Fireworks - Higher Lonely Power (January 1, 2023) Album • Page 37

As someone who grew up in a religious home and is no longer religious. What lines stood out to you?

 

Dave has such an interesting take on lyricism. Sleeper of a song writer.

 

I will say, Chris might’ve written a lot of the lyrics here. He did most of them on Gospel, and Dave did a couple songs on OCL. Not sure what the split was here. From what I can tell, I think Dave also does more guitar/songwriting than you would expect as well.

 

oh wow! Had no idea. Either way. Great lyricism.

 

The more I listen the more Modest Mouse and stuff like Cage the Elephant I hear. Those sort of weird avant garde indie rock bands.

 

I hear a little Local Natives too in this. Still sounding incredibly fresh to my ears after 1 week.

 

I hear "Cry Me a River" in the end part of "Jerking Off the Sky."

You don't have to say
What you did
I already know
I found out from him.

I'm being serious, by the way.

 

Listened a few more times and concluded this isn’t for me. Keep waiting for it to click but just not happening.

 

This album is great.

So happy they're back :) Definitely hearing hints of Republic of Wolves in some of these songs aswell.

 

Love that comparison, I think I can hear that too.

 

It is. Nothing else on the album is as heavy as it.

 

That's what makes it so great.

I'll never understand why some people prefer a homogenized album experience.

 

Finally put my finger on it. Veins in David's Hand sounds like a Russian Girlfriends vocal delivery, especially the 2nd verse around 1:40 till the end of the song. If you've never heard of them, check out 'In the Parlance of Our Times'.

 

I never said it wasn't great or was, all I said was it was out of place and the poster I quoted disagreed with me. I think it's undeniably out of place musically with the rest of the album.

For reference, I like the song - I think it's good and it's an interesting opener. I'm just more interested in the reasoning behind it rather than making a complaint that it makes the album lack uniformity because of it.

 

Nah part two

 

Explain why then. Your only two posts in the thread that I can see are just saying no to my opinion.

 

I like it as an opener the same way I like El Paso as an opener to TBS's self-titled. It's just kinda jarring and only tangentially sounds like the rest of their stuff and yet somehow sets up the rest of the album. I can see why the jarring-ness (?) of it is a turn off but I've been digging it so far!

 

Singer sounds so much like another singer in the scene on this album, but I can't place it

 

Nice! I have the kid from Oh, Common Life on my calf!

 

I reckon he sounds like David Bello from TWIABP on some songs

 

Hmmmmm that might be it

 

I like this album a lot more with Demitasse swapped in for Jerking and Machines, works as a nice centrepiece and I'm not keen on those two tracks, (nor Estate particularly). The rest I like!

 

omg dude thank you, this has been bugging me every time that song came on. it is 100% cry me a river

 

Jerking and machines are the two i dont like as well.

 

I love both but can understand why they could both be dropped for Demitasse if you don’t like them and like Demitasse.