mewithoutYou Band • Page 12

Brooklyn, NY @ Knitting Factory (only Needle Points)

nooooooooooooooooooooo

 

No dates within 9 hours of me. It is a sad day.

 

yea I guess they arn't stopping anytime soon ha

 

No Cali dates...

 

jeez they have been touring non stop since pale horses came out last summer

 

Who is Evan Weiss? Someone from one of the other bands? Excuse my ignorance!

 

Singer of Into It. Over It.

 

Evan is also in There/Their/They're and Pet Symmetry.

 

Thanks. I thought that would probably be it but with the same surname as Aaron and Mike I had to check!

 

They're coming to Athens but my friend and I are driving to Nashville to see them with Into It. Over It. as well, should be sick. Saw them with on the tour with Teen Suicide, Museum Mouth and Say Anything and honestly it should've been unanimous to cede the headlining slot to mewithoutYou because they were just that fucking good. There are very little frontpeople who put on a show that intense. It would embarrass me to follow them up

 

this comment is a month old but i wanted to like it more than once. very good opinion.

 

it's all crazy... is an incredible album. Unless you just HATE that folk-y sound in general, I don't understand how any mewithoutYou fan doesn't like it.

 

completely agree. And personally the focal point of mewithoutYou for me has been Aaron's lyrics and delivery of those lyrics since the beginning, so there's nothing not to love for me there. The way he can "balance" a sentence rhythmically just so will never not impress me. I'm an English major and I salivate for that shit.

 

yeah! I remember listening to the Spider songs on B,S and thinking "it would be cool if they explored this side a little bit more" and then boom, an album full of that shit, haha

 

Brother, Sister is my favorite, and the spider songs are really interesting to me because they are very clearly distinct in really subtle ways. I'm not sure how they managed that but I love it. The melodic vs rhythmic tendencies of this band are really incredible -- they'll turn the simplest things into wonderful pieces of music just through the rhythm of it all, but then they come out with something It's All Crazy (and explored more subtly on B,S) and just blow my mind.

 

their rhythmic section is one of the best out there, for sure

few bands match it (I can only think of maybe two or three)

 

which bands?? i love listening to bands with a unique sense of rhythm

 

well... in terms of contemporary rock music, I'd say Pianos Become the Teeth raised the bar quite a bit with Keep You - the playing is unreal, and most of the time, bass and drums are what drive the songs with the guitars just adding atmosphere

[this is kind of cheating because Carlos D is out but] Interpol's rhythmic section is very sober but very, very graceful and powerful in a subdued way - their first four albums (fuck the haters) are objectively amazing from a rhythmic perspective

la Dispute also managed to convey a wonderful sense of space with their music in Rooms of the House, and much of that is due to the wonderful bass + drums work throughout, letting the music breath but also maintaining shit energetic AF

also, this shows impressive mastery of rhythm in a subtle way:

 

I'm coming back to this list, Pianos I have listened to but I've only heard the Lack Long after and the album before that, and I only heard them once a piece. Liked it though. The song on the split with Touche was really really good though, so Keep You will be the first one I listen to. Agree about La Dispute, great rhythm section but I don't think they're on mewithoutYou's level, not YET anyway. Will listen to the rest though, thank you!

 

The repetitive lyrics bother me a lot. On more wordy songs like Cookie or Beetle I love it. But songs like Angel of Death or Every Thought bore me a lot.

 

The only song I'm not keen on is 'Fig With A Bellyache' - not due to the lyrics, but musically I find it a bit irritating. In fact, that's probably the only mewithoutYou song since the debut album that I don't like on the whole. 'Timothy Hay' is one of my top 10 mewithoutYou songs I think. I really like 'Every Thought a Thought of You' too.

 

Interesting. The whole thing as a whole is not to your liking, or anything in particular? The vocals, making those harmonizing ones? The repetition? The emphasis on acoustic instruments doing repetitive things? The transition to that sort of doo wop part in the second half?

 

I don't like Timothy Hay much at all either. Honestly there's only a few songs on there I like that much.

 

Timothy Hay is a really good song though? Is this one of the songs with repetitive lyrics that don't do it for you? The build up in intensity is really interesting because it takes a minute before it's no longer just Aaron building it up with his voice alone. Very cool, even better live.

 

Yeah, I'm not a huge fan of the song itself, the lyrics or the melodies or the "doo doo doo"s but I enjoy it enough until the repeating at the end over and over. It was the only song I didn't enjoy when I saw them live.