Old Gray - Slow Burn (December 9, 2016) Album

1. pulpit
2. communion
3. blunt trauma
4. everything is in your hands
5. razor blade
6. i
7. like blood from a stone
8. ii
9. given up to you
10. a letter for zach
11. on earth, as it is in heaven

Old Gray practices patience with Slow Burn, the first song from its new record

old gray - slow burn

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I remember seeing thread for this, but nothing came up in the search results.

 

well this doesn't really feel like an old gray song for most of it

 

Whoa. Awesome

 

didnt like it much.

 

yeah this was alright. felt like one of the darker sorority noise songs for part of it, though i probably do like them more than old gray at this point
idk, it's fine i guess

 

Really like that

 

This is about where I am. I've never loved old gray and have always been slightly more than lukewarm on sorority noise and since this leans a lot towards the latter I guess it's cool

@teebs41 is this what you meant by singing/screaming in emo?

 

Didn't really grab me on first listen, but interested to hear where the rest of the album goes.

 

Don't like old Old Gray. Like this new song. Pretty cool. Hope the entire record is in this vein.

 

Lol not entirely but I liked the song

 

I actually like the song, I can see where the beginning especially puts off SN vibes, but the rest is def Old Gray. You guys had me scared that Cam had taken all of the skramz out, haha.

 

i like this one a lot more. i'd rather sorority noise not bleed into this project.

 

cant stand the production on either song

 

I like the songs but it's like they make it sound bad just to give it a raw sound but I think I know what they were going for

 

theres a fine line between raw production and bad production. this is bad

 

I really really dig Old Gray, but I agree that there's something about the production that makes certain guitar sounds in the songs weirdly metallic and harsh, but not in a way that sounds intentional. It's not aggressive, it's not noise, it's just a weird sound that somehow cuts through everything, and it occasionally happens with the cymbals too. I'm thinking more about An Autobiography, none of that really bothers me on these new songs, even though I feel like I can kind of hear that popping up.
I really liked that first new song they did, enjoyed the stop start quality and the background screaming. I think it's way more frenetic than Sorority Noise on record, but I can hear how it might sound like SN live

 

As a fan of all Old Gray's previous releases, the production of these two songs reminds me a lot of Everything I Let Go & The Things I Refuse To. Both of these new songs have 'start-stop' elements; I'd be curious to hear the quieter, "I Still Think About Who I Was Last Summer"-esque songs (if there is any on this album) to really judge the production.

Regardless, this isn't Cam's first rodeo as a producer. Everything he's done on Slow Burn is most definitely intentional, even if some people think it's downright bad.

My sense right off the bat is that this album was likely a little rushed. The fact that all 11 songs fit on one side of the 12" tells me there's a few songs hovering around the one to two-minute mark. Although Old Gray was Cam's first big project, I think it's safe to say Sorority Noise is his main focus.

Guess we'll find out how Slow Burn really measures against An Autobiography on the 9th of December.

 

Had no clue they were putting out something until I saw them on my Release Radar in Spotify. I liked a lot of their one-off releases and EPs and splits, but the Autobiography LP didn't do much for me. Hopefully this one resonates with me a little more.

 

It sounds like they're deliberately trying to ape the production of all those terrible sounding skramz records of the early-00s (which is definitely where that metallic-sounding guitar tone comes from), which seems kinda silly - those records were very much a product of their time and subsequent limited access to decent, affordable recording equipment.

 

Yea just make stuff sound good

 

Yeah the production on these songs is awful and really detracts from the songs.

 

Has Cam always produced the Old Gray stuff?

 

I can't see this band name without thinking this

 

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