Thrice - Palms (September 14, 2018) Album • Page 83

The Dark.

 

Silly take. I appreciate the millennials killed
Album sales sentiment tho.

All I’m saying is you can roll things out better.

Huge fan. Bought the record. Going to see them for the umpteenth time.


Hype. Should be higher

 

I’m not gonna blame the band or the label for my lack of hype. This rollout has been fine, no worse or better than a typical rollout! It has nothing to do with my hype. My lack of hype is a personal problem and probably has more to do with what I’m looking for in music right now.

 

This has been one of the more boring album rollouts. TBE.. used Instagram to tease songs with specific art for each track and they also had the 4 studio videos. They've had studio videos teasing records going back to either Vheissu or even TAITA. Where are those now?

And why can't bands just announce the album and release it like a week later? Why do we all still have to go through the motions of a 2-3 month lead time before release? They're not doing much press for this record yet. We've got two songs and a music video. Fuck record companies and their ancient ways.

 

My hype is very much there! I just wish that they had released the songs in anyway where we had more than just one song to go on for a couple months. I think it was my hype sadly that made that wait so difficult haha.

 

Looks like they've played closer to 20 songs on recent dates. I've missed the teaser videos from the last record cycle, but I'm stoked to see them again so soon after this record drops. Hope it does really well for them.

 

i love teasers. anything behind the scenes gets me fired up

If you compare this to the foxing rollout, seems about the same length.
those podcasts were such an awesome way to keep engaged with the release

at least since I'm old now, i'll blink and 3 weeks will have somehow magically disappeared
record will be here in no time

 

The only thing that they did “wrong” with the rollout was give fans a taste of new music too early. We all assumed that when the Grey dropped the album announcement was imminent, when that just wasn’t the case.

Two months from the official album announcement to release is very standard

 

When did the Grey come out....Late May / early June?

 

I’m gonna be honest, this is my 9th album cycle with THRICE.

By this point, they just need to say “we have a new record” and I’m adequately “hyped.”

I don’t need anything else.

 

You bought the record. The roll out isn’t about you.

 

Well that’s no fun

 

That album sold barely 3k copies.

 

What’s the expectation on this.
Like 12-15k in its first week not counting streaming?

 

Also, my 32 year old ass only gets truly hyped for like, container store sales, and whatnot.

 

Y'all need to learn some patience. It'll come. We've gotten two singles. You can be excited but there's literally no reason to act like this is some awful rollout because you can't wait.

 

No idea what they expect.

 

call me crazy. but im extremely hype for this album.

 

I'm hyped for your hype

 

My hype level is through the roof.

 

this thread is really hard to read

 

Simmer down. This thread is supposed to be ambivalent at best to this lukewarm album rollout!

 

Thanks dad. lol

Can't people think something is less than ideal. holy hell
Could the rollout be worse...yeah. Could it have been more exciting....yeah. Earth shattering stuff here

 

I've derailed this enough. Sorry to everyone

Excited to talk about the record in a few weeks

 

Maybe it’s simply that I haven’t been paying attention, but am I correct in thinking that criticizing “album rollouts” is a recent development?

I’m just wondering when having an opinion on what is essentially a marketing strategy became so commonplace?