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  1. On 9/23/2023 at 10:37 PM, Citizen Erased 01 said:

    I wouldn't mind an entire album of won't stand down and we are f ing f'ed. Especially in how shit the world is going, put some fucking balls into your music. Most of the album is anodyne nonsense, step up lads. Although Halloween is quite good too.

    I wouldn’t mind them on the condition they’ll have to try not to make copycat tracks of them (and that monster named KOBK).

    That definition is quite sad, though: a year later it’s quite clear that a good number of songs on this album are intended as a lightweight celebration of their career with no pretentiousness, but still they’ve managed to pull out some seriously good (although a little short) tunes.

    Maybe it’s just wishful thinking, but this feels to me as a transition towards something greater… or even more “braindead”, which I hope not, hahahaha!

  2. 2 hours ago, That Little Animal said:

    What’s a Fantano? And why does everybody care about what he has to say? 

    Pitchfork’s review isn’t as terrible as some of their previous write ups, just their final grade is completely off. 

    …And that’s exactly the issue I have with their review: they bring up understandable criticism here and there without totally trashing the album, nearly giving you the feeling it could be at least a 5, but they give it nonetheless an incredibly abysmal score. It’s almost like they know how influential they still are and use that power to purposely blow down any artist the don’t appreciate when they are receiving mostly positive feedback from other critics. As soon as that lone review is aggregated to the Metacritic system, WOTP score will plunge to fricking 69 from 77, unless there are other positive reviews. It irks me to no end.

  3. 3 hours ago, That Little Animal said:

    Please. Discuss. There’s a new album out and I’m counting tumbleweeds here to avoid the barrage of “am I the only one who thinks Will of the People sounds like the Beautiful People?” threads posted every five minutes on Reddit. 

    Reddit is shit. Discord is shit. Kids these days don’t know how to internet. 

    Y’know what? Since I’m having trouble to sleep tonight (it’s still quite hot here where I live and there’s also a couple of personal issues looping in my thoughts, but nothing really serious), I’ll engage. 
     

    For example, I noticed that WOTP songs seem to be put in pairs in order to represent the opposites, or the lights and shadows, of a given theme.

    WOTP / Compliance —> The angry populist mob is trying to overthrow the government they hate / The said government and other social structures like gangs and religious cults try to get a hold of the mob by instilling a false sense of belonging and security against a difficult world

    Liberation / WSD —> The bravery and determination to let your voice be heard and go against your oppressors with a commonly shared sense of mocking sarcasm / The same bravery and determination but displayed from the single individual’s POV in an irate, ferocious light, to the point of aiming to the destructive annihilation of their oppressor

    Ghosts / Halloween —> A sincere, heart-wrenching longing for an authentically pure love lost to the pandemic / A grotesque exposition of an abusive relationship behind closed doors during lockdowns

    KOBK / Verona —> The worst survivalist instincts emerging from humans during hard times to the point of eliminating “love and compassion” / A love story born from pure passion and protection despite the world falling apart around it, as a demonstration that people can get through that without losing their humanity

    Euphoria / WAFF —> A wishful, hopeful, energic (but maybe also a little desperate?) call for a positive shock in order to soothe the pain for the current situation / A nihilist statement on human condition in relation to the global disasters happening around us… but with a good healthy dose of rebellious rage in order to carry on and ride through the storm, whatever happens.

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  4. Oooof, I didn’t expect WOTP to receive such fricking stellar reviews! I could’ve foreseen a better reception than ST, but not at this level. It’s so… strange, you know? Especially since critics have always been pretty much divided on their later production.

    But of course, I’m happy for our guys!

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  5. 37 minutes ago, Clunge said:

    Honestly, anyone who can't find something to love about Euphoria needs to re-examine their being.

    The final part with the multiple guitar layers, especially after that deafening falsetto, is particularly elating. 
    The song it’s basically a GUAF that’s not sappy and it’s executed well, in pure Black Holes style with a sprinkle of The Killers.

  6. 47 minutes ago, AC46 said:

    Yeah, I would say so. Each time they do the same thing, it demonstrates their lack of creativity and takes away from it that little bit more.  So yeah, even worse.  The melodies are god awful in my opinion, and sound like Matt trying to prove he's the best vocalist on the planet or something.  

     

    No offense, but this made me LOL a good deal. You can accuse them of getting old (and a bit hypocritical) with the “fuck da powah, let’s start revolution” schtick in Matt’s lyrics, but musically speaking I can’t hear how they’ve done the exact same thing in the new songs, apart from Liberation which comes a little dangerously close to that. 
    Not even commenting on the “godawful melodies” and Matt “wanting to prove he’s the best singer in the world” (uh?? What the heck??) because I think they’re quite weak as reasons to hate this new material.

