The Wonder Years - The Hum Goes On Forever (Sept 23rd 2022) Album • Page 14

Media mail is an option for the deluxe vinyl on Hopeless, FYI

 

Now that I have completed my preorder, I finally am watching the Wyatt's song video. The imagery of parenting kids and childhood make the song that much more powerful. I feel lucky to have grown up with this band and progressed through life with them. From The Upsides when I was finishing college, to now being the parent of two kids, this has been one hell of a journey.

 

the cover art is so beautiful. it's always nice to hear upbeat songs about kids, usually they're ballads.

 

One of the things I like most about Wyatt's Song is the lyric 'I stared at your knees/I wondered which one's gonna be/
The bad one in your thirties' because it's the kind of funny line I loved from Upsides, Suburbia, which seemed to fall away entirely in more recent releases.

There are a couple of bits of the song that aren't callbacks to other TWY songs necessarily but do make me think of them. That one above reminded me of Came out Swinging (my lower back seems to disagree). The 'half-awake' line reminds me of 'you're half-asleep' in Raining in Kyoto, cycle of life kind of thing.

Edit: One more, 'Grow you a place that's safer than this', back to 'take you some place safer' on Ghosts of Right Now.

 

The garden lyric in the second verse reminds me a lot of the dishwasher lyric in You In January

 

The lyric they tease in the press release that is the first lyric on the album....my goodness....

Y'all, I'm not ready.

 

Snagged the butterfly

 

welp. the bridge in wyatt's song just gave me full body goosebumps

 

So happy that everybody is loving this. TWY album cycles always make me smile.

 

not sure if anyone said but this is out 9/2, not 9/23

and frontman of marigold!

wait whered youusee this??

 

Band's twitter says 9/23 tho

 

bands posts all say 23rd

 

Everything I've seen besides the Kerrang interview (and the leak that said 9/16) has said 9/23. Won't complain if it's earlier, obviously.

 

I think the article had the wrong date, I had to do a double take. Band’s Twitter bio and teaser video both said 9/23

 

press release says 9/2 if jamie lied to me ill be heartbroken

 

its the 23rd

 

the promo says September 23rd

probably just a typo in the email

 

My new favorite genre of music is emo and punk bands I listened to in high school and college becoming parents and then writing songs about their kids and emotionally wrecking me in that way now. VeryCool!

 

I'm sorry CARDINALS II?! WHAT

 

it's really heavy too

 

Dad punk

 

Dan mentioning CM Punk's promo in this Kerrang interview, love it. Always wonder if he still keeps up with pro wrestling, I actually think he's the first person I ever saw talk about El Generico

 

You remember that shite people on AP would say about this band having no hooks?

This song absolutely smashes that in a way no person with ears can dispute.

 

Conor did the visuals on the video!! Super cool!!!