City and Colour Band • Page 3

I don’t know maybe I’m off lol, I don’t really listen to city and colour but my only reference sounded like him to me lol. I guess maybe just because it’s soulful singer/songwriter sound haha

 

the guy from We Are The Ocean is the only guy I've known that people have said sounds like Dallas and he *actually* does sound like Dallas

 

When I first heard this song I thought it might be an AOF B-side or something haha, the vocal resemblance is uncanny.

 

I am very excited for this

 

That video makes it seem as if he's going back to a more stripped down sound. Wonder if it's indicative of the record as a whole.

 

I am very down for some new City & Colour.

 

So stoked! Hopefully this will be a single along with an short term album announcement. Just in time for fall.

 

Hope so. Just prefer the acoustic version, and unplugged version of Dallas work.

I could say the same for Dashboard Confessional. For Noah Gundersen, it’s hard to tell because he’s only done 1 more full band album, but I’ve been mostly happy with both. I guess I lump these three together because they started acoustic, expanded to an unplugged band sound and went electric. I realize they are very different otherwise.

 

I actually prefer full band City and Colour, most of my favorite songs of his are not the acoustic ones

 

Not really sure where I stand in terms of the majority/minority, but I absolutely love IISGBY. Came at a really relevant and important time in my life when I needed it, but either way, I think it’s some of his best work.

 

Here's something no one will agree with

Bring Me Your Love > The Hurry And The Harm > Little Hell > If I Should Go Before You > Sometimes

 

Close, I actually agree with your first and your last. Sometimes is their weakest album to me

 

I agree that Bring Me Your Love is the best one.

 

BMYL = Little Hell > Sometimes > IISGBY >>>>>>> Hurry

 

I love it too. I played that record to death when it came out.

 

BMYL > Sometimes > Little Hell = IISGBY >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> The Hurry and The Harm

 

I'm the opposite of this thread. The Hurry and the Harm has always been my favorite by far

 

“Take Care” is one of his best songs but there some straight BAD stuff on that album. “Commentators” is torture

 

Commentators and The Golden State are my least favorites on that album, but I don't mind them. It just has my favorite songs of his. Harder Than Stone, Of Space And Time, The Lonely Life, Two Coins, Take Care, Death Song, The Way It Used To Be. I adore all those.

I didn't give his last album a fair enough shake. I think I listened to it once and never went back to it.

 

Commentators is actually one of my favorite songs of his from an instrumental standpoint, love his guitar playing on that song. The lyrics are dumb though lol

 

That teaser has me excited

 

City and Colour has the same arc for me as another Canadian band, Arkells - the farther both acts stray from their earlier and convincingly better output, the more inexplicably popular they get. I don’t understand it. Sometimes is so vastly superior to almost every album since that it’s almost a different artist, and most of his current/casual fans have never even heard “Hello, I’m In Delaware”

 

I kinda feel sort of the same. What made it so interesting was that it was very different than what he could do in Alexisonfire. I’m not really a big Alexisonfire fan, but you could tell Dallas could sing. Doing City and Colour as a separate project (yes I know he played on his own solo stuff before), really should a vulnerability and vocal skills. He made hit songs out acoustic songs via great storytelling.

I get wanting to expand a sound and have more instruments and players. It just evolved into something different that I could almost be another band. It’s his right to do it though.

 

For me it's always been about Dallas' voice and melodic sensibility. I've never considered him a great lyricist or storyteller; he's definitely pretty good these days, but Sometimes and even BMYL have some very clunky lines and awkward rhymes here and there. He's always been a really, really fuckin good guitarist though which puts him above most his other singer-songwriter contemporaries, and his voice obviously needs no explanation