really special both in the context of their discog and as a standalone work of art, but this song is immediately better than everything besides glimpse and maybe wave lmao. ive seen a lot of drift comparisons too but honestly i much prefer this songs take on that albums style and the way its informed by all the lessons and confidence theyve gained in the near decade since

 

Cure is the first time they've considered the album as it's own artform and I hope that carries over into this next one. Sucks we gotta wait til next year though, but considering they recorded parts that aren't in either song maybe we'll get another single in the fall.

 

did they say that? because self titled is goddamn immaculately sequenced for an album that wasnt thought of that way lol, one of the best paced albums of all time

 

No I think only I say that lol but for the record I'm including the consistent themes that run throughout Cure and other factors when I say that. The self titled is well paced and all the songs are great but Cure feels like you're meant to listen from start to finish, like they wanna take you on a journey (other examples of this would be MisSig's Controller or Minus the Bear's Planet of Ice). ST doesn't really do that, each song stands on its own.

 

interesting, i actually feel like s/t is the most deliberately theyve ever done that lol. they thread songs together by key in a way where they almost set up like three or four different suites (snowblood/gungrave, house of glass/shadow, electric twilight/scorpion hymn/lunar halo, eidolon/remnant, the three bonus tracks) with the melodic tracks (divisionary/vanish/memory fiction) feeling like the transitions between the lil tonal islands. that and all the lyrical callbacks on the record to each other, its probably the record that feels most contingent on its sequence in their discog for me. the songs on cure are so varied that to my ear they could almost go wherever and achieve a similar musical effect, although i do think 90% of them are in the right place

 

YUMMY

Man, can't wait for this new album

 

Love how much Jesse sounds like Michael from Chief on Echo Sonata in some parts. And JT's background singing is really strong too.

 

cannot stop jamming both of the new songs, chorus on gore has really clawed its way into my brain and i cannot stop randomly singing it everywhere i go lol

 

Fuck, Echo Sonata is sooooo good

 

Maybe it’s recency bias but that back and forth between Jesse and JT in the last chorus is the best they’ve ever sounded together.

 

Ashamed to say I'm from Birmingham AL but have never really checked these guys out. New singles sound dope. Have they always shared a similar DNA to Silent Planet?

 

They are better than Silent Planet but also used to be much much better than Silent Planet

 

Silent Planet have ditched the "high pitched singer for chorus, screamer for verses/breakdown" formula though, and Gored of Being is dangerously close to that. Echo Sonata was fantastic though.

 

Erra fall into familiar genre trappings too, I wasn't huge on Gored, I just think Jesse is a massively more interesting songwriter and guitar player than anything going on in Silent Planet

 

I can get that. What I heard was definitely more interesting than the more groove-oriented stuff Silent Planet have been doing lately.

 

i like silent planet but they are like at least two tiers below the caliber erra are and have always been (except neon and kind of drift), and yeah part of that is that jesse is just on some wild shit lmao. i also think silent planet is more trend hoppy, but they're also great and garrett is a super super nice guy

 

Pretty pumped to see this band with Architects in a couple weeks

 

I don't find ERRA and Silent Planet have a whole lot in common these days, so I'm not sure the comparisons are super fair outside of them both being Metalcore bands. I think they both do their respective things better than most in their lanes, and really love the industrial stuff that SP is doing.

 

Metalcore as a genre makes no sense to me anymore, like why is this band considered the same genre as Chamber

 

I just blanket at this point because there's too many flavors

 

Metalcore has been too broad of a term at least since 04-05. No changing that at this point.