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In some ways it's like Walk Me To the Bridge, put through a happy filter.
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Huge Cardiff Afterlife imprint as well. But less despondent.
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So what’s the song actually about, then?
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I'm finding it hard to believe that standards and expectations have dropped so low that these 'efforts' are getting praise. I get that we would all love TUVL to be good but this sounds like a cover of a rejected abba b-side that the band learned from someone who heard it from a mate that had been taught it by a peruvian pan pipe player.
No band should be so desperate for acceptance and kudos that they lose their own identity. Fuck were they thinking "the Clash playing Abba". They'd be better off with "the manics playing the manics". |
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I don't mind what musical styles they're drawn to for inspiration, I just wish that the lyrics of the last two albums were a lot stronger. I'm not feeling Nicky evolve as a writer as I did with Lifeblood and Futurology, despite the strange comparisons they're making with those albums.
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The secret they had missed was lying at their fingertips
The girl in the long blue dress meant nothing to some I guess!
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Please, he prayed, now - A gray disk, the colour of Chiba sky. Now - Disk beginning to rotate, faster, becoming a sphere of paler gray. Expanding - And flowed, flowered for him, fluid neon origami trick, the unfolding of his distanceless home, his country, transparent 3D chessboard extending to infinity. Inner eye opening to the stepped scarlet pyramid of the Eastern Seaboard Fission Authority burning beyond the green cubes of Mitsubishi Bank of America, and high and very far away he saw the spiral arms of military systems, forever beyond his reach. And somewhere he was laughing, in a white-painted loft, distant fingers caressing the deck, tears of release streaking his face. Last edited by Tim; 22-07-2021 at 21:28. |
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They’re never making another GT, GATS or THB. EMG was a very high benchmark and TIMT did really well. Almost everything (barring JFPL and possibly Futurology) since then has been panned by the fans and has had mixed reviews elsewhere. Each album is pretty different as well which is some testament to a band who have been around for 30+ years. Orwellian didn’t grab me, just like a number of their singles over the years haven’t but on the whole they’re still generally catchy as fuck and when the Manics do something right they tend to do it really right. When they do it wrong they also seem to do things very wrong. To be honest I don’t think any of us want another GT, GATS etc as it would be pretty cringe for a band in their 50s. I would like more James guitar solos and something slightly heavier, but on the whole they’ve produced some pretty diverse albums and great songs in the 20 years since KYE. |
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only in terms of James emotionless but still recognisable vocals. The rest could be coldplay or some generic elevator music trying to hit nostalgia notes so that people will think 'oooh that sounds familiar' |
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After first listen, I like it A LOT. Great textures in this song, sweeping yet detailed. The female vocal is probably the best tonally I've ever heard in a manics song (so wonderfully beige) and JDB sounds great too.
This is really something for us Lifeblood fans. Last edited by Marat Sar; 23-07-2021 at 20:54. |
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Please, he prayed, now - A gray disk, the colour of Chiba sky. Now - Disk beginning to rotate, faster, becoming a sphere of paler gray. Expanding - And flowed, flowered for him, fluid neon origami trick, the unfolding of his distanceless home, his country, transparent 3D chessboard extending to infinity. Inner eye opening to the stepped scarlet pyramid of the Eastern Seaboard Fission Authority burning beyond the green cubes of Mitsubishi Bank of America, and high and very far away he saw the spiral arms of military systems, forever beyond his reach. And somewhere he was laughing, in a white-painted loft, distant fingers caressing the deck, tears of release streaking his face. |
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Someone slight Coldplay? Coldplay write nice music, their problem is they have an imbecile for a lyricist and no sonic aesthetics. I love it when manics sound more like Coldplay. They have all that.
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Both of the new songs we’ve heard have catchy hooks (something JDB has always been good at), they are well performed and have decent enough lyrics. They are good songs. But here’s the thing, for me, as a Manics fan of 23+ years - would I choose to listen to this style of music if it was anyone other than the Manics making it? The honest answer is no, I wouldn’t. It’s too bland for my tastes and the musical references to ABBA grate on me as someone who has never liked ABBA.
Also I don’t fully understand the reasons why they’re making music that sounds like this instead of the possible alternatives. We’ve just heard what happens when Bradders gets a bit more experimental on Even In Exile. I’m not after another THB or another EMG, far from it, I would just like to hear the band experiment with a more interesting and complex sound at this stage in their career. A full-on prog album that’s sort of a cross between Lifeblood and Futurology would certainly be welcome!
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https://youtu.be/kWUV5-frRU4 Its the kind of courage Ive been demanding from the Manics for the past two decades but instead theyre petrified of failure. |
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