The Menzingers - Hello Exile (October 4, 2019) Album • Page 73

Oh. Nvm. It was delivered today!

 

The ending of Last to Know seems like a pretty common swell into the next song.

 

Breaking my heart.

 

sorry!

 

It is but it’s really fucking loud.

 

Anymore I really only find myself enjoying strawberry mansions and strain your memory. Everything else I can take it or leave it :(

 

I suppose it is kinda loud now that I listen to it. I guess I didn’t notice til I paid attention!

 

The mixing on here is kinda spotty in general. There are moments on Strain Your Memory where, when I have the volume up in my car, the vocals are ear-piercing

 

It’s not that loud, plus it calls your attention to how awesome “Strangers Forever” is about to be.

 

Nah it’s loud as hell and obnoxious when I’m listening on headphones.

 

Last to Know more like Last Song to Blow my Speakers Out amirite

 

I only recently started listening to this band so I don’t have the same attachment to some of their albums as everyone else. This one might end up being my favorite. ATP currently is.

 

Me too

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I can relate way too much to I can’t stop drinking so it hits hard for me.

 

Yeah, unfortunately some of the shine has definitely worn off for me. I still like this, but I’d place it pretty confidently behind the last 3 albums as of right now. I’m probably going to spend some time away from it and then come and reevaluate.

 

“We’re telling tales of revisionist history” is such a subtle, awesome line.

 

Listening to this on repeat while doing some office work today and ooh boy does this album rule. Said it before and I’ll say it again, but there isn’t anything even in the realm of a bad song on this thing.

 

Probably the longest it's taken me to get into a Menzingers album, but it's now really hitting me hard. If After The Party (which is still my favourite album of theirs) was the nostalgic, regretful look back on your past, Hello Exile is the sad, melancholic realisation of what that really means. On first listen I thought this was just more Menzingers by-the-numbers - by no means a bad thing! - but it actually feels like the perfect continuation of what ATP did so well. What a band.

 

Finally did the bracket. Winner was Casey, obvious if youve ever heard me talk about it haha. Final eight was Casey, Mexican Guitars, Rivalries, Strain Your Memory, Gates, Midwestern States, Time Tables, and Strangers Forever.

 

Still hard for me to rank this alongside their previous albums which have spent years in my constant rotation, but I will say this is probably their most consistent album since OTIP for me. Not a single track I don't like a lot. Just need more time to work out which ones I love. So at this stage I'd say it's a better version of Rented World and slot it in third behind OTIP and ATP, two of my favourite albums ever.

 

Yeah, if ATP was the "grown up" OTIP, then this is that other side of Rented World.

 

The chorus to Strain Your Memory is never not stuck in my head. Might be one of their strongest ever

 

All the Rented World comparisons made me go back to that album and I feel like i’m enjoying it more than I used to. Love Rodent.