mewithoutYou - [untitled] e.p. & [Untitled] LP (2018) Album • Page 28

Oh it is! But it sounds like a penultimate track, not an ending song in itself. The final tracks of Catch, Crazy, and Ten Stories sound almost like epilogues to bigger songs than themselves. At least to me. Again, a random observation.

 

hangs at the curtain club in november???

 

agreed on that

 

Hell yeah!

 

I don’t really smoke weed but one time I got super high and this song (more specifically the end) made me cry lol

 

Oh I gotcha, I misunderstood. Agreed.

I think I'm gonna use the idea that they have pictured on their website with the EP and LP prints and frame them in nice simple white frames.

 

hey this has me very excited:

@en_cohen 3h3 hours ago
There are moments on the new mewithoutYou album that make me think of "Automatic For the People" and others that make me think of "The Argument." That's just the first three songs. It's reallllllllll good.

 

lol, wut. this is going to be insane.

 

ah, he clarified he was talking about the EP not the LP

 

Oh lame then.

 

mwYs careers work has been the best and most influential post hardcore since Fugazi and Unwound and everyone in the genre knows it. Somehow 15 years into mwYs illustrious career, mainstream publications and tastemakers had chosen to plug the lesser and derivative acts in the genre instead, who wouldnt have otherwise existed had mwY not done what they had done for years before hand. Meanwhile only recently has mwY had any mention in these circles (I think it started with PH) and it still hasnt been properly appreciated there just how influential and creative a band they have been. Its really frustrating every time I think about it.

 

album announcement didn't even get posted about on stereogum. kinda miffed me

 

I still think the christian label has held them back from notoriety, which is just stupid. Some people won't give it the time of the day.

 

yeah I was surprised about that too but I looked back and they've barely ever mentioned them before

 

I can't tell you how many times people have told me something like, "The music is good, but I don't like being preached at."

It's hard to explain something being religious, but not Christian with a capital c.

 

I cant parse Aarons lyrics at all enough to discern Im being preached at. Theyre certified nonsense in the best way.

 

70% of the time his lyrics are just literally run on similes inside of similes

 

I can't think of a single moment on Ten Stories or Pale Horses that feels preachy at all.

 

The earlier you go in the albums, it's more clear that the god he's referring to is the christian god, at least for the most part.

The lyrics, along with Aaron it seems, have become much more abstract and all-encompassing.

 

Yeah, absolutely. But that's because we've listened and read and re-read interpretations. If someone randomly heard a stick, a carrot, and a string lyrics, I could totally understand, haha

I still love that song.

 

oh I definitely understand it with It's All Crazy, even if I feel it's all more complicated than just being preachy

 

they practice Judaism right? so at least its not Baptist or something

 

can't imagine missing out on this band because you think aaron is preaching at you. my god

 

I don't always have to connect to lyrics for me to like a band, but it always surprises me when people say their either don't care about lyrics at all or they HAVE to connect lyrically or they don't enjoy the music.

It is what it is, but I have a hard time understanding that.

 

aaron's lyrical approach has pretty much never read as preaching to me, just someone trying to figure out the shape of god and how it generates and works through everything in his life. the last few records, in the way that they seem to have come up against the limits of both language and faith, are so interesting to me, as a pretty unswayable atheist, in the way that so much great literature is devoted to an idea of god or a generative force or a perceived lack thereof (aaron's writing reminds me a lot of annie dillard's, spirituality figures often into her work and it tends to be a composite of several religions and it never feels like preaching, just a way of explaining or thinking about things)