mewithoutYou Band • Page 65

I thought they might have record it without anyone knowing and announced it suddenly but it's great to know they're recording now. Let the hype begin!

 

Amazing, mwy and thrice next year would be sweet

 

What new mystery is this?
In overflowing emptiness
The Invisible is seen among the shadows and the mist
Before my doubting eyes the Infinite appears in time
The Unquestionable is questioned but makes no reply

this always gets me. im not sure why.

 

New album I am ready

 

Where are you guys getting the idea of Thrice next year?

 

They had posted on Twitter that they were practicing for tour, and starting to get ideas going on a follow-up album.

 

I totally missed that, I guess. I was thinking it seemed a bit soon to speculate on a new release

 

If it happens in 2018, I think it'll be late 2018.

 

I'm hoping for new mwY, new Hotelier, new 1975, new Copeland and new Busted next year. Gonna be so much better for me than this year.

 

New Hotelier would be incredible!

 

I'd be anticipating those first three. Last releases were all their best imo

 

i wonder how the next one will sound. i know the whole "the radiohead of x genre" gets tossed around a lot but mwY are really good at mixing things up album to album, either musically or lyrically or both, so going off the tweet where they said "yall are going to hate our next album" maybe theyre going into super weird territory.

id like some electronic and synth heavy influence but i get that that would be a pretty jarring move.

 

I'd actually love that, haha. I want more of Aaron screaming like the chorus of Red Cow too. I still can't get enough of that song.

 

Maybe it's a full tribute to I Don't Think It Is.

 

I feel like is hate that album a little less if it was Aaron Weiss screaming at me instead of Max.

 

There have been two 'hints' on Twitter that could speak of the direction of the album (but might not be indicative of the overall sound at all!):

The 'today' in the first Tweet was a reference to the solar eclipse.

 

That's a good point. And if it weren't mixed like shit.

 

I'd dig a dark, droney, big, atmospheric sound.

 

i love red cow a lot

the audiotree session wrecks me

 

Don't get me started on the "Red Cow" Audiotree performance. One of my favorite live performances of all-time. That mic change leading into the first chorus... Ugh.

 

yup it's on my shortlist of favorite live performances.

 

at first i read your input as part of the lyrics because it rhymes; doesn't disrupt the flow much either haha

 

And it would be said in his quiet Kermit the Frog-esque talking voice.

 

I would be fine with pretty much any direction they went with.

 

I think the reason that above line gets me is because Aaron just isn't afraid to flat out say he doubts his faith. Generally Christianity and it's adjacent tennants teach you to never doubt or question, all things are possible through God/Allah/The Christ etc but Aaron truly exemplifies all of the scriptures that Paul, Peter, and the other apostles wrote to other cities in their plea for humans to be meeker and honest and humble. Most modern churches take the blood of Christianity and replace it with kool aid to make it more appeasing to the masses. Aaron doesn't water anything down and the above line so perfectly sums that up, he has doubting eyes and is questioning God, who is referred to as The Unquestionable in the Old Testament a few times, even though he's getting no reply he's still steadfast yet never boastful. Aaron is also subtly hinting at something a lot of believers never quite grasp: the closer you get to the light the larger the shadow you cast. It's a "blessed backwardness" of becoming too committed to beliefs, which of course leads to harmful extreme interpretations such as Westboro Baptist and their kin.

The reason I so often give my "favorite band" tag to this one is because, despite me not being a believer of anything really, I'm still so incredibly invested and comforted by Aaron's words and his brutal, uncomfortable, sometimes embarrassing honesty. It's beautiful