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Post by chinaski on Aug 31, 2015 16:09:44 GMT -5
Tracking the different sessions, appearances etc, it's kind of crept up on me that it's basically September already. When the album was announced I felt like it was ages away.
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Post by jz on Aug 31, 2015 19:19:39 GMT -5
The lyric PDF has made me even more excited. 'Going to a Show' is the one that's really got me. I love songs about listening to songs and CF is the greatest exponent of that in recent years. Where did you get the lyric PDF?
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Post by bigontheinside on Aug 31, 2015 19:42:26 GMT -5
The lyric PDF has made me even more excited. 'Going to a Show' is the one that's really got me. I love songs about listening to songs and CF is the greatest exponent of that in recent years. Where did you get the lyric PDF? It was emailed to you if you submitted anything for the 'Maggie...' video. I don't really like reading lyrics without the music, so I gave it a quick look but I'm mostly waiting to hear the songs.
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Post by jz on Aug 31, 2015 23:21:02 GMT -5
Where did you get the lyric PDF? It was emailed to you if you submitted anything for the 'Maggie...' video. I don't really like reading lyrics without the music, so I gave it a quick look but I'm mostly waiting to hear the songs. Fuuggghhhh. I wanted to submit something, but the idea I had, I didn't have time to do properly. Just have to wait. Only a couple weeks.
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Post by doctoracula on Sept 1, 2015 20:57:37 GMT -5
looks like the vinyl is delayed? amazon lists a release date in october
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Post by chinaski on Sept 4, 2015 8:33:14 GMT -5
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Post by mcstevepants on Sept 4, 2015 9:13:49 GMT -5
This album is fucking brilliant. The lyrics hit hard.
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Post by doctoracula on Sept 4, 2015 11:11:18 GMT -5
It's great. I bought a ticket for his philly show once it started. Got that excited.
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Post by chinaski on Sept 13, 2015 5:50:43 GMT -5
Between this and the new Libertines record I'm having a great weekend of new music.
Does anyone else get a 40 Bucks vibe on the melody in Roman Guitars? There's one bit in particular where it strikes me every time.
I'm totally in love with Christine. I think it's a real high point in Craig's lyrics - he covers so much ground in so few lines.
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Post by Rich Tarbell on Sept 13, 2015 19:54:15 GMT -5
looks like the vinyl is delayed? amazon lists a release date in october I have physically seen the boxes of vinyl. They exist in hand in NYC as of Friday. Now, as to how fast they can get pre-order shipping out, etc I don't know other than they are "on it" and in asap mode.
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Post by spencerm on Sept 14, 2015 17:14:39 GMT -5
Does anyone else get a 40 Bucks vibe on the melody in Roman Guitars? There's one bit in particular where it strikes me every time. Totally agree! Saint Peter Upside Down reminds me of another THS song too. Spectres maybe? 2-Handed handshake?
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Post by tbob on Sept 18, 2015 21:35:06 GMT -5
It's all about Roman Guitars right now.
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Post by tbob on Sept 18, 2015 21:37:17 GMT -5
Between this and the new Libertines record I'm having a great weekend of new music. Does anyone else get a 40 Bucks vibe on the melody in Roman Guitars? There's one bit in particular where it strikes me every time. I'm totally in love with Christine. I think it's a real high point in Craig's lyrics - he covers so much ground in so few lines. This should probably be another thread but how great is that new Libertines record?!
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Post by muzzleofbees on Sept 19, 2015 3:12:17 GMT -5
Starting to get familiar with Faith In The Future now, and I still feel this is a great step forward from Clear Heart Full Eyes. The songs are better, but mostly it's about how well-rounded, well produced and coherent this album sounds. It just feels like more of a complete effort, something everyone involved could sign off on happily, knowing it was what they were trying to achieve. Everything sounds so right, so deliberate. And while a some of the records between them might be better (as in me enjoying them even more), I think this is the album since Boys And Girls who sounds and feels most at peace with itself - if that makes any sense. It sounds like no compromises have been made, no experimentation who seems a bit off, no doubts. Just a straight-forward and complete work where nothing could have, or should have been different.
