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Whenever these start arriving, could someone let me know if there's an mp3 code inside or if they get an Autorip copy from Amazon? I don't mind paying $2 extra to buy from the band and have a guaranteed digital copy, but I don't really feel like paying Merchnow shipping rates on top of that. But also I've screwed myself in the past ordering from amazon and never getting a digital copy.

Yeah, and honestly that might be part of why I get a little bored with it, since I'm hearing it twice as much as any other song on a full listen-through of the LP+EP.

Honestly, this is an A+ album aside from Break On Through and Winter Solstice, which feel misplaced. Winter Solstice is fine, but just boring enough that I always want to skip it to get to the next really great song. And I'm always on such a high from the ending of Michael that it feels really weird to go into the tonal shift of Break On Through. Kinda feels like those two should have been relegated to the EP? Either way, stellar album and I can't wait to get my deluxe in when the time comes. These guys always knock their deluxe releases out of the park.

Can't get over how unsettling that artwork is. Count me in for a retail version at a decent price closer to the release date.

Earlier this year I saw these guys at the start of their tour and they mentioned they had just been in the studio and recorded way too many songs and weren't sure what to do with them. So it makes sense that the EP sounds a lot like a B-Sides album. Totally decent tunes, but they don't grab me like a mwY album does. I'm very glad to have them, but I'm much more excited for the LP.

I would consider Say Anything to be my favorite band and I think IARB might be the greatest album ever recorded, to my ears. I've been able to find something to love in every release, but to me IARB had a youthful magic to it that can't be replicated and I've had no desire to see it replicated. So as someone who loves that album but just sees it as something grand in the past, this new concept feels a little like a Sicario 2 situation. Did we really need a sequel to something that stands alone? Will it even feel like a sequel other than the forced psychological connection? Is this going to embarrass everyone involved 5 years from now? That said, the song is fine. Just fine. I won't even touch the goodbye letter, but it didn't read like something written by a healthy person and that bums me out. I've accepted that every SA album is totally different and hoped to hear ten more years of Bemis music, but if this is the end then so be it. I just hope it's a fitting one and not an awkward one.

In for the deluxe white. Giving the EP a first listen now, very excited.

I think people groan when they see Yip's name because he has ~a sound~ associated with him. I think that's fair to a degree, but overall he does pretty clean work and even if this turns out to be mwY's "Will Yip Record" so what? At this point, every mwY record is so different that the discography only feels healthier with more diverse albums.

New single is super interesting. Fairly Yippy but it's a new sound for mwY and that's what we've come to expect from every new record from them, so I'm stoked to see how the rest turns out. These guys can do no wrong, honestly, anyway. Very curious to see the PO options on Friday. Hoping there's another stellar deluxe version, these guys know how to make a release feel special.

The hype is so real.

Yeah so this just arrived and it's...

Oh hey you're right. And my tracking estimates delivery Thursday.

The original press was done by Broken Circles and Dreamover in 2010, so I kinda doubt T&N has the original plates.

Bought a blue Weak's End because I'm a sucker. Wouldn't count on The Question being one iota different than the first pressing.

Not really his voice, more how his vocals are being used as an instrument in the song. I think "messy" does feel fairly accurate. His vocals on The Rover are very complementary, whereas here they feel like they're kinda working against the other instruments.