Fantastic listen, already 4 listens today. Would have loved another 2 or more songs, but loving this.
Album rocks so much But only getting 4 new songs out of 9 is a bummer - even if the album had 1 more song it’d be slightly more palatable either way, this is going to be a record I reach for on a day to day basis. It’s fun and goes down easy
I have a migraine, so I’m listening to this with good headphones with a heated eye mask. I’m paying more attention to the lyrics. The track Hurricane is really affecting me: “six months into the marriage lots of love but a bleak miscarriage and now we gotta crawl through the pain then we throw ourselves back in the hurricane” I’ve been married for five years and my wife had a miscarriage last year. We’re improving, but it’s still affecting us. we’re still going to try again. I can relate to this.
I wasn’t too big of a fan of hurricane on first few listens but you guys pointing out the lyrics made me turn my thoughts around. Really impactful
While at the end of the day it would be nice if five of the nine songs weren't released prior to the album coming out, and nine songs is quite short, I always judge albums on what they are, rather than what they are not. And this is very good.
So fucking weird…just saw an IG Reel of some great recent pop punk song released, this was 1 of the 3 bands, haven’t ever heard of them, saved the album on Spotify, and now it’s at the top of me feed. wuttt
Still not sure they’ve put out a record where I love every song, but this is definitely the closest they’ve come. The title track, Hurricane, Love Letters, and That’s That are all especially excellent imo.
Will be interesting to see if grayscale’s new album will knock off this one. Or maybe a playlist of both. That Australian tour sounds sweet.
Sat with this a little bit after a positive but slightly muted response at first. Might've been in part because of how long I'd been listening to the singles already. My thoughts: - It's really solid and feels more like them honing what they're good at rather than taking a big swing (especially when you compare to the jump from Race Car Blues to Daisy Chain). Given where they are career-wise, I get the approach of writing a really tight, catchy album. - I was hoping for a little more vibe/genre variety, like the last album had. The songs are all good, but the early 1975 vibes (which I do like) are so dominant. The flip side of that is almost every song sounds like a single and it's definitely no filler, like others have said. - "All Time" is the best song and I love when they try to pull something like that off, like they did with "God." That climax is so good. - "Born Free" kind of seems like it's trying to do a similar thing to those two, but it doesn't work nearly as well for me and takes way too long to go somewhere musically (though the lyrics are good). - They need to tour the US this year, please. My only worry is they're going to open for someone and have to go straight catchy singles with the set, without room for both "God" and "All Time."
Caught them last night, great show. Flew by, only did 70 minutes for a headline set. Would've liked a bit more Race Car Blues action.
I feel like the crowd really lifted when they played those St. Leonards tracks - still my favourite from them Jellyfish may not be my jam but boy do the crowd love it Grayscale were also really tight, loved seeing them handing out samplers with fans after the show
Strange how they’ve been releasing songs as singles on streaming services over the last few months that were part of the album they put out in January. Have to imagine it’s an algorithm tactic but I haven’t seen anyone else take this approach
Andrew McMahon did it as well with his latest record, it’s a weird tactic but it must help them push that songs numbers