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Loved it from the start, but I’m enjoying this album more and more with repeated listens. Quite the trick to have such atmospheric pieces of music amongst such catchy, hooky bits that get lodged in your head.
Maybe this has been screamingly () obvious to everyone already, but I just realised Patrick Jones’ poetry on GT formed the intro for... Love’s Sweet Exile. I really like that, that there’s a nod to the Manics in the choice of title for this album (PJ&JDB’s work), that has a connection to Patrick on a Manics record. It’d be a pretty large coincidence if not an intentional additional meaning. Quote:
It reminds me a bit of Moonlight Shadow (not a bad thing in my book).
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I'm falling for these two new tracks and verses echo, with tear flow deserves a high quality release.
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so, I've bought physical copies already from HMV and the official store, and as they didn't arrive in time for my trip north on Friday I ended up streaming the album in full twice on the drive... if I stream it a few times more today, is that going to add anything to those sales numbers and final chart position?
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I naturally assumed a paid stream was worth the same as a physical sale, it's the same price isn't it, more or less?
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Even In Exile deserves to be a No 1 but unless Biffy fans go and buy a copy of it as well I'm not hopeful it will end up on top. Top 10 would still be epic though! Go James and Patrick!
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Can someone remind me please, where folk were getting the version with the demo disc from? Was that a pre-order special somewhere?
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You had to preorder any format of the album from the official store in order to receive a link to download the five demos on release day. They haven't been released physically.
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Ah, right. Ta!
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I streamed the album all the way through today on paid Spotify, will do so again later, not that will make a single bit of difference haha.
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Last update before tomorrow's decider:
1 Biffy Clyro - A Celebration Of Endings (24.6k) * 2 Taylor Swift - folklore (8.4k) 3 Sea Girls - Open Up Your Head (8.0k) * 4 Pop Smoke - Shoot for the Stars Aim for the Moon (6.4k) 5 James Dean Bradfield - Even In Exile (5.5k) * Damn you "Pop Smoke" whoever ye are! |
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"American Rapper" Tch! It would be some nonsense like that. "Who died in February 2020" ooh oww... Well I don't follow that scene. No idea who's who.
Of course it'll be the second week drop off that'll be interesting to watch. |
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