The Wonder Years - The Hum Goes On Forever (Sept 23rd 2022) Album • Page 46

hell yeah @jordalsh and @Carrow , excellent write ups!

 

Just finished listening. Songs about Death is my favourite. Not sure on the whole about the album. I don’t really know how to word it but every second song feels like it should be on a different release. Overall pretty decent first listen.

 

I love to see everyone's reactions about this record in here! It's also safe to say that this has already ended up in my top ten EOTY albums...and has been there since I first heard it.

 

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I absolutely love the opener.

 

oh my GOD "songs about death"

 

we're pretty aligned here. I enjoy/straight up love the songs but I can't help but feel like there's some cohesion missing. an unfortunate consequence of recording an EP with one producer then expanding it to an album with another

that being said, man the songs are good!

 

Yeah Songs About Death is the one. What an accomplishment.

 

Does anyone know the details of which songs were produced for the EP/with each producer?

 

pretty sure it was the first three singles with Evetts and the rest with Yip?

 

from Spotify's credits: Evetts did Doors, Wyatt's Song, Oldest Daughter, Cardinals II, Songs About Death, Low Tide, Laura, Old Friends and the closer, Yip did the other 3. I would... not have guessed most of that honestly lol

 

this dad is emotionally dead after the closer

 

UPDATE: can confirm, totally fucked up.

 

CARDINALS II

 

No song has ever quite broken me like Laura & The Beehive, jesus christ

 

Even though I've listened to Wyatt's Song a million times, the 'you called to it, like it might come to you' line gets me every time.

 

Yeah I’m not really sure. All the songs are pure TWY but there is a disconnect there between songs. Might simply be a sequencing issue. But there were multiple times through my listen when I got a strange sense of whiplash when the “next” song started.

 

I could've sworn Yip did Oldest Daughter. Also I think what Evetts did on NCTH (even if he wasn't fully responsible) is worse than anything people complain about with Yip. I also love most of Yip's work, so I'm not exactly unbiased here.

 

This is definitely RIYL The Wonder Years, for better or worse. It’s kind of wild how this sounds like the last two albums never even existed. IMO, they never took that next step forward that I thought they could, with NCTH and Sister Cities being fairly awkward attempts to do so, but this is a solid release that mostly stays in their wheelhouse.

 

yeah there's some sequencing stuff here I don't love but moment to moment it's incredible stuff. going off those spotify credits (which I'm not sure are right honestly lol) it's a lot less of a 50/50 producer split than I assumed

but anyway: I HAD THAT NIGHTMARE AGAAAAIIIIN

 

I feel like there is a lot of swinging for the fences here. And I'm loving it.

 

Paris of Nowhere rules. That's gonna go off in Philly.

 

if that the case and Yip did Paris, Doors, and Lost in the Lights that's really impressive. Paris and Lost feel massive to me.

 

On the topic of sequencing - Cardinals II into Paris of Nowhere is pretty jarring. I don't know the album well enough to recommend a different order, but the absolute weight of Cardinals II into a line about Nick Foles really doesn't work for me lol

 

I found Paris into Summer Clothes a bit jarring

also did a double take at the Nick Foles line haha