Red Mosquito

Listening to Setting Sun now

starts weird, kinda like a brother to River Cross

That last couple minutes of setting sun. I’m just in love man…..

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.

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

DDWJMUVW wrote:That last couple minutes of setting sun. I’m just in love man…..

Listening to it now

its a different song really

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?

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.

The guitar work on this album is inspiring. The interplay between them all is 10/10.

Yeah, Setting Sun is a great close

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

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

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??

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.

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.

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

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.

Beginning on setting sun sounds like maybe a Tom waits song before the guitars come in

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.

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,