backpackoat

After my first few listens I thought to myself, "Have I grown out of this kind of music?" but then I remembered ETID put out an AOTY contender last year and realize, no, this is just an aggressively bland, milquetoast album with absolutely no memorable or standout moments. It is disappointing, and I was actually looking forward to having some throwback fun with this one.

Wow, I guess DF shut down way more recently than I remember. It's funny to see my list of incoming records: Weezer's Pacific Daydream, Circa's The Amulet, etc. 

https://deadformat.com/collection/backpackoat

This is probably my album of the year, and if it isn't then it's barely in second place. For me it's their masterpiece and I hope that whatever drama that was happening either has passed or will pass, because god damn (hot damn?) they are a sick ass band and I don't want them going away

11th anniversary... that's a new one. I love this album but I will never get over how Tender Loving Empire screwed me over on a Kickstarter of theirs I backed, and then also when I bought some records from them and some were missing and they made me split half the cost with them to have them resent. And it was their error! That was probably 10 years ago but they can go screw themselves--tenderly and lovingly of course. 

I bought into this because I LOVED Volcano Choir (and still do). I hope they weren't just a one-off because in my opinion it's the best JV side project but to hope for anything new at this point is a fool's errand. 

F this idiot for getting my hopes up about more music from them

hahahaha. Must be nice to be able to blame everything on the pandemic. I'm sure the decision had nothing to do with the fact they scammed customers, silenced criticism, and overall had a """club""" that sucked ass.

21 hours ago, smailtronic said:

I posted in this thread like 10 years ago. Here's an update to my Weezer collection.

 

https://imgur.com/a/QxRRhEA

 

So awesome dude, wish this thread got more activity. So cool.

w h e r e t h e h e l l i s l i g h t s o u t

I agree in that Coldplay are capable of much more than the pablum they've been cranking out for the last few albums. Mylo is where they lost me, but Ghost Stories has the song Midnight on it, which is such a killer track and I'd like to hear an album in that more experimental, ethereal vein. I think they'd be very good at it. I'll keep holding on to hope.

 Ayyyy FUCK the rural bumpkins and 99% of the world amirite ayyyyyyyy 😎👉👉 REAL fans live in one of five cities lmao backwoods ass losers 😂👌

Shitposting aside, I'm loving the vociferous gall of, "Finally! W&T as it was meant to be heard!" and like twelve people in the world get to hear it

Wow. Now this is a deep cut. Maybe there's hope after all for getting Wolftron's Flesh & Fears pressed.

7 minutes ago, MCDELTAT said:

Hmmm... I do think the Patreon version looks the best. I don't want to be fighting to checkout during the livestream, is it available to any tier of Patreon? Sold out already?

Available to tiers 2+, as far as I can tell. Still available. 

6 minutes ago, zaoza said:

 

JFC. Can't wait to see the state of this thread in a few pages

16 hours ago, januarytwenty said:

Poster is shipping separate according to St. Vitus...

 

”Yes, the serigraph will come in a separate package. We are in the process of working to get those out to you as soon as possible.”

Did you (or anyone else with the print bundle) get the CD/DVD in the record package? I didn't get one and I'm pretty sure it was supposed to come with one. 

5 hours ago, shenanigans said:

If you're able to keep the record rather than getting the refund I'd grab it from you

I would have gladly done that, but while they did accept two payments, they were still only shipping one per person.

They did easily refund me after I emailed them, to follow up on that. 

I received my record over the weekend, however I never received a refund on my second accidental order. I know the double order happened to a lot of people, so please check your bank accounts as well. I sent an email to customer service this morning and hope to see a resolution soon. 

This album has so many cool variants

I accidentally got two copies of the yellow because of the website failures... hope they don't cancel both my orders as I didn't do it on purpose

Boy I was really looking forward to casually enjoying a new album, yet I somehow sit here $550 poorer

oh nice, i used to love typhoon but thought they broke up for some reason. cool!

Weird that people have already gotten theirs because instead of mine shipping OR getting the next pressing, I got this (US distro):

Hello,

Hearing her and Matt Berninger finally sing together feels cathartic as it always seemed a foregone conclusion. That song was great. I don't know how it's possible (it's probably just the fanboy in me) but Justin Vernon elevates everything he's in. Exile and Evermore are awesome songs. 

On first listen I don't like this album as immediately as folklore, but it's still good. I'm sure I'll like it more as I listen again, it just seems a little superfluous upon first pass. 

another beautiful package. look forward to these every time. love this band

7 minutes ago, 212 Margarita said:

Its up https://www.roughtrade.com/gb/phoebe-bridgers/punisher/lp-plus-3

Dude, thank you. Cool variant.

Just now, holyvacantsholyhell said:

Quit bitching about vinyl prices in a year where we’re lucky to get presses to begin with 

I've seen you have this take a few times. I'm really not trying to antagonize or argue with you but I don't understand it. $40 is a ridiculous cost for an album. Should we just keep being okay with these labels continuing to push up the "regular" cost of vinyl? Next year it'll be $50.