The Maine - XOXO: From Love and Anxiety In Real Time (July 9, 2021) Album • Page 18

Yeah i’m not really sure what’s going on with the mix. Hard to say. But it doesn’t sound great

 

Dissapointment? Sticky is huge for them, Lips has been stellar.

Weird opinion but okay

 

I don’t think he was talking about the commercial success hah

 

Yeah no… weird that people even read it that way

 

got it, misunderstood

 

Misunderstood can feel so good!

 

I think I’m just grasping at straws cause I like it

I don’t mind the way it’s mixed. If anything, all the tracks feel really tight together and kind of on top of each other panning wise and is only panned wide at those harmony vocal spots.

I dunno I don’t mind it. Clearly I’m in the minority though. Hopefully the next 5 are mixed perfectly. Y’all already liked sticky and lips so a 7/10 would be solid. I’m being very optimistic

 

Just heard another lil nugget at 1:13 on the youtube video "for the next two minutes, pretend you are infinite" the song on youtube is 3:13, know it's not intentional since length is 3:05 on spotify but nice lil touch

 

Do you guys have the same problem with the mixing/production on the other songs? I think "Sticky" sounds great. That's really the only one I've listened to a ton so far, in an effort not to spoil the album, but I really had no issues with it. Listening back to this one, it sounds fine to me.

In general, I find that I'm a lot less picky about production/mixing than I used to be. Not sure why I've trended in that direction.

 

My biggest issue is how straight forward and repetitive many of them are so far. They are all catchy but it’s all so, empty?

 

The other three all sound fine to me, production wise

 

The call back to black butterflies in sticky is still dope af

 

only listened to Pretender once (gotta wait for album release for relistens) and it sounds completely fine to me. there's some extremely intentional compression on the louder parts, especially on John's vocals, but it's obviously very stylistic.

 

What’s press saying about this record - jason?

 

Honestly, after what we just lived through, I am all here for just a very catchy, fun album from these guys, even if it's not as weighty as Lovely Little Lonely. That's kind of where my tastes are leaning this year in general, actually: give me fun shit.

 

That’s fair

 

Yeah I mean. I’m happy people are enjoying the songs, watching them receive some commercial success is fucking awesome and that’s the only path to get there. But as a person that’s always happily rooted for this band, so far I’ve got nothing positive to say about these singles. It’s got nothing to do with the stylistic choices, sonic direction, or production. These songs are just kinda without. It feels like they all need several punch ups. Pretty much the most toothless version of how I’m feeling currently

 

Damn, I thought sticky and lips were about as strong as any other singles they have

black butterflies is hard to beat

 

Are they getting commercial success?

 

yeah, relatively! ATL killinnnnn it.

Top Alternative Rock Song Chart | iHeartRadio

 

I’m already ready for a new ATL album even though it’s only a year old. I spun the thing to death all last summer.

 

same, it was in my top 5 of the year, haha prolly top 3. Those boys onnnnn one.

 

I don't love what I've heard of this album so far, but it's very danceable and very jammy and will hopefully rip live. Can't wait for the full thing!

 

I love all 4 of these songs but my most immediate reaction to this one was that the mix was bizarre. I didn’t feel that way about any of the other 3 (in fact I think the other 3 are about as polished as they’ve ever sounded)

 

These 4 new songs are probably my favorite thing this band has done. Incredibly stoked for this album