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boxelder

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  1. saw this too and it was so strange, such an odd choice to do, especially for a publication like GQ… this feels more like a music blog thing to post, like stereogum or consequence or something. still, i appreciate the reviewers thoughts… it is underrated but i still feel that DED was undercooked as a whole.
  2. goodbye pre release thread 🫡 you served us well
  3. i could see realistically them adding in anthem of 3, YDKWYG, and hopefully bad news … lol!
  4. yuppp the bridge is waaaaay too short — just when you’re invested it drops you back into that repetitive chorus — which by the way i like a lot. this is one of my favorite songs on the album. it’s deep and specific, and i love the outro repeating “and over and over”. minor gripe that the intro is a pure rip of adam’s song/bored to death, but what do i care at this point?
  5. as of right now, at this early stage anthem pt 3 YDKWYG childhood bad news dance with me terrified turpentine other side when we were young more than you know one more time blink wave fell in love edging hurt (interlude) turn this off/fuck face (too short or humorous to make real judgment)
  6. i’m truly in love with this album. i want to post a full review this weekend, collecting my thoughts, but i just can’t get over how much i like it. i love this band
  7. love the vocal processing on the last chorus. turn that shit up. they know what they’re doing. i really love this song — it feels like a forgotten gem, just as they described it. love these type of riffs, wish tom made a few more touching on that refused/fugazi influence. a nice postscript to that era, bringing the sound back to blink
  8. i love the 2023 line. who the fuck ARE they now, this long into their career? who are they as parents and people? it’s self aware in a way they do best. this is going to be one of my favorite blink songs ever. i love the exploration into this sound — it’s not breaking new ground but it’s a new sound for them. and it works!
  9. i’m such a sucker for songs like this. it sounds straight out of 2001. the little guitar melody under the second half of the verse — “i start reminiscing…” — is just unadulterated, classic blink. this will be an all timer favorite from this album. no one can do this stuff better than blink. that’s why we’re all here
  10. this song just delivers, no other way to put it. it just has everything we want. that outro is phenomenal. it’s like a grown up blink, one that doesn’t feel as disconnected from its roots in a good honest way, rather than pandering or going too simple. it genuinely does feel like a threequel to anthem and anthem pt 2, in the best way. anthem = the young band, talking about house shows and early days and adolescent angst anthem pt 2 = the world at large is fucked, how did it get this way? anthem pt 3 = confronting adult challenges and loss and death head on. resolving to never change but also grow
  11. love matt but he was never the right fit for the band, something they seemed to sense early on, which is why they went the songwriter/super producer route. and that doesn’t mean there aren’t great songs birthed in that period — cynical, NHTSO, all fan favorites. it was the best of a bad situation, a transitional era
  12. this interview started off rather awkward and slow but picked up steam when they sit down in the studio space. bold of zane — one of his few good questions — to ask about matt being in the band. the urgency with which mark talks about tom’s last exit feels recent, like he’s still somewhat peeved about it, but tom really proves with his words in this interview that he means good on this, that this it the last time they do this. i wish travis had more of an opportunity to answer … his responses feel well thought out and lived in. hearing mark talk though reveals everything we ever loved about him and the band. he’s so honest and funny throughout this piece. i loved his answers about the last breakup and establishing himself outside of tom. a good interview. i wish it was somewhat more revealing, but perhaps they’re not ready to discuss every detail and trying to keep the peace. i also wish they would do more press for the album but ill take what we have
  13. as much as i like this song, it feels like it could've been written by any sort of neck deep/state champs-type band. that's not to say it won't sneak up on me like blink always has the tendency to do. this is kind of the vibe i get -- creative license is fine, but i feel like so often in the later mark work you see him write these types of lyrics he clearly doesn't feel ("why can't we get divorced for christmas?" in NACS from 2019).
  14. as much as i love synthwave blink -- always is my favorite blink song -- this one didn't immediately grab me upon my first listen. but i must say, so frequently my favorite blink songs are the ones that sneak up on you, and you return to again and again. the chorus gives me rebel girl vibes, with its rather saccharine synth line.
  15. also, holy fucking compression batman. almost unintelligible instrumentation in the bridge/last chorus. those drums are pounding
  16. a rather slight song across the LP, but a downright classic opening riff and quintessential blink groove. the unusual time signature in the chorus is appealing. just first thoughts. i could see this growing on me... forever
  17. this is a blink song that could've come from any era, the type of tune they were born to write, the one that occurs when the three are completely in sync with each other.
  18. so obviously underrated from first listen, the deep cut of this album, but just unbelievably classic blink, pure and honest from the heart. if mark ever woke up thinking he would never write another good song, this is all he needs to play himself. it's so great, so distinctly mark, so straight, to the point, no shit, heart-warming and real.
  19. i refuse to pick this early in the game. but it's clear to me that anthem pt 3, DWM, YDKWYG, terrified, childhood, and turpentine are the early standouts.
  20. i could've never imagined hearing this here, now, or ever. it's quite literally hearing a discarded BCR song in 2023. it's definitely got shadows of watch the world/tiny voices. but it's so great, the riff is sooooo sick, so nasty... a clear standout on this album, early on
  21. i mean come on. this is just outrageous to receive, in the year of our lord 2023, a blink song sounding like this. this is what we've always wanted. it gives us everything. it's just powerful, it does actually feel like a continuation of anthem pt 2, in ways i never thought possible... and the outro is just tear-inducing. it's so good. i said this some time ago, when the song was sampled in the zane promo, but i can hear myself singing this chorus for the rest of my life.
  22. this track is literally mind-blowing to me on first listen. i never imagined a blink song sounding like this. it works so well. i'm in love with the chords they used, the synths, the lyrics... it's just nuts
  23. nuts that this exists. so shocked. full review another time but i've loved the songs i've heard.
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