The Maine Band • Page 52

For Pioneer, it was a $5 preorder deposit through Pillar and once they’re ready to ship you’d pay the rest. At one point, they mentioned pressing more copies than what was reserved for Pioneer but I’m not sure if they did that or not.

 

Beginning of this new track sounds so much like "Iris" by Goo Goo Dolls, and now I want them to cover that song.

 

...yeah, this cover would make perfect sense.

 

Am I sensing a Can't Stop Won't Stop re-record?

 

No. I assume it's like them saying "we're approaching this like it's our first album and going in with no limitations"

 

(John's Versions)

 

sure hope not.

 

This is pretty much exactly what I think this is. They announced a few weeks ago that they were explicitly working on new material.

 

Yeeeeesssssss

 

Going go down a The Maine rabbit role starting today.

Hard to believe I’ve been following this band since 2007 and The Way We Talk. Tons of memories meeting these guys at all their shows too. Hard workers and always so humble.

 

I really wish they’d post any sort of update on the Pioneer deposit/preorders from months ago.

 

The last thing I saw was a tweet from Pat at the end of November saying it was coming soon. They’re on a social media blackout to record the new album, so I’m hoping once that’s over with there’ll be an update.

 

I didn’t know they were actually on a blackout, that’s pretty cool

 

The Maine break down every album in their catalog

 

For the record, both this and S/T were mixed by the same engineer

 

Colby is mentioned 10+ times here as being hugely important for the band, which makes me curious as to why he wasn't involved in this new record - but I'm assuming just a change in creative direction

 

Pretty underwhelmed, I can tell this is definitely gonna be a grower for me.. especially after how good the previous record was.

 

Largely same. Gonna have to be a grower.

 

I'm only halfway through this and I really like it thus far. It gives my You Are Ok vibes in the sense I can tell its the Maine but its not exactly the version of them that comes to mind immediately when I think of them. I think thats a good thing. I loved S/T but I think another version of that would be off my rotation pretty quick since I already have a version

 

This album will grow on me for sure, but i was very excited when i heard their single Touch back in 2024 thinking they were going to head in that direction. This is the opposite.

 

I think they have an album like "Touch" in them eventually.

 

After hearing "Touch" live last week, I sure hope we get something in that vein one day. Loving the direction they went with on this one.

 

I LOVE Touch. Would absolutely be down for an album in that style. Upbeat with lots of catchy guitar hooks.