The Dangerous Summer - Gravity (June 21, 2024) • Page 30

Fuck, this makes me feel very old. I vividly remember listening to this album for the first time and it sure doesn’t feel like 14 years ago…

 

War Paint is their best record. It has this timeless quality to it I can't explain - it still sounds so fresh and unlike anything anyone was doing at the time (or even now).

 

The songs themselves are wonderful of course, but the production and arrangement on War Paint are also SO good. It has so many moments where it feels "heavy", but the guitars aren't necessarily doing just big chunky stereotypical "heavy" stuff - I love it so much. It's a wonderful headphone album and I still find new parts in it.

 

I think Bryan Czap doesn't get enough credit for his guitar work on those first two albums. He was using delays and atmospheric tones and textures in a way that hasn't been explored much in this genre.

 

They’re both my favorite for different reasons.

WP already turning 14 makes me feel very old lol

 

Absolutely - that kind of stuff is what helped elevate bands like these guys and The Graduate above the rest of what was going on in the "post pop punk" or whatever you want to call it scene at the time.

 

This was great. Really heartfelt, and captures the magic of music/memories and the soundtrack of our lives element of it all