C/D : The Gaslight Anthem

you guys are getting me excited

whoa, this sounds perfect. there's a tone to his voice i haven't heard before from him - there's this emotional urgency that's implicit in all his songs but never really released like this

I have a hunch what you hear in his voice is him in the hands of a capitol P producer, but hopefully Brendan O'Brien will be pretty sympathetic throughout.

is ted hutt not a capital P producer

i mean i know brendan o'brien is big shit poppin and all i'm just not sure i understand the distinction

Well, Hutt has stuck pretty much within the same range - blue collar punk/pop-ish stuff, with the occasional horns in Lucero or I guess the Bosstones (right?). But Brendan O'Brien has produced several huge, arena-filling bands with a much bigger, wider musical range. He seems like a go-to guy when a band wants to make a step up. Hutt seems like the Side One Dummy in-house guy.

anyone have an mp3 of this btw? can't find one right now

oh man do i fuck w this song

NEED MP3 HALP

http://t.co/hLudePya

tybg

WHOA. The single's out! I am a sucker for this.

this song is ridic

I'm sayin

a-aayyyyyyyyyyyyy

this leak?

i wish. i mean idk, but i just bumped because '45' is dope

THE TICK, TICKING OF HOURS

^best part of song

sounds great on the radio

i'm invested in this band like i haven't been since like, of montreal's peak
/corny

ahem

http://www.npr.org/2012/07/10/156551726/first-listen-the-gaslight-anthem-handwritten#playlist

oh shit thanks for the heads up

attn: sarge, hoos, ships, mords

xp np!

i'm no devil / but i've got things on my mind

Flying out to Boston to interview this lot later today. Anything anyone wants asking?

"What does Brian Fallon's wife think about the fact that there is always a vicious female antagonist in each of his songs?"

Cheers.

"What does Brian Fallon's wife think about the fact that there is always a vicious female antagonist in each of his songs?"

Cheers.
--sam b

He's said before that he "almost got married" at a really young age and I've sorta taken that figure as "the wife of my youth," character that causes so much heart trouble in song, but yeah that dynamic has to be interesting.

Saw them last night btw. Mix of stuff from Sink Or Swim on up to a couple off handwritten. Great show.

listening to Gaslight Anthem and after one song ended before the next started my son went "more!" like he does when he wants another episode of Sesame Street

haha aw

have to say apart from a few highlights this isn't really knocking my socks off - i was hoping '45' hinted at a return to some of the raucous uptempo stuff from the 59 sound, but most of this is in the vein of the more midtempo joints off american slang, which initially underwhelmed (but which i eventually came around to)

if there was any change between the avg tempos or energy level from 59 Sound to American Slang i didn't notice it tbh -- looking forward to the new one

I am anticipating this album

I will ask about vicious female antagonists.

Both of the last two were great. '59 Sound's highs were a little higher for me than American Slang's. Splitting hairs though.

xpost Good question, said Fallon. He's put it to her before. She doesn't mind, apparently.

Ha! Awesome.

I got really excited after the first two songs but after that this is another boring album. Too much stodgy midpaced chunter and they're just not very good at it.

The cover of Sliver is completely redundant when Nirvana's exists, not that they try to do anything different to it.

This album sounds like ... the Gaslight Anthem. But it's less ambitious than the last one, musically, and at times almost comes off lazy in its pat chord progressions and lyrical themes/crutches.

xpost Matt - I interviewed the Vaccines the other day and put to them your contention, after their second single, that you preferred their early stuff. They thought that was uproarious. Yes, I take all my questions from ILX posts.

this is sort of where i figured they'd be musically by now

sorta their "stay positive," last hurrah of their established style and themes before they need to evolve or stagnate

they did howl at the show friday night and people lost their minds at it

'national anthem' is almost like 'devils n dust'-y bruce, kick in the chest even if "she screams i promised her more than this" is a hair over the line

i really like the production here, putting the vocals a little deeper in

makes them sound more idk

polished

sorta their "stay positive,"

i had this exact thought

ew don't bring up that band

haha i'm still waiting on your "this is why gaslight is better" essay

"keepsake" almost makes me think of nickelback, the atmospheric elements of their stuff that isn't as awful as their actual songs

yeah, shit, this record is gonna grow on me a lot.

I wish I liked these guys more. I respect what they are doing but it doesn't move me.

last hurrah of their established style and themes before they need to evolve or stagnate

See, I hear the first glimmers of stagnation, and in fact I even hear a little bit of retrenchment after the likes of "The Diamond Church Street Choir" and "The Queen of Lower Chelsea," but I do have to give the new album more time. For the first time ever, I'm not sure it was a good decision to bury the vocals a bit.