Red Mosquito

Only one listen in, but I like it. I'm pretty sure I'll come to like it more. It actually sagged for me a bit after The Haves (which I'm going to be fine with now that I can experience it through the homeless-couple lens and its bittersweet final note (as noted somewhere in this thread a few days ago)). Good & Evil grabbed me eventually. It's really after that that I felt less engaged.

But I think Rose of Jericho will click before long. I think Try and Picture are maybe the weakest two for me at the moment. Wasn't all that charmed by Mrs. Mills either, but again, one listen.

On My Way is a pretty knockout closer.

dad wrote:

Strat wrote:

Ms Harmless wrote:

Monkey_Driven wrote:How can you honestly even rank this album after one or two listens of a bad rip?

it's not a bad rip

yea i have a flac

wat

Spoiler: show

Ms Harmless wrote:

Monkey_Driven wrote:So The Haves is by far the worst thing on this, right?

100% but it's still not bad

I think it might not be! Maybe.

Leatherhead wrote:

Tj wrote:This maybe Eddie's best work this century.

Nothing I've heard makes me rank his work here higher than Binaural, Riot Act, Gigaton, or even S/T.

I definitely rate this higher than S/T - Lightning Bolt

The Dark is so good. That is some great synth or something. Very 80's ish sort of something. Wut? Could maybe be in some 80's movie montage of sorts.

really like it.

tragabigzanda wrote:Wow he has a lightning bolt tattoo he really is a superfan

wat

dad wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:Wow he has a lightning bolt tattoo he really is a superfan

wat

HE SAID "Wow he has a lightning bolt tattoo he really is a superfan" !!!!!

Strat wrote:The Dark is so good. That is some great synth or something. Very 80's ish sort of something. Wut? Could maybe be in some 80's movie montage of sorts.

really like it.

Lots of 80s references will be valid, and most will probably be more insightful than mine, but somewhere during The Dark I found myself thinking "Bryan Adams."

Strat wrote:

dad wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:Wow he has a lightning bolt tattoo he really is a superfan

wat

HE SAID "Wow he has a lightning bolt tattoo he really is a superfan" !!!!!

oh

Geezes. The Haves into Good and Evil is some nice goddamn sequencing. Hell yea.

dad wrote:

Strat wrote:

dad wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:Wow he has a lightning bolt tattoo he really is a superfan

wat

HE SAID "Wow he has a lightning bolt tattoo he really is a superfan" !!!!!

oh

One would think in RM terms, a Lightning Bolt tattoo would be a disqualification. Autocorrect still wants me to call it “Lightning Bolton.”

When a maaaaaaan hears the Sirens.

FlatSideofaDog wrote:The good: Ed hits notes he hasn't tried to hit in the studio in a long time ... and sounds good.

Yeah.. Auto-tune is really convincing nowadays...

dad wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:Wow he has a lightning bolt tattoo he really is a superfan

wat

Watt

This thing is mastered loud AF, right?

guitar_davey wrote:

dad wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:Wow he has a lightning bolt tattoo he really is a superfan

wat

Watt

Watto

basically_infirmed wrote:This thing is mastered loud AF, right?

I know jack shit about audio stuff, but I thought this, too (without even really understanding what that means).

Yeah I also don’t get what you mean but yes yes

I suspect it's mastered to sound at home next to the Top 40 artists Watt typically works with.