Story of the Year - Tear Me to Pieces (March 10th 2023) • Page 7

In the Wake and Black Swan aren’t poppy. Mayyyyybe some vocal elements, but that’s about it.

 

lol boy yea that vocal effect they do at the end of the chorus on Afterglow is pretty goofy haha

 

Aaron from underoath is credited on use me

 

Damn, the way some of you were bad-mouthing this thing leading up the release almost made me worry going into this but this thing is a banger lol, guess it helps that I'm actually quite a fan of Wolves and poppy SOTY in general. Of course I love heavier SOTY as well but they can generally do either well for me

 

The entire album is in Dolby Atmos on Apple Music

 

I’m digging this quite a bit. Probably my favorite since the Black Swan. I’ve always loved their melodic, poppy side. I will say that the vocal effects on some of the songs is a bit much. Afterglow is a banger but he vocal effect at the end of the chorus is so out of place and almost takes me out of the song.

 

Yea I noticed some of the vocal adjustments on Dan's voice are a liiiittle more noticeable than I would want but it doesn't detract too much from the album as a whole

 

I prefer heavy Soty over poppy soty but this album is an absolute banger. I’ve had it on repeat all day

 

I like this a lot. Fun record

 

Yeah this was fine

 

Clicked play

Why does Dan sound like this on Afterglow?

 

Im even more excited to see them for the first time in July. Loving this album a lot.

 

The album is just fine. I’d say it’s pretty on par with Wolves.

 

Really enjoying this. A lot more than I was expecting to.

 

Short, sweet and well done, but pretty harmless and bland compared to Wolves and earlier material. I'm just happy to have a new SOTY-album. Hope they get the opportunity to tour europe this fall or next year, and maybe crank out new music a little more often than every 6-10 years going forward.

 

They would have had an album out sooner if it wasn't for coviid. Ended up scrapping those songs. None of them made the new record. I think originally they were going to record with feldman?

 

Yeah been following Ryan on socials for years, and based all the demoing he's been doing, I'm sure they have like 50-100 demos of songs from the last 6 years. Interesting to hear what a feldman-produced record would sound like again, but I guess it would something pretty similar to what we got, considering Colin Britain is the same type of producer.

 

Selfishly, it's not what I want from a SOTY record, but I really hope this album is successful for them because they definitely deserve it. There are definitely some cool moments and goddamn can this band write a chorus.

 

Use Me is the best song on the album for me. Def love Tear me to Pieces and War

 

This absolutely rips

 

Sorry About Me and 2005 also rip.

 

Real Life
Afterglow
Sorry About Me
2005
Use Me

All certified bangers. Also the production on this is absolutely ridiculous - sounds incredible.