Saosin - Along The Shadow (May 20, 2016) Album • Page 82

I haven’t attempted that second Cove album in over a decade, but I remember my take being “self-titled rules, the Cove haters are wrong… but this follow-up is shit.”

I do wonder, especially with Anthony’s time in Sound of Animals Fighting, if he’d be down for an album where there’s some Cove songs sprinkled through. But if that’s something the guys wouldn’t be into, fair enough, lol.

 

Not sure what's meant by other guys being "the problem," but Beau has posted all sorts of snippets of demos and ideas over the years since ATS. He's always been the main writer, and it seems clear he's been ready to move on a new release for a while.

 

i just have gotten the sense for a while that the song writers for the band leisurely writes a couple of tracks over the course of years and then sits on it for a long time before it becomes an album.

i could be wrong. and i dont care whos “fault” it is and im not stanning for anthony either - on the contrary, im honestly frustrated by his career at this point.

 

In Search Of Solid Ground is a good album. Listened to it on a car drive once and it was very pleasant.

 

I actually enjoy this album quite a bit, only a few songs are mehhh

 

I'll give you this ISOSG heads: I Keep My Secrets Safe whips

 

ISOSG is mediocre at best

 

Deep Down and You Never Noticed me also slap, but I enjoy the whole album

 

I still think it's bad. Especially compared to their other work.

 

I think its biggest issue is too many hands in the cookie jar. They had multiple producers because Howard Benson pulled out on them last second.

 

I remember listening to it and being so disappointed by the vocals. Cove just doesn't sound good at all on that record compared to the self-titled.

 

I think On My Own, The Alarming Sound, Worst of Me, Is This Real, and Bury Me are the best songs from that era

 

well they spent absurd amount of money and time on the vocals for bug album

 

Actually, I take it back, Bury Me is mid

 

Yeah some of it is so grating.

 

When he stretches his vocal chords on that album, whether singing or screaming, it is real rough

 

The lack of love for fireflies is staggering.

 

Because it’s boring

 

The slower songs are highlights and hint at stuff they'd revisit on Along The Shadow. Some of the more radio rock songs are just... bad.

The biggest drop off between S/T and that one is the songwriting. It's been said Cove sounds rough at times, but some of his melodies also just... don't work, which is wild because back then it felt like they spent forever making the record. I don't know how they went from making such larger than life, singalongy hooks to such bland, clunky choruses that time around.

I still love Fireflies, Nothing Is What It Seems, The Alarming Sound, On My Own, The Worst Of Me and Is This Real but the whole thing felt like a big missed opportunity.

 

Alright, all you guys that dislike the album stand on one side, and the rest of us will stand on the other side, and then we'll blow up the middle, walk away, and you guys can do what you want, I dunno.

 

I have no idea what any of these songs you're all talking about are

 

ISOSG wasn't as bad as what it was made out to be but I have zero interest in going back to it now

 

Are you lost? Do you need help finding your way home? Do you know your name and what day it is?? What's the current president of the United States???

 

Is this.... The Internet I keep hearing about?!?