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Spec
October 16th 2024


41420 Comments


more like how to dismantle your eardrums

JesperL
Emeritus
October 16th 2024


5841 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

production is rly off, i hate how high in the mix bono's (new and not very great) vox are and the new lyrics are not rly it imo :[

Pho3nix
October 16th 2024


1820 Comments


"why is edge not wearing a beanie or hat on the album cover tho it's really.. unsettling"

"he looks like walter white lmao"


He looks like Kane from Command & Conquer

onionbubs
October 16th 2024


23796 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

i like the new lyrics more myself and the addition of the lower harmonies work for me. i dont really mind that his voice has aged either and also i think the rougher appeal of it and country mile are pretty refreshing since this album is *extremely* overproduced. but also all music on youtube sounds a little off to me anyway

onionbubs
November 7th 2024


23796 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

finally got around to the new song and while i dont love it its certainly a lot more interesting than their other recent stuff has been. between that and country mile legitimately owning, maybe they really are kinda waking up

onionbubs
November 18th 2024


23796 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

evidence of life is an edge fronted track apparently lfg

onionbubs
November 22nd 2024


23796 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

diving into the shadow album lfg

onionbubs
November 22nd 2024


23796 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

evidence of life is fantastic goddamn

onionbubs
November 22nd 2024


23796 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

im like 90% cool with the new mercy. there's like a bar or two in the payoff they removed that i would have liked to hear but i think thatll be easy to adjust to. otherwise im cool with all the other changes

Rowan5215
Emeritus
November 22nd 2024


48410 Comments

Album Rating: 2.3

I'm not against the new vocal takes at all really, it's kinda cool to hear old Bono and young Bono duetting but the vocal prod is so fucking weird. take out that annoying echo and the watery doubling in the chorus and it's pretty great



this is such a weird tracklist too lol, having Fast Cars and Xanax back to back is wild

onionbubs
November 22nd 2024


23796 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

yeah i honestly think it makes more sense with country mile-are you gonna wait forever as the first three and then following it with the first 5 on side a but it mostly exists for alt tracklist building anyway ig



treason is sick as hell honestly

Rowan5215
Emeritus
November 22nd 2024


48410 Comments

Album Rating: 2.3

Bono rapping on Treason is... certainly something lol



glad they at least left Smile alone, the tinkering is unbelievably frustrating with this band. so far I'm just whelmed, there's definitely just a few highlights to plug the valleys in the tracklist with. Country Mile seems like the easy highlight

onionbubs
November 22nd 2024


23796 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

yeah that bridge is the only part im not sold on lol

Rowan5215
Emeritus
November 22nd 2024


48410 Comments

Album Rating: 2.3

Happiness is really really bad lmao. Blackout vibes but even worse somehow

onionbubs
November 22nd 2024


23796 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

bono makes that song v suboptimal yea lmao wild to me country mile and evidence were just sitting around yet they went forward with that one later on (albeit i never bothered to check anything re: the spiderman thing they did lmfao)

Rowan5215
Emeritus
November 22nd 2024


48410 Comments

Album Rating: 2.3

Bono sounds pretty bad on a lot of this, both the old and new vocals lmao

JesperL
Emeritus
November 22nd 2024


5841 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

treason is definitely a song

Rowan5215
Emeritus
November 22nd 2024


48410 Comments

Album Rating: 2.3

for the attention of bubs and no-one else I present my ultimate tracklist... looking at this I guess I like the new stuff a bit more than my first impression lol



City of Blinding Lights

All Because of You 2

Picture of You

Miracle Drug

Sometimes

Are You Gonna Wait Forever

Crumbs From Your Table

Evidence of Life

Country Mile

Smile

Luckiest Man, or Mercy whatever it doesn't really matter lol

onionbubs
November 22nd 2024


23796 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

fuck yea good stuff. will definitely hit that later today. i edited a version of treason i think im gonna use where i axed the rap (good god bono lmao) entirely and it sounds no less janky than the new x+w so i think im gonna use that instead of all because of you or sometimes maybe but thats mostly everything i like



also ngl i love fast cars. xanax and wine never hit me the same way but it is good

onionbubs
November 23rd 2024


23796 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

i think my own tracklist is probably looking



1. native son

2. all because of you 2

3. fast cars

4. evidence of life

5. treason (edit)

6. are you gonna wait forever

7. crumbs from your table

8. smile

9. country mile

10. mercy



i have city of blinding lights, sometimes and miracle drug on my all that you cant leave behind along with its first 5 (-elevation), levitate, ground, and stateless



also this has all been a nice reminder that ive been underrated crumbs. top shelf main album track for sure



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