Oh it is! But it sounds like a penultimate track, not an ending song in itself. The final tracks of Catch, Crazy, and Ten Stories sound almost like epilogues to bigger songs than themselves. At least to me. Again, a random observation.
I don’t really smoke weed but one time I got super high and this song (more specifically the end) made me cry lol
Oh I gotcha, I misunderstood. Agreed. I think I'm gonna use the idea that they have pictured on their website with the EP and LP prints and frame them in nice simple white frames.
hey this has me very excited: @en_cohen 3h3 hours ago There are moments on the new mewithoutYou album that make me think of "Automatic For the People" and others that make me think of "The Argument." That's just the first three songs. It's reallllllllll good.
mwYs careers work has been the best and most influential post hardcore since Fugazi and Unwound and everyone in the genre knows it. Somehow 15 years into mwYs illustrious career, mainstream publications and tastemakers had chosen to plug the lesser and derivative acts in the genre instead, who wouldnt have otherwise existed had mwY not done what they had done for years before hand. Meanwhile only recently has mwY had any mention in these circles (I think it started with PH) and it still hasnt been properly appreciated there just how influential and creative a band they have been. Its really frustrating every time I think about it.
I still think the christian label has held them back from notoriety, which is just stupid. Some people won't give it the time of the day.
I can't tell you how many times people have told me something like, "The music is good, but I don't like being preached at." It's hard to explain something being religious, but not Christian with a capital c.
I cant parse Aarons lyrics at all enough to discern Im being preached at. Theyre certified nonsense in the best way.
The earlier you go in the albums, it's more clear that the god he's referring to is the christian god, at least for the most part. The lyrics, along with Aaron it seems, have become much more abstract and all-encompassing.
Yeah, absolutely. But that's because we've listened and read and re-read interpretations. If someone randomly heard a stick, a carrot, and a string lyrics, I could totally understand, haha I still love that song.
oh I definitely understand it with It's All Crazy, even if I feel it's all more complicated than just being preachy
I don't always have to connect to lyrics for me to like a band, but it always surprises me when people say their either don't care about lyrics at all or they HAVE to connect lyrically or they don't enjoy the music. It is what it is, but I have a hard time understanding that.
aaron's lyrical approach has pretty much never read as preaching to me, just someone trying to figure out the shape of god and how it generates and works through everything in his life. the last few records, in the way that they seem to have come up against the limits of both language and faith, are so interesting to me, as a pretty unswayable atheist, in the way that so much great literature is devoted to an idea of god or a generative force or a perceived lack thereof (aaron's writing reminds me a lot of annie dillard's, spirituality figures often into her work and it tends to be a composite of several religions and it never feels like preaching, just a way of explaining or thinking about things)