Touché Amoré - Stage Four (September 16, 2016) Album • Page 36

Man I love this thing so much, still can't get into is survived by at all, but this is a truly phenomenal record

 

This fucking album. It hits too close to home.

I lost my mother to breast cancer twenty years ago when I was six. If there's any solace to a song like "New Halloween," its those lines - "You keep finding new ways to make yourself reappear/I hope you never leave me be" - that I can vouch for as being unequivocally true.

They're true not only because an album like this can come out and automatically bring me back to her, but also because all these questions and self-doubt Bolm struggles with "reappear" in my head on a daily basis. The doubt never goes away, because you never forgive yourself for not sharing her faith, or not knowing every detail about her life, or not being as close as possible to her when she died. "What Sarah Said" fucking kills every time and now so do these songs.

But that's the paradox. I want to feel that pain - and hear these songs - because they're part of those few sacred things that can bring me back to her. This album captures all of this perfectly for me, it's unbelievable.

 

People don't like it when u blast this album in traffic. Especially when ur by a crowded baseball stadium lol

 

Beautiful post. Thank you for sharing and even though it's been a long time I'm very sorry for your loss.

 

album gives me the feels. really digging it

 

Yeah this and Keep You back to back was a bad idea. I have a very close relationship to my mom due to losing my dad when I was very young, and while my mom is (thankfully) healthy and well, this album still hits me so hard. I don't know what I'll do the day she's no longer with me. I called her at work today just to tell her I love her and she means the world to me and I appreciate all she does for me, even at 23. We both miss my dad very much. I can't thank Pianos and Touche enough for these two albums. They're absolutely beautiful and perfect.

To everyone in here sharing stories of sick or lost loved ones, my heart goes out to you and thank you for sharing your stories and bonding together over this incredible piece of art.

 

i'm picking this up tomorrow and i'm glad i've got the whole day off cause it'll probably wreck me.

 

Album is just phenomenal. Can't believe bands still make music this good

 

My top 10 this year is going to be very hard

 

The drums are too good on this

 

only listened to this band a few times and listened to this album last night, and holy fuck this is amazing. Completely heartbreaking album, but crazy good.

 

"you keep finding new ways to make yourself reappear

I hope you never leave me be"




this line ruins me. I lost my dad when I was 5, I'm 27 now, and I still feel this way. riding that fine line between lingering on the loss and not forgetting.

this is such a beautiful record overall. New Halloween, Benediction, and Skyscraper are going to be hard to get out of my head for a while.

 

This album is amazing and heartbreaking all at the same time: Flowers And You, New Halloween, Benediction, Eight Seconds, Skyscraper are all so incredible.

 

My girlfriends grandma passed away this morning. She was incredibly wonderful, and had been letting us live with her while we save for our own place. This album is an extremely tough listen today.

 

I want to preface what I'm about to say by stating that I am in no way attempting to compare the magnitude of losing a mother to losing a dog...

But my neighbors had this beautiful beagle named Jocey. She was put down after her cancer reappeared when they were on vacation this year. I loved that dog so much. I had an almost spiritual connection with her and her brother (who is alive and well, thankfully). She had so much personality and brought me such joy. So, walking past their house with this album playing yesterday definitely choked me up.

 

I listened to this record for the first time today while I was walking to Rite Aid on my break from work. By the end of the second track, I was legitimately crying in public. Not open sobbing, but there were tears rolling down my face. I'm 26 and have never been brought to tears by my first listen to anything ever before. As someone who only recently got a grip on depression and anxiety and lost my mother to cancer when I was 13... it feels like this thing is singing to me. And I'm certain there's a load of others that feel the same way. It's a shame that so many people in my life are turned off by anything "heavy" music-wise, because this record has so much to say and says it so well.

 

"Skyscraper" is so beautiful. It's so full of hope.

 

Has anyone found a good place to slot "Gather" into the tracklist? It's a good song, and I enjoy listening to it, but "Skyscraper" is the perfect ending for this album. I've been playing it as the first track, and it works fairly well, but "Flowers and You" is already a pretty strong opener.

 

The record ends with Skyscraper. For Spotify it's considered the "deluxe version" so it has Gather at the end. Gather is the B-Side to the Palm Dreams 7". I wish there was a way we could have placed it elsewhere on Spotify because I want the listener to end the record with Skyscraper. Just the way it goes.

Thanks for listening everyone!

- Jeremy

 

Thank YOU for creating such a profound, meaningful, and beautiful album. The memory of your mom will live on forever within these songs.

 

Thank you and your band for this album. I can't articulate how much this album already means to me in such a short amount of time

 

Your new album is absolutely fantastic. Thank you.

 

Yes fantastic work Jeremy and co

 

No, thank you. I called my mom immediately after the first listen. Awesome show at Terminal 5 the other week, looking forward to the next one in NYC.