Dark Matter: Official Album Thread

[stip]

Mike's solo sounds so good on Scared of Fear

[darthvedder81]

High quality FLAC Apple Music in the good old Sennheisers starting now. Already much much better than the theater Atmos mix I first heard it in!

[Homeboyd]

ICYMI, here's my OneDrive file of the pics I took of the liner notes and lyrics from my CD/BluRay that arrived earlier today. For those who want to read along as they listen...

https://1drv.ms/f/s!AlUOcvRoswfPhIYMUmV ... w?e=UC4Y2P

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[Homeboyd]

ICYMI, here's my OneDrive file of the pics I took of the liner notes and lyrics from my CD/BluRay that arrived earlier today. For those who want to read along as they listen...

https://1drv.ms/f/s!AlUOcvRoswfPhIYMUmV ... w?e=UC4Y2P

Thanks, this is great...

[stip]

I love the first half of this chorus so much (SoF)

[WaitingForBluey]

Omg, maybe it's true. The swifties broke everything

[RockPusher]

High quality FLAC Apple Music in the good old Sennheisers starting now. Already much much better than the theater Atmos mix I first heard it in!

My open Sennheisers are pumping wifi highest quality Spotify for the first time and it sounds dramatically better than anything before. This is awesome. I'm having my cake and eating it too.

[Strat]

We used to laugh....we used to sing....

[stip]

I like the way ed gets more distant at the end of the R/R chorus.

Hearing so many more details compared to the link

[Anders]

Won’t Tell just flew by. Have to get back to it for a solid impression.

[Anders]

The start of Upper Hand is 5/5.

[Blenheim Augustine]

Swifties gonna crash all the streaming sites lol. I'm kidding (sort of). As for the songs, I still haven't fully committed to Waiting for Stevie, it's a sound I recognize and it's great but for now I'm into the stuff that sounds a little fresher for them. At some point I will just give in. Also, it's easily the first song I'm sharing with my casual PJ friends.

I like the more instrumental second half from the breakdown and Coda more but the main bit doesn’t grab me yet. Would have liked it a few clicks faster, I’m sure they’ll rectify that live.

[stip]

okay, wreckage sounds beautiful.

[oneway23]

The standard I've held them to over the years has admittedly been a bit ridiculous, at times, but, this record vaults over any reasonable expectation I could've had.

[blueviper]

React, respond is wild. Lol

[darthvedder81]

Not even two songs in and I can already tell this is Jeff's biggest bass statement on a PJ album in...maybe ever? Certainly since Vs.

[Homeboyd]

Scared of Fear has a ton of lyrics but they might be the best on the whole album...this song has gone from meh to fantastic in three days...

[Anders]

Upper Hand is easily the best song so far. Ed sounds incredible, the band perfect behind him.

[oneway23]

For those who were asking earlier, DM is available on HDTracks

[Jaeti]

I am thinking it's not Dark Matter as we thing of in physics, but dark matter as when you say "it's a dark matter, but we need to talk about blank. I think this is rock opera.

You might not be wrong about like a quasi concept album.

https://youtu.be/yEi74Kq65iw?si=KKKOGsxgKGd6Scqb

Link to the Ed interview from today at time stamp 7:40 the interviewer states that she loves the album because it takes her on a journey. His response is long but at the 9:30 mark he specifically says the only trick to sequencing this record was “telling the story, if there is one”

So, he uses the word “story” in relation to the sequencing of the songs. That is fascinating to me! I am going to have to closely read the lyrics to see if there is a narrative.

SOF and Setting Sun both mention setting suns. So he is possibly connecting the first and last song by using the same imagery.


And of course I may just be reading way too far and am embarrassing myself.

No there is something there . Yes the connection of Sof and Setting sun. Wfs and Won't Tell connect. Upper Hand and Something Special connect. Got to Give seams to connect to almost all of these. Wreckage comes to be about life lost or relationships lost . React Respond a plea not to fight but also a fight. . I'm thinking like fractured relationship the ends in the passing before a resolution. Dark Matter martial mistakes made kids pay ? Suicide others pay. I'll be the last one standing. There is clearly anger over loss maybe just maybe someone is hurt and angry as hell because someone passed. That person in turn is going make sure those that are left feel love and worth.

Brother The Cloud is the only song I wish Eddie had reserved for this. Fits properly.

Swap Good and Evil for Running and I’d be so happy

My god, if Brother the Cloud was on this record...