The Dangerous Summer - Mother Nature (June 14, 2019) Album • Page 70

Where I Want To Be and Wearthered are my two favourites front this band. I’m guessing there’s a lot of nostalgia in that when this this band was getting discovered on a bigger level.

 

I’d never listened to this band before listening to this record and I’m completely blown away. Maybe my favourite thing I’ve heard all year. The first 3 songs are on another level.

 

It's great when you get a band that you instantly click with and like their tracks. I'd recommend the rest of their discography, once you've got this album in the bag, that is! Reach for the Sun is a must!

 

It is currently my album of the year. Definitely recommend blaring this for like a straight week and then check out Reach for the Sun and War Paint ... all great!

 

I can’t imagine not getting into this band until this record...it’s pretty good, but the first two records trounce it

 

I can totally see someone getting into this band with this record, RFTS especially very much sounds like a product of its time and I wouldn’t nearly be as into it if I discovered it today

 

Been watching live videos from this tour and found this one from a month ago. Before playing Ghosts here, A.J says " this is a song about a girl from austin texas... a stripper from austin texas" lol.. that surprised me a little as the lyrics are so deep. With how I talk to god etc.. but I guess it does involve a naked chick in his bed lol

 

Wow.. I really had assumed it was about sobriety and his flirtation with it.

 

Did he go sober for a while? Never knew that or heard about it

 

hello everyone

 

Honestly don't know for sure so I can't speak on it but I always figured that he did or at least was a lot more than he has been the past year in that break has the interpretation I got from him being around Luna and his wife at the time more and not out on the road and from the lines like "when I was sober and seeing clear".

As someone who has fought off and on I related really well with that perspective and the seeing him get trashed in the past year helped me relate too.

 

Well. I’m obviously very late to the game.

But I’ve been listening to this for the last few days nonstop and I absolutely love it.

 

Yo sam it seems the boys have 2 more shows and then some time off. Would be sweet if you guys could do that podcast you mentioned doing where you guys discuss every track!

 

Still spinning this almost every day.

 

MN is better than RFTS. May be approaching WP but the dust is still settling.

 

yeah, me too. Blind Ambition and It Is Real popping up as some late favorites for me.

The chorus of Blind Ambition is really perplexing. It's more about the instrumental hooks with the drums and the guitar than the vocal hook. Pretty risky songwriting move... but damn, it works.

That's mature songwriting. I don't think the band could have pulled it off at any other point in their career.

 

They were brilliant last night. New songs sound amazing live.

 

I’ll see what’s up. Been slammed and I hate doing them remote cause they feel disconnected and less fluid. I’d rather just hang with them and play the album in real time and be able to start and stop it and rewind and focus and dive back into it. It was literally a time and place in my life that on this release was nice to touch base with but I’ve been so deep in new shit that it would require a full immersion to really revisit and explore the depth of the experiences and emotions behind the creation. Not sure a recorded phone call would be fulfilling and validating enough to release. But I really do want to do this. Let me think about it. I appreciate this.

 

Been lurking on this site and forums without ever posting for the best part of 10 years... And likely to have gotten the suggestion for listening to TDS from off this site, so thanks!

Really loving Mother Nature and it's currently my AOTY as it stands and like others in here, it's still getting blasted on an almost daily basis... Standouts for me are Blind ambition, Virginia, Bring Me Back to Life, mother nature and consequence of living.

As a Brit who wants to eventually travel to the US to hike the Pacific north west / other state parks, listening to TDS whole discography just makes me yearn for nature and summer. I'm really grateful TDS releases their albums just before summer hits the UK!

 

Cool! No pressure and we all appreciate your interactions in here

 

Took a few weeks off after spinning this for what felt like a month straight.

Listened this morning and my god, it really is just so good.

 

Yeah this is my aoty so far. I do sometimes feel like it drops a gear at It Is Real (even though I like that song) and never quite gets back into top gear. Main problem for me being Violent Red. I think it's place in the tracklisting is perfect to get the adrenaline of the album back up, but it's probably my least favourite song on MN. A minor complaint for a brilliant record, guess I just want someone to change my mind haha

 

I definitely like the first half more than the second, but it's not a big dip.

 

Agreed. I think violent red is supposed to pick the pace/intensity back up. And it kinda does. But I have some internal bias against "atmospheric guitar while the drummer goes nuts" verses. The last Wonder Years record had two such songs and they're my two least favourites.
I think with this record it's only fitting to prefer the first half since that is absolutely perfect from the opening note to the end of Where Were You. Not many albums are perfect for that long.

 

All of side one also flows incredibly well, which elevates it further. I always get so psyched listening to it in sequence, because it just continually ratchets things up with the track transitions. The second half doesn't flow badly or anything, but the songs don't function together quite as perfectly.