Thrice - Palms (September 14, 2018) Album • Page 211

List a few if you don't mind.

 

The new Robyn album, Honey, might just be the best of her career. And she's had a hell of a career.

Other albums I've been way into the past couple of months:
mewithoutYou - [Untitled]
Young Jesus - The Whole Thing Is Just There
MØ - Finding Neverland
Foxing - Nearer My God
Wild Pink - Yolk In The Fur
Brockhampton - Iridescence
Joyce Manor - Million Dollars To Kill Me

 

I've already listened to Foxing and mewithoutyou. Unfortunately, I felt nothing.

I love the individual sounds of Thrice, but together, they make me feel something that is hard to come by for some reason. By comparison, Nolan and Villeneuve movies capture a feeling that is unlike the majority of filmmakers.

Anyway, I'll work on the others, though. Much obliged.

 

Are you saying there’s nothing in the last 10 years that has blown you away? I’m curious to know what your thought process is when you listen to music. Like, if you don’t like new Foxing or mewithoutYou then fine, but why do you think you feel nothing when you listen to them? Maybe I’m just echoing back your initial question, I’m just curious to know more.

 

Aside from Thrice and Failure, I haven't fallen in love with a record from a contemporary band since the early 2000s. There's work from film composers (e.g. Max Richter, Hans, Mac Quayle, Jonny etc.) that I certainly love as I'm seeking feeling more than anything else.

Thrice has a dramatic sound, such as the ending of "Daedalus" or "For Miles." When it comes to evoking feeling, Thrice's music is the closest thing to a powerful film score (without needing the sounds of an orchestra).

So, if something reminds you of Thrice in terms of feeling, please send it my way. Again, it's not really a matter of sounding like Thrice.

 

I genuinely can't understand not finding any music in the last 10 years that blows you away

 

Comparing Thrice to Nolan is oddly fitting in, ironically, the exact opposite way it was intended.

 

This album

 

I'll bite on this.

2018:
Coheed - The Unheavenly Creatures
MWY - Untitled
Foxing - Nearer My God
Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour

2017:
Circa Survive - The Amulet
Manchester Orchestra - A Black Mile to the Surface

2016:
Pinegrove - Cardinal
Sturgill Simpson - A Sailor's Guide to Earth
Balance and Composure - Light We Made
Every Time I Die - Low Teens

2015:
Turnover - Peripheral Vision
The World Is... - Harmlessness
Tame Impala - Currents

2014:
Joyce Manor - Never Hungover Again
Pianos Become the Teeth - Keep You
Copeland - Ixora
Hotelier - Home Like Noplace Is There

 

@Mike J did you listen to "A black mile to the surface" by Manchester Orchestra??

 

we have pretty similar tastes, but goodness from 2016 should be there too!!

 

I had it there, but decided to only put one album from each band. It's why I didn't put Wait For Love on there.

and yeah, I've noticed we have pretty similar tastes as well, haha.

 

We need to discuss a lack of EVE as well...

Honestly everyone should check out the emery album out on 11/9, incredible record, huge change in sound for them too.

 

Lol, I did give it another listen the other day. It is good, but it has yet to wow me. I'm pretty sure only having the leak on my computer and not on my phone yet is keeping me from listening too much. I'm sure it'll start clicking more once it's on streaming services.

 

why do people still engage with this person

 

The new all get out record slays as well, hope people listen to that

 

What is this EVE record all about?

 

I sent you a DM, don't want the thread to get mad.

 

If you're looking for theatrics, check out Falling Up's self-titled album. Terrific stuff. Their last few albums are all film score like, but their final album really doubled down on the cinematic stuff.

I know I'm not supposed to be talking to you Mike (lol), but I do want to share a few things because your recent comments have really helped me analyze my journey and how I personally listen to music. Maybe it can help. It's actually helpful to me to think through this stuff for my own benefit. So, sorry everyone, super long-winded post incoming...

When I was 14 (lol, here we go), I discovered Anberlin. Cities was the greatest thing I'd ever heard in my life and I loved the song "A Whisper & a Clamor" so much that I played it for almost three hours straight the first night I had the album. Discovering it was (no joke) one of the happiest moments of my life. I don't have a tangible explanation for what made me feel that way, it just made me feel. I loved music before that point, but my straight-up marriage to music was born out of chasing the feeling that album and song gave me.

