The Maine Band • Page 13

Personally I prefer The Maine writing really substantial pop songs (LLL, American Candy) to their less-than-impressive attempts at being less-than-accessible (Forever Halloween). I don't think they have a bad record, but I think there are a looooooot of bands that do gloomy indie rock better than they do.

 

i got on board during the American Candy cycle after disregarding them for some reason back when i saw them touring off B&W. the new one is really good and i can see it being my favorite, but i need to go through the back catalogue some more

 

Sometimes I like John's voice while other times I'm not a fan of it like on the newest release. I still think the best he's ever sounded was on their debut.

 

I am borderline obsessed with Lovely Little Lonely at this point. I’m not sure where it falls in their catalog for me yet, but I don’t care. I love this and it’s going to be on all the time this summer.

 

Oh man, ranking is hard, but:

American Candy
Lovely Little Lonely (I could see these two switching places after I spend more time with LLL, though, we'll see)
Pioneer
Black and White
Can't Stop Won't Stop
Forever Halloween

Pioneer and B&W are almost interchangeable depending on the day/my mood but Pioneer is obviously better and more true to them as a band.

 

I just love this record so much. It's so tight and flows so well. Normally the interludes would piss me off but it just all works. Wonderful job.

 

That's prollyyyy the same for me. Except I'd put LLL first. Pioneer has amazing highs, but more lows than AC and LLL

 

That "breakdown" or whatever you want to call it in the second verse of The Sound Of Reverie is so dirty

 

Only album I don't like by them is Black and White. I like maybe half the songs on Forever Halloween, but I wish they went the direction they did with the song Love & Drugs. I remember being pretty disappointed the rest of the album wasn't anywhere close to the direction of that song. Take What You Can Carry, Run, and Fucked Up Kids are cool songs though.

 

I've only ever heard music from Can't Stop, Won't Stop about 10 years ago. Never even gave any of their other albums a shot as I wasn't into that style of music anymore.

That being said, I have been completely hooked by LLL and went back into their discography and really enjoy a lot of it. American Candy is pretty great and a mix of songs off of Pioneers and FH are pretty good too.

 

No one is mentioning the B sides to this album, if you bunch those with this album it's probably Top 2 for me...

 

which album? BW or FH?

 

FH

 

I'm pretty sure I haven't heard the bonus songs yet. I'll check that out right now!

 

Ice Cave

 

Really big fan of "Vanilla" from those deluxe tracks.

 

Lol the Maine hanging out with Halsey

 

I've never listened to an album by The Maine before but damn this new one is pretty good so far (half way through). All these songs are crazy catchy. I could see some of these getting big on the radio.

 

Update: Finished my first listen through, everything is pretty great. Will be listening to this much more.

 

"Lost In Nostalgia" has such strong 1975 vibes.

 

The Maine was hanging out with Halsey the other day and I won't them to collaborate so bad.

 

Loving this album more and more every day. "Taxi" emerging as a new favorite.

 

The "And I never knew, how much I was gettin' into" line is almost as catchy as the chorus for some reason, haha. To me, at least.

 

This album is a fleshed out expansion to their "So Criminal" sound.