When has Adam ever not strained his voice? He sounds the same way he's sounded for the last three to four records
Thats true, but I can't consider that a good thing. He hasnt progressed in years and now its just same old same old
I'm kind of with you on this. I like it, and there's some standout, but overall it doesn't have the impact I usually get from a TBS album.
I love Beat Up Car. Actually I'd say Like You Do is the only song I really don't like on there. I usually skip it. Cut Me Up Jenny is easily my vote for worst TBS song. It's kind of fun seeing just how all over the place people's opinions are about TBS though lol.
I don't love it. But I think that baring my two least favorite songs, Tidal Wave and You Can't Look Back, all the songs are, at the very least, good. I kind of only noticed specific lyrics when they weren't good ones haha. But that was only a couple times. There being a lot of reliance on cliches here is my only specific complaint. My biggest problem with Happiness Is... was that it didn't have much variety. So many of the songs sounded the same to me. But this album has a good amount of variety. Definitely a step up! Bands always seem to do their best with Mike Sapone.
After listening to it in the car a lot, I love the sound of the drums. A hit or miss aspect of a lot of their records. I don't think there's an aspect of this album I don't love haha.