The Chorus Music Club Society • Page 104

I appreciate this community so fucking much, here's to an excellent 2018 together!!!!!!!!!

 

Feels like I’ve liked this same post 3 times ;)

 

That's because you have silly goose.

 

I still need to listen to Young Machetes but Crimes is so fucking good I never want to listen to anything else.

 

Still waiting on my reviews from @Drewski and @Mister Lyrical from 3 weeks ago :(

Also @thenewmatthewperry i think you’re behind on @Fuck You Aurora reviews as well

 

And @AlwaysEvolving21 still has @Raditz ’s to do. Those are my notes for who is behind with no contact on ETA

 

I’m behind on @Mary V and @Kiana but I’ll put my reviews up today!

 

Can we look forward to you being in the next session as well now that holidays are over? :)

 

@EmmanuelSCastle gave me dig me out by sleater kinney and you’re living all over me by dinosaur jr; I gave plantation by arrange and 9 days by strangelight

 

I'm late for the bonus round and even later listening to this record.

@Fuck You Aurora rec'd me this sweet album.

Saves The Day - Stay What You Are

My only prior exposure to this band was the 'At Your Funeral' video that use to play on Steven's Untitled Rock Show back in the day. I liked the song quite a bit but always assumed it was an album closer. I was pleasantly surprised when it turned out to be the opener.

My favorite thing about this club of ours is that the recommendations I've been receiving have been filling in some crucial holes in the history of my favorite genres. I could immediately pick up that Stay What You Are was like an a lightning rod of inspiration for a lot of other big acts. My first couple of spins the record reminded me a lot of The Wonder Years. I don't actually like The Wonder Years much, I get the fervor but it never connected with me. This did it more for me. In subsequent listens I was able to pick up a lot of vibes similar to later New Found Glory as well. The most obvious and late revelation though was how much of a template this served for Say Anything.

You can tell that Max's hyperventilating reverence for this band is earnest and sincere. I hope its not to sacrilegious to say that pretty much every clever and unique moment on this record was cautiously refined and repackaged with Max's intensity in his band's records.

On its own though the album is a solid pop punk release. The choruses just kind of scream early 2000's house party. Everything is catchy. My favorite track on the record by far is "Nightingale", the airy intro and outro are sweet and Conley's sounds the most invested in it.

 

I’ll be quite busy exploring the Coachella lineup for a bit. I’ll hop back in when I’m done with that

 

What happens in here

 

We trade albums and review them!

 

Yes. See first post for more detail

 

Going forward I'm going to write reviews more formally since they're being consolidated into the google docs. I'll try to focus more on the albums themselves instead of how they relate to me personally or to other artists.

 

Or do it all :) your write ups are yours

 

Will have my thoughts on Wolves from Rise Against from @skurt posted in the next day or so, the holidays really messed with my routine.

 

I got paired up with @teebs41

I'll listen to
Attalus - Into the Sea

@teebs41 is listening to
Sleep In. - Settling

 

@SaveTheEarth you never got back to me about Recs yet :/

 

Don't you already have enough albums to listen to?!

 

I took on 3 this week. Since we are doing 10 Day sessions I have time haha

 

Was there a pairing after the one "opt in" one for last week? Might have missed it...

 

There was. Check the first post

 

My partner is MIA

 

Yes, it was @Drewski which is off he’s usually up to date.


@skurt wanna take this one since I have 3 partners??