I really enjoy every song here, but Live Forever is kinda easily the standout for me. It has the exact same emotional weight to it that made this band so important to me in the first place (in general this record does that much better than Golden Record imo)
I also love the subtlety of the 'where's the color / bleeding' line being asked in the opener and then answered in the closer, when it's no longer occurring around him but instead coming from him
I won't get a true dangerous summer drive to this album in a few days...gonna try to leave for work early tomorrow to get the full listen in on the drive.
I wrote a little review on the record on a site I occasionally contribute to. Check it out if you're inclined!
meanwhile all my friends are still in London We talk sometimes, it's like nothing's ever changed Man, it's like AJ is in my head. That's pretty much my exact situation right now. I'm going to pretend he overheard me talking to my girlfriend about this when he used to live in her apartment building in LA.
Waiting til tomorrow to listen so I can do it while I'm driving. Holy fuck I'm so excited to have these guys back and reading the posts....ahhhh
AJ did demo with Feldmann or at least was hanging out there after they first reformed. Still so awesome. I could totally see blink bringing them out on their next headliner
listened to this on my drive to work this morning (by that i really mean yesterday/friday morning) and wow i like this way more than expected. Matt Kennedy killed it on the guitars here, i'm super impressed
This is fine. Not as good as RFTS or War Paint. Never hits the highs of GR or the EP. But never slumps to the extended lows of either. Will need more listens though. I really dislike Ghosts though.
HOW I SPEAK TO GOD IS HOW I SPEAK TO YOU At the instore it sounded like he pronounce it GO, like into a scream fade. It was cool.
That's actually the part I don't like hahaha. If it wasn't repeated it would be a great way to end the chorus, but the repeat I don't like.
this album has much better guitar work imo. Cody was at best a mediocre rhythm guitarist who could rely on a few different effects and the other band members to get by, but when you really listen to what hes doing in pretty much every TDS song its downstrummed major chords or just 3-4 simple power chords repeated. i think that plays a lot into a lot of TDS sounding the same on a surface level im going to assume Matt pulled double duty for both guitar parts, or maybe AJ did some guitar on record idk, but they sound MUCH more fleshed out and far more interesting. i know its only been a few years since GR but im really glad AJ hasnt lost his lyrical touch, no offense to the guy but im sure it can be difficult to get back into that headspace after so long.