Brand New - Science Fiction (August 17, 2017) [ARCHIVED] Album • Page 132

451. Holy. Fucking. Shit. Still first listen and wow.

 

It's funny to me that the last line of the album that we've all been wanting for so long is "that's what we were waiting for"

 

Okay, so maybe those comments about it being better than TDAG weren’t totally unfounded. It’d take like 100 more listens for me to say that, but still ... this is phenomenal halfway through.

 

Finally listening. Can't believe this is real

 

Reported/blocked/frowned upon.

 

You'll be waking up soon. And you won't be able to remember a single note.

THIS IS A NIGHTMARE

 

here you go

Brand New - Science Fiction Lyrics

 

John Nolan being funny

 

im shocked at how many callbacks there are to the other albums. thats not really something theyve ever done but its really cool to hear.

i love this tbh

 

No Control is just kind of boring compared to the rest of the album. I like it but it never really "takes off" or takes you anywhere like the rest of the songs on the album.

My absolute favorite Brand New song of all time is Jude Law and the Semester Abroad.

Other favorites from YFW: Sudden Death in Carolina, Mix Tape, Failure by Design, Last Chance to Lose Your Keys, Secondary, and Magazines.

 

I've caught Modest Mouse, Manchester Orchestra, and self references. Anything else I missed?

 

I love it so much but it makes the record feel so final, like the end of the career.

 

time to go to bed, it's been a crazy day i never could have seen coming. i couldn't have been happier spending most of it here, freaking out over what may be the last brand new record on a site that's meant a lot to me, in this and previous incarnations, for probably close to half my 28 years. thanks guys, good night!

 

What's the Manchester orchestra reference?

 

I think my favourite off YFW is Jude Law too. You described a blending of YFW with the darker tones they've grown to use and No Control sounds the closest to that sort of thing to me. Maybe if it weren't mid-tempo it would seem to have more of that YFW punch.

Which are your favourites from Science Fiction right now?

 

Well this album IS better than TDAG. I'm on listen 9 and not even afraid to already say that

 

The last time I was listening to a brand new Brand New album it was the beginning of my senior year of high school. Now it's the beginning of my senior year of college (I fucked up a lot in the interim). Life is weird.

Chorus of "Can't Get It Out" made me grin like an idiot. They're back.

 

Can't Get It Out is probably going to be my favorite track of the year

 

Nope

 

no control reminded me of kevin devine

 

There's a lot of kevin in this record

 

well he did pave the way for indie rock so

 

I called this months ago

 

When Daisy came out I was a freshman in high school and I graduated college a few months ago haha. So weird.

 

I wasn't talking about the whole album, just the little punkier instrumental at the end of No Control that tricks you into thinking it's a new song but goes nowhere. But I could see No Control being a Pop Punk song if recorded slightly different. Or Can't Get It Out is kind of pop punky in the choruses.

My top 4 on Science Fiction in no order are: Could Never Be Heaven, Desert, 451, and Batter Up. I think after that would be Same Logic/Teeth and Out of Mana.