Spanish Love Songs - No Joy (August 25, 2023) • Page 28

he still has hard hitting one liners without relying on them to carry a song. "kick" always hinted at his ability to tell a compelling story but he lives up to the promise of that song on this album.

 

Every single song has a standout one liner imo. Dude is a great songwriter

Not entirely sold on a couple songs tho. Pendulum, mutable, and exit bags don’t really do it for me

 

Exit Bags is the only one I'm still waiting on to grow for me.

 

It's very.....polished

 

Even as a massive fan of this band, I agree. Dylan has a good voice when uses it in a more powerful way ("They're not gonna leave her a single mother" from Kick is a good example), but he does the wobbly thing a little too much.

I actually think Soupy was doing this on NCTH & SC too.

 

I thought Sister Cities was Dan's best vocal performance personally.

 

It does suck that no one ever even mentions Giant Sings The Blues because there are some really good tracks on there. I don't really expect them to ever play any of them or anything ever again though

 

They played Bright Day not too long ago (according to setlist)

 

It's so hard to find a sign
When every ad says, "You'll be fine"

My new favorite one liner.

Listened to this whole driving to work at 6am in a heavy rain storm this morning. Highly recommend it.

 

I have had to have listened to this album in full at least 45 times front to back already. Just constant repeat as soon as it’s over.

 

You doing ok?

 

Im at like 20

 

Dylan said on the Sappenin podcast he doesn’t consider Giant a SLS record and Schmaltz is when they started taking being a band seriously.

 

Seems like this is a hot topic, but yeah I didn’t get into the last album because I didn’t like the singer over a whole albums worth. I find it much more palatable on this.

 

UK & EU Headline Tour announced

 

No Irish date but that's fine because I'm definitely going to one of these shows

 

Birmingham on a Friday & London on a Saturday? Yes please.

 

Ugh this means no US headline until Spring

 

This is a great story - thank you for sharing it.

I’ve spoken to Dylan a few times at shows and he’s always been such a good dude (the whole band has for that matter). I actually reached out to Dylan to ask for his help with my proposal and he wrote a song for me to use. Asked me for some information about our relationship and my then-fiancé and seriously wrote such an amazing track it could’ve been on an album.

I emailed him a picture of us after the successful proposal and his response was genuine joy.

Good dude.

 

That's unbelievably cool!

 

Thank god I don't have to watch Hot Mulligan to see them now

 

finally checking this. wasn't expecting heartland rock vibes, but it's very cool

 

I've been experimenting with swapping round Pendulum, Haunted and Clean-Up Crew at the start of the album:

Lifers
Haunted
Clean-Up Crew
Pendulum
Middle of Nine

I think this works a bit better for the "flow" but it does mean you delay the title drop.