Citizen - Life In Your Glass World (March 26, 2021) Album • Page 19

Ring Of Chain

 

EIGTH was a semi unexpected switch-up after Youth. They had so much momentum in the scene prior and truthfully I was expecting more Tumblr bangers along the line of The Summer or Roam The Room.

I remember going to Ciz shows in 2016 when they were promoting EIGTH and the crowd was absolutely dead for the new songs while anything off Youth got an insane energetic response. Never seen quite a 180 in crowd energy track to track like shows in that era.

 

I definitely remember this growing up on Tumblr. Everyone seemed to hate the album and it warped my perception of it as someone wanting to fit in, since it was cool to dislike it (except for the meme edits of the album cover). I remember folks calling it boring on AP too and that stuck in my mind for a bit. It wasn’t until years later that I came back to it with a clear head and really started to appreciate it for what it was.

I wonder if the reception is the reason they are in their direction rn. EIGTH feels so out of place in discography now that we’re 4 full lengths in

 

EIGTH is my favorite. Love how grating* STAIN is

 

LIYGW is definitely my favorite record of theirs but EIGTH is definitely my second favorite.

 

Mixed feelings on EIGTH as a whole but Stain is for sure top 10 Ciz. I don’t think they’ve done a single thing that hits as hard as that bridge

 

EIGTH is their best.

But yeah that era of live shows was wild. That tour with Turnover had to be a morale killer for them, I’m really glad they stuck it out. Definitely a left-turn and it was cool to hate on. But now? Sounds super fresh, easily some of their best songs.

 

My favorite Citizen song most days

 

before LIYGW, EIGTH was my favorite album of theirs, and also my first. it floored me how sinister yet beautiful it sounded (Yellow Love was on nearly every playlist of mine for years on end). in a way, the closest sonic comparison i could make at the time was D***y by B***d N*w (although Citizen has definitely evolved for the better).

 

Cement is my favorite Citizen song. However, that already gets enough praise, so I just want to put some appreciation towards some of the lesser mentioned songs of that record. Both of My Favorite Color's choruses sound really, really cool. Love the drums leading into the bassline on the first iteration of it with the echoing whelps of the guitar strings in the background. Then, of course, the "hit" from the guitars during the second half of the next chorus. Both Weave Me and Ten are hypnotic to me, the former being my favorite lyrical entry from the band (besides Cement). I could listen to the latter's verses for hours. Everything plays off of each other so well during it.

 

Numb Yourself, Heaviside, Yellow Love and Ring of Chain are all some of my favourite songs of all time. EIGTH is a very special record to me.

 

Mine too, and My Favourite Colour

 

found out about Nail In Your Hand today. how'd i go this long without it in my life, i don't know

 

One time I pulled into my parking spot at work and turned my car off and heard My Favorite Color blasting from someone else's car in the lot. Shoutout whoever that was

 

Their b-sides are solid in general but Nail In Your Hand goes off.

 

I don’t really like eight but ring of chain owns

 

i'm really glad i got my hands on the NIYH download when they offered it.

 

they need to put it on spotify so people can know i listened to citizen every friday on my 5x5

 

I’ve been thinking a lot about As You Please recently and while I like all the songs a lot individually, it’s my least favorite record from the band. I couldn’t really pinpoint why it never really clicked with me until late last week: I really, really don’t like the sequencing. I think it has probably the worst sequencing I’ve ever seen on an album. Jet is cool as an opener, but following it up with 3 mid tempo songs, then 2 of the most straightforward songs of the record, was not a good choice at all. It makes it a slog to get through and I always feel fatigued by the time I make it through it.

Thus, as a fun project, I decided to resequence the album to see if I like it more. It was hard to do, because as much as I wanted to cut songs to make it feel more tight, I wanted to challenge myself and keep everything. Also, this album has a surplus of mid tempo songs! So does EIGHT, but AYP has so many songs that try to accomplish the same thing, while EIGHT is more varied on what each track is supposed to do for the album. This made it fun though, as I really had to put a lot of thought on where to put each track. There’s only one clunky transition I think, which is ITMOIA into Medicine, but other than that, I’m really, really happy with how this turned out. Medicine -> Discrete -> Fever in the middle section is my favorite part of this new tracklisting and I think Jet and World work really well as last bursts of energy near the end, the latter kinda reminds me of how Won’t Drown is utilized in Nearer My God.

Edit: You can also swap Jet with I Forgive No One if you prefer how the original starts. IFNO transitions well from AYP at the end, but I think Ugly Luck doesn’t work too well after Jet bc it feels a tad too slow. IFNO is just slow enough where UL feels faster in comparison, hence them being together at the start. Also IFNO’s intro is fucking sick as an opener

 

Really interested to check this out. As You Please is my favorite album by them but the sequencing isn’t one of that factors that I consider to be a strength. I’ve always been interested in the sequencing of albums but have never taken the time to do anything like this

 

Let me know! I’m excited to revisit this later myself in a week or two. I’ve played this album so much trying to figure this out, so my fear is that I could be blending things together and it won’t sound as fluid with fresh ears. According to Last.fm, I’ve listened to 87 songs from this album this week, 40 from this morning alone, so I could be completely wrong just off the basis of overexposure lol

 

10 year anniversary tour for Youth announced today

 

It’s four dates. Fiddlehead opening

6/15 - House of Blues in Boston, MA
6/17 - House of Blues in Chicago, IL
6/22 - Emo’s in Austin, TX
6/24 - The Wiltern in Los Angeles, CA

 

No Ohio or Michigan date, which feels really odd. Wonder if something else is coming

 

No one can convince me that this record is ten years old lol