All Get Out - No Bouquet (November 2, 2018) Album • Page 10

I was correct.

Well, so far.

 

It’s good but I feel like I might like it more in context

 

Can't make out almost all the vocals.

 

This is the most immediate of the three tracks so far. Big Movements vibes.

 

Don’t worry, the album sounds a lot more like Self Repair than this.

 

Duuuude just give me the whole thing already. What a jam.

 

I've been waiting since May for you guys to finally have it so we could talk about it! Not long now.

 

Man. This is def my fav of the singles. Nice and crunchy.

 

Just arrived in my inbox, will post thoughts later

 

This album is really good. Don’t be worry if you don’t love the singles

 

Between reading this comment and listening to God Damn (favorite of the 3 songs released) today- I’m preordering the record next check!

 

I always loved COPE and never understood the hate. It’s the record I listen to the most too.

 

Cannot wait to sit down and listen to the album once it’s out. All AGO albums have made such fantastic background music for making art. So far this one is proving the same

 

Woke up to a notification that this was added to my iCloud Library and thought someone fucked up.

False alarm. Just the new track finally added to streaming.

 

If you thought quitter sounded too much like MO, you’ll be happy with this album. This really feels like AGO finding their own sound, especially Nathan as a vocalist.

 

just got a DM from Nathan and let’s just say he’s not happy I still don’t have the record. He really wants one of you that do have it to step up to the plate.

come on be cool somebody gimme it I already preordered it

 

Hi Nathan

 

as usual, some quickfire thoughts from me

-Rose may be my favorite song this band has written. Those guitar tones are something else

-this band could keep releasing taut, 10 track albums for the rest of their career and id be super ok with it.

-lots of americana/alt country on some of these songs. it works rly well.

-a lot of these songs are real earworms. i was expecting things to slow down more towards the end of the album but two of the most energetic cuts close out the record.

all in all i think its a real testament to this albums quality that its been able to tear me away from listening to the new mwY album and ep.

 

So obviously, All Get Out/Nathan deal with faith/religion/spirituality quite often, going back to the EP all the way through Hitchens (which I’ll be honest, I can’t always tell what is a story and what’s Nathan and what’s both). And that’s pretty clearly what ‘God Damn’ is about as well.

It seems to me that faith is definitely part of who Nathan as a writer is, in that it’s part of his past (‘Water and God’), sometimes wonders about/hopes for while knowing it isn’t always there (‘Wait List,’ ‘Lake Michigan’?), but ultimately, faith is that thing that belongs to the people he loves and cares about, but isn’t actually something he personally can hold to (‘God Damn,’ ‘Sometimes’?). The role of faith/religion/God, then, is basically an area that serves to alienate him from other people and is something he has to come to grips with within himself and within his relationships, because much as he might like to be something else, he is who he is.

So that’s how it seems to me, after listening for the last eight years. Is this totally off base? Am I reading these and other songs totally wrong? Is Hitchens not about him at all and I shouldn’t be including those songs? Some of you know him (and therefore his work) personally - without trying to pry, is there something I’m missing? Is this something super obvious that doesn’t need to be asked and I’m a moron?

These are the questions I have. And now they have been asked.

 

I'm pretty hyped for this record.

 

I'll see if I can find the article/interview but I believe he said most of Hitchens is taking and adapting a lot of things/themes he talked about with his life. So I'd say most of it is directed with Nathan's own struggle with faith or relationships. I think Oxford I think is the only one directly based on Hitchens himself.

This article does some small breakdowns.

 

Hey,

Would you guys be interested in having Nathan do an AMA in here? That’s something I think I could set up.

 

Of course bro

 

No then he’ll see my lie about him giving me permission to receive the album early

 

He's already been reading the thread! I thought you would be excited about something like that!