fickle friends - you are someone else (2018)

https://open.spotify.com/album/73nS1mA0WtUzBHzFhG3D5g

This has made it to #9 in the UK charts this week and I think the best way to describe it is as some form of bradnelson fanfiction? Mike Crossey, the 1975's producer, is at the helm; they're a five-piece band from Brighton who like shimmering guitars and slap bass, and write mostly about about the way relationships drift in and out of focus. The timbre of singer Natassja Shiner's voice sits somewhere in a Venn Diagram that also includes those of Allie X, Carly Rae Jepsen and MUNA's Katie Gavin.

It's a long album at 16 songs but then so was the 1975's debut and that's what this album reminds me of most of all - that or perhaps what Betty Who's debut album might've been.

wait this sounds amazing

"Swim" sounds halfway between the last two Paramore albums

This is, mostly, very very good. I first heard them last year (when Glue came out) and have dug nearly all of the EP tracks and remixes. Favourite from the album is probably Heartbroken. A little disappointed that Vanilla didn't make it on.

the best way to describe it is as some form of bradnelson fanfiction?

I'm interested

xxp: "is this Paramore?!?" was first thing my bf said when I put this on at home the other day.

Yeah this is good stuff. It starts to wears thin in the second half of the record but the first half is killer

yeah the album is pretty enjoyable. a bit longer than it really needs to be but that's not much of an issue

This is like the Young Galaxy to The 1975’s Studio.

otm^^^

feels like "say no more" came out 100000 years ago so i'm surprised it made the album (actually it seems like everything they've ever released made the album)

but i like them and think they're good!

lol yeah i got to "say no more" in the album sequence and i'm like "wow is it three years ago suddenly." i kinda hate this Assemblage approach to albums but it's not like any songs here are bad it's just i have a hard time forming a relationship to the """album"""

I suppose I've been rewarded for not keeping up as I hadn't heard anything before the album was released. I understand though that they did re-record many of the older songs for the album (again - another parallel with the 1975). Some muscle seems to have been added to the guitar in "Swim" in particular.

Anyway I have a favourite new song every other day - today it's the desperate mania of "Bite"

New EP is fun mostly for "Not In The Mood" and "Cosmic Coming of Age" - the other tracks are good too though the way the chorus in "Turns Me Bad" refers to losing "my school of thought" is distracting (though if the lyricist literally means that then... woah).