The Wonder Years - Sister Cities (April 6, 2018) Album • Page 153

Agree100% also parts in "We Look Like Lightning" at 1:22 when the tempo picks up has me feeling all 1980's "In A Big Country" by In A Big Country ( check that out for a comparison )

 

Kyoto, Pyramids, Lonely, Sister Cities, Ghosts, and Orange Grove for sure. Ocean would be a great closer to the pre-encore set too.

 

I need to hear Ghosts live.

The record has taken over my life. Every listen I've been finding new musical flourishes or lines to obsess over and lyrically a lot of it has hit really close to home with specific things going on with me at the moment. It's already a very special record to me, coming at exactly the right moment. It Must Get Lonely, The Ghosts of Right Now and The Ocean Grew Hands are all-timers for the band. It's insane to me how I adored Pyramids of Salt prerelease and it's probably not even a top 5 on the record, just an exceptional effort.

 

im everywhere at once again

 

anything thats not them playing this album front to back on the tour is going to be a disappointment

 

It’s basically “Well, I wonder which song they're gonna play when we go.
I hope it's something quiet and minor and peaceful and slow.”

 

yeah, I know but I don't like it.

 

Josh's bassline during the third verse of We Look Like Lightning tho

edit: HOLY FUCK THAT BRIDGE IS HEAVY whaaaat

edit 2: The Ghosts of Right Now sounds like a heavier take on the Suburbia sound and I am HERE FOR IT.

 

Fucking hell, Kyoto. What a song. This band has some truly stunning openers.

Great, great album. Some of the guitar work on this record is incredible.

 

Great album after the first listen. Truly exceptional to have a band connect with me as hard at 25 as they did when I was 17.

 

I wasn't ready for the back half at ALL and now I'm on The Ocean Grew Hands to Hold Me. I love it already and the intro's barely finished.

 

The world is not as big as I had once believed, and I may be smaller yet than I had ever imagined. I have loved as you have loved and as you have hurt, and someday your wounds will reopen, and your pain will be my pain. The current is going to carry it to me, it will wash up on my shores, of this I am certain. The distance once felt infinite and now feels meaningless. I am everywhere at once, the expanse no longer vast, the gaps cinched shut. The distance formula. How do we measure the distance between desperation? How do we measure isolation if not in loneliness? I left pins on a map, I'm handing you the string. Tie them together. Unite us.

 

Brb just gonna listen to this album for the rest of my life

 

Oh shit this is the song in the album trailer and I think I know what's coming and I cannot deal

fuuuuuck

 

why is the ghosts of right now the best song ever

 

OH MY FUCKING GOD THERE ARE CHILLS EVERYWHERE

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Does the stream on the independent not work on mobile?

 

one of my favorites and I didn't think much of it at first

 

It's been over a year now
April turns into May
I barely stopped moving, I've been so fucking afraid
Too much of a coward to even visit your grave

kyoto is their best song fight me

 

its basically a song from war all the time

 

Soundcloud mobile is hot ass so probably not

 

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The SoundCloud link only worked when I opened it up from the Facebook app- didn't work on the browser for some reason

 

It's fun looking back at the distance poem and seeing how it really is a thesis statement for the record.

 

the orange grove is the only song im not totally in love with yet. its fine but unremarkable compared to everything else.

 

what's this?