Psssst... speaking of Hoodie Weather, I covered it as the b-side for a song I wrote, which you can buy here digitally or on 7" vinyl...
Washington Square Park Hoodie Weather I Just Want To Sell Out My Funeral I Don't Like Who I Was Then It Must Get Lonely
I should try to listen to their albums again sometime soon to see how I feel. I’ll always have a soft spot for this band, but I rarely listen to them anymore. I’m kind of curious to see how I feel now about some of their albums that I haven’t listened to in years
I was just in this boat. Even skipping them if they came on shuffle on any playlist but these 3 new songs have me fully back in
Off topic, that bassline in the pre-chorus of You Made Me Want To Be A Better Person should be out of place for how busy it is but it works! Never really noticed until the re-listens I’m going through now
new songs sound like a huge regression to me. shame, sister cities was a great direction. back to pop punk I guess.
Songs about Death is a slowly paced sludgy number that builds and builds the album is a good mixture of what the band does best
oldest daughter and summer clothes probably my least favorite songs on the record (even tho I do like them)
I kind of like that it’s such a change of pace from even the last 2. Hard to explain, but there is a levity here that if they went back to darker stuff, I’d be disappointed.
I was wondering this when they called Wyatt's Song the lead single. Maybe those are the weaker songs on the record (still decent!) and they released them early so when the record comes out, it blows us away. Wyatt's Song is incredible imo. That said, I'd love if it were an album that could follow on from TGG sonically. The three songs that have come out could be that; if they hadn't gone darker/more alt-rock with NCTH and Sister Cities, these could be songs that fit on the album after.
Not sure how people feel, or maybe when I think of "pop-punk" I associate more of the bands that leaned into genre tropes, but I haven't really associated The Wonder Years as a pop-punk band in a while. Like even The Greatest Generation doesn't really feel that way to me, it just felt like they'd matured past that point and were doing their own thing that could be loosely associated with other genre bands. Upsides is definitely of its time pop punk and Suburbia leaned into Saves the Day/Starting Line homage, but everything after hasn't felt like they're emulating anything.
Washington Square Park Came Out Swinging Passing Through a Screen Door Cigarettes & Saints Pyramids of Salt
Washington Square Park Hoodie Weather Cul-de-Sac A Song for Ernest Hemingway It Must Get Lonely / The Ocean Grew Hands To Hold Me (this one is the only one I don’t have an immediate answer for)
Fruit Punch Logan Circle Came Out Swinging/Living Room Song The Devil In My Bloodstream Stained Glass Ceilings/A Song For Patsy Cline Pyramids of Salt
Washington Square Park. I had heard a couple TWY songs before, but the premiere of this one (either on AP.net or their Myspace) was what really hooked me. And Now I'm Nothing. A perfect closer to one of my top three favorite albums. Cul-De-Sac. This is a tough one. There's three or four that probably rotate for me. I Don't Like Who I Was Then. My favorite TWY song. It Must Get Lonely. I would love to hear them really lean into the sound of this one for a whole album.