The Dangerous Summer - Coming Home (2022) Album • Page 61

In fairness he hasn't been talking about drinking for what seems over a year and half now, (the tour that ended abruptly was 2022) and he also posted he got on Ozempic. Haha. I predict a svelte Vegan A.J and drinkers club will become Yoga Club. Wut

 

Gravity is a step in the right direction I think

 

He hasn’t been talking about drinking yet he still has the drinkers club for the VIP when they tour? I find that hard to believe. Also touring with Emarosa was definitely a pretty bad look.

 

June 21st release date

1. I Feel More Like Myself When I'm Losing It
2. Pacific Ocean
3. Gravity
4. You'll See It All Coming
5. What's An Hour Really Worth
6. Turning Love Into War
7. Where Did All The Time Go?
8. With My Pen
9. Wild One
10. Clouds In My Eyes
11. Dream
12. Into The Stratosphere


pre orders are live now if you’re subbed to their newsletter I guess

 

I AINT READING SHIT!!!!!!

 

Gravity

 

I still preordered, hope I don’t regret it lol.

 

Damn all those vinyl look so pretty.
Gonna wait to at least hear the single before pulling the trigger, though. 3 variants with only 250 pressed for each seems kinda low, no?

 

Yeah I gotta wait for a single as well

 

I just miss the way AJ used to write songs. There’s something almost stream-of-consciousness about those first few albums, like he hadn’t learned enough about songwriting yet to get totally locked into rigid forms. And the result is that those songs are so packed with words, and along with it, so much feeling and emotion and memory. The more recent stuff just feels so lyrically thin to me in comparison. It’s most obvious in the lack of those really incredible bridges he used to write, but even the choruses have just lost that special something. Coming Home isn’t bad, but it feels like something a hundred other bands could make. I’ve never felt like there was any other band that could have made Reach for the Sun or War Paint. Even among that era of pop punk/emo bands, there was something about the way AJ wrote songs that was unique from everyone else. I don’t know if that’s something they can ever get back, but I’d love to be wrong.

 

I felt the approach you mention on Dimensional Love. I still hear it in that song today. I think I read him saying they wrote that song super quick too. That glimpse gives me hope, but having an entire album land like that song does feels impossible today….

Also… did we ever find out wtf happened on that tour last year? Chaotic seems like an easy pass of a descriptor for something that I feel like if we knew the details we might be entirely done with this music forever.

 

Their headliner that fell apart with dates left? I believe Matt did some awful shit and the bands dropped and he got kicked out of the band. I think Sam Pura talked about it on this forum

 

Hyped for the new single and album. How can we say the band is washed after being only album away from being maybe their best? Coming Home (imo) was good, if unspectacular. This band has had its misses in the past before MN, but then made some spectacular. I certainly believe they have more great albums ahead of them.

 

this song is so good especially slow down more stuff like that would rip

 

I breathe in the open air; all of my words will run out.
All of my nightmares are heavy, I scatter them out on the ground.
You can see through my broken stare, lost in the color of sound.
Even if I wasn’t ready, the silence is coming now.

thats the kind of shit that cuts me deep

 

Still get a ton of play out of this song. One of the best in their discog and probably the only song they’ve put out since war paint that really felt like a high to me

 

this one, blind ambition, and fire get a lot of play from me still but yeah not much else outside of those unless im listening to a whole album

 

I think Mother Nature is easily their best, no contest

 

But War Paint is the best, so.

 

He’s right.

 

War Paint
Reach For The Sun
Mother Nature

a handful of Golden Record and S/T songs

nothing else

 

I love Mother Nature and I will still take Reach for the Sun and War Paint over it every single day of the week.

 

war paint would be the best tds album if the drumming wasn't way less interesting than basically any other tds album minus coming home, which we've basically agreed is inferior to all the other ones anyway

 

I think I like Mother Nature a little less now than I did when it came out, just for what it did to their songwriting in the long run. If you look at how most of those songs work, there's just way more repetition in AJ's songwriting than there had been before (the choruses to "Blind Ambition" and "Virginia" and "Way Down," the outro of the title track, etc.) and I think they learned the wrong lessons from that on their subsequent releases. Without a producer like Sam Pura to make those songs as dynamic as they ended up sounding, I just don't think they are as good at their core as the songs on the first two albums.

Still an amazing album, to be clear. I love it and it means a lot to me. But I think the seeds for what led to their decline are absolutely there, in retrospect.