The Story So Far - Proper Dose (September 21st, 2018) Album • Page 66

What’s wrong with discussion about bands in the scene

 

Every time I listen to them I think “Title Fight”

 

Appreciate MMATA and what they represent in this genre but their music is decidedly not for me and that’s fine

 

I stopped posting in the other thread for the new album for reasons so go over there lol

 

Anyway I guess I should check out anxious

 

if “Call from You” —> “Afternoon” doesn’t sell you immediately nothing will

 

‘growing up song’ is great

 

In April and More Than A Letter are top tier as far the emo/pop punk thing goes these days. There’s a lot of that record that’s never quite rocked my sox but I think they’ve got something great in them

 

100% me with them as well.

Anxious are cool, I liked their full length a lot for a few weeks. I should revisit. I remember the closer being especially good. They got something in the pipeline?

 

Aa far as new bands go, Origami Angel, Pool Kids, Sweet Pill, Meet Me @ the Altar, and Anxious are the ones doing it for me. I tried that Koyo record so many times but just gave up, something about it exhausts me. And I think Hot Mulligan is mostly hard to sit through a song (it's the vocals) but they occasionally make it work for me.

I'm sure there are others I'm forgetting too.

Edit: Forgot Carly Cosgrove, they are killer. I like the new Arm's Length singles too, but the album didn't work for me.

 

Thoughts?

 

Pretty mediocre record. Like, it's fine enough musically but really doesn't do anything that they haven't done better before.

 

Yeah it might be my least favorite - that stretch from keep you around - white shores is nice but nothing else really sticks. After 6 years it feels like a step back from the last one - both sonically and “hook” wise

 

It’s at minimum way better than self titled

 

Low bar but agreed.

 

I never get the disdain for self-titled. I love that record.

 

I think it sounds rough but the some of the hooks are better imo

 

Same here. I’ll still revisit certain songs from previous releases and I actually reallly enjoyed their self-titled album for along time, but nothing has stuck with me the way Proper Dose still does.

This new one is far and away their second best album, in my opinion, yet it still doesn’t touch Proper Dose haha.

 

Letterman and Nothing To Say are my two favorites.

Nothing To Say is such a No Pressure song.

Jump The Gun has some cool drumming going on in there too.

 

Self Titled does not hold up super well aside from Nerve & Solo. They played Heavy Gloom the other night and it didn’t hit like it did in back in the day.

 

Nah, self-titled rules. It's moodier and stonier than the rest of their albums and I love how fuzzed out it is. It grooves hard and has my favorite drumming of any TSSF album.

 

Self Titled to Proper Dose to I Want To Disappear is an incredible run

 

Self titled mostly sucks, just feels like a band out of ideas. The songs are clunky and the melodies are so, so lazy

 

Especially after What You Don’t See

 

So catchy melodies are lazy?