Ruston Kelly - Shape & Destroy (August 28, 2020) Album • Page 16

Hell yeah Rusty

 

proud of the kid

 

I listen to this album daily.

All my top songs on spotify were from this album, and apparently I was a top .005% listener. Man I love this guy.

 

Every song on this is featured in my top 100 songs on Apple Music, but the top are all of Spanish Love Songs "Brave Faces Everyone". I've rocked that album a LOT this year.

 

yeah this is the best album to come out this year in my humble opinion

awesome, so happy for him. first two years are the hardest then it gets easier (but it never gets easy, as the Isbell song says)

 

it was #4 for me. love it

 

"if it hurts either way, WHATS THE POINT IN DRAGGING IT OUT" in the last chorus of under the sun might be my favorite music moment of the year

 

THEORY: We're getting the following tracks on Dirt Emo Vol.2 -
- You're So Last Summer (TBS)
- Fireproof (The National)
- Mama Borthwick (Conor Oberst)
- This Bitter Pill (DC)
- Where Did You Sleep Last Night (Nirvanna)

Among others, these tracks appear on his "This Is Dirt Emo" playlist (along with all the tracks on v1, plus a handful of other tracks...)

 

i’m calling bullshit that he actually listened to the song but big ups to his staff

 

Same. Always get chills when he takes that up the octave

 

He does an incredible cover of “Mama Borthwick”, so that’s absolutely a possibility. I would LOVE that tracklisting.

 

something odd tayf is guaranteed. also seems like i’m not okay is likely. long shot but would love a townes or willie cover in the vein of willow.

 

i kinda like imagining Obama listening to this album while writing his book. Haha

 

strangely i’d believe reunions more than this. not an emo bone in his body.

 

Yeah, Isbell seems like a no brainer.

 

bob is dirt emo

 

Late on this, but thanks to the site's year end list I have now listened to this and it is seriously screwing up the AOTY list that I was writing.

"Radio Cloud" is a contender for my favorite song of the year.

 

Oh hell yeah!

 

I haven't posted my list yet, but this is number one

 

Call me a misfit
King of the crows
Out on the hills
Or the telephone poles
Hang in the silence
Till I have something to say

I always love it when the content of a song doesn't necessarily speak to my own life, but the lyrics are so beautifully written and (for reasons that are impossible to discern) fit the melody so perfectly that it makes me tear up. That's what the best songwriting does.

 

I listened to this and Donovan Woods “Without People” last night back to back.

Just feels like music from the soul kinda music. Once I heard Brave I knew I was going to like this record.

 

A testament to this album that I’d rank a song as good as “Radio Cloud” as bottom half on this album. “Changes”, “Brave”, “Closest Thing”, “Under the Sun”, “Hallelujah Anyway”...so many heavy hitters