Yes, the self-titled was irkingly sterile

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Real Boy was too personal but in retrospect life-changing. Genre was too ambitious but in retrospect very respectful. Self-titled was too pretentious but in retrospect charming. This is what I would call shitting the bed and in retrospect saying at least it was a huge diarrhetic messy shit to prove he swung wide.

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Why don't you guys like So Good?



I think it's one of the best tracks. It's simple, yeah, but that's its appeal. I like how Max captured his first encounter with Sherri into this song. Not the same as Crush'd to me.



In Stephan Hawking, does Max say, "You're the sun, I'm a black hole." ?

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I don't know it's not a bad song, but I think the rest definitely trumps it.



And yeah I think it's "If you're the sun, I'm a black hole."

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Love the chorus of Night's Song.

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i thought so good was kind of shitty and i'm a huge fanboy...upon more and more listens my rating is probably going to go to 3 territory. there are lots of good parts, but very few songs that are good all the way through.



the things that bother me the most are how he says "when the crap rains down" in admit it again, because that's totally not max bemis and also just how his voice sounds so much weaker and less assertive and energetic than it used to. i still fucks with the stephen hawking though, but i'm really worried that their next album is going to be as bad as a lot of people here are making this one out to be

This album is seriously trying my love for this band.

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Wow this is not quite as bad as I was expecting. In fact I quite like a couple of songs, mainly Burn a Miracle. Definitely a serious fall off from their last three albums though.

Night's Song is one of the greatest songs Max has ever written.

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sorry max

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He'll be ok

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It does



I do think Max really misrepresented what it was going to sound like and stand for



But who cares?

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Yeah. But I think that's an easy mistake to make when you're writing and still in production, you get excited, despite not actually knowing how things will end up- one never really does till it's done.



I love the result, I don't care about expectations.

lol

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You know what I can do, mynameischan? Your mom. Regularly.

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"You know what I can do, mynameischan? Your mom. Regularly."



Damn, Chan.

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There's a new stream of this out there.



Also, "Anarchy's never sound so safe and so secure."

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So I haven't heard ...Is A Real Boy, but I just tried this album out. I think it has good ideas and solid instrumentals, but

doesn't tie them together as effectively as it can. And there's a lack of energy in certain sections of songs.



Take 'Burn a Miracle'. It starts off well, I prepare for the climax... and suddenly they've disintegrate into a Asking

Alexandria-pseudo-jazz-combo. (Something is off with the production with the screams, sounds like they're speaking

through a can or tunnel...) Two seconds later they go back to their former tempo and singing. Overall, despite that brief

part, it sounds too calm for a song about rebellion (burn america?).



Then Admit It Again. That song, it has this riff. This riff made me want to switch to Homewrecker or Ape Dos Mil right

there. That riff was awkwardly placed here, like an unfinished idea (among AGAIN!s, or bad ideas).

In general each song looked interesting, but suddenly did strange things - or didn't, and visibly lost energy. There were

some nice songs on their own ('Say Anything') but the lyrics were generally weak (On Steel).

That's all opinion, if you think otherwise we can debate



[edited to avoid the longest comment ever, still long but w/e]

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Sir, your thoughts, as with all other thoughts on this site, deserve expression as much as the next chap, but if you would do well to put reviews like that in soundoffs or, well, reviews.



Also, I'd neg your review.

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Thanks CutMan, I'd never post this as a review. It is imperfect, incomplete and subjective, and I haven't had as many

listens as a proper reviewer should. Just meant to spark more discussion really, since there hasn't been much actual

analysis of what's actually going on in the album on this thread - just mostly the band's history and 'laziness'.



But you're right - no one else posts comments this long. I'll shorten it.



Do you have specific feedback? Or want to debate?