Kevin Devine Band • Page 25

Bubblegum is a great pop punk song

 

bubblegum is def the best song on that record.

 

I think Redbird would like a word with you

 

Bubblegum is cohesive in sound, and is a very specific record in Kevin’s discography. It’s a little grungy with a punk edge. It’s more in your face. Unapologetic.

Brothers Blood has acoustic songs, duets, pop punk songs, epic rock tracks, cutesy songs about his dog, Spanish guitar feeling songs. Lots of variety of content and sounds.

You can like one album more than another. Brothers Blood just lands and n more places on the musical map.

 

Bubblegum's cohesion is one of the things that elevates the album in his discog. It knows exactly what it wants to be.

 

sorry in advance

disclaimer: i haven't listened to anything pre put your ghost to rest

brothers blood
put your ghost
bubblegum
instigator
bulldozer
between the concrete

 

Put your ghost at 2? Instagator above bubblegum? INTERESTING

 

Instigator needs more love

 

Instigator is great, the alt power pop thing it's got going for it in the brasher moments is super cool, but the songwriting isn't like skin deep Superchunk imitation either, it's thoughtful and well done. the lyricism features some of his best stuff too in a wide range of subjects. No History, I Was Alive Back Then, Magic Magnet, the title track...good stuff. this feels like a self reflection record for sure, a take inventory to see how life is different record, and it works out so well

 

why haven't you gone pre Ghost?

 

Lol fantastic write up!

 

good question

 

Put Your Ghost To Rest is easily my number one KD album. After that, I have no idea.

 

I feel like you'd be pretty into make the clocks move and split the country, split the streets (the former in particular) but in terms of overall cohesion I feel like Ghost is the start of a different era for him so I get it

 

Which record should I start with?

 

Brother's Blood. Then move backward if you like the more solo/acoustic stuff and forward if you like the more full-band sound

 

I was gonna say Split the Country but like for the same reasoning lol. yr answer makes more sense


start with matter of time

 

Split the Country forever and ever amen

 

Would be curious to see Andy Hull & Kevin Devine do a write up on their favorite record from each other’s discography.

 

Really pretty, I like Threads better but still glad both these covers exist!

 

How is it a disservice to call something pop punk?

I honestly think we’ve built up in our minds that all pop punk is shitty bro dudes stage diving, which is just simply not the case. Joyce Manor is pop punk. The Hotelier is pop punk. Pop punk doesn’t have to mean cookie cutter trash.

 

there is a code on this site and probably elsewhere that pop punk is bad and any band that once made pop punk and now makes good music is no longer a pop punk band. the genre does not change because we move the bands out of the genre as soon as they change their approach even slightly.

there's no value judgement to this btw, just something kinda funny I noticed.

 

When I think pop punk I think of a more accessible kind of music. Chorus that are catchy to sing along to, accessible common themes. Pop punk isn’t an insult, but I wouldn’t have used that term to describe Bubblegum.

Bubblegum feels more like garage rock, grungey, indie sound, with some political leanings. Kinda the opposite to pop.

As in, She Can See Me is more poppy on Bulldozer than Bubblegum.

 

For some reason I always come back to Make The Clocks Move whenever I want to put on a KD album and can’t decide which. But yeah I still might say Brothers Blood is best.