the whistling is pretty bad for sure lmao but isaacs vocal parts fit pretty ambiguously into the key there in a way that i think is cool, that and all the guitar bending throughout the track. did not fuck with it first listen tho havent jammed this since before seeing them but i liked absolutely necessary never on the album and not at all live lol
Just finished my first listen. This is excellent. Definitely enjoyed it a lot more than I thought I would (not that I was expecting it to be bad or anything) Need to give it a few more listens to digest it more (I’m doing a back-to-back spin of this and the new DCFC), but this is some really great stuff
After a few spins I’m pleased to find there’s only one or two tracks I can do without. Love how spacey the atmosphere is on the bigger tracks and how often the concept of a shadow pops up.
Honestly loving it even more on my second listen. I think the first four tracks and Impossible Sundays are the highlights for me. Remember Yourself might be my favorite track overall, but that’s subject to change
Forgot to mention it when it was dropped as a single, but in Third Side Of The Moon, “if you continue down this path, you’re not the only one who dies” goes hard as a lyric. God damn.
I'm into this more than I expected. Huge into pretty much all of their records but Glass Casket did not really connect for me.
Damn you were quick. I was trying to edit it but you beat me to the punch. Yeah Glass Casket is a different band.
Not mad at it, but honestly surprised this is connecting more for folks than The Golden Casket did. They're very similar with the exception of how much of this has an electronic edge to it
I'm definitely going to revisit Golden Casket again after I catch up on new releases and give this one a few more spins.
been playing around with the sequencing, as i always do with their stuff lol, and i weirdly think id dig this one more if the order was reversed lol. outside of the opener/closer i kinda prefer these songs in the opposite running. i think i like having the funner more lightweight songs earlier on and the darker more existential songs later on but tbh im just glad both of em are as good
i gave a half hearted listen to this while working the front desk at work and was intrigued by what i was hearing. gonna dive in fully soon here
I am not prepared to call this better than Golden Casket or really rank it yet. That album deserves more love.
Context to 'Stoner Party' its a lil chant that he and Jeremiah would do on tour and it was put on the album as a tribute.
This album is just leagues better than Golden Casket. Isaac's lyrics are more thoughtful, the compositions are more creative and the instrumentation invokes emotion. Golden Casket was too sterile, too over produced and too mired in the electronic dance indie funk Isaac was in for some reason. Even a song like Speak N' Spell which harkens to song territory they've visited before feels so much more inspired than the tired "We Are Between" which felt like a retread for the purpose of having a single.
i like it a little more than i used to, there are a few really profound songs here and there, but it does feel like the arrangements are too dense compared to how underwritten a lot of the core songs are. im glad we got a couple great songs from it though, i accept the trade off of having wooden soldiers and back to the middle exist