Slowly Slowly - Forgiving Spree (January 2025) • Page 2

Fantastic listen, already 4 listens today. Would have loved another 2 or more songs, but loving this.

 

Really dug this on first listen. Meltdown Masquerade is GOOD

 

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.

 

We miscarried almost 5 years ago. Song really hits hard. Hope you find peace, it's hard.

 

This is so so good. Early AOTY contender for sure.

 

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.

 

Slowly Slowly and Grayscale are a great match for a tour, stoked I get to go to two dates

 

The title track on this rules so much. I haven't been able to get it out of my head.

 

Only song I am not clicking with at all yet is the closer

 

Yeah the title track fucking RULES

 

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."

 

New track with Grayscale.

 

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