mewithoutYou - [untitled] e.p. & [Untitled] LP (2018) Album • Page 20

this band are just ridiculously good right

 

That’s when I almost dropped tear earlier.

 

I’m out with friends drinking and thinking, “I wish I was listening to untitled right now.”

 

Cities of the Plain is the greatest piece of art that has ever been created. I once said that hyperbole doesn’t exist with this band, and I’m sticking by both statements.

@ me

 

Holy sweet mother of light

 

Oh my g-d

 

I was wrong. ^^^ this is Aaron

 

have you heard Julia tho?

 

It’s an even race at this point.

 

I find it extremely fucking cool that two bands I have long since associated with each other - Cursive and mwY - have albums out on the same day. Got SUPER into Cursive in '09 around the time Mama, I'm Swollen dropped (I'd discovered Happy Hollow while convalescent after knee surgery a few months previously) and also heard mwY for the first time around then. Anyway, I was on a work placement and I listened to both of those albums (the other being Brother, Sister) incessantly and fell in love with both bands then and there.

And they're on the SAME FUCKING LABEL on this side of the pond. Coincidences are fucking WILD.

 

Maybe I should try cursive again

 

Aaron’s wife is the female vocalist on Dirty Air. I love that.

 

is Bethlehem, WV the greatest song this band has ever written? folks it might be

 

I’m not quite yet ready to have Mexican War Streets be usurped and if I’m being honest, nothing on this EP will do that.

 

This EP is seminal. I’m confident that they’ll be defined by this dual release.

It's difficult to grasp artists in the last 20 or so years because we've had access to every type of music we could dream of. It's option paralysis when it comes to choosing who you're going to hang out to or show a friend or put on for background music at work.

I know that most people here have gone through many periods of life and have kept this band with them during it. For me, it's been something as a teen finding new bands on my own, helped me reconcile differences in my religion or lack thereof these days, connect with a wife who's now an ex, contemplate existence and suicide, etc...

Even though this was just released, this new experimentation makes me think things outside my reach aren't.

How lucky are we to exist while this is happening?

 

I think about this a lot. mewithoutYou and David Lynch are like the two artists where I just legitimately feel so fortunate to be alive while they are active.

 

Every time mewithoutYou release a new album I am so thankful that I'm alive.

I can relate to many of the things you're saying here. This band and their lyrics and music have made more impact on my life than any other band. It sounds dramatic to say that but it's true. I first heard them in 2003. There aren't any bands left from that era who are putting out music I can enjoy and emotionally connect with. Heck, I rarely see or speak to most of my close friends from around that time... they've probably had a greater impact on my life than some of my closest friends. I love how music can do that. It's rare, but it can happen and has happened with this band. I look at their catalogue of releases and I think "oh yeah, this is what happened at that period of my life. This is what I was going through. These were my thoughts, my feelings, my hurts, my pains." Phenomenal.

I love this release but I think it builds on the sound of Lilac Queen/Magic Lantern Days and the Pale Horses Appendix. In terms of experimentation and innovation, I've got even more excitement for what might come on October 5th.

 

It makes me wonder how many more visionaries are out there that, for whatever reason, weren't able to share their mind.

For all we know, we're surrounded by artistic savants.

 

Haha yup. There must have been so many incredible musicians in the 60’s and 70’s whose work was never heard (and of course not limited to that era but that was a big time for popular music obviously). It’s not like today where I can just turn on my phone and start recording lol. Not completely related, but I suggest seeing Searching For Sugarman if you haven’t. Great documentary that sort of touches on this. But if you’ve never heard of it don’t watch the trailer cause it ruins everything.

 

The idea of looking back on their catalog half scares me because it dredges up things that I don't want to deal with or purposefully push away.

It makes me think of times I've walked through a museum and seen a painting that struck me and left me in awe. Near crying at something with no explanation as to why.

 

I know the name of that documentary, but don't know a single thing about it.

I'll search it out very soon, thanks for the rec.

 

Also, I feel like the band outside of Aaron doesn't get enough praise. We talk endlessly about how great they are altogether, but most interviews and whatnot talk about the "crazy" lyrics and vocals, but goddamn is the music itself something else. It's astounding that he and Mike are brothers and are so talented, but to find guys like Brandon, Rickie, Greg, Dom, etc... it's a synonym of a million words that I can't find to appropriately describe.

 

So, uhh yeah, I think this EP is pretty dang cool, I guess.

 

that wouldn't crack my top 3 off Pale Horses, but like, I totally understand the opinion. it's an absolutely incredible rollercoaster of a song.

Ricky's drums might be almost as important as Aaron's lyrics, to me. I mean that dude straight up murders his kit on Lilac Queen and their other heavy songs, but he also just knows when to sit back and let the song play itself out. dude is amazing

 

And Ricky live is just something else entirely lol. Love watching that dude play.