Brian Fallon - Sleepwalkers (February 9, 2018) Album • Page 15

https://forum.chorus.fm/threads/first-listen-brian-fallon-sleepwalkers.39950/

Craig Manning and I are doing a dual "first listen live blog" of this album tonight in the supporter forum. If anyone is interested, please come join us as we listen to the album and then blog our thoughts and argue about what songs we love, don't love, and so forth.

It'll start in about 5 minutes @ 7:30pm PT.

(This is an exclusive for supporters of the website.)

 

Holy shit - the sample for My Name Is The Night (Color Me Black) is up on iTunes store in other countries!!! It is f---ing incredible!!!

 

The whole song is out here listening to it on repeat rn omg I'm weak

 

i think its up on UK spotify? thats what i just read at least. dont see it anywhere else but id guess it releases tomorrow.

damn 4 singles is wild but im here for it

 

Haha this song is NASTY. The best of the four released. Gonna enjoy it for a couple days then I'm putting all four songs away until the album drops.

 

lol this makes me big smile for how good it is....that chorus is so Gaslight...and these Horrible crowes whispers ugh...can't wait for record

 

New song is a total jam. Only listened to it once but I'm gonna leave it at that and wait to revisit all 4 tracks when the album drops. Seriously though, this album is shaping up to be a classic.

 

New song kicks ass. They all do. Can't wait to hear the whole thing about 1,000 times in February.

 

My Name Is Really Good Song

 

The new song is everything I want out of a Brian Fallon song. Really hoping that pre-orders come in early because 14 days is so long to wait.

 

I listening all 4 songs on repeat I just can't hold on....and what still makes me laugh and happy is that yell in Forget Me Not haha,that's so Brian and so beautiful

 

Have any b sides been announced for this album (aside from the acoustic Forget Me Not)?

 

Forest me not

 

Autocorrect. Typing when folding laundry doesn’t always go right.

 

Happy birthday to Brian!

 

Going to avoid them like the plague (EDIT: try to) but FYI the previews for all the songs are on Itunes

 

No willpower whatsoever. None. Song previews sound amazing.

 

Me: yeah not listening to these.

Also me: "NOW ETTA JAMESSSSS, HIT THAT SYMPHONYYYYY"

 

Is it weird that I love his solo material but just cannot seem to enjoy The Gaslight Anthem?

 

Very

 

Yes, because the lines are all so blurred at this point. But people like what they like so to each their own. I think more than anything, each album from Gaslight, Crowe’s, to solo Brian all have a different sound but very much by the same guy (or guys in some cases if you consider Ian, Alex, Ted, and so on).

 

For an album that was announced so long ago, this release is kind of sneaking up on me. Less than 2 weeks to go!

 

Granted, aside from the 4 songs released so far, I'm only listening to 90-second samples at this point, but to me the instrumentation here sounds different enough from what Gaslight tended to sound like to justify it being its own thing. I didn't really feel that way about Elsie at all, and even Painkillers - an album that I enjoy immensely - I feel like as the tour went on with the band he had together the songs kinda morphed a little bit away from strictly singer/songwriter sound back towards a little more like how Gaslight sounded.

Even reading that back I'm not sure it makes any sense but I guess comparing the album version of the song Painkillers to videos of them playing the song live towards the end of the tour kinda illustrates what I'm trying to say. Or how the live videos of them playing the song Rosemary sound a little more electric-guitar led versus glockenspiel led.

 

Loving the clips, though I think I’m gonna agree with Jason about Proof Of Life being b-side material.

 

Neptune verse and chorus sounds straight off of Handwritten (but the post-chorus instrumental absolutely does not)