Yellowcard - Yellowcard (September 30, 2016) Album • Page 35

Also, I LOVE "wrecking ball"

 

Production on this one is definitely different

 

Those distorted drums tho

 

Bridge is cool, comes out of nowhere

 

Should I be spoiler tagging this stuff?

 

Really threw me off.

 

I would say yes this way it doesn't ruin it for anyone

 

I did not expect to hear a song like Got Yours from this band in 2016

 

Couldn't agree more. I love that song!!

 

So far I'm wondering if this album is gonna end up cohesive, cause they've already done so many different styles

 

I also think that, so far, this is their most similar album to Lights and Sounds.

 

I don't know if cohesive is the right word. But there's a story that is intertwined through the album which, when you get to the end, comes together.

 

Just got back from a bike ride with this. Really good setting for this first listen, weather out is beautiful.

Rest In Peace, Got Yours, The Hurt Is Gone, Savior's Robes were the initial standouts to me (only had heard the two pre-release songs once each). Really interesting album. Like many here, followed the band since near the beginning of their career, but I'm not as emotional about this band as a lot of you haha. Lots to consume on this record, excited to spend time with it.

 

really? huh, wouldnt have guessed that, guess I gotta wait haha

 

Leave a Light On already pulling at the heartstrings

 

It only gets worse.

 

thank you friend, always reassuring to be reminded that i wasn't the only one intimately attached to yc's music for years. it's a shame that their back catalogue isn't more widely appreciated. something i remember hearing someone say - maybe it was on the goodbye yellowcard podcast, idk - that really resonated with me was along the lines of "i'm so glad i got to grow up while yellowcard put music out." they really were the perfect band to grow up with.

early standouts for me are a place we set afire, empty street, savior's robes, and fields & fences. so so so glad to have a version of empty street that doesn't sound like garbage after so long. savior's robes is pretty sad to listen to in a way, though the frustrations they express in the song aren't particularly surprising. i just really hope that's not the taste that their career leaves in their mouths. great song tho.

 

yeah, this one really hits

 

Couldn't agree more, Im going to try to lay out my thoughts more cohesively tomorrow too, but you've captured it very well here.

Regarding your spoiler part with Saviors Robes I don't think that's the case -- the lyrics on Fields and Fences speak otherwise. IMO.

 

Well, I'm at the midpoint... really not sure how to feel so far. This is going to unfold lots more for me on subsequent listens.

I don't know if anyone else experiences this, and I'm not entirely sure how to describe it myself, but my first listen of a highly anticipated album almost always feels... disappointing, in a way? It goes by like a blur and I have a few of those "I'm not sure if I like this" moments... but 99% of the time I end up loving it anyway. It's a strange thing.

 

Also, while it is a shame their back catalog isn't more appreciated, who knows what would've happened if it was. I like Yellowcard just the way they are.

 

Exact same thing happens to me every time. It's an over abundance of new sound and it's very very difficult, if not impossible, to fully process it until you've spent time with it.

 

The Hurt Is Gone definitely fills kind of an "interlude" role once I hear it in context.... absolutely baffling that they chose to release this one before the album.

 

Well, I'm glad it's not just me. Every time it happens I wonder if I've ruined the record with my expectations.

To be clear, I don't have negative feelings about this one right now. I just don't know what to make of it yet, and that probably comes across a little uncomfortably in the midst of everyone heaping praise on the band.

 

the hurt is gone definitely sounds way better in the context of the album. it being released as a single kind of threw a wet blanket on my hype until this week. maybe that wasn't such a bad thing.