"Bleachers lose the plot."

Well they do have bleach in their name.

“I think it was the day that Kobe fell from the sky/Or the day that Kendall Pepsi-smiled"

jesus lmao

Yeah those lyrics are extraordinarily awful lmao, if I was Kobe's wife I would sue

Oh I never realized Jack Antanoff was in Steel Train. I remember discovering them from a Drive thru record compilation.

Album Rating: 2.0

Is that an actual lyric from this, if so that makes me hate the album even more good god lol

Album Rating: 2.7

Ugh, Modern Girls is like a terrible parody of '80s Billy Joel (and I like Billy Joel).

Album Rating: 1.5

Amazingly, it is an actual lyric.



I think hanging out with Taylor Swift so much has encouraged Jack into thinking he is capable of pulling off lines like that lol

Album Rating: 2.0

On further listens this gets more and more disappointing.



Love or hate Jack, but he has a talent for hooks and creating big sonic moments, those moments have dwindled with each successive release but there's always been kernels of this in each record until this one.



Deeply ironic and disappointing that their self titled record has the least amount of moments that really defined bleachers as a band and their success.

jack antonoff is a goon

Album Rating: 2.0

---On further listens this gets more and more disappointing---

Seems to be the theme around here so far. It was unimpressive to begin with but it's also the opposite of a grower. A shrinker?

Album Rating: 2.0

Right there with you sowing, hope all is well

Jerk Antonoff is a toolbox.

Album Rating: 3.5

I weirdly found myself enjoying this album, hence why my rating is way above the average score. Truth be told, I haven't listened to any previous Bleachers' albums, so I cannot really tell if this is better or worse than previous outputs, but I found a lot to like here.



The lyricism is pretty clunky at times (like the already mentioned "I think it was the day that Kobe fell from the sky / Or the day that Kendall Pepsi-smiled") and some songs in the second half aren't musically memorable and if this was trimmed down to 9-10 tracks, it would be all the better for it. Yet, many songs are either purely fun ('Modern Girl', 'Tiny Moves') or emotionally potent enough ('Alma Mater', 'Isimo') that I find myself overlooking the start-stop feel of the album's pace.

But I guess I have to listen to older material from Bleachers to have a better grasp on this?

I would say the most similar in terms of sonic palette would be Take The Sadness Out Of Saturday Night. Both have some similar aesthetics to The 1975's Being Funny In A Foreign Language which Jack Antonoff co-produced. Personally I like that 1975 record more.

I think most Bleachers fans would say Gone Now is their favorite but don't quote me on that lol