Give It Time: A Thread for The Mynabirds

[Kaius]

Very awesome.

[LetMeSleep]

Happy for Pete. That's a great moment

[Norah]

Really want to hear what Kevin Davis thinks of this record.

[stip]

Wish I could have gone, but kids were sick and wife had to work late. Grats, Pete

[stip]

what did they play?

[Kevin Davis]

what did they play?

Mind Your Manners
Do the Evolution
Given to Fly
Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town
Lightning Bolt
Daughter
(with Hey Ho, Lets Go tag)
Unthought Known
Better Man
Alive
Imagine
(John Lennon cover) (with Eddie on acoustic guitar)
Redemption Song
(Bob Marley & The Wailers cover) (with Beyoncé) (with Eddie on acoustic guitar)
Rockin' in the Free World
(Neil Young cover) (with Bill Nye and other… more )


Shoulda gone, man.

[Norah]

Great photos of the show:

http://www.aheartisaspade.com/2015/09/2 ... ugh-trade/

I was right next to this guy taking the pictures when he was getting the shots from the left side (stage right).

[Norah]

what did they play?

This is the setlist from the show the following night (the brooklyn show isn't posted) but it's pretty much identical.

http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/the-mynab ... 4d5a3.html

What We Gained in the Fire
Velveteen
Believer
Semantics
Numbers Don't Lie
Give It Time
All My Heart
One Foot
Generals
Disarm
Body of Work
Wildfire


Encore:
Omaha
Hanged Man
Right Place


Our show had Right Place as a second encore and it seemed unplanned. It was the first night of the tower she did a second encore (at least first among sets listed on setlist.fm)

[epilogue]

Great photos of the show:

http://www.aheartisaspade.com/2015/09/2 ... ugh-trade/

I was right next to this guy taking the pictures when he was getting the shots from the left side (stage right).

[Norah]

[epilogue]

[Norah]

aw huh

[Kaius]

Love that artwork.

[Norah]

Awaiting the Kevin Davis treatment.

[chewm]

Took a while for Lovers Know to grow on me, but I love it now. Say Something is one of my favorite Mynabirds songs.

[Norah]

Say Something is fucking gorgeous.

[epilogue]

Yeah, it's pretty good.

[Kevin Davis]

I've only given it about 1.5 really solid listens, but from some of the more tentative reception it's received around here, I was basically expecting an album of average Mynabirds songs slathered carelessly in dense synths, and it completely shattered those expectations -- I think these songs (as raw compositions) are mostly up to their usual sterling standards, and found the arrangements to be artful and evocative. The way more than a few of these tunes employ their synthesized instrumentation reminds me of albums like "Amnesiac" and "The Terror," as they move seamlessly from passages that feel jittery and anxious to ones that feel sweeping and rhapsodic. I will be listening a lot more but on first listen my favorites are "Believer," "Wildfire," and "Omaha." And "Semantics" sounds way better on the album.

[chewm]

And "Semantics" sounds way better on the album.

I agree a lot with this.

Also, Believer is fucking great.

[Norah]

Kevin Davis gets it.