The way they dissect and talk about their songs I would totally be okay with an entire record retrospective where they do “alternate” versions of previous recordings plus besides for like the next two releases lol
Tape Notes ep is a revelation so far honestly, cannot believe that tremolo bass trick in POTB I would have NEVER known it wasn’t a bowed double bass (and that was the first instrument I ever picked up, and played for years). crazy good sound design.
I don’t mind them doing whatever they want with the title tracks, but the soft sound refrain was definitely awesome and would’ve been cool for them to keep up. I would say they work just as well as standalone tracks in the sense that I’m never listening to the opener on this album by itself either, and I’ll probably never hear the Notes one again period
They are the band, so they decide whatever 'The 1975' title track is. Whether that's more 'soft sound', or not. It evolves. Also, 5 albums deep, it'd probably get a bit old, and I'm glad that on an 11 track album, we actually have a true 'track' out of it that I want to continue coming back to. Not just an opening number.
I’ve listened to the chvrches episode like 5 times, it’s so good. Can’t wait to listen to this one at work tomorrow
That must be the version they worked on with BJ. Makes sense they went in another direction once they went “organic” in the instrumentation, but I would love to know what a fully fleshed out collab with him would have sounded like.
That’s about half what the last did. And this albums singles did better. Similar trend to the latest DC4C album. Interesting.
The Tape Notes podcast is super interesting. Would actually love to hear a finished version of the 80's Springsteeny Part of the Band, it sounded cool.