Hot Mulligan - The Sound A Body Makes When It’s Still (August 22, 2025) • Page 17

Shouldn't Have a Full Schedule But I Do

 

Man the way those first two songs fade into each other on Why Would I Watch still fucking slaps every time

 

Bed Bug Island stuttering to a halt and dropping straight into And a Big Load is probably my favourite one-two punch in 2025 music. They're GOOD at this.

 

I’ve got this show, whitechapel, and foxing all in the same week. can’t wait

 

This one got lost in the shuffle for me and finally gave it a proper listen. Just woah. Im kind of glad I didn’t listen to this last month because it would have hit too close to home / hard. Was going through SSRI withdrawal to switch meds. And shit. This is more of a cathartic listen now that I’m on the other side of it.

So much of this album is just so relatable. It’s painful but beautiful at the same time.

 

Wish I liked this more. The last two have been AOTY material for me and this one…. Hasn’t clicked. Find it mostly forgettable and samey. I skip most songs on it if they come on shuffle

 

Love this album

 

The overall narrative arc is about being a depressed chronic overthinker who is convinced they're a failure so yeah this hits me like a ton of bricks too. Glad you're out the other side now.

 

Monster Burger and Slumdog are among my favorites Hot Mulligan tunes now. I think the back half of this thing is great

 

this album reminds me of being in my twenties, closeted and oblivious/in denial about my gender and sexuality, insanely depressed and rawdogging existence without any knowledge of my masked autism, drinking heavily and constantly suicidal. it probably would’ve hit harder for me 15 years ago. at this point, it takes me back to that place and fills me with gratitude that i made it out.

 

I just find the album too sad, I never want to listen to it for that reason. It's not like the lyrics weren't always depressive in ways but this one seems more direct.

 

I get it. I can see this being much like Spanish Love Songs - Brave Faces Everyone where I have to be in the right frame of mind or it will be too brutal of a listen mentally.

 

That's an accurate comparison for me and how I feel about it. 17-22 year old me would have loved Spanish Love Songs but in the same way I can't bear to listen. I've lived enough tragedy and listened to enough devastating music. I like my music to either take me away from it or motivate me to cope over it, but that's a super personal thing.

 

I just haven't been spinning this album often because it isn't as catchy as the two that preceded it IMO

 

Their lyrics are always pretty depressing but are harder for me to make out than SLS. But yeah what Ryan said. The songs aren’t as catchy and I just don’t really have the desire to revisit it.

 

Fwiw I still fuck with Bed Bug Island, And A Big Load, Monster Burger, and Carbon Monoxide Hotel

 

I still think it’s my favorite front to back HM album and I find it all very catchy, personally! I don’t think it’s anywhere near a perfect album and I agree with a lot of the criticisms I’ve seen, but overall I love it.

 

It's a pretty upsetting listen lyrically and if you can't connect with it as much on that level then that's probably a good thing.

 

Some people are just wrong. Like Grim

 

Man I wish I was the type of person who could hear and process lyrics when listening to music. I have to go out of my way to read and memorize lyrics

 

Same unfortunately

 

I feel this hard. I can go to a show of my favorite band and barely know the words but I could 'play' the song in my end from beginning to end with the melody, the instrumental breaks, everything playing in my head perfectly. I know it all, I just don't know the words. Maybe comes from my inability / embarrassment to sing so I've never been someone who wants to sing along at a show.

 

Genuinely happy to hear I’m not the only one on here like that. Sometimes I literally search the internet to see if I can figure out why I can’t process/memorize lyrics lol

 

Very funny because I’m a melody/music first listener, and my wife is a lyrics first listener. I never understood it, but our music tastes are significantly different. I know I’m in love with an album when I make the effort to sit down with the lyrics. I also wear hearing aids so that’s my excuse lol

 

The older I get the less I pay attention to lyrics. I can throw on any album from high school and know all the words. I can throw on my favorite album of last year and I’ll know like 25-50% of the lyrics at best.