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Re: Dark Matter: Official Album Thread
Posted: Tue March 19, 2024 6:00 pm
by Ledbetterdays
Ms Harmless wrote:funnels for the tunnelless
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Re: Dark Matter: Official Album Thread
Posted: Tue March 19, 2024 6:01 pm
by Ms Harmless
Re: Dark Matter: Official Album Thread
Posted: Tue March 19, 2024 6:01 pm
by tragabigzanda
Re: Dark Matter: Official Album Thread
Posted: Tue March 19, 2024 6:02 pm
by Release_Me
Anders wrote:
This is great! I was a bit wary of Running being too much of a word salad punk rock style song, given its length. Happy to hear this clip showing they didn't ignore melody.
Re: Dark Matter: Official Album Thread
Posted: Tue March 19, 2024 6:03 pm
by Val
tragabigzanda wrote:The band sounds incredibly fired up
The production sounds like complete dogshit
What a sad bummer this is turning out to be
Only for you, bud, only for you.
If the music kicks ass, nobody cares much for pRoDuCtIoN
Re: Dark Matter: Official Album Thread
Posted: Tue March 19, 2024 6:04 pm
by RockPusher
tragabigzanda wrote:The band sounds incredibly fired up
The production sounds like complete dogshit
What a sad bummer this is turning out to be
Because you are completely focused on half of the equation. If you let go of the need for production to sound the way you want it to, the fact that the band sounds incredibly fired up should be worth a lot.
Re: Dark Matter: Official Album Thread
Posted: Tue March 19, 2024 6:04 pm
by Jorge
Hard to tell much about the production from that very low quality clip
Or maybe that's just what it sounds like, lol
Re: Dark Matter: Official Album Thread
Posted: Tue March 19, 2024 6:05 pm
by Ms Harmless
I care, it just doesn't ruin things for me; production is the package, ultimately it's the song and the performance that is the product for me
Re: Dark Matter: Official Album Thread
Posted: Tue March 19, 2024 6:06 pm
by RockPusher
Ms Harmless wrote:I care, it just doesn't ruin things for me; production is the package, ultimately it's the song and the performance that is the product for me
ZACKLY
Re: Dark Matter: Official Album Thread
Posted: Tue March 19, 2024 6:07 pm
by Val
RockPusher wrote:Ms Harmless wrote:I care, it just doesn't ruin things for me; production is the package, ultimately it's the song and the performance that is the product for me
ZACKLY
Zackly indeed
Re: Dark Matter: Official Album Thread
Posted: Tue March 19, 2024 6:09 pm
by Ledbetterdays
I will say this I do prefer this kind of punk / Bad Religion / Dead Boys to what Ed has been trying to do for the last 20 years.
Re: Dark Matter: Official Album Thread
Posted: Tue March 19, 2024 6:09 pm
by Ms Harmless
would I prefer they'd kept on Gigaton Josh and made (so far) this same album? almost certainly; oh well, it feels like PJ primarily work with people they form a relationship with first and foremost, I don't remember (ever?) hearing them express a burning desire to work with a particular engineer because of their nuanced sound quality
Re: Dark Matter: Official Album Thread
Posted: Tue March 19, 2024 6:11 pm
by Val
Ledbetterdays wrote:I will say this I do prefer this kind of punk / Bad Religion / Dead Boys to what Ed has been trying to do for the last 20 years.
Co-sign
Re: Dark Matter: Official Album Thread
Posted: Tue March 19, 2024 6:11 pm
by Ms Harmless
Ledbetterdays wrote:I will say this I do prefer this kind of punk / Bad Religion / Dead Boys to what Ed has been trying to do for the last 20 years.
part of me wonders whether I might like Supersonic more if it had these huge overdriven guitars; was that the problem all along? if you're gonna punk it's gotta be heavy enough
Re: Dark Matter: Official Album Thread
Posted: Tue March 19, 2024 6:13 pm
by DrSelker
Jorge wrote:Hard to tell much about the production from that very low quality clip
Or maybe that's just what it sounds like, lol
Judging a song's production based on a screen recording posted on twitter and then saying how production/sound quality is so important sounds a little funny, I gotta say. That said, we have Dark Matter as a reference and much of what the rockers/heaviers are gonna sound is probably there, as Watt makes very uniform records (sound-wise).
I'm very happy, the band sounds excited, the songs/snippets sound just as authentic as Gigaton/Avocado did and nothing sounds as bad as Avocado/BS/LB (I'd even include the lackluster sound of Riot Act, but that's another can of worms and not decided if it's production or songwriting)
Re: Dark Matter: Official Album Thread
Posted: Tue March 19, 2024 6:13 pm
by Ledbetterdays
I just think they showed up at Watt's place and played through his gear and this is the sound it produced. I like most of it so far. I can't stand the cheesy stuff from Brendan at the end with the laser sounds and stuff. If this is just mostly an arena-ready rock album then I will absolutely take it and I like what Jeff and Stone have said about it in interviews, so it's never going to be Yield or No Code or Riot Act again. It's always different for better or worse.
The best thing is I still don't think we have heard the 3 or 4 best songs on the record.
Re: Dark Matter: Official Album Thread
Posted: Tue March 19, 2024 6:15 pm
by spike
Band sounds heavy af on that one
Re: Dark Matter: Official Album Thread
Posted: Tue March 19, 2024 6:16 pm
by oneway23
Someone please go outside and skywatch like the village shaman to retrieve additional clips so I can be lazy and remain indoors while benefitting from the efforts of others...appreciate it
Re: Dark Matter: Official Album Thread
Posted: Tue March 19, 2024 6:17 pm
by Aunt_Claire_Foy
spike wrote:Band sounds heavy af on that one
Yes. Heavier than they have been in a long time, and still somehow a different heavy. Those power chords are straight Vs.
Re: Dark Matter: Official Album Thread
Posted: Tue March 19, 2024 6:17 pm
by Val
Pearl Jam had only one perfectly produced album -- Yield.