I'm 25 now. I've never experienced that feeling with another song. I've definitely had hints of it, but the feeling that song gave me was fleeting as all feelings tend to be, and no song has ever caused me to experience the same level of childlike joy that I did with that one. If my entire life goal was to find it again with another band, I'd never fall in love with anything else. Curiously enough, while I still consider Cities my favorite album of all-time, I wouldn't even say that song is the best on the album. It just, for whatever reason, gave me a sense of joy and wonder that was very rare for me at 14. It can't be replicated.

Then when I was 17, I discovered mewithoutYou and Thrice, specifically Brother, Sister and Vheissu. Neither one of those albums were on my radar genre-wise. mewithoutYou was too weird for my tastes and Thrice was too heavy. Neither of those records fit in with that anthemic alt rock sound I was chasing, but something else happened. I kept listening and found that both records were, in their own ways, objectively brilliant and heartfelt. mewithoutYou's lyrics were arguably the best that I'd ever heard, and my being mesmerized by the words allowed the vehicle of those words to click. It wasn't long before mwY's sound became super influential for me. With Thrice, it was "For Miles" that got me into heavy music in general. The rest of the song was so gorgeous and the ending so epic that it became clear that my disappointment in him screaming that part was undeniably petty. So then, like dominos, the rest of the album's heaviness fell into place, and suddenly I was listening to Underoath a few months later.

The point is, all the music I've fallen in love with has required me to approach it on ITS own terms stylistically and not my own. It requires humility and patience and a genuine thrill of discovery that needs to be cultivated by listening more and more and more. It's like running. The longer you give into your disenchantment for what's out there, the less you listen, and the more out of shape you'll be. My brother hates listening to new music and I'm trying to help him understand that part of why he hates it is because he never does it, just like part of why I hate running is because I never do it. It's not easy because the instant gratification isn't always there. And to answer your post on the previous page, yes, I think it's there less as I get older. It can actually be a slog. Sometimes it requires me to get in the head of the writer and empathize and appreciate the humanity of where they were at when they wrote what they wrote. That's not as fun, but it's also the most rewarding part of music and discovery for me. I know this isn't the mewithoutYou thread, but it's hard for me to imagine someone really listening to the new album and not at least appreciating the rawness of a song like "Michael, Row Your Boat Ashore" even if the music makes them feel nothing. I actually didn't feel much on first listen because it was a lot to wrap my head around. Now... man. [Untitled] is one of the most personally influential albums I've heard in years.

It's fine if you don't like stuff. Just don't dislike stuff because you won't put the time into it that it deserves. Music stopped becoming an instant gratification thing for me a long time ago, then ironically my childlike sense of wonder for all sorts of music began to bloom. It takes more work now, but I love music as a whole a lot more than I did at 14. So while that feeling from that time has never been replicated, the amount that all the terrific music out there makes me feel far outweighs the feeling of that one moment with Anberlin. It's way more rewarding.

Now back to our scheduled program.

 

I am so sorry you guys. That post was so long. Umm... Go Thrice?

 

I wonder if they will make any changes to the set list on the second half of this tour?

When TBE came out, I seem to remember that they added The Window to the set on the second leg.

 

sub out Hold Up a Light in SF. Please jeebus

 

I almost said they should change out that one with Just Breathe since it's one of my least favorite of the ones being played........but man does it sound so awesome kicking right in after Beggars. Like all their songs, it sounds so much better live as well!

 

I'll forgive you 'cause you recommended Fallen Up's last album. Everything they put out from Fangs! onwards are incredible imo.

 

I appreciate the post. There are some valid points there.

Again, I'm not necessarily looking for theatrics. I'm just chasing a feeling that Thrice has given me time and time again, even as their music shifted genres. I get the same feeling from Deadbolt that I do Daedalus, Pines or The Whaler. Another factor is that the (popular) bands I loved during the early-to-mid 2000s are awful now. (God, I miss Jerry.) Plus, many bands I loved from the 2000s are now gone.

Here's another reason why I never took to TAITA: Poison the Well's "You Come Before You" came out 3 weeks prior. Both bands signed to majors around the same time, and had similarities as far as blending melody and heavy riffage. Riley has talked about PTW's influence on Thrice's early days, too. PTW's major label debut was just far more interesting in every respect. I quickly put TAITA away to resume listening to YCBY.