Underoath - Voyeurist (January 14, 2022) Album • Page 13

I think this album is going to be good.

 

How in the world I am expected not to overplay that before January? How?

 

This has major Casting Such A Thin Shadow vibes. Cant wait to hear the whole damn thing. My favorite UO moments have been when they get super creative and weird. The fact that they have let Tim kind of call the shots so to speak is sick.
Always have loved what he brings to the band.

 

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">We started writing this song exactly a year ago today. Timing is a weird thing sometimes. 9/22 (today) is the anniversary of Tim’s dad passing away from Pneumonia after fighting cancer for years. <a href="https://t.co/9jNYhT3IwY">pic.twitter.com/9jNYhT3IwY</a></p>&mdash; Underoath (@UnderoathBand) <a href="

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Gonna try to hold off. Whoever thought up this album roll out is tripping. I don’t want to hear almost half of the record and then wait 4 months to hear the rest.

 

pretty pretty good

 

Geez saw it was 7 minutes and got stoked and then realized it's the closer about 3/4 of the way through. Easily the best song since their comeback though.

 

I will "simply wait" until I can hear the whole album before listening to any more of it.

 

this rips

 

It was a last-minute change. Album was supposed to come out in October, but they changed it to January due to vinyl delays. In order for their first-week sales to be the biggest number, they have to release both concurrently, otherwise the physical and streaming numbers will be separate.

 

Weirdly not that excited for this album even though UO have been one of my favorite bands literally since TOCS came out. I think it'll all click when I hear the full thing, but I don't know what's wrong with my head.

 

i would prefer bands dont release the closer as a pre release song but im still gonna listen. i think releasing openers early is great practice and dont care at all. i mean at the end of the day it has very little impact on how im gonna feel about the project anyway as i can recontextualize songs i already knew when heard in a new way, such as a way to close out an album rather than a standalone single. not hard for me to shift expectations when the album comes out and this song i know on its own is suddenly the closer. as a matter of fact it can be kind of fun to hear things in a new light.


anyway, in terms of the actual song, its nice going in knowing its the closer in a certain way because i can sort of anticipate what the album leading up to this moment might be like and get more hype for it. because i'll be honest, this song is fucking killer and if this closes out the album it seems like we're gonna have a great fucking album on our hands. i highly doubt the rest of the album sucks and the closer is the only good song, that very rarely happens in my experience, most of the time when a closer is fantastic its because the rest of the album is also fantastic. so, in short, this song has me fucking hype for the record and im not at all bothered they decided to release it. its obviously not a traditional single but it definitely gets fans like me to perk our ears up because its clearly something special.

 

I'm like 99% sure I've heard this song before

 

Just took a listen and that was really something. I did have a "that was it?" feeling at the end because they crammed a tons of ideas, and it left me craving for each section to be extended for a couple more minutes, but I'm still impressed. The background electronic and atmospheric touches are immersive, and the way the song seems to start bright but gets darker minute by minute is the kind of experimentation that, along with unconventional song structures and jammier vibes, had been missing from their post-reunion material so far. It feels like I'm hanging out with an old friend after years apart. This is going to sit perfectly next to Casting Such A Thin Shadow, Emergency Broadcast :: The End Is Near, and In Completion.

 

In Completion is pretty easily my favorite underoath song, and one of my favorite songs of all time, and this song very much reminded me of that one. Kind of building up to a super heavy, cathartic ending and making immense use of atmosphere in the lead up to it.

 

In that case they should have held off on the promotional roll out and/or paused it til December IMO

 

Getting a feeling they're gonna just drop it online in October. The band continuing to put out singles when it is so far along in the future is interesting. (Different from, say, ETID, who has a 17 track album lol).

 

they, um, won't do that

 

hahahaha "pneumonia" is a fucking masterpiece, wow

 

It was literally a last-minute decision for them. After the Observatory vinyl fiasco, they want to get it right this time with the vinyl. And yeah, I absolutely agree they should've held off, but once word got out about a new record coming, they had to push through with the rollout. The way people discover and stream music has changed everything. It's all about singles now. The band has to do what's best for them. Sure, if they would've hit pause on the rollout and just had one song out until January, the real fans of the band would've waited in anticipation for it. As for the rest of their potential listeners, it would've lost all steam by January's date without the drip of singles.

This is the first time in many years I'm actively avoiding pre-release singles (besides the two i've heard), so I can enjoy the rest of this album the way it's meant to be heard. Fingers crossed I don't cave in on this.

 

Mayday Parade's releasing their album in November, with the vinyl not shipping until March. Are the two bands really that different in terms of what first week numbers mean? Has anyone who would listen to Underoath not heard of Underoath?

 

I find it hard to pick a favourite track from most discographies but I'm pretty certain its Returning Empty Handed for these guys.

 

Yea it’s still weird to me that UO, on a record seemingly less accessible than it’s predecessor and not going anywhere near radio, needs to worry about first week sales this way. Their old fans will dig in no matter what and it seems much of the current younger metalcore scene has left them behind for the current homogenous electronic-djenty trend.
For my own listening I’d much rather have preferred listening to digital release for a while and then revisiting it when the vinyl came out. If a more casual fan listened to all the singles now I’d think they’d just skip them more later and the record loses some luster and replay potential.

 

Haven’t Thrice done something like that? Digital album is already out, physical album has a release date down the line?

It’s not a vinyl fiasco if it’s clearly communicated when it’s coming. They’ve created more of a discussion doing it this way!

Either way, haven’t listened to the two recent singles but I’m excited by the reactions and at the end of the day, the band can do what they want.

 

Underoath played When the Sun Sleeps at Furnace Fest last night. I never thought I’d see the day they play this song again.