The Dangerous Summer - Gravity (June 21, 2024) • Page 15

You know, when self titled came out I thought that was a decent album but clearly the low point/a lull in their discography, and then rebounding with Mother Nature seemed to reinforce that. But tbh these last couple releases make me desperately wish they were still putting out even self titled level stuff

 

I only got into TDS on Mother Nature - I really love that record. I don’t have the same relationship a lot of you seem to have with this band but I dig this new one a lot. Coming home felt unfinished in areas. Gravity feels very complete to me. It doesn’t quite reach the same highs as Mother Nature but I’d say it’s as consistently enjoyable. Stoked to see them play live next month.

 

On Turning Love into War I'm getting some later period Brand New vibes...

Which reminds me, the final album Science Fiction from Brand New I was really dissapointed with at first. But grew to absolutely love it... I'm sensing Gravity is a grower not a shower here too a bit. Especially the second half

 

Same but I’d swap dream for the opener but whoever said the opener just kind of fails the land was kind of right

 

The album should’ve ended on dream. The closer is the first dangerous summer song I will probably be deleting from my library

 

Dream is so good. I was literally about to say the same thing. But then.. I’m listening to the closer right now for like the fifth time and it’s really grown on me. The whole second half has grown on me.

 

"With My Pen" is a disaster. Just such an ugly-sounding song across the board. Do not like.

 

man, this is fuckin excellent

 

wow did not expect these comments like, at all

interesting

 

that was the one on first listen that made me do an ugly face. couldn’t really believe what I was hearing

 

The songs are better than the last album I think though it all blended together on first listen. Will have to return to it but my general impression is the first 5 albums are still gonna rank higher.

 

This won't be the ranking anyone wanted. Or anyone asked for.

RFTS
MN
Warpaint
Gravity
Golden Record
ST
2008 EP
2020 EP
Coming Home

 

War paint
Rfts
Mother Nature
Golden record
Self titled
2020 ep
2008 ep
Gravity
Coming home

 

My feeling is you could take the best of this, the 2020 EP, and Coming Home and make one great album

 

War Paint
RFTS
Mother Nature
Self titled
IYCOKMA (this still gets an insane amount of play from me)
Golden Record
2020 EP
Gravity
Coming Home

 

Do it and share!

 

That a bad hit rate over four years

 

Same top 3 order

 

Exact same for me. Which is better than I can say about pretty much everything since War Paint

 

Glad to see some IYCOKMA love. Great debut EP.

RFTS and War Paint are special albums with INCREDIBLE drums. Golden Record has a lot of cool moments but doesn’t fully come together, and often rough to listen to due to the vocals. Honestly the only thing released since then that has caught my attention is Mother Nature, which is a good album but not quite at the level of the early run. Pretty unfortunate to see how their career has progressed but I guess that’s what happens when you don’t really take creative risks in your songwriting.

 

War Paint
Mother Nature
Reach for the Sun
Self Titled
Gravity
IYCOKMA
Golden Record
2020 EP
Coming Home

 

War Paint
Reach for the Sun
Mother Nature
Golden Record
IYCOKMA
Gravity
Self Titled
2020 EP
Coming Home

 

Ending my first play and it's wild they sat on Dream. I would've been much more hyped for the album had it been released as a single. Thought the rest of the non album tracks blended together in the same way Coming Home did. I don't know what exactly, but something hasn't been hitting post-Mother Nature on the instrumental front and I find myself agreeing with the post that mentioned Cody. Despite his shenanigans, his limited yet distinct guitar work helped define their sound early on and I can't help but miss it at times.

 

On my to do list for tomorrow!

I’m not saying it’s a good thing! But some bands take 4 years to make one album. Maybe TDS would have been better served doing that.

You don’t like Mother Nature?!

“I Would Stay” alone is better than anything they’ve done in years.

 

RFTS
War Paint
Mother Nature

(decent gap)

IYCOKMA
Gravity
Golden Record
2020 EP
Coming Home
Self titled