Circa Survive - The Amulet (September 22, 2017) Album • Page 107

Listened to the stay probably 10 times today while golfing.

That song had my backswing tempo on lock.

If I played BSN...who knows how today would have gone :/

 

haha no, more like I feel like whenever I talk to other circa fans, I have to pretend to like that album more than I do. So every time I do that little charade, I have to vent here lol

 

Sounds like a lot of work

 

wow, thats really really sad.

 

If no one else really feels that way, wouldn't it not be "clearly" their low point?

 

I think BSN is the black sheep in comparison to the rest of the discog (song structure, lyrics, pop sensibility, vocal mixing)

but maybe that isn't a bad thing. Especially since a lot of fans adore it.

ps - it's also my least favorite and I don't want another album like it :)

 

Blue Sky Noise is my favorite Circa Survive album. I connect with it the most lyrically, and musically I think it’s a really good mix of everything they do. It’s really hard for me to rank their discography beyond that though. The only two consistents for me have been BSN being my favorite, and Juturna being my least favorite. (fight me)

 

I'm totally on board with the idea that BSN is annoyingly overrated by a segment of the fanbase.

At the same time, saying it's clearly the worst is IMO judging purely on style and not the aptitude with which they executed the style. I totally get someone thinking it's their worst, even though I don't. But it's hard to argue VW (or even Descensus, IMO) are as fresh or sound like as much effort went into them, even if you prefer their style.

 

Stay rules soo hard

 

I mean to break the fourth wall a bit here, there's not often a real "clear best" for with these type of things. It's just more fun to trash something when it has the safety net of being everyone's favorite because at the end of the day everything this band does deserves love even if we disagree on what gets the most.

 

For me, it feels like they've turned a new page here. There's at least 5 extremely great tracks here with the the type of ingenuity and songwriting chops that I had been sorely missing. Feels like only they could have written it for the duration of its run time and the guitars do their inventive psychedelic swirls. I can't not be satisfied with that.

 

It's weird for me, I think BSN is my second favorite by them, despite lacking a heavy amount of the things I love most about the band (when they get ambient, give songs a nice slow burn and often kind of weird. Songs like "House Of Leaves", "All Your Friends Are Gone", "The Amulet", "Descensus", or "Nesting Dolls" are my best examples of this). It's a little more straight forward and approachable, but the songwriting is very tight. It's one of their most consistent albums in my opinion too.

 

Seeing frozen creek last night probably set me off about bsn. It was pretty cool live, while the album version doesn't vibe with me at all. Also because hearing them play Get Out made me realize I wasn't going to hear ANIGW or title track. Cool song tho

 

Honestly, I’m tempted

 

I feel like if any album can win "clear worst", its Violent Waves. At the time a fair few of us were unimpressed - it felt like a watered down version of other albums, and then recently Anthony I think suggested it was their worst, due to it being the height of Anthony's heroin addiction, where he wouldn't even want to spend time with the rest of the band, and it was all falling apart a bit.

I know there are people that exist that list Violent Waves as their favourite, and of course not doubting that, but I think Violent Waves is definitely the one album that stands out as being "less liked" by a lot of fans and the band themselves.

BSN is what it is, a major label record by a band that isn't really major label. That said, I absolutely still love it, and it probably ranks at 3 for me, maybe higher (Fever Dreams/Glass Arrows any1?).

 

I feel like every time I pop back in here there’s BSN hate and I will never understand how

 

If we're talking ragers on BSN, it's definitely Strange Terrain, Glass Arrows, and Dyed in the Wool. Those are some tunes.

VW clearly has the least energy so it makes sense for it to be least popular, but I prefer that vibe over the rawk record vibe of Bsn any day.

 

They were so good last night and they played at night which i was dying for and they hadn't been playing it recently

 

I honestly found this time seeing him to be the weakest performance on his part, and I think the growling has def gotten to a point that wears on me quicker. Idk, the Juturna tour especially I feel like he sounded great.

 

I think he's great

 

let me find all my posts in this thread i'm sure every single one of them is me saying bsn >>>> all

 

found it

 

Last time I saw them live was the Juturna anniversary tour and Anthony sounded great. Really nailed all the super high parts.

 

I enjoyed his performance, but he was definitely doing some different things than he usually does. He's pretty much always gotten crowd participation out of songs like Strange Terrain and In Fear And Faith. However, he's been using his falsetto more than he usually does, probably because he used it a lot of The Amulet. He's still got it in him. I guess he just decided to shake things up a bit on this tour.

 

*yawn*

his falsetto sounded great to me in the VIP set, but I think it tended to get lost in the mix during the actual set.