SDRE?

sunny day real estate

you guys are really fucking talented no lie

edit: i want a tshirt with the album art on it. i'd pay like 15 bucks!!

I really want to buy this.  I'll buy the CD and a shirt C'MON!!

Hey I've been listening to this and I think it's pretty good. I have a hard time with ambient and post-rock but this keeps my attention all the way through. The second half seems to not get a lot of notice but the two or three songs following the after are my favorites. The vocals are probably the best stuff on the album but I'm sure it's because they compliment the music well. I've been trying to pass it around to people here but no one has gotten back to me on what they think yet

Also, you probably already answered this but are you doing any kind of tour? I'd definitely go if you did a show anywhere in the region

SCOTT

do you two know each other

Your live in a grimey alleyway got me to listen to the whole album and I don't want to derail that topic so I guess I'll have to necropost. Here comes.

It's good, really good. For the first three and a half songs I thought that this was a postrock album but I'm very glad you proved me wrong. First of all like everyone's been saying, the album cover rules. Second, the overall sound rules. At the times it's very close and intimate with lots of room (of one less light) and then again very cacophonic and overwhelming but still as intimate. Did you do all the engineering, effects, mixing and mastering yourself? Because that's amazing work. Also your drummer's touch rules, many acid jazz DJs would probably die for that beat on of things to come.

Still the album wasn't as good as it looks on paper and as good as it could have been. It flowed on very nicely, but sometimes even too nicely. Like others have said it was a bit repetitive at times but more than that I felt like it was lacking direction. The songs went on but never ended up anywhere. A great example of this is of things to come, which gets a very good start straight from of one less light, goes on to that great beat and gains lots of momentum but in the end nothing happens and all that tension goes to waste. Many of the songs have the same problem, often the finale is marked mainly by going all out dynamically (abrahams ashes) but compositionally nothing much really happens. Those vocals everybody's asking for could help greatly in creating focal points and hooks to fix this. And I definitely want to hear more of your singing.

The math/the aftermath does brilliantly though, and they are together my favorite moment on the album. The math works on the same mellow-BOOM-mellow dynamic but it has a catchy and interesting bass line with a great jamming guitar, some hard-hitting riffing and lots of other interesting points, and that's just the math. Then aftermath kicks in and jeeesus help uus

If I can get an albumful of that I'll buy it right away.

You guys obviously have huge potential. The energy on the whole album is stunning, you mostly play your instruments very well, you seem to have found your own direction and on some songs you hit it the nail on the head with smashing force. You just need to make your next album (or maybe an EP?) a bit more concentrated.

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I also listened to Something Desperate after writing that and it sounded even better. That's exactly the kind of hooks and variation Flight and Falling needed. And taking some more vocals in was definitely the right thing to do, keep on singing.