Relient K - Air For Free Album • Page 40

Absolute gem

 

I’m ready for another RK album

I think id slot this right behind FANSD at this point

 

It's criminal how much I have not listened to this album. With the nice weather pouring in, I am definitely going to change that

 

This album is special

 

Holy crap. Just listening to this for the first time. Loving it.

 

This album is special and even more special considering the record it came after was so not. I was worried about the band's trajectory after Collapsible Lung and then they turn around and release some of the best music they've ever made. That bounce back just doesn't happen much.

 

CL was a necessary stepping stone to this

 

I will die on the CL is a good album hill and I'm okay with that

 

Air For Free is my favorite. Still listen to it all the fucking time.

 

Vinyl sequence puts this right behind Forget, for me. It's a gift that we got the trifecta of these two and mmhmm from one band.

 

Absolutely. I appreciate it as a musical predecessor to AFF, it’s just significantly weaker in relation to the albums surrounding it.

My post does make it sound like the band did a musical 180 from CL which isn’t true.

 

I still don't know why but I have not gotten into this album too much. I really need to give it another shot.

 

As much as I could appreciate Collapsible Lung as an album, I judge on how much I’ve returned to it... which is not a lot. It’s always been the lyrics that were the problem rather than the sound. I listen to the first and last track now and again.

This however I keep coming back to. Vintage RK. Doesn’t touch Forget And Not Slow Down and mmhmm but it’s a delight and I’m going to listen to it right now!

 

As the weather warms, it becomes Relient K season. Going to blast this album a ton.

 

This. Sonically it's better than people give it credit for, but even some of the best songs are brought down by the lyrics. I actually really like "Boomerang," "If I Could Take You Home," and "Disaster" on a musical level but some of those lyrics... eeesh.

"Don't Blink" and the title track are the only two songs on that record that hit musically and lyrically.

 

This album turns 3 today.

Still love it.

 

Top tier RK music, if they are done then they went out with a bang

 

I listen to this album constantly

 

As much as I love so many of their other records, Air For Free tends to be the one I through on more than others now. It really has stood up. If it's a nice day and I'm out for a drive is just feels right to put it on.

 

I don't like Air for Free as much as y'all but it's a pretty good album

 

One of my favourite summer albums. Really hope RK puts out some more music.

 

I feel bad that RK covered Africa just a few years before Weezer made it cool

 

It’s great and if it is their last one it is a good one to go out on. That said, it isn’t really cohesive/doesn’t feel like an “album.” That makes me feel even more like it might be the end - they just out everything they came up with on it to go out with a bang.

 

Totally disagree about the album not feeling cohesive, it's got such a great flow.

 

One of my favorites of theirs. Hope we see something down the line from them, but I'd be satisfied with this as the end..