Gang of Youths - Go Farther in Lightness (August 18, 2017) Album • Page 8

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Checked out this album on Kensrue's recommendation.

I'm floored, this is so good.

 

Glad you’re enjoying it!

Their set from ACL is being streamed at 20:35 EST :)

 

I totally missed that they're going to be opening for Foo Fighters in Detroit next week. Super bummed out that I won't be able to make it. Hopefully this run of shows gets them more exposure here!

 

The Heart is a Muscle makes me want to hug strangers.

 

Every friday for the last few weeks, the first thing I've done when I get home from work is to crack open a cold one, put on The heart is a muscle, and dance a little while I start making dinner. Puts me in a fantastic mood for the rest of the evening.

 

What does everyone think about The Positions and how it compares to this album? I tend to think that GFIL has more great songs, but feels a lot less cohesive than Positions. The middle stretch of GFIL drags on and I end up skipping ahead after Do Not Let Your Spirit Wane to get to Let Me Down Easy. I'm especially not a big fan of Achilles Come Down.

 

I love it all. It's longer with more tracks but it feels more cohesive than The Positions. Persevere is one of my favorites off the album.

 

Both great...Go Farther is better I think. Positions has a lot of great stuff on it, it's a little bit quieter and more reserved somehow, though.

 

The Positions is an indie rock masterpiece which immediately established the force of this band's convictions and gave us some of their best material to date (that Magnolia-Kansas-Knuckles White Dry run? fuck-off good)

of course it gets kind of dwarfed beside the ambition, flow and sheer scale of Go Farther but it's still magnificent in its own right

 

I finished GFIL and then listened to The Positives. TP did not click for me at all and I think it's probably because GFIL was such a fantastic album.

 

GFIL is a masterpiece imo. The Positives is a good foreshadowing record though. Kind of like Sad Songs to Alligator.

 

I'm gonna start diving into this band at work today. Everything I've heard about them makes me think I''m gonna love them.

 

Okay wow I fucking love this. The snare tone reminds me of The National, and their sound like Gaslight meets The Replacement meets the National, I am in love.

 

Go Farther is way better, although it's a long album. Not a fan of the 3 little interludes, feel they drag the album down, but the proper songs are great.

 

I’ve only listened thru the positions a few times, and for me magnolia is the only standout, but each time I do listen to it I like it. As said above I think it’s good foreshadowing but GFIL is the finished masterpiece.

 

That's kind of how I felt when I first heard it, but now I find myself coming back to the entire album as much as GFIL. Vital Signs, Restraint & Release, and Sjamboksa are all fantastic, and I love The Overpass as a closer. It's slower but a perfect vibe for a fall evening.

 

I'm back in my Gang mode, where I can't listen to anything but GoY. Been like that for a few days now. This band's catalog has definitely taken longer to really grasp than any band I've discovered over the last few years, but now I'm at a point where I feel like their music will be very important for years ahead. If they keep making music, maybe my entire adult life, who knows.

My anticipation for the MTV Unplugged DVD is through the roof, to put it mildly.
(still need to get a hold of a DVD-reader and a DVD-ripper though, heh. Who uses DVD in 2018)

 

Not sure if the MTV Australia site works worldwide, but their unplugged concert is available to watch online:

MTV Unplugged Melbourne: Gang Of Youths | MTV

 

Nope, doesn't work, think I've tried it before as well. Guess that's an IP address thing, which I'm sure can be worked around, but I wanna have the concert available on my AppleTV etc anyway, so I'm fine with buying a physical copy and ripping it. Maybe they'll release it digitally eventually, but it doesn't seem like it, based on other MTV Unplugged concerts.

 

Edit: WOAH. Chills during multiple songs. What a band!! At first the crowd didn't seem to have any idea who they were, but by the end everyone loved them.

 

This band has the potential to be absolutely gargantuan

 

Fantastic performance. I'm gonna watch this again come friday night. Beers will be had.

 

The MTV Unplugged album out today is really great