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Post by muzzleofbees on Apr 22, 2022 3:02:04 GMT -5
This dropped today, and I really like it.
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Post by bigontheinside on Apr 22, 2022 7:46:45 GMT -5
It's so good! It feels really efficient, no wasted moments, it's good 100% of the song. Love it
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Post by tbob on Apr 22, 2022 14:57:40 GMT -5
I’ve only listened to it a couple of times but so far I’m really digging it. The melody and sax break are both great.
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Post by skepticatfirst on Apr 23, 2022 9:08:06 GMT -5
Just listened to it a few times, and man, this is really good. The end of the first verse, from "they sounded almost entertained" through "always someone's birthday in your building," has so much menace under so much restraint, it hooked me right away.
The keyboards (super chipper in the first verse, a burst of thunder much later on) and the horns are almost talking in this one. Very good listen; hoping for more of this from the album.
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Post by muzzleofbees on Apr 23, 2022 14:28:01 GMT -5
Isn't the sax part eerily similar to the chorus of this massive song?
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Post by skepticatfirst on Apr 23, 2022 17:12:40 GMT -5
Isn't the sax part eerily similar to the chorus of this massive song? Ha! Survived the 80's one time already ... Was just out for a run, no headphones, hearing "Anthony I'm sure you know these things they can be passed down through the family" over and over, and thinking what a fucking great line it is. It scans so cheerfully and sounds so reassuring, but whatever exactly "these things" are a) there's no being reassured about them b) Anthony doesn't know and is clearly past thinking about it That "I'm sure you know" seems like Craig's "probably" and "pretty much" injected the other way around ("probably" and "pretty much" mostly mean "oh fuck definitely," "I'm sure"="definitely fucking not"). Love this guy.
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Post by muzzleofbees on Apr 25, 2022 2:24:54 GMT -5
I'm growing more and more fond of this. Musically, it has this hypnotic rhytm thing going, I can't quite pinpoint it. The sound is delicate and clean as ever, like a refinement or development of the We All Want The Same Things style - this slick, very poppy, very stacked sound, that feels both breezy and insistent. I'm pretty sure Kaufman have something to do with it, cause some of these tricks are also applied on Heavy Covenant or Unpleasant Breakfast, but I think it shines the brightest in Craig's solo songs. I'm personally very pleased with things going this way, sounding more like WAWTST than I Need A New War.
Both this and Messing With The Settings (even though it's very similar to God In Chicago too) sounds closer to I Need A New War than anything else, lyrically. Named characters, either fighting a losing battle with their own lives, or having already lost. It's pretty obvious that Anthony is struggling, and Rachel i Messing... have already lost her. And I think these solo lyrics are getting, in a lack of better word, nearer and nearer. There's increasingly less context or scenery, and increasingly more contemplation over the basics of a human's life.
I've been listening a lot to Messing With The Settings too through the weekend, and I still think it holds up. There's a musicality and nerve there that keep me interested, beyond the story and the lyrics.
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Post by muzzleofbees on Apr 25, 2022 13:46:35 GMT -5
Oh, and today I remembered that it's just little over a year since Craig dropped the line "these things tend to run in the family" in Riptown. I can't seem to remember this being a prominent theme before, but it surely must have been on his mind lately.
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Post by jz on Apr 29, 2022 13:51:12 GMT -5
If the whole album quality matches the first two tracks put out, this is shaping up to be one hell of a record.
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