Alkaline Trio - Is This Thing Cursed? (August 31, 2018) Album • Page 53

Which variant did you grab, Drew?

 

do we know if they filmed a music video and if so? which song?

also, really hoping they do like some guitar center performances or something. still watch those from the MSIT era.

 

Those videos are awesome.

 

Ah damn I forgot about this. Was hoping to grab it from my local store today.

 

So this is definitely a AOTY contender.

 

haha yeah I think this is why I wandered online and ordered two Trio vinyl so now I have MSIT, MICF, and soon A&I and GM. plenty to help tie me over, but stilllll

 

This is fucking great. Listen through twice at work. Really enjoying it.

 

Album has been giving a classic, yet fresh, alkaline trio vibe.

Still waiting for Derek to have lead vocals in one song though haha.

 

that would be so rad

 

This album is Sooooooo damn good.

For months my AOTY and runner up have been Hawthorne Heights and Senses Fail respectively. This is gonna dethrone one of them, but I need more listens to decide which

 

Two listens in, and I'm really happy with how its turned out. The stand out tracks for me so far:

Blackbird
I Can’t Believe
Sweet Vampires
Goodbye Fire Island
Throw Me To The Lions

 

Three listens through and this is just a good album, it captures pretty much everything I love about this band. Too early to say where I'd rank it, but easily better than A&I and This Addiction for me. I really liked MSIT but this one could surpass that. Skiba brings it on this one - I thought Dan's songs were better overall on their last few albums but I can't say that this time.

 

I'm tempted to say this is the best thing they've done since Crimson, but My Shame Is True is fantastic

 

Listened to it once through. Really like it. Not sure where I'd rank the album as a whole vs. the other Trio albums but maybe in the 4th or 5th range, which isn't a knock on the album at all. I definitely need to listen to it more to fully take it all in. The only song I could really do without is Little Help?. Stay and Krystalline might be my two favorites though.

 

haha i'm driving 3 hours tomorrow morning for a wedding and this album will accompany us, probably 2 or 3 times.

 

I really love Little Help and Pale Blue Ribbon, but they remind of like on Sum 41's Screaming Bloody Murder, Time for You to Go and Baby You Don't Wanna Know were great songs, but felt a bit out of place in the tone of the rest of the record.

Still the songs don't bring the album down for me, and on further listens they do flow better. I kind of really enjoy how this album feels like a representation of different era's of Trio.

 

Got my cd in today, no lyric booklet boooo.

Great album though.

 

This album is amazing

 

Yeah this is way better than their last two

 

My Shame Is True is such a music masterpiece.

 

Haha Lions and Krystalline's intros reminds me Screaming Bloody Murder era as well

 

My fav tracks right now:
Demon and division
Throw me to the lions
Little help

Brilliant record, will probably find new favorites tracks. Also krystaline reminds me of s song from Skibas "Demos" or that green ep-thingey. I have to check it out, way to long ago.

 

Maybe not even a specific song, I just get "Demos" and the Kevin Seconds-slit vibes from it.

 

MSIT is amazing if you disagree you wrong soz

 

For me this is their best since good mourning