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artist:brand new
album:daisy
i have been putting this particular album off all year. if you noticed, i blew through the first three brand new albums within the first month (i believe) of starting this project, but i just didn't know what i wanted to say about this disk, so i kind of kept it off to the side, just waiting til i was ready.
to be honest, i still don't know exactly what to say about this album. i remember the day it leaked and how excited i was. i got a text from Chris, immediately texted Nicole and begged her to dl it for me, and then left a family party at jay and stephs to run to Nicole's and pick it up. i couldn't wait any longer-i needed this album.
i got into my car to go back to jay and steph's and put the disk in my CD player, and my initial reaction was "what the hell is this shit?" it was so not what i was expecting, and i knew that it wasn't going to be, but i didn't like what i was hearing. it was noise and distortion and yelling and not in the way that i like these things. it sounded like anger on a plastic disk.
i kept listening anyway.
i texted Chris after i heard it and said "i don't know if i like this?!" and his response was "you like it. its brand new. of course you like it. keep listening." so that's exactly what i did. i kept listening. i listened and listened and tried to convince myself that i liked what i was listening to. i remember talking to Cherie about it and her telling me that both she and Jason were terribly unimpressed, and my exact words to her were "i forced myself to like it. it grows on you, just keep listening." her argument was that she didn't want to have to force herself to like anything, which is a valid point.
i always said that Jesse Lacey could record himself shitting in a bucket for 45 minutes and call it a record and it would still be my favorite thing ever. this album is the musical equivalent of that, and i was wrong. i don't love it.
it has its moments. there are a few songs on there that i like. there are lyrics that i like blended with music that grates on my eardrums, and vice versa. i always find myself wondering if its an album i would like if it had been released by another band. that question's answer always flips back and forth, but lately the answer is yes, i think i would.
that's could change again in an instant, though.
I have a lot of mixed feelings about this album too... each previous album has been so different, I guess, and has meant something different to me personally. When I first heard this cd I was going through a rough time and I guess it was good for that, but it sort of fell out of favor with me as I got over stuff. There are still a few songs I listen to but mostly I just can't relate anymore. I think if I had heard it a few years earlier it would have meant something different to me.
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