I tend to judge your Third Eye Blind judgement so I feel a little better now haha Hope to listen in the next couple hours.
How does this compare to Dopamine? Better worse or about the same? I’m glad to hear this isn’t awful, I was slightly worried it’d be forgettable.
3EB hasn't released a bad album. Not sure why anyone is worried. With that being said -- starting Screamer.
So I like a lot, dislike a little, but don’t love anything. I’d say 7/11 with maybe 2-3 standout-ish songs, but nothing I’d pick over most of their other stuff. Light It Up, Screamer, Who Am I are my faves for now?
Hmmmm I got through the first 5 tracks and was about to say the rumours of the demise were exaggerated... and then the second half of the album happened Tropic Scorpio is indeed excellent, and then the last 6 or 7 songs blur into this poppy mash of mediocrity Why the hell are all these songs so short? Not much here feels fleshed out or particularly well executed in a studio sense. There’s still strong writing here, but it’s bogged down by this samesy vibe that didn’t always plague this band but pretty much has since sometime around the middle of Ursa Major There are enough great songs between this and We Are Drugs to make one solid album, but Stephen really needs to drop the ego and let someone else in the band audit his ideas, because there’s simply not a lot here that can be expected to hold a longtime fan’s interest or even attract new ones
i think the album is incredibly strong and varied from "tropic scorpio" -> "light it up." how are y'all including "turn me on" and "got so high" in this supposedly "samesy" run?