Dark Matter: Official Album Thread

[Got Some]

Scared of Fear & React/Respond are fucking awesome

Wreckage was cool.

Loving Won’t Tell it has a cool little funky vibe

Ed sounds great

React/Respond
Scared of Fear
Dark matter
Won’t Tell
Wreckage

[dimejinky99]

Can someone attest to the quality of this leak? Is it a straight CD rip quality? If not, I'll pass, but loving all the mostly positive notes I'm reading...

Sound quality is terrible. It feels like a bootleg someone captured on a hand held tape recorder at an indoor concert. But it gives you the vibes of the songs.

Saying this publicly. This one is obvious as all fuck. It’s resting on laurels.

In time people will see Gigaton as the more important and interesting one.

Mark my words.

[Fattie_Vedder]

Thanks Bluestate and for all of your reactions.

The excitement has heightened to a frenzy for me. I've seen the arc of my personal exhilaration for this album run from:
-Pining at the thought
-Thinking we were close, then disappointment because we weren't.
-A taste with the release of singles and snippets.
-Absolute glory and exhilaration as the week has come, there's a file on my phone should I choose to listen, and terrificly fun reviews and emotions coming from each of you.

Feels like I'm in that space where, errr, "gratification" is inevitable, and immediately achievable, but am just enjoying this feeling so much and that I'll only benefit from holding on until Tuesday night in the theater.

For now, that's the plan and then I'll listen to the iPhone recording on my drive back home from the theater.

I might imbibe too much today and abruptly change course, however. You never know!

I’m with you! I don’t mind listening to the phone version after listening to the clean version on Tuesday.

[E.H. Ruddock]

Can someone attest to the quality of this leak? Is it a straight CD rip quality? If not, I'll pass, but loving all the mostly positive notes I'm reading...

Sound quality is terrible. It feels like a bootleg someone captured on a hand held tape recorder at an indoor concert. But it gives you the vibes of the songs.

Saying this publicly. This one is obvious as all fuck. It’s resting on laurels.

In time people will see Gigaton as the more important and interesting one.

Mark my words.

You told me this about rise of skywalker and you were wrong about that!

[stip]

Won't Tell - Upper Hand - Waiting for Stevie are three full fledged anthems in a row. When was the last run of songs like that?

[stip]

It's kind of liberating to listen knowing I will never make out what Eddie is saying so there's no need to try

[EBowie]

I’m a sucker for anthems so sign me up

[injuddstree]

They did it - a PRAMG album where more than 50% of the tracks are actual keepers.

It's a good day.

[stip]

Eddie's not really holding himself back on these songs.

[unLEASHed]

It's kind of liberating to listen knowing I will never make out what Eddie is saying so there's no need to try

You are the guy who call pull the lyrics from the wreckage! we have faith in you!

[DeeDee]

I was so sad with the ticket prices, the marketing, the subpar singles, the Ten Club situation... but reading your comments is making me expect greatness again after all this years.

This f*cking band, man.

[Got Some]

Upper hand is epic


Waiting For Stevie - classic PJ

Should have been a single. Ed sounds great imho.

Mike is on fire

[Oversize]

Thanks Bluestate and for all of your reactions.

The excitement has heightened to a frenzy for me. I've seen the arc of my personal exhilaration for this album run from:
-Pining at the thought
-Thinking we were close, then disappointment because we weren't.
-A taste with the release of singles and snippets.
-Absolute glory and exhilaration as the week has come, there's a file on my phone should I choose to listen, and terrificly fun reviews and emotions coming from each of you.

Feels like I'm in that space where, errr, "gratification" is inevitable, and immediately achievable, but am just enjoying this feeling so much and that I'll only benefit from holding on until Tuesday night in the theater.

For now, that's the plan and then I'll listen to the iPhone recording on my drive back home from the theater.

I might imbibe too much today and abruptly change course, however. You never know!

I’m with you! I don’t mind listening to the phone version after listening to the clean version on Tuesday.

I ALWAYS listen to the leaks, so this is new territory. I'll definitely come back Tuesday night and give perspective of listening in Atmos first, then voice recording 2nd.

[Homeboyd]

This leak has made me want to go to the theater to hear this with a good sound system…smh

[stip]

the interstitial between Waiting for Stevie and Running is lovely. It's kind of wasted on Running

[Ensign9]

I took no notes but I’ll say I felt “meh” for only one half of one song during the event. Really dig the rest. Eager to hear it again with better sound quality on Tuesday. These always require a dozen-plus listens before you can fairly judge.

[stip]

I took no notes but I’ll say I felt “meh” for only one half of one song during the event. Really dig the rest. Eager to hear it again with better sound quality on Tuesday. These always require a dozen-plus listens before you can fairly judge.

that's true. I'm trying to rank them and I really can't

[Ensign9]

The clear standout to me was React, Respond.

I also like Dark Matter a lot but have heard it 50+ times already so it didn’t get as much a reaction out of me.

[Birds in Hell]

Very mixed impressions so far.

The opening three songs were OK - React, Respond and Wreckage in particular both sounded pretty good.

Much less keen on everything I'm hearing after. Running sounded stronger in context and genuinely felt like a welcome reprieve after the stretch from Dark Matter through Waiting for Stevie, which was pretty hard-going.

It's possible further listens will reveal hidden depths but I'm not sure there's anything here remotely as strong as Gigaton's high points.

[daft twat]

Won't Tell - Upper Hand - Waiting for Stevie are three full fledged anthems in a row. When was the last run of songs like that?

This was my favorite part of the record when I listened.