So far, quite great.

Niiiiice, I'll have to check this out later.

its...different than afi usually. Not as dark.

can I get an unbiased opinion on this? I'm not gonna bother listening to it as I'm assuming it's shitty.

Its poppier, but Im pretty sure there will be a few tracks thatll meet your fancy.

listen to 'Ok, I Feel Better Now' at least.

well so far one guys rated it a 5 and one's rated it a 1. seems like a polarizing album guys

i dont think theyre too justified but ha maybe lol.

I eagerly anticpate your review Dave. Good to hear you are liking it so far.

Yes yes yes today has been SUCH a good day- first Strung Out then this :D
Sounds good so far... *crosses fingers

Pretty solid album so far. Huge improvement over Decemberunderground.

Torch Song, Ok I Feel Better Now, It Was Mine are my favorites I'd say.

those 5 and 1 ratings for the album were there weeks ago so you cant base anything off those. As for the album so far, sounds pretty excellent. I expected much worse

How I regret what I must do but you've left me no choice. Though I still strain I can't recall the beauty of your fey voice.
Now that I've heard come through the walls a song I've heard many times I must return all you gave me in the company of swine.
We had found sacred ground you burnt down.

I thought you sang so tastefully but now I see I was wrong.
Your serenade turns to filth when I leave so, please, cut the love song.

How I regret what I must do but you must be replaced for I cannot go on suffering such simple and common tastes.
When you met my eyes you sang to me of passion, pain and will.
When I blinked you turned away to kiss the hand of filth.
You had found sacred ground I'll burn down

Tell me who will hear your voice, your song, when the smoke has cleared and the lights are gone? Tell me, who appears when I'm gone.


Those are Cold Hands lyrics, posted for the people in the Fan Club from the band.

My expectations are very low so maybe I'll be surprised.

the main thing ive noticed is the vocals are much much better. Along with a much happier vibe, although the lyrics suggest otherwise.

This guy has the single most annoying voice ever.

that goes to dude from smashing pumpkins.

Yea, picture a CD of "Girl's Not Grey"-esque tracks, both in the hint of poppiness and the AMAZINGness.
Agreed that this is much better than DU, and the vocals are better. What really makes it tho is Jade's guitar, it sounds like he's REALLY stepped it up for this.

that goes to dude from smashing pumpkins.

yes, guitar and vocal fueled.

Pretty sure that has to go to Tom Delonge in Angels & Airwaves

pretentious? hm...id say dude from U2 but idk. I dont really know what pretentious sounding singing sounds like

I don't think pretentiousness is really an attribute that you can apply to singing.

i think what he's saying is it sounds too affected, which i sort of agree with. good album nonetheless

overproduced then...well at least it isnt autotuned, god damn.

A few cool songs, a few bad songs, but most of this is just mediocre.
A resounding 'meh'.
But I suppose that's better than the shitheap I thought this would be.

Oh AFI, you're silly.

sounding pretty good so far

Check out those pants in that picture.

I must be honest, this is pretty bad.

i had fairly low expectations for this, so i was surprised that this was fairly solid

pretty disappointing except for a few songs

awesome avatar

Honestly, I'm adoring this- not sure of "rating-wise" admiration.. still, delightful progression (as most always).

Better than expected, but it obviously wasn't going to touch the old stuff anyway, so yeah, not too bad after all.

On Track 5 and so far I'm enjoying this less than DU. "Too Shy To Scream" is really bad.

"This guy has the single most pretentious voice ever."

You might be the only person I've ever seen who likes Sigur Ros, Godspeed, Sufjan, etc. and calls AFI pretentious...

Not that I have anything against any of those bands, but if pretentious is anywhere to be found, it's probably there.

Damn, this will have to wait until I get out of class. I really didn't have much hope for this, so hopefully I'll be surprised.

Pretty Bad.
I assumed that even DU fans would be pissed. I was sure STS fans would be pissed and the Punk afi fans would just refused to mention afi as a liked band anymore. These guys have never even heard of fan service when it comes to their music, like how is it that you made an album thats less like the afi everyone loves whether your a dh sts or pre aod fan.. how...
++shakes head++

Soooo much different than old AFI, almost a completely different band...

that being said, this is def a step up from DU

As I Fall, bands change thier sound. It's makes thier discography varied. If you don't like it, gtfo.

Yeah but it still kinda sucks

cool

Torch Song
End Transmission
Ok, I Feel Better Now
Sacrilege
Cold Hands
It Was Mine

Best Songs by far

I really liked everything up until Sing the Sorrow. That album was decent, but the new one and DU are both terrible.

i'm surprised to hear how consistent the album is.

This is actually better than I expected. I came in with very low expectations though...

ugh, not fond of this.

can someone please go back in time and find a way to prevent the word "pretentious" from being created?

The stream's gone to 30 second samples.

To be honest the album didn't impress me much, but, as I said in the review thread, it's better than Decemberunderground

it still streams the whole album for me, perhaps because i havent closed the myspace window since last night

As I Fall, I'm sure you'd say that Thrice has sold out and betrayed their fans then?

One of the things I wanted out of the album was a bigger presence from Hunter, and that happened.

To be honest, I think I would like it more if the lyrics didn't suck so much

really good. I wish this came out on 6.6.06 instead a decemberawfulrecord.

and listen, if you have a voice like davey havok, you should be allowed to be as pretentious as you wanna damn be. we'll see how you are when you're given immense talent.

Better than Decemberunderground without a doubt, reminds me of Sing The Sorrow a bit.

Yeah his voice is the best since AoD.

It's not whiny and it's pretty passioned here. Sounds like he's using more range than before

These guys have never even heard of fan service when it comes to their music

I quite enjoyed decemberunderground, so I'll probably get this.
Didn't enjoy their other album I tried though

Was it Sing The Sorrow? Because if not, try that one before this.

soooooo much better than decemberunderground
3.5ish territory right now

I hear alot of Morrissey influence in his voice. sounds goofy