The Menzingers Record New Album With Will Yip • Page 3

Pale Horses

 

They were on a roll with Matt Alison. Will always be curious what could've been if they continued with him.

/drunkontheimpossiblepast

 

I think Yip has done good on most records. Hell that Turnover album was the best of 2015 imo. I think this will be great

 

I liked I Don't Think It Is. A lot.

There, I said it.

 

My expectations are a little lowered now that Yip is producing. He sucks the life out of songs it seems.

 

Never could get into these guys. Definitely will give this a try though

 

The best of Yip

 

Just got into this band. Feel spoiled that I'm getting to hear a new album within the same year I finally listened to their past work.

 

The last three albums are fantastic and this band can do no wrong. I don't see The Menzingers going in a boring direction with grungy, mid tempo songs throughout this though Rented World had a slightly grungy feel to me.

 

I've been trying for years to summarize the feeling I get when I find out that Will Yip is behind the board for yet another band I love, and this is it. His records aren't consistently bad but a solid 75% just don't sound very good.

 

What is this other thread? Can you link me?

 

There is a "pizza belt"? What in the name of fuck.

 

I like Will Yip's production on quite a few records, Keep You, Charmer & Peripheral Vision are three of my favourite albums of the last 3/4 years. That said, I don't think he suits this band.


Also, that album title is horrifically bad.

 

I feel like Yip's production is like this heavy cloud of smog that makes albums impossible to sit through. A lot of what he's done (Turnover, Title Fight, definitely the last Balance Composure record) I enjoyed the first couple tracks and then got exhausted with the records three or four songs in. The sound of his records is super overbearing and flat to me. He doesn't let anything breathe or sound organic, and he stifles a lot of the emotion out of the songs. Keep You is probably the only album he's done that I enjoy.

 

Well, that Turnover record is one of the two or three things he's worked on that I really love. In general I agree with you though.