Dawes - Passwords (June 22, 2018) Album • Page 4

Thank you so much for sharing!

*Edited to add that I am really kinda bummed that this is another long, slow, low-energy song. I was really hoping this would be a little bit more of an uptempo rocker. I'm in the same boat with this song as "I Can't Love", where I love the last 1 minute and 33 seconds with all the cool synth sounds but I find the first 4 minutes and 18 seconds crushingly boring.

 

Also, the song is from a dog’s point of view

 

I would like to see Taylor eventually put together an album like Jeff Tweedy’s Together at Last. I don’t usually like the greatest hits kind of thing, but I would love an album of Dawes songs stripped down to just Taylor and his acoustic.

 

Some solo acoustic performances from Judd Apatow and friends
5 songs, 1 new one

 

There's two new songs in there, isn't there? "I Still Feel Like a Kid" and "Genius."

 

The last song is a Warren Zevon cover

 

Ah gotcha. I haven't gotten there yet, was just going off the video description.

 

I was initially pretty disappointed with this album, I think mainly because of all the mid-tempo songs, but it's grown on me quite a bit. I agree with all of the comments about the sequencing of the album being a bit odd, but it's yet another solid album from them.

 

Really good write up / interview with Taylor talking about the new album over at Rolling Stone --> Dawes on Learning to Write Political Songs, Following Up a Polarizing LP .

Made me glad I've been trying to give the album a chance. I do think my version of the album is gonna have 9 tracks though when all is said and done. And I slid "Living In The Future" to track 4.

 

Pitchfork reviewed this and through out a Nickelback and Creed comparison haha.

 

The Pitchfork review was hilariously bad.

 

Yep awful.

 

It's their first review of one of their albums too, correct? I love how they finally start now and then shit all over it.

 

Yep, I don't think they've ever gotten any coverage over there.

 

What track did you leave out?

Yikes...

 

"My Greatest Invention". Simply too many long slow songs in a row for me through the middle part without enough high points on what is a long-ish album. I love the lyrics in "Telescope" and the live version feels like it goes somewhere musically to me, and the last 1:30 of "I Can't Love" where I'm guessing maybe Griffin comes in singing about Pasadena is possibly my favorite part of the entire album.

I don't strongly dislike "My Greatest Invention" but it's very long and very slow and kind of boring. I honestly think I might give the edge to the bonus track "I Will Run" - at least it has the cool synth part at the end of the song. I was really hoping there was just one more upbeat song somewhere here.

 

Great interview, some really great bits throughout the whole interview. Makes me like the album more for sure.
Appreciated the part when he says “It's important to me that it isn't just about current events” bc, for me, it makes it too specific and less interpretive.

 

This might be a weird thought, but I think this band is held back a bit by terrible album covers.

 

I don’t think they are held back by it, but I do think the past 3 album covers have been pretty awful.

 

1. Cool live performances from AXS:

2. Dawes quoted a tweet by saying "Clue: The title of the 2019 hit album from West Coast rockers, Dawes."
Here's the tweet:

I tweeted at them asking if it was a 7th album, the they liked it. So maybe they've already begun?
AYFB and WAGD were 15 months apart so it's possible.

 

seems like a pretty clear and obvious joke lol

 

catching them tomorrow, can’t wait

 

New song written by Taylor and performed by Mandy Moore for This Is Us.

 

Saw them Sunday in Chattanooga, twas incredible. Taylor played a new song called Me Especially

 

So critics must not have really cared for this one huh? Surprised to say I don’t remember seeing it on a single EOTY list this year.

Crack the case is still a top ten Dawes song.