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14-09-2021, 22:37
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I'm so blown away by My Drowned World right now I'm literally DOUBLE POSTING about it. That chorus is everything I like about music. Low key yet epic, self-sufficient, gliding. The lyrics are super good too. Can't believe this is not on the album. Yeah, Blank Diary Entry and Bored Alone are all right, but this should be the penultimate track instead of both. Afterending follows perfectly off it. Also this finally shows inside the source of the album directly -- Nicky losing his parents. (The music on TUVL is all their parents' records, right.) What a missing piece. This raises the album from 4/5 to 4.5/5
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14-09-2021, 22:49
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heheh... the bit where the guitar line comes in for "The ice in the veins..." really does give one... chills
 With all that said, I feel like I'm the only one who (slightly) prefers These Dark Roads so far! Both really good tracks though, I will happily use the Japanese edition as my go-to version.
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14-09-2021, 22:55
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It's just the sadness of nicky's song considering what he and patrick have had to go through edges past it for me and gives this whole tuvl period context, but it wouldn't have such impact if the music didn't fit it like a glove.
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15-09-2021, 00:29
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Oh These Dark Roads is great. Hits the nail on the head with what they're going for with this album, great logical chorus... but yeah it's not My Drowned World. By god that's sublime backing vocals in the chorus. I don't have my incisive headphones here maybe someone can say who the backing sounds like? Is it like 4 James' layered, one octave higher?
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15-09-2021, 07:25
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Popcorn please and thank you.
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15-09-2021, 09:41
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I noticed the bonus songs are on youtube. Both tracks are lovely. I wish Nicky's song would've been on the album, his voice is really insightful and cool. I think the music has a hint of Riders on the storm by the Doors. Beautiful songs.
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15-09-2021, 10:07
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As well as the Japanese popcorn, shouldn’t there also be some limited Gwenno branded popcorn to look out for too sometime? I believe it was in a 7” sized package with some albums?
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15-09-2021, 10:24
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These Dark Roads certainly has something of an “album closer” feel to it and I suppose they couldn’t have two of them (Afterending being the other)
My Drowning World is more of a Nicky B-side
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15-09-2021, 12:56
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Damn, popcorn would be nice though... Could put these into playlists, see how much better the album gets with this ending:
Complicated Illusions Into The Waves Of Love These Dark Roads My Drowned World Afterending Last edited by Marat Sar; 15-09-2021 at 14:36.
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15-09-2021, 14:56
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If there isn't any popcorn being shared when i get home from work I'll rip the youtube vids and share those. obviously a shit solution rather than proper mp3s but it's better than nothing i suppose. i'll post here when i do and share that off brand popcorn.
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15-09-2021, 17:39
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My Drowned World is a great Nicky song. I wonder if he felt it was too personal to go onto TUVL ?
The one thing that occured to me was that if they had recorded Everything Fades in a similar way it would have been absolutely huge (although I still love it on IKTZ).
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15-09-2021, 17:41
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Is it not called ‘My Drowning World’?
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