The World Is A Beautiful Place... - Always Foreign (September 29, 2017) Album • Page 22

yup, pretty sure those are the ones. looking to pick up a record tonight and read the lyrics for this.

those are two my favorite tracks on here

 

I seem to have missed the whole lineup change / drama that happened here

 

Q&A: The World Is A Beautiful Place And I Am No Longer Afraid To Die

 

the band absolutely does not agree with anyone who thinks WIE is their best lol

 

Harmlessness is wayyyyyyy better than Whenever

 

Bummed that there are people out there who aren’t into all of their stuff

 

Rightfully so

 

I like all of the albums. I think they've gradually gotten better with every release, but that's just me

 

I love this record (which shouldn’t be a surprise) and I love the focused concise direction of it. I’m glad that this isn’t Harmlessness Pt.2 just like I was glad Harmlessness was Whenever, If Ever Pt.2

 

pretty much how I feel. I like when bands change their sound on every album. These arn't drastic changes but they are enough to make every album feel fresh.

 

whoa, these lyrics to hilltopper

 

I'm not sold on For Robin...I think I like everything else though.

 

This is getting better every listen. This record is so good. @Drew Beringer absolutely nailed it with his post earlier

 

Only song I ever go back to is the closer. Harnlessness is just so so much better. I'll need a bit of time with this to see how it stacks up. The last few tracks are more akin to my tastes.

 

Hi @KidLightning What do you think of the record?

 

I've only listened, I think, 3 times, but I quite enjoy it.

Some quick thoughts –

It's amazing how fast the first half to 2/3 of the album moves, it feels like I'm at "For Robin" before I even realize it.

And I've said this before in this thread, but I also think the album benefits from being more focused, and shorter. They're really able to home in on (and hone) a particular part of their sound.

With that being said, they still explore a large range within that part of their sound so it never gets boring. That's part of why I think it moves so fast.

The 3 song run at the end (4 if you include "For Robin") is pretty great. I think "Fuzz Minor" gets a little lost being sandwiched between "Marine Tigers" (my current favorite) and "Infinite Steve" (), so I need to spend more time focused on that song on its own, but it doesn't take away from the greatness of the 2 songs surrounding it so I think that bodes well.

 

I don't like posting what I think lyrics are about because then if I'm wrong I feel stupid, but am I the only one that thinks "Faker" is about Trump??

 

The chorus of The Future is instantly stuck in my head. That song is a jam.

 

after more listens I think I’m more into this than I was Harmlessness

 

That's what I thought

 

That's kind of what I was assuming.....or maybe not specifically him, but something similar to that.

 

read the interview, it has aspects of both trump and nicole

 

Oh yeah any insight on caused them to part ways with her? Doesn’t seem mutual

 

I'm about halfway through right now, and I've definitely enjoyed everything I've heard so far. Gram sticks out to me as being a particularly interesting song.

 

Nicole was married to Katie. Nicole was apparently abusive(I believe mostly verbally?) to various people, not just Katie(some labelmates, etc). Nicole was then removed from the band. She's doing One Hundred Year Ocean full-time now....and I believe the Broken World Media label is now defunct.