The Maine - The Maine (August 1, 2023) Album • Page 54

Thanks for reading! Definitely what this series is all about.

 

Great read as usual. Our music tastes line up almost exactly - that was one of the first songs I really was captivated by from this band.

As a side note, I think "The Maine" is aging well already. I absolutely love this record and it slots in behind LLL for me as their second best - with the other records a good distance behind those two.

 

They’ve shared “fly on the wall” studio updates for the last week on Pillar. They’re usually 2-3 minute, up to 10-minute clips of them working on songs, discussing album themes, recording voice memos.

During the 7/25 video Pat says they have “9 fucking awesome songs.” Someone else in the room says “there’s a lot of cool there,” referring to the songs as a whole. The producer and band agree to take the songs home with the goal to listen to what may be needed, ie. an interlude or even additional songs.

The 7/26 clip features John diving into an anthemic song; something that’ll be placed toward the end of the album; a song you might play at the end of the night as the bar is about to close and you’re with good friends screaming your heart out (my words); the song features a 3/4 time signature; John mentions one theme he envisions is that it’s a song with a “thanks a lot sentiment.”

If I had to guess I’d say the album rollout will happen at the beginning of 2026. We might hear something before the end of the year though.

 

Here’s a screenshot from today’s video:

 

Can’t believe this is 2 years old already!