Hot Mulligan - The Sound A Body Makes When It’s Still (August 22, 2025) • Page 16

Yeah, this just keeps growing on me with subsequent listens. I think it's their least immediate record, but also their most cohesive.

Ready to call "Carbon Monoxide Hotel" one of the best songs of their career.

 

I woke up at like 3am with Fudge Axe stuck in my head, lol. Absolutely loved this album from the first listen and I somehow get even more into it each listen.

 

This being as good as it is makes me happy I sprung for a ticket to the headliner before it sold out.

Can't get enough of this album.

 

I don't fucking know when Pierce the Veil got big enough to headline arenas(?!?!?) but keeping my eyes peeled for an early 2026 Hot Mully headline run which hopefully includes a Dublin date.

 

Was never a fan, so I didn't follow their recent ascent, but I do remember being surprised by the massive reaction to them last year at Fenway when I saw Blink. It was comparable to, say, BMTH, who was in the same direct support slot for FOB the year before there.

 

Hope they have good merch at the show in December, really want a CD and shirt or two.

 

Have spun this several times now and it's getting better every time. I always have a new favourite

 

This entire album is great but the stretch from Cream of Wheat/Feet to Slumdog is spectacular. Best songwriting of their career.

 

I always appreciate a good dirty joke, and she laughed also when I told her about it haha.

 

Yeah during my third listen last night I was checking to see what every song was called cuz they were all hitting. Love this album

 

Debuted at 175 on Billboard

 

I don't dislike this album by any means, but it'll probably clock in well behind YBF and WWIW (and even IWROTY) when it's all said and done. No harm in that, given how great those two albums are, but there's just still a lot of tracks on this album that just aren't resonating with me. There's a good 6 or 7 standouts but the rest I feel like I cannot pick apart from each other after a good two weeks of listening.

 

I definitely feel like the two interludes and the two acoustic tracks take away from the flow of this. It’s definitely falling behind the last two albums for me even though its highs are probably higher than anything they’ve done before. I’ve clicked with the new Have Mercy album much more than this shockingly.

 

agreed. The interludes particularly dont work for me on this thing.

but finding myself enjoying it more overall with each listen. Feel like it could be cut to 10-11 tracks and be stronger.

 

Love the acoustic tracks

 

Throwing in my 2 cents: love the interludes. Album is too long/similar otherwise. Been having fun with it, but it's definitely behind the past 2.

 

I have had time for this to settle and I think it's solidly 3rd in their discography for me behind Why Would I Watch and you'll be fine. WWIW is incredibly special to me and I was hoping to hear them build on that sound more (And A Big Load had me thinking they were going to do just that), but the second half of this record is more in the vein of their earlier stuff and has some serious sequencing issues.

The first half of this record is just insanely good. The entire second half of the record feels completely undercooked. Starting with Milam Minute you've got a 1:45 min interlude, 2 minute song that doesn't feel complete, 2:45 minute song that doesn't feel complete, possibly their best song of all time in Carbon Monoxide Hotel, 1:52 minute interlude, 1:40 minute song/interlude that doesn't feel complete, and then two more fully fleshed very good songs followed by a 1:30 acoustic closer (which I see as more of an epilogue to Slumdog as the true closing track, and I fully understand why it was included).

The second half isn't bad by any means, but the sequencing just makes it sort of a frustrating listen after the near flawless first half, and I feel like Cream of Wheat, Mix Master Wade, and Let Me See Your Mounts needed more time in the oven.

I love this band to death and this is still a solid 8/10 to me.

 

Cream and Mix Master both feel complete to me and I'm not sure they needed to be any longer.

Let Me See Your Mounts could be twice as long though just because of how good it is, that one feels like it's over too soon.

 

I've listened to the album probably two dozen times now within the past two weeks and I honestly couldn't tell you which songs were which out of those three mentioned above. There's at least 6 or 7 songs that all kind of run together. This album would have been so much more impactful at 10-12 songs.

I have no qualms with the intros/acoustic tracks. At least it breaks up the album to give it some variety.

 

Mix Master rules, the other two don’t click as much for me

 

This is clicking for me hard as a complete body of work and I loved it before. Callbacks to like half the album on Slumdog I only realised were there today. Masterful writing.

 

Thursday Night Spins

 

DUBLIN SHOW WITH DELTA SLEEP ON A WEEKEND, SAY LESS

 

Wow a 2k venue for me. Currently have LTJ on 12th and potentially Thrice on the 15th. Hopefully I'll have enough brownie points with the family to go.

 

Right pain that the Leeds date is the same date I am already in Leeds, seeing Less Than Jake.