Dark Matter: Official Album Thread

[Anders]

Hope something new happens this week. News abour a second single, a video, anything.

[Got Some]

I would take more song descriptions on reddit at this stage.

[Val]

so

nothing new here

sadness

[Lmdmusic]

Hopefully something this week, it’s been a month since Dark Matter….

[Release_Me]

Yes, it's been a while. Should hopefully get something this week. Fingers crossed. The UK Listening Party isn't until 21st March so hard to imagine there'll be any new leak or more song descriptions from attendees before then. All we can get is what the band officially releases. Maybe a 20 seconds snippet of the next single, or at least a release date for the single.

[DDWJMUVW]

We really have to wait another 5 weeks for this?

[Monkey_Driven]

Doesn't seem like four weeks have gone by since the initial announcement. I can wait another 5. There's a lot of great music out there to discover and enjoy in the meantime.

[Jaeti]

Doesn't seem like four weeks have gone by since the initial announcement. I can wait another 5. There's a lot of great music out there to discover and enjoy in the meantime.

Yeah, feels surmountable now.

[Ms Harmless]

Doesn't seem like four weeks have gone by since the initial announcement. I can wait another 5. There's a lot of great music out there to discover and enjoy in the meantime.

Yeah, feels surmountable now.

it's all surmountable...

[Monkey_Driven]

it'll probably leak the week of the April 7th-13th anyway

[liebzz]

I wonder how many live albums I can get in between now and April 19th.

[stip]

about 920 if you start now

[Buby]

i like the majority of these songs (supersonic and big wave the exceptions but mike’s playing at the end is awesome at least). but porch and grievance are the only ones that feel important. even blood and satan’s bed feel like minor songs on major albums

Knowing how much you love Lightning Bolt, how do you feel about Swallowed Whole? I truly wish we could have heard a version of that done with a different producer, because this REMish sound could really go places.

Same. I think the bones of an incredible song are there, and there are parts that work really well for me (the quieter parts, the gentle bridge, and the outro). It suffers from Lightning Bolts antiseptic production which makes the song feel chained down when it needs to have a wide open sound, and it suffers from the challenge that faces most of the mid tempo anthems on Backspacer and Lightning Bolt - they don't feel expansive and limitless in the way that the best pearl jam stuff does, and doesn't draw the necessary contrast with the setup in the verses. Unthought Known, Amongst the Waves, Sirens, and Infallible all have the same issue.

Since you earlier included Never Destination in a shared category of songs, do you think ND benefits from having a different set of production values?

Maybe unrelated, but I love ND.
I believe the one thing that keeps ND from being great, is the cramming of words where they don't fit.
From the very start, could've gelled better with something simpler like:

♫ Blisters it's on my fingers,.. Blisters it's on my brain ♫

[RockPusher]

I agree, buby.

[guitar_davey]

I agree, buby.

[Ms Harmless]

I thought it was "bullets in my brain", which rolls off the tongue better

[stip]

it’s blisters according to the lyric booklet i believe. i agree there is just a little too much in those first few lines but it levels out

[Ms Harmless]

yep

[Alex]

q: what is a song that slaps but is not a bop?

a: what is bopness that is not slapness?

[VinylGuy]

i like the majority of these songs (supersonic and big wave the exceptions but mike’s playing at the end is awesome at least). but porch and grievance are the only ones that feel important. even blood and satan’s bed feel like minor songs on major albums

Knowing how much you love Lightning Bolt, how do you feel about Swallowed Whole? I truly wish we could have heard a version of that done with a different producer, because this REMish sound could really go places.

Same. I think the bones of an incredible song are there, and there are parts that work really well for me (the quieter parts, the gentle bridge, and the outro). It suffers from Lightning Bolts antiseptic production which makes the song feel chained down when it needs to have a wide open sound, and it suffers from the challenge that faces most of the mid tempo anthems on Backspacer and Lightning Bolt - they don't feel expansive and limitless in the way that the best pearl jam stuff does, and doesn't draw the necessary contrast with the setup in the verses. Unthought Known, Amongst the Waves, Sirens, and Infallible all have the same issue.

Since you earlier included Never Destination in a shared category of songs, do you think ND benefits from having a different set of production values?

Maybe unrelated, but I love ND.
I believe the one thing that keeps ND from being great, is the cramming of words where they don't fit.
From the very start, could've gelled better with something simpler like:

♫ Blisters it's on my fingers,.. Blisters it's on my brain ♫

This one is a song that i dont need to hear it alone, and i kinda forget it exist when i listen to the album, but its a very cool surprise once it appears.

I really like how the guitars sound, specially in the bridge.