Grayscale - Umbra (August 27, 2021) Album • Page 10

The ballad is gorgeous but the killers karaoke song does nothing for me

 

This perfectly captures what I thought when I first heard the new song. Think I said to a buddy "it's like they wrote a 3EB song but made it bad" lol

 

really gonna release a song called Summer Clothes so close to the Wonder Years? I was expecting a cover and that would probably have been better tbh

 

Song has grown on me quite a bit

 

Very meh.
Go back to the Nella Vita blueprint.

 

Yeah, these songs are very bland.

 

New album out 1/31 called The Hart. If you’re on their text/email list, you should have a code to preorder the vinyl now.


Side A - Track Listing:
1. The Hart
2. Kept Me Alive
3. Through The Landslide
4. Talking In My Sleep
5. Summer Clothes
6. Let Go

Side B - Track Listing:
7. Some Kind of Magic
8. Dance With Your Ghost
9. Don't Leave Me In The Dark
10. Painting Over You
11. Mum II
12. Not Afraid To Die

This is an email they sent:
This is the longest amount of time we’ve ever taken between records, and it’s the longest amount of time we’ve ever spent working on a single album.

In that time, we’ve experienced quite a lot. Not only as individuals, but also as friends - a collective unit.



Addictions, deaths, losing our religion, finding it again, and pulling each other out of (and sometimes through) all the grief that came along with it. It was the most painful period of our lives as humans, and yet it is the closest we’ve ever been.



Things change as you grow older, but at the same time they kind of don’t change at all. We’ve known each other for most of our lives at this point, and have been able to count on each other no matter what since the day we met.

But this is not a record about nostalgia. It’s about growth, facing the very real and difficult parts of life, dealing with pain, and overcoming it all spiritually, mentally, emotionally, and physically. It is about healing. It is a collection of real life stories, through real life events.



Through all of this, our hunger to find the best version of our band went deeper than it ever has. We’d grown bored and uninspired to the majority of music that was coming out. Everything sounded the same. Even to ourselves, everything we had been writing all started to sound the same.



So we stripped it all down the studs. Back to the same basement we wrote songs in when we were 14. We reminded ourselves of why we fell in love with music as kids. The art and the craft of it. The struggle and the reward of it. The way we could speak to one another and connect in a room through it without words.



We channeled all of the personal pain we were experiencing into that room with the sole purpose of making the most authentic, genuine, and vulnerable art that we could make. Writing about who we are and what we’ve been through.



We were going to name this record, “The Heart.” It felt like a more meaningful name than the record being self-titled, but still holding the same sentiment. “Hart”, though, is the maiden name of one of our grandmothers. It’s a name that was carried by a strong Irish catholic woman, someone who represented who we are and how we grew up. Someone who loved to laugh and loved to fight. Someone who was truly herself. Someone from the same bloodline. After all, this record was quite literally made through blood, sweat, and tears with each other.



Heart is being there at a moment’s notice when your friend’s parent is dying. Heart is “I hate you right now but I’m not going anywhere because I love you”. It’s the real love. The deep kind that you only get to share with a small handful of people in a lifetime. We’re lucky we have it with each other. We’re lucky we have you all too.



From the Hart,

Grayscale

 

Ordered. all vinyl ordered in the first 24 hours will be hand signed. There was a banner on the website.

Grayscale

 

Announcing an album over 4 months away

 

Stoked to hear this. Also stoked to forget about it and then remember it again in 3 months!

 

Keen for the album but I’m dead tired of pre-release singles being opening and closing tracks.

 

Not a big fan of the name or the cover or the release date.

Excited for the album though.

 

kinda bummed we've heard 3 of these songs already as 'singles'.

 

And we still have 4 months left so we’ll probably know even more by then.

 

Ooof. Rollout is just slightly better than baysides.

 

question for bigger fans:

is Grayscale the bands full time thing? i've only been a fan for 2 years or so and it's always felt like it's something they do when they feel like it

 

As far as I know, it is. Since they’re no longer signed to Fearless, they had more time to work on this album and make it what they wanted. I do think they have odd jobs when they’re home, but this is their main thing.

 

I liked what I heard. I’m waiting to listen so I don’t listen too much.

 

I get it but I really hate The Hart title lol

 

Let’s be real they aren’t a band with a great track record for album titles or covers

 

I enjoyed that.

 

Least favorite so far

 

Another new song