Gigaton: Official album thread

[Matters]

I'm hoping that synth means something like You Are and Mike's quote about it being a dark album makes me think of NAIS and Binaural. Both things would be acceptable.

I’d love a bunch of stuff like You Are. They really haven’t made an innovative song since.

[dimejinky99]

If you haven’t read his mrs latest Instagram post.

Paging yoko ono

[Coach]

Go Pearl Jam!

[96583UP]

maybe these are all tracks from the BOB sessions, and Evans was sound engineer, and due to BOB’s pending sale of his royalty rights to his catalogue he couldn’t be the producer on this - so they just let Evans polish it off

[Coach]

maybe these are all tracks from the BOB sessions, and Evans was sound engineer, and due to BOB’s pending sale of his royalty rights to his catalogue he couldn’t be the producer on this - so they just let Evans polish it off

probably true, good thought here

[evenslow]

trag doing some MVP level speculation in this thread and frankly i love to see it.

[evenslow]

it's gonna be funny in 5 years when we all say ANYONE BUT EVANS!!

[Strat]

it's gonna be funny in 5 years when we all say ANYONE BUT EVANS!!

*3 weeks

[Kevin Davis]

The move away from O'Brien alone is enough to pique my interest again; if he was on the boards again I'm honestly not sure I'd have even cared. I can envision "dark, moody synths" going either way, but until I hear it I'm open to it being great.

[Coach]

what are good examples of songs (PJ or otherwise) w/ a lot of synths?

[dad]

Beach House would be a good place to start, maybe Future Islands.

Bands, not songs.

[Norah]

Suckers, all of you.

[pappas]

what are good examples of songs (PJ or otherwise) w/ a lot of synths?

[stip]

I’m not hoping for anything that’s like anything they’ve done previously. I hope it sounds completely new.

Same. Even if it is bad, at least they would be trying stuff.

Whether it's good or bad, we only have so much more music from these guys, and no matter how good it is, if it is familiar it is likely to feel like a shadow of your favorite version of whatever it is. That can still work (Collapse into now was a perfectly fun final album for REM, and most of those songs had clear antecedents), but something new is more likely to stand on its own as an independent thing, and maybe recontextualize what we've had for so long. So I'm hoping for something relatively different.

This will be interesting as this seems to be reasonably akin to a self-produced album, so we'll get a sense of what, circa 2019, Pearl Jam thinks Pearl Jam is, as opposed to what BoB thinks Pearl Jam is

[Strat]

I’m not hoping for anything that’s like anything they’ve done previously. I hope it sounds completely new.

Same. Even if it is bad, at least they would be trying stuff.

Whether it's good or bad, we only have so much more music from these guys, and no matter how good it is, if it is familiar it is likely to feel like a shadow of your favorite version of whatever it is. That can still work (Collapse into now was a perfectly fun final album for REM, and most of those songs had clear antecedents), but something new is more likely to stand on its own as an independent thing, and maybe recontextualize what we've had for so long. So I'm hoping for something relatively different.

This will be interesting as this seems to be reasonably akin to a self-produced album, so we'll get a sense of what, circa 2019, Pearl Jam thinks Pearl Jam is, as opposed to what BoB thinks Pearl Jam is

Please stay.

[stip]

I’m not hoping for anything that’s like anything they’ve done previously. I hope it sounds completely new.

Same. Even if it is bad, at least they would be trying stuff.

Ehhhh


BACKSPACER

I’m not convinced there’s any inherent value in doing new things either, it only matters whether the material is any good.

this is also true.

[stip]

I’m not hoping for anything that’s like anything they’ve done previously. I hope it sounds completely new.

Same. Even if it is bad, at least they would be trying stuff.

Whether it's good or bad, we only have so much more music from these guys, and no matter how good it is, if it is familiar it is likely to feel like a shadow of your favorite version of whatever it is. That can still work (Collapse into now was a perfectly fun final album for REM, and most of those songs had clear antecedents), but something new is more likely to stand on its own as an independent thing, and maybe recontextualize what we've had for so long. So I'm hoping for something relatively different.

This will be interesting as this seems to be reasonably akin to a self-produced album, so we'll get a sense of what, circa 2019, Pearl Jam thinks Pearl Jam is, as opposed to what BoB thinks Pearl Jam is

Please stay.

I feel bad I wasn't here for Rise of Skywalker

[Coach]

thx pappas and dad for the examples

[WtOB?]

the prices at the preorder link on the home page and the prices in the shop on the official site are drastically different.

[Strat]

thx pappas and dad for the examples

here's a rock song with synth in it. I love it.