I would love to do a write up in my mouther tounge, but I guess it's best to stick to a language more than a couple of people around here have any chance to understand.
MAGGIE While not being an explosion of excitement, I think this is Craig Finn solo at his absolutely best. Such a well written song, wrapped in a perfect arrangement and a really delicate balance of melancholy, sadness, faith and comfort. It might be an odd opening song, even a an odd single, but then again, the song is so good that it deserves all the attention it can get. I really love this one.
ROMAN GUITARS When I read the lyrics, I kind of expected a burst of energy to follow Maggie, maybe because of the very Hold Steady-like (and Lifter Puller referring) "the band played Touch My Stuff again" line. It's a little more subdued than that, but it's a really nice tune. I read someone drawing comparisions to Mountain Goats, and I can really see that. And coming of the back of Maggie, I think you already here can hear how smart, breathing and yet full the production of this record is. The horns, the twangy guitars, the simple drums, the dreamy bridge. It could easily have become too much, but it doesn't. It's just nice.
NEWMYER This being the first "single" made me a little bit skeptical. It sounded a bit to vague and dense to bear great promise for the album. But it's grown a lot on me since then. I love the rumbling drive in the song, and it reminds me both of Silver Jews and Velvet Underground. It's a subtle, but really good song. And the line about watching the towers fall and Doubting Thomas (what a name for a character!) already speculating on an inside job, gets me every time.
SARAH This is very Craig Finn, but as with almost every other track on the album, I sende he's found the best version of himself. A quiet, sweet and sad song, layered with just the right amount of instrumentation (the way the bass and the tambourine just slides into the song is a good example) and arrangement. The cliffhanger thing works, and Craigs voice fits the desperate sadness of the lyrics in a good way.
GOING TO A SHOW Another example on how Craig seems to have find his voice as a solo artist. Where the c&w vibe on CHFE seemed a bit forced, the laidback americana, but yet very New York-y (again, if that makes any sense) sound of this song just feels so right. The entire vibe of the song fits its message. A little bit sentimental, but more calm and at peace than sad. Enjoyable loneliness.
SANDRA This might be my favourite along with Maggie, again cause it feels like Craig have hit all the right buttons in the attempt to transform a vision to a song. There's more emotion in this song than in the entire CHFE, and again I guess the production should get a lot of credit. It would have been so easy to make this one either to sparse or to overblown, but the way it just floats along makes the song so much more appealing. Not only the lyrics, but the entire sound of the song tells a story about how the narrator sees Sandra. Like music can colour the pictures in a movie, the sweet bass and the sweet steel guitar tells us how we should understand Sandra.
SAINT PETER One of the more "unimportant" songs on the album, still it's pretty enjoyable. And I like that Craig still got his ability to tell us stories about people living marginal lives in a way like this.
TRAPPER AVENUE The title and the intro makes me think of Van Morrison and Cyprus Avenue. I like the organ, and how the song build intensity without getting loud. It reminds me of something good, but I can't put my finger on who and what.
CHRISTINE Have mixed feelings about this one. One one hand, I think the lazy sweetness of the song is a bit frustrating, but then again, it's really pleasing and soft in a good way. Again I think of Van Morrison. Good album track, mabye?
I WAS DOING FINE A great closer. So simple, playful and fun. A decent bar band vibe to it, not rocking or loud, but just jamming fun. This one also feels quite "unimportant", but it doesn't matter. Top stuff.
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Post by delboydrums on Sept 19, 2015 5:04:21 GMT -5
CD and T shirt received AT LAST today. If I'm really honest I was a bit disappointed that it was on sale in the record shops earlier this week and those of us Scenesters who'd had the chance to order via Pledge didn't get it till later. Ah well.
