Brand New Band • Page 598

That would be a play out of Friezas book to make you pay for something twice.


But no.

 

I think it was taken down from SoundCloud :'(

 

I'm not surprised!

 

There are others, just search for it

 

I don't need it anymore, they activated he digital download links finally haha

 

Came here to ask; are the digital downloads the one big 60 minute file like the CD or are they the individual songs

 

Don't know, haven't gotten home to do it yet. Really hoping they're separate. Probably why it didn't get activated right away, they didn't want to ruin the mystery.

 

They're the separate songs.

 

Siqqqqqqqqqqq

 

I burn like a witch in a Puritan town

 

Damn, this band can't break up. I'll take one of these every 6-8 years.

 

Not even a big Brand New fan but this is great halfway through. Let's go play Nagasaki.

 

Yup. Album is killer.

 

European and Australian exclusive vinyl for sale! Just bought the Australian white vinyl!

 

Ok, these threads are impossible to keep up with so I'm sure this has been discussed but has there been any clarity as to what the limited vinyl pre-orders contain? Considering it's $18 more than the vinyl they posted today...

 

Where's this?

 

PMT! Australian Webstore

 

Where we figuring out the lyrics at?

 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ngbN-4h2pS1ck4WZxEQUlWXdOADWDH_jequwiqARmgs/edit#

 

license plate on the the car: SOS 666

 

Thank you sm! I missed the first "limited" vinyl sale like many others did. I just spent 60 on this including shipping, but I'd say its worth it haha.

 

Chicago tickets are available in the presale right now for those who couldn't get them earlier.

 

John doing some trolling lol

 

oh man that's perfect

 

Sharing in here too:

Okay. Here I go.

I've been around music for 28 years. I discovered a love for music, and an actual appreciation for musicianship in the early '00s. I discovered many of the bands that are now staples in my listening habits, and several that I've allowed to fade out of my iterative collection.

Now is not the time to compare or rank Science Fiction against anything else. Especially not against my favorite album of all time, The devil and God Are Raging Inside Me, an album that literally effected the course of my life, and would establish Brand New as not only my favorite band or musicians, but my favorite group of artists.

While their fourth album, Daisy, had its own effect on me at a crucial point of my life, it never truly stood a chance against the sheer magnitude to which The devil and God impacted me personally. I never thought I would ever feel the crescendos of music like that ever again, but then Manchester Orchestra came at me with A Black Mile to the Surface. Whatever I had been anticipating from Brand New seemed distant and shallow.

Since Brand New's last album in 2009, these 8 years have been spent growing into the man that I am, now a husband and a father, doing exactly what I love for a living. As I spent the better part of 2016 fretting here and there over what my favorite band could be doing, I wasted a lot of time, precious time, while they created this. I was burned by entitled expectation of a band that never owed me anything.

I am in a simultaneous state of being at loss for words and being overwhelmed by them. I have expended many words already, but they are essential to the thought I am articulating.

While Science Fiction remains to face the test of time, I can already feel today settling itself to be remembered in a decade. The exhilaration of an album cycle that would seemingly never end. Yet here it is, a wild week, a surprise drop album drop, and it is in my ears for a third spin. Expectations so lofty they could never be met, but they were. Resoundingly so.

Every single track reminding why I believed, and have believed for a decade, Brand New to truly be the best at what they do. A minor quibble on a few lyrical choices, sure, but that's because I do not love cursing in my music.

Vin's raging guitar solos, the groove of Garrett's bass lines, the punch of Brian's percussion, and the lyrical / vocal blend of singing and screaming from Jesse that drew me in as a devoted listener in the first place... all create an album that will surely grow on me and with me through the years, but it does not need to. I already love it.

Science Fiction is everything that this artform should be. It solidifies Brand New with a discography that they should take the utmost pride in. It is clear that they poured their hearts and souls into it. A final album that could, in its own right, be the beginning of something if they let it.

It's finished.