Of All Things is absolutely on par with their other albums. Maybe it didn't work in "separating themselves from the pop punk/emo/whatever" scene, but to say that it's not an interesting and effective collection of songwriting experiments just because it didn't do that is a little reductive. It didn't achieve this broader goal they wanted to achieve, and maybe they don't like how reactionary those songs were, but at the end of the day, they're good songs on their own terms. From the intentionally lofi sounding Drainage to the studio pop of See How Tame I Can Be to the call back quality of their pre self titled material in I'm Always Tired, this band tried their hand at a lot in a short amount of time and were largely successful. I get not liking it and it not being your thing, but I don't think that makes these songs bad by any means. And to me, NHA pursued a lot of the ideas that were introduced on Of All Things, just melded together with the spirit and more straightforward energy of that Self Titled record, so I think Of All Things should get more credit.
P sure Casey has already trashed me for this but Heated Swimming Pool and In the Army Now both suck to me and that puts S/T just a bit ahead.
seriously love Schley. Heated Swimming Pool is such an excellent lowkey summer song and i gotta express my undying love for the synths in Falling In Love Again. hope there's more tracks like that on Cody
There aren't bad songs on Never Hungover Again lol. There aren't bad songs on any of their albums. There's literally no time for that to happen.
There isn't a bad track on never hung over again. Heart tattoo is just a funny song to me, idk I like the lead guitars in it