Pol Roger is really great. I saw the bio about this album say people have compared it to late Deathcab and Silversun Pickups and I can see that
It’s the production on IB for me - we went from the crunchier vibe of Damage (which sounded like a sendoff of an album to me, didn’t think we’d get another) to the opening guitar strums of You With Me that sounds like it was recorded in a canyon - just perfection
I am totally cool with the JMJ/JEW collaborations. The production is gargantuan and has tons of depth.
Gonna do a shuffle setlist to see what we can get for a 15 song set and 3 song encore. Get It Faster Table for Glasses Carry You Anais Your New Aesthetic No Sensitivity Mixtape (Acoustic) Dizzy (Acoustic) Love Never 77 Satellites My Best Theory Higher Devotion Coffee and Cigarettes Nothing Wrong Speed Read Encore: Just Watch the Fireworks The Middle Ten
Gonna be a heathen and say I don’t love the JMJ treatment on Surviving. Guitars are a little canned for me, drums are a little dry, and the opening of 555 sounds like GarageBand.
GarageBand has done untold harm to the ears of listeners because that’s a vintage drum machine sound through and through smh
classic analog synth I mean that’s what GarageBand modeled their pre sets after and now people conflate them
“Evidence” came on via Sum 41 Spotify radio (L O L) and I wanted to run through a fucking wall during the bridge. God DAMN what a song.
Chase This Light is 17 today. EDIT: 16. I'm sorry for any existential crises this error may have caused.