Joyce Manor - Cody (October 7, 2016) Album • Page 35

yo this album still rules

 

just like they all do, just like they all will

 

as dumb as a fucking piece of chalk

 

oh is it chalk? I always heard "as dumb as a fucking piece of junk"

 

it's chalk.

"on the summer sidewalk"

sidewalk chalk

 

i had the same thought process but like when people put shit they don't want on the sidewalk for anyone to grab, like a couch or something. chalk makes sense too and the lyric sites say the same thing so.

also this reminds me the lyrics for Stairs I've seen a lot of them say "I'll lock you in my room" but it definitely sounds to me like "I'll fuck you in my room" and I am pretty sure in a video during the acoustic tour w Frances I heard him say that too

 

chalk on the sidewalk

 

This is the first album I've actually sat down to listen to from this band and it's good. Make Me Dumb is my jam. Consider me a fan

 

listen to never hungover again, that's much better than this one
and this is a good record

 

This is better

 

By a lot imo

 

Yep this blows away NHA

 

I like never hungover again more, but both are really good

 

listen to OATIWSGT it's their best


who's gonna rep for s/t next?

 

There's a war on all sides in here

 

Pat is the only person I know who likes the second record the most

 

This and self-titled are my favorites, idk which I prefer at this point

 

Or just listen to it all because you can cook dinner and do the dishes in the time it takes it go through their albums

 

I'm in the every album is their best camp but like idk ignore me I love this band an unreasonable amount. They just do it for me, I can't explain it

 

NHA forever. but this is up there.

 

NHA is straightforward Joyce, Cody is deeper Joyce. Love them both equally, but still don't understand their second album much. They don't seem to play songs off of it really either, just seems out of place in their discography.

 

think this assessment of their last two albums is a little reductive imo, especially since self titled isn't like an outlier or anything that would make it not straight forward, and Cody isn't particularly deeper besides tightening up the pop elements and trying new songwriting approaches to lengthen the songs. It isn't a 180 or anything. Plus there are aspects of Of All Things that got carried into both subsequent records. Of All Things was a reactionary extreme, but it was all in their wheelhouse and gave them a chance to flex a bunch of their influences in ways more unique than just incorporating it into their traditional sound. I think a ton of people wrote them off after that album, but way more would've written them off now if they had kept going in a more linear direction from self titled. Plus, when you strip those songs away from the studio elements/layers (ie, the times they do play them live -- I've seen a couple of them) they aren't really deviating from their core songwriting, just has more bells and whistles attached. There's just enough Joyce Manor that everyone loves there with just enough Joyce Manor getting a little weird because you're allowed to do whatever you want in 13 minutes

 

Am I the only one who thinks that they're essentially the same band they've always been, but with more polished production and better songwriting chops?

I mean, whenever they play the songs live they all "feel" like they fit.

 

Definitely

 

Fair enough, haha.

I guess every record just feels like a tighter, "better" version than what they were aiming for with the previous one (Of All These Things... being the lone exception, which just feels like a weird misstep that needed to happen for NHA and Cody to happen).