Gigaton: Official album thread

[Brett]

The piecemeal method of assembling and recording the songs doesn't bother me at all. This approach quite clearly was the correct one, as this album is miles better than the two before it.

It's a method used to great effect by other bands, and the idea that it's somehow inferior to a band getting into a single space and trying to hash some songs out of jam sessions is outdated and rockist. But then again, it's similar to the idea of worrying about how the songs will turn out live. It's something I couldn't care less about.

[FlatSideofaDog]

Having read how the record was made, dissapoint me a little bit. Its kind of an artificial album. The brilliance is not total merit of the band. But Im thinking George Martin, Nigel Godrich and others, so Im gonna stop whining.

That crossed my mind too, but now the story of the making of Gigaton just makes me want to see the live performance of these songs evn more.

[Ms Harmless]

definitely - what makes the difference is the right combination of good imaginations

[McParadigm]

I’ve been stuck working on emergency department training in my tiny, poorly lit downstairs “office” 8-10 hours a day, every day, for the last 15 days. I don’t know how long that schedule will continue, but at the least it’ll be weeks or months. I feel terribly overworked, a little bit useless, and very lucky all at once.

There’s a perfect storm here for me, in that an album with this exact message and feel reached me at this particular moment in time. It’s like the adult version of how I received Vitalogy just as my parent’s marriage imploded, No Code as I emerged from the rubble of that mushroom cloud and started the process of growing up and away from it all, and a warm, hopeful album with a midwestern road on the cover and a song about a human being who was given to fly on my 18th birthday.

Like those records...like the ones we most often carry with us forever...this one arrived already grafted on. It’s like my own heart sang a song, and someone else collected it for me. That’s going to make it impossible for me to accurately judge the record, or its place in the catalog. Love is blindness, and I don’t want to see.

Thanks man

[Ms Harmless]

I’ve been stuck working on emergency department training in my tiny, poorly lit downstairs “office” 8-10 hours a day, every day, for the last 15 days. I don’t know how long that schedule will continue, but at the least it’ll be weeks or months. I feel terribly overworked, a little bit useless, and very lucky all at once.

There’s a perfect storm here for me, in that an album with this exact message and feel reached me at this particular moment in time. It’s like the adult version of how I received Vitalogy just as my parent’s marriage imploded, No Code as I emerged from the rubble of that mushroom cloud and started the process of growing up and away from it all, and a warm, hopeful album with a midwestern road on the cover and a song about a human being who was given to fly on my 18th birthday.

Like those records...like the ones we most often carry with us forever...this one arrived already grafted on. It’s like my own heart sang a song, and someone else collected it for me. That’s going to make it impossible for me to accurately judge the record, or its place in the catalog. Love is blindness, and I don’t want to see.

Thanks man

Gigaton: ripe for comfort

[EJ]

As far as we know, they've had several albums where they just scrapped great pieces of music. We know BOB likes to move at a cheetah's pace. This time they didn't. And, it worked. It is far from perfect. But, it is really enjoyable right now.

I don't care what it sounds like live. That's one of the most bizarre reasons to critique an album.

All hail Josh Evans.

[Mike]

https://pitchfork.com/news/haim-delay-n ... ronavirus/
Haim are actually delaying their album like we joked about with Gigaton

[Strat]

I’ve been stuck working on emergency department training in my tiny, poorly lit downstairs “office” 8-10 hours a day, every day, for the last 15 days. I don’t know how long that schedule will continue, but at the least it’ll be weeks or months. I feel terribly overworked, a little bit useless, and very lucky all at once.

There’s a perfect storm here for me, in that an album with this exact message and feel reached me at this particular moment in time. It’s like the adult version of how I received Vitalogy just as my parent’s marriage imploded, No Code as I emerged from the rubble of that mushroom cloud and started the process of growing up and away from it all, and a warm, hopeful album with a midwestern road on the cover and a song about a human being who was given to fly on my 18th birthday.

Like those records...like the ones we most often carry with us forever...this one arrived already grafted on. It’s like my own heart sang a song, and someone else collected it for me. That’s going to make it impossible for me to accurately judge the record, or its place in the catalog. Love is blindness, and I don’t want to see.

Thanks man

Im just sipping in every ounce of positivity you are putting out there right now. it warms me.

[VinylGuy]

Superblood Wolfmoon is the weakest of this bunch. Im still surprised on how much i enjoy it after WES.

[super nintendo chalmers]

any chance of someone DM'ing me a lnk? thanks

[ilpazzo]

any chance of someone DM'ing me a lnk? thanks

If possible... Much appreciated...

[Revelator]

I’ve been stuck working on emergency department training in my tiny, poorly lit downstairs “office” 8-10 hours a day, every day, for the last 15 days. I don’t know how long that schedule will continue, but at the least it’ll be weeks or months. I feel terribly overworked, a little bit useless, and very lucky all at once.

