Red Mosquito

I'm half way through...

This is a very interesting album! I will be hooked on it after second listen I predict.

The last 2 minutes of Seven O'Clock is breathtaking.

They should drop this on all streaming platforms now. It's leaked. Many people won't be able to go to the store to buy a physical copy in a week's time.

B wrote:

warehouse wrote:

Ms Harmless wrote:

warehouse wrote:did read correctly there's keys on 75% of this record?

a review said that, yes

i dont think they've ever featured keys that much. second appearance of a sitar i think. i'm only on my second listen, but they seem like they are open to trying new things on this. i already like it more than backspacer.

What's the instrument at the front of Alright?

I think that’s Jeff on the kalimba

It leaked!? Ugh I can't find it! Anyway someone could do me a solid, dont know if I'll be able to get out to get it with all this quarantine crap.

Starting my second listen right now, while also working. Could have done so a little earlier, but decided to wait. Feels really good putting on a solid new Pearl Jam album.

I very much liked the entire album after the first listen. I’ll go more in-depth on it after a couple more over the weekend.

Halp!

the last two songs just hit me in a very powerful way I wasn’t expecting, or in a way that had only been abstract so far

2nd listen.

Top tier:
Seven O'clock
Comes Then Goes
Quick Escape
Dance of the Clairvoyants

Middle tier:
Alright
Buckle up
Take The Long Way
Who Ever Said
River Cross

Bottom tier:
Retrograde
Superblood Wolfmoom
Never Destination

I can understand the Yield and Riot Act comparisons but this really is its own animal. It’s the most lush sounding thing they’ve ever done production-wise, almost Phil Spector/wall of sound at times but there’s no shortage of heavy stomping rockers either. I actually think the Ed “spritzy” songs work as a nice counter balance to some of it just maybe wouldn’t have put those both right up at the front.

It sounds really, really good. We can argue about Ed all day - he has hits and misses - but the band sound FANTASTIC.

Top tier (chronological)

Superblood Wolfmoon
Dance of the Clairvoyants
Quick Escape
Alright
Buckle Up
Comes then Goes

Middle/top
7 Oclock

Middle
Who Ever Said
Never Destination
River Cross

Bottom (but these are not bad songs
Take the Long Way
Retrograde

Does anyone have a working link to share please?

1. Buckle Up
2. Comes Then Goes
3. Dance of the Clairvoyants
4. Quick Escape
5. Take the Long Way
6. Alright
7. Never Destination
8. Who Ever Said
9. River Cross
10. Superblood Wolfmoon
11. Seven O'Clock
12. Retrograde

Quick Escape chorus has some similarities to All Messed Up by Three Fish. Love it

bodysnatcher wrote:

B wrote:

warehouse wrote:

Ms Harmless wrote:

warehouse wrote:did read correctly there's keys on 75% of this record?

a review said that, yes

i dont think they've ever featured keys that much. second appearance of a sitar i think. i'm only on my second listen, but they seem like they are open to trying new things on this. i already like it more than backspacer.

What's the instrument at the front of Alright?

I think that’s Jeff on the kalimba

Wtf is a kalimba?

My favorite thing about my first listen was that this did NOT feel like PJ by numbers at all.

i love that one of the major themes of this album is simply to try be better than you are, and the belief that it is possible

B wrote:

bodysnatcher wrote:

B wrote:

warehouse wrote:

Ms Harmless wrote:

warehouse wrote:did read correctly there's keys on 75% of this record?

a review said that, yes

i dont think they've ever featured keys that much. second appearance of a sitar i think. i'm only on my second listen, but they seem like they are open to trying new things on this. i already like it more than backspacer.

What's the instrument at the front of Alright?

I think that’s Jeff on the kalimba

Wtf is a kalimba?

i think its a kind of fish

ive only listened to who ever said and its wonderful...and i see it generally in the middle tier.
cant wait to sit down in a whisky tonight and absorb rest.