Pianos Become The Teeth Band • Page 4

all love craig

 

Thanks So glad you're back here.

I feel like things are looking up for me on that front. I've been able to talk about it a lot more, especially in my writing, over the last year which has really helped me sort out how losing him just as I was for the first time in my life really starting to get close to him has shaped my identity. I think music has helped a ton too with that. Maybe it's time to finally dive back into The Lack Long After and see what wisdom it can give me.

 

I am sorry to hear that, and I hope you find solace soon.

I thought about the rust,
the quote on the ledge about living on,
"that great consciousness of life,"
oh, what we frame and hang to get by,
whatever keeps your heart light,
whatever keeps you is all right by me,
but maybe I don't want to talk about how this life layed me down,
or how I saw the change because I didn't see you everyday

this is the part that moves me the most in the album, particularly the bolded part - something about the the words and inflection make me feel a certain way

 

there are certain times of the year where I can only put their albums on when I know I'm prepared for a good cry.

 

Much love to you, Craig.

 

@Craig Ismaili

 

Big hearts Craig

 

Say Nothing is my favorite PBTT song, but every time I hear "Come inside, warm those hands" in 895 I just get goose bumps

 

that part with the tremollo picking is an album (not album) highlight without a doubt - will make me feel a certain way everytime

 

The thought I associated most with Keep You is how it encapsulates the period between loss/anger and recovery/absence. I know some people believe that the production muted the record, but the subdued nature of it feels so painfully organic and natural to me. Each song appears like it's building up to a moment of release, but instead just stays simmering on the brim. The absence leaves a presence. I've struggled with the lost of my best friend and that's how it still feels even after three years. This record is cathartic to me in an entirely different way.

Also I'm so sorry for your loss, hope you're doing okay man and that things get better for you.

 

Love you guys too. Thanks. Been an emotional wreck since Sunday so your posts really made me smile

 

And I'm still here
Still on this side of the grass

This whole song is fucking perfect.

"That's as good as it gets, man."

 

These guys, and Moving Mountains, sing about death and grief in incredibly beautiful and poignant ways

 

Hence my avatar slogan thing. Best album of 2014. One of my top favorites ever.

 

oh man, forgot all about 895.

"I'm getting close"

 

895 is fucking perfect

 

So so good. I still wonder how that didn't make the album...

 

Keep You is so good and the b-sides are so good and this band is so good. "April" still wrecks me like it did the first time I heard it

 

Need to revisit keep you soon

 

I loved the first two albums but somehow never got round to checking out Keep You. Listened last night and I was convinced it was the wrong band, mislabeled. Anyway, I really love it, which is unusual for when a band so radically changes their sound. Maybe it's the best thing they've done.

 

Listened to TLLA for the first time in a while a few days ago and it's still incredibly crushing. I need to relisten to Old Pride though. For some reason that album hasn't stuck with me like TLLA has.

 

Cripples Can't Shiver and Young Fire.......both so so good and powerful. I love Houses We Die In also (since we're talking about the old stuff)

 

Old Pride doesn't get much credit because it's not on the level of TLLA or Keep You, but it's still a really, really great listen

 

Re-listening to Keep You. never struck a chord with me before but I'm a fan now. Always happy when that happens.

 

this is what has been happening to me these past few days... really digging it almost 2 years later