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The_Nowhere_Man
New album has been recorded "with a small band" - hopefully this at least includes Raishbrook, but for me something about the announcement makes it sound like a Finn solo record under another name. Finn said at one concert that he wanted to release it "soon", but later said that their label want to delay it until 2025. Ragged Gold (from the 2022? 2021? advent calendar demos), is supposed to be on there, but considering the sheer number of songs they've performed live as "a song from our upcoming album" that have never been released I'm just going to wait and see.
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BelzebuthMichon
I'll take anything, anytime. Even if their last was not their best, it still ended in my top 10 at the end of the year. Still my favourite band of the last 20 years.
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MaD_KrEvEdKo
It's always hard to follow up gems like Total Depravity, but the new album is very derivative in a lot of places. For example, the Nick Cave influences are extremely obvious, especially on No Limit of Stars, and as much as I love Nick Cave, I would rather listen to Nick Cave. The album does not feel like it's 56 minutes long, it feels twice as long, and not in a good way. And it's not that I wanted Total Depravity II, but this is just so plain, songwriting and production-wise :(. It's plain-sounding ballads upon ballads upon ballads that you've heard a million times before to the point where it all just blends into one. I still love this band though, because Total Depravity isn't going anywhere and it will forever hold a special place in my heart. The production, pacing, songwriting, instrumentals, just everything comes together in such a sweet bundle of joy. I hope they'll continue putting out stuff and stumble upon that creative wave again.
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death_by_exile
I haven't heard the new album but you're right, Total Depravity is a masterpiece and an album i've listened to consistently since it came out
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The_Nowhere_Man
I get the "two sides" concept but the second half of the album feels unfinished compared to the first half. The advent calendar demos had the same production quality. (Also, Invisible Things was overproduced, and should either have been elsewhere in the tracklist or not the only track between Bullfighter and Epoch.)
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HippySpeedball
"NEW DOUBLE ALBUM" - Umm, okay: 15 tracks, 3-4 min each, 56 min total run time.
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BelzebuthMichon
Cool that they finish the album with one of my favorite songs from Finn's father's band from the 80s!!! Not disappointed on first listen. When do they ever disappoint!
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The_Nowhere_Man
I know you meant that rhetorically but it WAS disappointing that Hanging Rock and the one that goes like "if you wanna live forever / you gotta [indecipherable] / you know I ain't never / got used to it" didn't make it on to Sun Gangs.
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The_Nowhere_Man
We're getting a double album! The lead single was played live once in 2014 (maybe we can still have hope for The Riff and Hanging Rock...)
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alternapop
been listening for many years... excited to receive the recently announced limited edition signed vinyl too of past releases.
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ffxi_frohike
Ok, King of Chrome is where my brain just went pfffffssshshhhhhtttttfuuuuuuu...
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BelzebuthMichon
Totally agree!!! If they keep this up, they will become my favourite band of all time.
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endoftheocean
Axolotl is everything I've been hoping for from them for ages. So hyped for the new album
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retrodreamer13
You guys were great last night. So very beautiful; made my birthday night unforgettable. Thank you! God bless. <3
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Nordschein
@rirriri, I think the same. the new album is MORE like "Runaway Found"!!! very cool. so glad they've finally found their way again after a few very average records. excellent. (2)
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thornykins
@joeldg, I think the same. His voice definitely is different. It's glaringly apparent if you listen to the old version of "Turn From the Rain".
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Ro-beer-val
http://tendenciaindie.blogspot.com.br/2013/03/eu-ouvi-gostei-e-recomendo-veils-time.html
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