Dark Matter: Official Album Thread

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Listening to Setting Sun now

starts weird, kinda like a brother to River Cross
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That last couple minutes of setting sun. I’m just in love man…..
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FlatSideofaDog wrote:
tommy wrote:I had genuinely given up on this band after Lightning Bolt and now here we are with 2 really good albums in a row. It's a wonderful thing.
Same
Real shades of Springsteen with the double shot of The Rising/Magic after a decade or mediocrity.
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Strat wrote:Running fucking rules. Awesomely placed.

I'm still wide eyed and smiling ear to ear.

This album is legit.
1000% on Running. I don't get a lot of the criticism (aside from the compression/production). That glorious bridge; it's in that rarefied air of fast paced/punk-laced PJ songs that actually deliver
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DDWJMUVW wrote:That last couple minutes of setting sun. I’m just in love man…..
Listening to it now

its a different song really
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tragabigzanda wrote:Listened to this a second time today and the good parts are getting better while the bad parts are getting worse. There ain’t gonna be any middle anymore.
what your good parts? :naughty:
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Fattie_Vedder wrote:
VinylGuy wrote:haha waiting for stevie is wonderful
"You can be loved by everyone, and not feel, feel love".

CMON NOW. Might be my favorite lyrics / single sung line on the album so far.
It's my favorite lyric on the album so far. Incredible delivery.
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The guitar work on this album is inspiring. The interplay between them all is 10/10.
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Yeah, Setting Sun is a great close
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VinylGuy wrote:Yeah, Setting Sun is a great close
At this stage - I'm willing to fight anyone who talks bad about Setting Sun.

On a maybe related note - about to play this for my wife - see what she thinks
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Running and Something Special were both songs that suffered considered in a vacumn. I'm loving them on this album more and more with each listen

Hold on - waiting for stevie just came on. Need a desktop headphones listen
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Ok after a first listen DAAAAMN

Tons of energy, very rocking, very cool. Sounds like a band effort and i love that. Even in Something Special you can hear the band doing all sorts of different stuff.

Sounds like Vs meets Avocado meets Gigaton maybe??
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I enjoyed Got to Give in the theater, but listening to it now with headphones just elevated it a lot. The bass that Jeff is playing is gorgeous. Couldn't hear that for shit yesterday.

I'll give Something Special another listen. I can't get over the lyrics and how out of place it feels with everything else, even if the melody is catchy. I don't hate it. But I don't really like it that much.
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stip wrote:Running and Something Special were both songs that suffered considered in a vacumn. I'm loving them on this album more and more with each listen

Hold on - waiting for stevie just came on. Need a desktop headphones listen
Holding I'm legit eager for your update lol.
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pearl jam sucks now
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Cream of the crop:
Setting Sun
Waiting for Stevie
Upper Hand

Potential cream:
Won’t Tell
Got to Give
Wreckage
Scared of Fear
React, Respond

I like both of these:
Dark Matter
Running

Nice enough song:
Something Special
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Rangi Guy wrote:
VinylGuy wrote:Yeah, Setting Sun is a great close
At this stage - I'm willing to fight anyone who talks bad about Setting Sun.

On a maybe related note - about to play this for my wife - see what she thinks
It would make an excellent live opener.
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Beginning on setting sun sounds like maybe a Tom waits song before the guitars come in
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Monkey_Driven wrote:
FlatSideofaDog wrote:
tommy wrote:I had genuinely given up on this band after Lightning Bolt and now here we are with 2 really good albums in a row. It's a wonderful thing.
Same
Real shades of Springsteen with the double shot of The Rising/Magic after a decade or mediocrity.
This is great. I likened Dark Matter to REM’s Accelerate or U2’s All That You Can’t Leave Behind.
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bluestate wrote:Just finished first headphone listen
I honestly cannot recall the last time I had such joy from listening to a new album
I'm exhausted
Same , just finished with headphones, amazing! Chills and smiles, i do miss my daughter in some parts,
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