I don’t think I would have even given Black Lines a second listen if it didn’t have the Mayday Parade name on it tbh.
I’m relistening to it now to see if anything clicks more. Still don’t like anything about the opener. Just Out of Reach is okay, but it’s probably the most similar to their previous material. I dunno, the band just seems off to me on this one. I’ve always thought Derek’s vocals were uncharacteristically weak on this album. Don’t get me wrong, I think it’s cool that they tried a new direction - it’s just that I don’t think they’re good at the sound they went for.
Black Lines is the only thing from this group that I've semi enjoyed. I felt like the raw vibe of that record did a good job of counterbalancing the melodrama that usually rubs me the wrong way in regards to the rest of their discog.
I agree with you about the new single. If I wanted the old Mayday Parade sound I would just listen to their old albums. I still think Black Lines is the best album by this band so far.
My problem with this song is that I feel like I've heard it 100 times before from this band and all of those times were more enjoyable.
I'd already put this in the top tier of their songs tbh. I like how it's got melodies that are very recognizably MP and does that slow build thing that they do a lot, but with a little more pop buoyancy and less, for lack of a better term, "heavy-handedness" than in other songs like this that they've written before
Yeah, I’ve definitely come around to this song more over the past week. Maybe it’s just cause I’m getting older, but an album of mellow summer songs like this would fine by me. I do hope the album has at least a little boundary pushing, though
New song, Never Sure, up on their Facebook. This is what I was hoping to hear from this album. I like this one a lot.
That's some classic Parade right there no doubt about it. It's definitely going to be a fun summer record.
Well I’ll be damned... my hype for this album is back! Never Sure totally rules, and is exactly what I was hoping for from this album. Tbh the first single already grew on me too, once I set aside what I had hoped for it is a very solid Mayday song for sure.
I’m a little eh on the lyrics, but this song is solid. I think I actually prefer Piece of Your Heart, though
While I am still kind of disappointed they're ditching the Black Lines sound/production, I have to say that I've warmed up (pun intended) to the first song and I really like the new one. It sounds like a more mature version of their classic sound, which is pretty enjoyable as someone who first discovered this band back in 2006 with the EP and also saw them as the first band of the day the very first time I went to Warped tour back then. Kind of feels like they grew up alongside me at this point.
Never been super into this band other than a couple songs on A Lesson in Romantics, but I threw on the self-titled one and Black Lines and I actually like a fair amount of each album. Wish I had given them a chance earlier. Not to start a ranking frenzy, but I’m genuinely curious about which albums are regarded as their best, not too good, etc.
ALIR and self-titled are pretty widely considered their best among their fanbase I think... Black Lines gets love from a lot of people who don’t normally love them (and some fans like myself), but a lot of the fanbase wasn’t into it. I think it’s phenomenal though and maybe their best. The other two albums are more hit and miss imo, especially Anywhere But Here where they signed to Atlantic and worked with a bunch of co-writers. Black Lines > ALIR > self-titled >>>> Monsters in the Closet >> Anywhere But Here