I'm not the one who's tryin' to be
With my car's CD player working again, I'm revisiting a lot of albums I haven't listened in full, in one sitting, to in a while, spending most of my time previously using my phone's MP3 Shuffle function instead. I forgot what a joy Days of the New's green album (sometimes called Days of the New 2) is. Hard to believe it's about 25 years old now. I listened to their music a lot during my due South and Andromeda days, sometimes using their various songs as moods while writing fic. This is the song that started me down their 3-album rabbit hole: "Enemy." This video includes the very pretty guitar bit after the song.
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One of my birthday presents was I Dont Know How But They Found Me's Gloom Division. It's growing on me more with more listens, but it's a letdown after how immediately and quickly, very first listen, I bonded with the entirety of the songs on 1981 Extended Play (EP) and Razzmatazz. I mean, I find "A Letter" so obnoxious I can't get through it. They're still on a retro sound kick but pulling from some different influences. Between this new album and watching live performances, I've kind of learned my lesson about Dallon Weekes, that he's less about the art and more about the aesthetic, that he's too self-indulgent for me to fully embrace. Like, I thought he was making a statement with the sound on Razzmatazz but no, it's ~aesthetic~.
I was surprised to hear that my eldest niece was briefly into the band before they'd gone "too emo."
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One of my birthday presents was I Dont Know How But They Found Me's Gloom Division. It's growing on me more with more listens, but it's a letdown after how immediately and quickly, very first listen, I bonded with the entirety of the songs on 1981 Extended Play (EP) and Razzmatazz. I mean, I find "A Letter" so obnoxious I can't get through it. They're still on a retro sound kick but pulling from some different influences. Between this new album and watching live performances, I've kind of learned my lesson about Dallon Weekes, that he's less about the art and more about the aesthetic, that he's too self-indulgent for me to fully embrace. Like, I thought he was making a statement with the sound on Razzmatazz but no, it's ~aesthetic~.
I was surprised to hear that my eldest niece was briefly into the band before they'd gone "too emo."