I've been listening to the download on my laptop, so it will be good today to get the fuller sound of the CD in my car (which is where I listen to music most!)
Great review above Muzzleofbees - glad it's in English, if you're going to get all Scandanavian on us, then I'm writing in Welsh!
As I mentioned above, I think that lyrically FITF compares well to CHFE, but I'm just loving the fullness and variety of sound / production on this record. Trapper Ave reminded me of Van Morrison too.
I would have to disagree about "Doing Fine" - I think it's arguably the best track on the album!
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Post by wiredirish on Sept 19, 2015 20:40:17 GMT -5
Nice review muzzleofbees. Saw him play some of these songs with the band at Rough Trade NYC, they sound great live
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Post by Rich Tarbell on Sept 20, 2015 21:23:16 GMT -5
NEWMYER And the line about watching the towers fall and Doubting Thomas (what a name for a character!) already speculating on an inside job, gets me every time. Doubting Thomas a.k.a Thomas the Apostle
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Post by muzzleofbees on Sept 21, 2015 0:19:21 GMT -5
NEWMYER And the line about watching the towers fall and Doubting Thomas (what a name for a character!) already speculating on an inside job, gets me every time. Doubting Thomas a.k.a Thomas the Apostle Ah, of course. A bit embarrassing. When I think of it, he's (not surprising) called that in norwegian as well. Tvileren Thomas.
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Post by muzzleofbees on Sept 21, 2015 0:23:39 GMT -5
MAGGIE While not being an explosion of excitement, I think this is Craig Finn solo at his absolutely best. Such a well written song, wrapped in a perfect arrangement and a really delicate balance of melancholy, sadness, faith and comfort. It might be an odd opening song, even a an odd single, but then again, the song is so good that it deserves all the attention it can get. I really love this one. Everytime I hum Maggie without having the song in the background, it ends up in Sufjan Stevens I'm Not There version of Ring Them Bells. There's some similarities in the chord progression at the end of the verses. At first I thought it reminded me of John Doe's version of Pressing On from the same album, but I think it's more Ring Them Bells.
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Post by bigontheinside on Sept 21, 2015 8:09:01 GMT -5
I loved Newmyer's Roof when it first came out, and it's only grown on me since. It's a contender for my favorite on the album. The "Tom there must be something yeah... Tom there must be something yeah!" is one of my favorite Craig Finn deliveries ever. It makes me do my Craig impression, arms waving alone in my room. And I haven't done that for a while.
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Post by delboydrums on Sept 21, 2015 9:04:15 GMT -5
I loved Newmyer's Roof when it first came out, and it's only grown on me since. It's a contender for my favorite on the album. The "Tom there must be something yeah... Tom there must be something yeah!" is one of my favorite Craig Finn deliveries ever. It makes me do my Craig impression, arms waving alone in my room. And I haven't done that for a while. Will you be posting a clip in the Shameless Self-Promotion thread??!
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Post by bigontheinside on Sept 21, 2015 11:28:23 GMT -5
I loved Newmyer's Roof when it first came out, and it's only grown on me since. It's a contender for my favorite on the album. The "Tom there must be something yeah... Tom there must be something yeah!" is one of my favorite Craig Finn deliveries ever. It makes me do my Craig impression, arms waving alone in my room. And I haven't done that for a while. Will you be posting a clip in the Shameless Self-Promotion thread??! Ha! Don't tempt me.
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Post by Rich Tarbell on Sept 22, 2015 11:26:12 GMT -5
I hope your mailman is as good to you as mine was to me this morning:
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Post by chinaski on Sept 22, 2015 13:39:16 GMT -5
Got my lyric sheet through the post today. So happy with it.
Rich when I picked up the vinyl first thing I did was flick to your picture on the inside - looks fantastic.
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Post by TKalltheTime on Sept 22, 2015 20:21:33 GMT -5
I think "Trapper Avenue" is my favorite track on the record & EP.
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