Albums in Stores – Aug. 19th, 2022 • Page 2

its The Berries all day for me, great record once again

 

Two new Sparta songs out today! Self-titled album 10/14.

 

Thank you!

 

Singles
Cartel
Gold Steps
The Commonheart
The Dangerous Summer
Movements
Good Scott
Tatiana Manaois
The Color 8
Tiny Moving Parts
Berried Alive
Zedd ft Maren Morris
Carpool
Rivals
Neck Deep (in bloom remix)
Heart Attack Man
Ruel
Cautious Clay
Magnolia Park
Young Culture
chloe moriondo
Skatune Network
Polyphia


Albums
Panic! At the Disco (I genuinely enjoy them but now I'm interested to see if it's really as bad as everyone says it is!)
THICK
Alex Melton EP
Early Work EP
Twin Beds
The Losing Score

 

Thanks for that! I interrupted my stream of the new Berries album to hear those two immediately - and it seems now Sparta and The Berries actually really fit together.

 

Sorry for the delay everyone, super busy day at work and what not. However, FINALLY updated my list for the day, added my playlist, etc.

Enjoy! :)

 

Listened to the new Dave Hause single, and thought, "hey this sound familiar, how do I know all the words?". Turns out it's a reworked The Loved Ones track.

 

Just needed to say thanks to all the folks who got me onto NoSo. I've listened to it every day since.

 

The song is an interpolation of one of those old kinda-classics that many of us probably recognize but couldn't name. If you check out the song credits, they list Janis Ian as a songwriter, due to how they use melodies from her song "At Seventeen." I had to look the song up, but once I heard it, I was like, "Oh yeah, that!"

Edit: Finally finishing the album and just noticed that he also credited Eric Carmen for his song "All By Myself" on (unsurprisingly) the song "All By Yourself."

 

Yeah, the album is basically one giant pastiche of all the things I don't like about classic rock. Listening through it is like trying to enjoy a bad version of a genre that I already don't care for

 

OHMYGOSH

"Sad Clown" was written with the composer-duo who wrote the songs for the Frozen films. That's so funny.

Butch Walker is also credited with co-writing on a bunch of these songs, which doesn't surprise me since (I think?) the album's producer is Butch's protege Jake Sinclair. Still, Butch has very seriously been disappointing me with so many of his features and co-writes in recent years. His stamp on a song used to really excite me, but now it means nothing.

 

I'm pretty sure they just got credit because of the "Let it Go" interpolation in the song.

 

Thank you! I used to love Butch Walker but anytime I see he’s produced something in the past several years it’s just a bunch of repeating samples over and over in a song. Sometimes it’s catchy on first listen but nothing I ever revisit.

 

psst, the upcoming Butch Walker album is incredible

 

Shocking words I never thought I'd say....wow, Demi Lovato album is kinda hard....

 

I feel like each song on the Panic album reminds me of another classic song that he tried to make his own version of. The verse on Star Spangled Banner sounds very similar to the verse on Boys Are Back in Town by Thin Lizzy.

 

New Demi slaps

 

, next week, right? I love reading this hype!

 

Too many interpolations on this album! I didn’t catch that one though

It wouldn’t have surprised me if they’d actually written a song together though, since Brendan recorded the “pop” version of a song for Frozen 2

 

I saw you say that in a recent newsletter! I’m definitely excited to hear that. As most songwriters do, he usually keeps his best material for himself

 

how is no one listening to the new Gordi EP?!!! its absolutely amazing

 

On my radar this week:

Alpha Wolf/Holding Absence: The Lost And The Longing EP
Augustana: Yourself Yesterday: A Rarities Collection
The Chats: Get Fucked
Five Finger Death Punch: AfterLife
Hot Chip: Freakout/Release
I Prevail: True Power
The Mountain Goats: Bleed Out
No Win: Dodger Stadium
Orthodox: Learning To Dissolve
Panic! At The Disco: Viva Las Vengeance
Pistols At Dawn: Ascension
Russian Circles: Gnosis
Silversun Pickups: Physical Thrills
Soilwork: Overgivenheten
Spirit Adrift: 20 Centuries Gone
Thick: Happy Now
University Drive: Heal

 

This isn’t the first time BW has worked with panic… and are people just stupid or have they completely missed the last Andrew McMahon album (produced by Butch)?

 

I’m probably just stupid, thanks

also, the album you’re referring to is 4 years old. Not really a strong reference point for addressing the comment I made