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    [PO] Thrice - Palms (9/14/2018)

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    9 hours ago, mmhmm said:

    Finally listening to this and it's super interesting/good. I'm surprised people are bored by this. Put on a good pair of headphones and hear how good this sounds...also, that bass tone is everything on this record. 

    How great the bass is highlights how pitiful the guitar parts are on this album.  The guitar work is pathetic for a band with the discography it has.  The bass is absolutely one of the best things about the album.  Drums and bass are on point.  

     

    Also, having great headphones can’t get this album out of the hole it dug itself.  Very glad I passed on this album.  First Thrice album I’ve ever not preordered and I’m not sure I’ll buy at this point at all.  

    The Mondo Records Thread - You think limited? Will sell fast?

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    3 hours ago, batman said:

    Very bland lately. It's a bummer because I love his scores for 'The Incredibles', 'Up', 'Star Trek', and 'Lost'...

    I also really like his John Carter score.  I hum that one all the time.  Instantly recognizable.  Seriously love that one, easy to forget though bc the movie didn’t do well box office wise, even though it’s underrated imo.  I think maybe he’s just a little too busy the last couple of years.

    PO NOW: Hopesfall - Arbiter

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    I didn’t truly jump on board until Magnetic North.  After listening to the podcast with the drummer, it sounds like they wrote the music for all the songs first completely before the lyrics and vocals were done.  He said the music needed to keep the band stoked to play it because they had no idea what the vocals would sound like.  New song supposedly is a good barometer of the rest of the album as far as what to expect from them.  Said it’s definitely not an outlier as far as the heavy, aggressive factor or what not.  I’m pretty stoked to hear this thing.  He also said it took them 4 years to finish from the time the first songs were written.  Haha. 

    PO Now! Underoath - “Erase Me” (Out April 6th)

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    Yeah, I don’t think it’s really that weird.  It was to be expected when a band significantly shifts their sound.  This isn’t Thrice where they’ve been slowly evolving their sound for years on every consecutive album, the last albums Underoath had were straight ferocious.  This album is not.  It’s not that the album is bad or not good, but it is very different, and that takes adjusting to even if you’ve decided you like it.  The question is whether you like that Underoath is now a band with pop hook catchy choruses that are comfortable being on the radio with much less ferociousness.  If you’ve evolved the same way the band members have since their last album, then it’s peobably no big deal.  If you’re not, you’re probably sorely disappointed.  That is the split.  Band had to have seen this coming.  

    PO Now! Underoath - “Erase Me” (Out April 6th)

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    On 3/22/2018 at 1:46 PM, V3XED said:

    Do people still buy CD's? I guess for your car stereo or something?

    All the time.  For me it still feels like I actually got something tangible for my money that I can easily give to my friends to listen to, rip to my computer, play in my car, etc.   I also am one of those that pour through the booklet and lyrics, and don’t like doing that through a pdf file.  As long as I can get a cd version, I will most likely choose that option along with the vinyl.

    PO NOW: As I Lay Dying "Frail Words Collapse" and "Shadows Are Security"

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    22 hours ago, Gippej said:

    Same here, used to really like this band when I was first getting into metal, but that incident ruined it for me

    For me, those albums are so far before the Tim that went crazy that for me they are untainted.  The only tainted album for me is Awakened.  All the old albums are still in rotation for me to listen to from time to time.

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