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  7. 33 minutes ago, Timbo59 said:

    Worse than the last few?

    If anything (imho), it manages to turn the said “cringe” on its own head and craft it into something listenable and incredibly fun, if not a bit more clever. 
    It’s also serious just when really needed (Ghosts, Verona) without trying hard to be like that.

    About creativity, yeah, you can feel some influences but  it feels honestly even more Muse-y than ST.

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  8. 1 hour ago, Clunge said:

    Looking forward to Halloween and WAFF most. Liberation COULD be good if it's as good as USOE, which I've always had a soft spot for. Would love to see the piano make a real comeback on this tour.

    You loved Propaganda if I recall correctly, didn’t you? 
     

    Well… let’s say Halloween it’s a sort of bonkers cross between that song and Megalomania. 😉

    (Yep, I listened to the 20-sec  snippets floating around)

    EDIT: Unfortunately (or maybe not?) we still don’t have any WAFF snippet.

  9. Compliance leaves me… very perplexed. That’a all I can muster for now. 
     

    I mean, the bass line is killer, Dom’s drum work is egregious, you can feel there’s a teeny weeny Muse-y feel buried in there, but…  I don’t know, to me it feels too restrained and dry. Too quiet. I wonder why they didn’t beefed more up the choruses with some guitar à la Easily. 
     

    I feel (and I hope) it’s going to turn out as the weakest track in the new album. 

  10. 40 minutes ago, That Little Animal said:

    So, back to album talk. There was more than a year between Dig Down and the album announcement for ST, and a year and a half between Dig Down and the final release of ST.

    Any indications that it won't take quite as long this time around? 

    Considering that both Von Korff (producer) and Chris Gehringer (mastering operator) have pretty much confirmed through bits that an entire album has been recorded, it won’t be as long as the last time

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  11. 9 minutes ago, Citizen_Eraser said:

     

    Anyways...it feels weird speculating about their personal lives.

    In fact, there’s an extremely high chance of probability (nearly 100%, I’d say) that I’m reading too much into it. 
    Mind that what you read are the ramblings of a drowsy, totally spaced out man! 😂

  12. You know, before bed time (it’s 1 AM here) I was thinking about what we can see in the video previews we already have. 
     

    It may sound trivial and taken for granted at this point, but if we have to go by the elements in them, my take on the song is that this time it might even more personal to Matt than we could think of. Yes, as usual it looks like it reprises words and concepts we are totally used to from him, but coupled with the unsettling (if not downright creepy) imagery that was revealed to us, like the Matt mask, I predict it’s going to represent an attempt at genuine self-reflection by our dear frontman and the moment in life he’s currently at. 

    Just to be clearer… What if the cult portrayed in the video and the car with fancy chandelier are an allegory of the rich and exclusive (key word) Californian jet-set he was made part of thanks to fame? And could the Matt mask be a representation of a sort of fake-self he was turned into just to appease the standards of that group, but that now he wants to definitely break? 
     

    Meh. Don’t know. Maybe I’m too bored and too tired to make a sense out of what I’m writing… 🥴

  13. 2 hours ago, Claudia O said:

    There is a link on Twitter to an MP3 download … fake or has it really leaked? Don‘t like to try it … if you search #WontStandDown you‘ll find it ….

    Don’t give me hope, please… This is gonna be a looong wait, especially after nearly two years of drought (I won’t consider Matt’s “Cryosleep” or ST film OST).

  14. 50 minutes ago, Jobby said:

    New WSD preview verse lyrics:

    I never believed that I would concede

    And let someone trample on me

     

    You strung me along, I thought I was strong

    But you were just gaslighting me

     

    I’ve opened my eyes and counted the lies

    And now it is clearer to me

     

    You are just a user and an abuser

    Living vicariously

     

    I never believed that I would concede

    And get myself blown asunder

     

    Very PHAT bass bwah bwahs between each line

    Such poetry, such fine subtlety… /s

    Oh, god… This is going to be Drones all over again, isn’t it? 😓

    EDIT: The music and production sound rad, though!

  15. 1 hour ago, That Little Animal said:

    The Power of Words

    The Prisoner of War

    This Poor Orwellian World

    To Plunder or Work

    Three Plonkers on Welfare

    The Pressure of Wokeness

    The Pandemic of Wuhan

    The Position of Women

    Thought Police Oppresses Winston

    Take Part or Walk

    Trump Put On Weight

    That escalated quickly, lol.

  16. 18 hours ago, Jobby said:

    Presumably album title acronym logo at the bottom as well

    T - P - O - W

    It actually encapsulates more letters if you look carefully. You can also make out an R and an A, for example.

    Also, my personal theory is that it doesn’t refer to the album title, but to the name of the “cult” (or whatever it is) portrayed on the same cover. 
     

     

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