There’s a perfect storm here for me, in that an album with this exact message and feel reached me at this particular moment in time. It’s like the adult version of how I received Vitalogy just as my parent’s marriage imploded, No Code as I emerged from the rubble of that mushroom cloud and started the process of growing up and away from it all, and a warm, hopeful album with a midwestern road on the cover and a song about a human being who was given to fly on my 18th birthday.

Like those records...like the ones we most often carry with us forever...this one arrived already grafted on. It’s like my own heart sang a song, and someone else collected it for me. That’s going to make it impossible for me to accurately judge the record, or its place in the catalog. Love is blindness, and I don’t want to see.

I haven't listened to Gigaton yet, but damn this could be contender for post of the year. Hits home with me too because I had a similar situation in my youth with divorced parents and using music of the time (like Vitalogy) to pull through all the extraneous horseshit.

[bodysnatcher]

https://pitchfork.com/news/haim-delay-new-album-release-due-to-coronavirus/
Haim are actually delaying their album like we joked about with Gigaton

well fuck i was really banking on a new Haim album to get me through this crisis

[Birds in Hell]

I have a bad feeling that it's just that the vocals are covering up these nuances; I hope I'm wrong

Listen to an official copy of either of the singles (e.g. Spotify or YouTube on HQ audio settings, iTunes download, etc.) and then to the versions on the leak, it's quite a significant difference.

I don't know how anyone is listening to that leak repeatedly, or on in detail on headphones. The official release will sound much, much better.

[Strat]

I have a bad feeling that it's just that the vocals are covering up these nuances; I hope I'm wrong

Listen to an official copy of either of the singles (e.g. Spotify or YouTube on HQ audio settings, iTunes download, etc.) and then to the versions on the leak, it's quite a significant difference.

I don't know how anyone is listening to that leak repeatedly, or on in detail on headphones. The official release will sound much, much better.

yup then i get to be excited even more all over again!

[Ms Harmless]

I have a bad feeling that it's just that the vocals are covering up these nuances; I hope I'm wrong

Listen to an official copy of either of the singles (e.g. Spotify or YouTube on HQ audio settings, iTunes download, etc.) and then to the versions on the leak, it's quite a significant difference.

I don't know how anyone is listening to that leak repeatedly, or on in detail on headphones. The official release will sound much, much better.

I'm excited, yes there's a little difference in the singles

[scrub12]

I have a bad feeling that it's just that the vocals are covering up these nuances; I hope I'm wrong

Listen to an official copy of either of the singles (e.g. Spotify or YouTube on HQ audio settings, iTunes download, etc.) and then to the versions on the leak, it's quite a significant difference.

I don't know how anyone is listening to that leak repeatedly, or on in detail on headphones. The official release will sound much, much better.

Yeah I went for a run last night and listened to this on headphones. It seemed very muffled. Can't wait for the official release.

[pjfanman]

I’ve been stuck working on emergency department training in my tiny, poorly lit downstairs “office” 8-10 hours a day, every day, for the last 15 days. I don’t know how long that schedule will continue, but at the least it’ll be weeks or months. I feel terribly overworked, a little bit useless, and very lucky all at once.

There’s a perfect storm here for me, in that an album with this exact message and feel reached me at this particular moment in time. It’s like the adult version of how I received Vitalogy just as my parent’s marriage imploded, No Code as I emerged from the rubble of that mushroom cloud and started the process of growing up and away from it all, and a warm, hopeful album with a midwestern road on the cover and a song about a human being who was given to fly on my 18th birthday.

Like those records...like the ones we most often carry with us forever...this one arrived already grafted on. It’s like my own heart sang a song, and someone else collected it for me. That’s going to make it impossible for me to accurately judge the record, or its place in the catalog. Love is blindness, and I don’t want to see.

[pjfanman]

2:30 into “who ever said” is one of the best moments in their cannon...period.

[VinylGuy]

I’ve been stuck working on emergency department training in my tiny, poorly lit downstairs “office” 8-10 hours a day, every day, for the last 15 days. I don’t know how long that schedule will continue, but at the least it’ll be weeks or months. I feel terribly overworked, a little bit useless, and very lucky all at once.

There’s a perfect storm here for me, in that an album with this exact message and feel reached me at this particular moment in time. It’s like the adult version of how I received Vitalogy just as my parent’s marriage imploded, No Code as I emerged from the rubble of that mushroom cloud and started the process of growing up and away from it all, and a warm, hopeful album with a midwestern road on the cover and a song about a human being who was given to fly on my 18th birthday.

Like those records...like the ones we most often carry with us forever...this one arrived already grafted on. It’s like my own heart sang a song, and someone else collected it for me. That’s going to make it impossible for me to accurately judge the record, or its place in the catalog. Love is blindness, and I don’t want to see.

yeah, feels as important as those for sure.