First listen through just concluded, loved it. I thought it flowed great, tons of great songs, “interludes” used perfectly. Electronic elements on a completely different level, I prefer these instrumentals to most of their previous work (which I of course also love). Especially enjoyed the latter half upon first listen. Can’t wait to dig in to the nuance and take it in/become familiar with these songs.
ILIWYS is the benchmark for album sequencing for me, personally. Definitely makes the flow of this album more apparent
listening to this album and thinking about how I would have been seeing them last night if things were normal... I’m fine
I should probably go back and listen to The Streets too, it's been a long time since I tried out Original Pirate Material and I feel like I was too young to fully "get it"
this fucker just casually mentioning life without buildings as a reference for then because she goes has me soaring. Def see that on the “chorus” of that track
Weird post! M&YTS absolutely has elements of Shoegaze. Matty just referenced Ride as a direct inspiration for the song!
Tbf, just because an artist says they were inspired by something does not mean the thing they wrote deserves to rep the same genre tag. But yeah in this case both of those songs most definitely contain both of those elements
They’ve interspersed some short video clips of abstract visual stuff into the album while Matty talks in the background... it’s pretty pointless IMO and he’s just repeating a lot of stuff about the album’s themes that he has already said better in other places.