Touché Amoré - Stage Four (September 16, 2016) Album • Page 22

Rooms also makes references to Wildlife and Somewhere.

But yeah the interconnected story between all the songs on Rooms might be why I give it a slight edge. Most of the songs allude to 35 and then also reference each other which is really neat. I remember when the 35 bridge collapsed. That was a sad day.

I also like how Rooms takes place over 3 generations in a family and how history is kind of doomed to repeat itself sometimes

 

it's poorly executed on wildlife

 

Def not as articulate/concise as Rooms yes, but I enjoy the effort.

 

I think Wildlife works better than Rooms in that regard honestly.

 

I love Wildlifes interconnected story but with Wildlife it's not as blatant. All of the individual stories have a theme of tragedy and catharsis which works very well, especially when put alongside the authors notes.

 

this is the funniest post ive seen in weeks

 

How? There's no clear narrative it's extremely hard to follow with nothing tying it all together in the end. I simply don't see how you could have this view if you look at both albums

 

The authors notes are what makes it hard to follow, those are done very poorly

 

I think the interludes on Wildlife help tie everything together and form a central narrative that, at least to me, is more effective than the way it's done on Rooms where it's a lot more abstract. I can see the positives of the Rooms approach though and why people may prefer it.

 

Opinions opinions opinions

 

Those interludes do way more to muddy it up than tie it together

 

Nah they're done well I think

 

JUST STUBBORN ENOUGH

 

Yeah my opinion is that I don't see how anyone could say wildlife is more clear in its narrative

 

Ily Jake

 

And his opinion is different and he's explaining why. No biggie

 

Never said it was a biggie pal

 

I'm not your pal bud

 

I wrote that before I saw your two posts on the matter so we clearly just have very different views on those interludes, haha. Those interludes and the final song are probably the main reason I have such a personal attachment to that album and they paint a very clear narrative to me.

 

which one?

 

Both!!!

 

Both of you very much

 

To me there's never really a given reason for the narrators notes, I mean, I never feel connected to that person or like I even really understand them or what they're doing. I understand better on rooms of the house that he's going through the different rooms of the house (lol) and being reminded of the past and what that's doing to him

 

Does Rooms even have a central narrative? It feels like there is to an extent but I'm unsure which songs are part of it and which are separate things.

 

pretty much every song is about the memories being experienced by going through those rooms/objects