Bleachers - Take The Sadness Out Of Saturday Night (July 30, 2021) Album • Page 40

Those top four in my ranking are all in basically the same tier. I came to The Format late, so while I still recognize Dog Problems as a great album, it has a little less personal importance to me than the three above it.

I should've thrown the Steel Train records in there, too, though they'd probably all end up at the bottom in reverse chronological order for me.

 

I never quite got The Format like others. I’ve only been listening to the S/T Steel Train album a few days and I’d put it up in the top 5 of this music universe.

 

This is how I feel about Steel Train. Even though I'm a huge Bleachers fan, Steel Train never quite clicked for me.

 

Didn’t get into the “Antonoff-cinematic-universe” until Gone Now but can’t imagine liking the Bleachers stuff but not at least liking Trampoline.

 

ah I really don’t like Trampoline. ST is way more inline with Bleachers.

 

I shouldve kept my dumb mouth shut, because… I can’t get into ST I gotta give it another listen sometime soon, only checked it out two or three times

 

Slowly but surely revisiting the fun cinematic universe. Listened to dog problems today, good album. As of right now I think strange desire towers above whatever I’d call second best. The grimes song sucks but every single other song rules, which I can’t say about any other album in the discussion

 

Out of the ones I know well enough:

Aim & Ignite
Some Nights
Dog Problems
Strange Desire
Grand Romantic
Gone Now
Trampoline
Interventions & Lullabies
Steel Train

 

I'm still absolutely baffled at the sound of this album, it makes no sense. I can't get past it

 

Like.... If you start at album at a normal volume, and by track 3 you can barely hear the music anymore.... That's bad. I don't believe anyone can listen to this album front to back without touching their volume controls once. I dare you.

 

yeah I’m kinda bummed about how my vinyl sounds in that regard too.

The more I listen to this the more it really feels like it’s just unfinished, even though the songs are good most of them have this demo tape feel. I get that artists sometimes go for that sound intentionally but it’s just weird that Chinatown is on there sounding polished and like the total opposite.

 

Looks like this will debut at #28, with a little over 17k, according to Hits Daily Double.

 

This album feels like switching between radio stations while driving.

 

A really old timey radio

 

Yeah I keep trying. Just not working for me. Genuinely think I would love this too.

 

Yeah there's some really great songs on here if you could hear them

 

I honestly don’t even notice the volume issues anymore!

 

My vinyl variant showed up today and sadly I’m not terribly interested in holding on to it, haha.

 

Sad. Take the sadness out of owning your vinyl.

 

I will try to find it a forever home.

 

If it’s one of the coke bottle variant ones then I would be a great home for it, just saying

 

It’s black vinyl, leather variant cover.

 

My first complaint about this album from listening a ton over the last week is hearing all the finger screeches on the acoustic guitar during Strange Behavior. I don't always have this on full volume, and on low volume ALL you hear on that song are those chord changes. It's really grating.

 

Ooof yes, I listened to that track once and never again cuz of those screeches.

 

Sometimes it's nice to have the string noise in there to give it that organic quality, and sometimes (most times) it's nice to engineer or EQ things a bit to make it less distracting.