"My friend's house is full of very, very helpful nurses/Some days they have birthdays there and some days they have hearses" really like that line in "Leave a Light On"
+1. Brock has this talent for doing these kind of nursery-rhyme melodies without them sounding like, well... nursery rhymes.
he said in an interview that they're still working on the album they recorded at the same time as Strangers, and the "Poison the Well" singles are all from that album. the stuff on this is all totally new
Given this a few listens now and it’s unfortunately not doing much for me. Wooden Soldiers, We’re Lucky, and the closer are the only ones that really stand out.
The only tracks I skip are Lace Your Shoes (nice but I don't have kids & don't want 'em so...) & Never Fuck A Spider On The Fly (the metaphor doesn't land for me). Digging all the rest and the through-line of most of the tracks about being in the middle/in-between two things.
so far my favorite line on this is It takes a lifetime to ever figure out that there There ain't no lifetime that's ever figured out
This is so much better than anticipated. Which seems to be the consensus. “Transmitting Receiving” is stellar. “We’re Lucky”, “Japanese Trees”, “Never Fuck a Spider on the Fly”, “Wooden Soldiers” and “Back to the Middle” are all standouts. a lot of the others are songs I don’t really need to ever go back to, but 6 really good MM songs this late into their career is pretty awesome.
They are a pretty strange band, and yet they have better modern radio rock sensibilities than most bands. Crazy how their sound has seamlessly allowed for their kind of success. It’s like “no way” on paper and then you hear it and go “well duh” this works
yeah when I first put this on and that hook came in I was immediately like oh wow, is this gonna be the vibe? and it was
Agree. My first spin of this was in the hot morning after a long night out. Brain was in a fog & also the perfect setting for this whole thing haha