IT'S OUT IT'S OUT OH MY GOD
I PICKED IT UP ON MY WAY HOME FROM CLASS
IT'S SO PRETTY, DO YOU GUYS SEE THE ART
There's a 20-minute songggg on it, I'm so excited
Topic: 🌊 [DISCUSSION] We Excavate (Read 1325 Times)
Posted: Feb 09 2003, 03:32 PM
Throw yourself over me,
Shroud me from the truth.
Pull me over you,
Hide yourself from rebuke.
Shroud me from the truth.
Pull me over you,
Hide yourself from rebuke.
Posted: Feb 09 2003, 03:34 PM
I was literally about to make a thread. Thank God there's a Sam Goody not three miles from me. Got my coffee, got my headphones, gonna listen now.
"Many years are nothing more than flashes of dark and light
As black holes make galaxies something bigger in the night."
As black holes make galaxies something bigger in the night."
Posted: Feb 09 2003, 04:42 PM
Wow.
Wow.
That was an experience. Each song was its own world. A different section of the sea. United by the sound of that synth, and carried by the bass like the bass was the true narrator.
"Oxen of the Sea" drenched me in mystery, only for "We Excavate" to zap me with lightning bolts of clarity. The vocal duets halfway through were such a highlight, that was Queen-like perfection. What can't this band do?
"The Lonely Seas" washed me over, refreshed me, took me on a journey, cheered me up, and "Already Out of Breath" gave me unadulterated beauty, I feel like Sunsetters took me by the hand and showed me the extravagant expanse of the natural ocean, colorful fish soaring in the distance, kelp forests stretching as far as the eye can see, and a whale as large as a mountain barely visible, shadowed, on the horizon.
"The Sinking Song" brought back the mystery, brought back the danger. A Doppelganger... the dangers of symmetry... and excellent riffs.
"Siren of the Abyss" gave me a moment to breathe, which I sorely needed, I realized I was dripping with sweat by this point, the music had been carrying me!
And then "Lowest Point." This is a song we are going to be talking about for YEARS. It has everything! EvERYTHING! It has the BEST riffs, the BEST melodies, it is HARD ROCK! It has the most FRAGILE, SADDEST moments! We went from titans under the sea to some godly breakup in the SAME SONG. I honestly had to stop myself from crying at times, the breakup stuff hit me hard, but I had to focus, I can't just CRY when I'm listening to the new Sunsetters album, I need to PAY ATTENTION!
But then comes "In the Sunken Blue."
They ended us on a hit. This has to play on the radio. They HAVE to talk to the label about that. Because "In the Sunken Blue" is so steady, it's like a dub beat over a Depeche Mode song. I didn't want it to end. I didn't want this ALBUM to end. It's so different from Summer Sucks, but it has the same talent to it, clearly.
I need tolisten to this more. I need to study the lyrics. I need to.. I need to work on an essay that's due tomorrow, oh shit. I DON'T WANT TO WRITE, ALL I WANT IS SUNSETTERS
Wow.
That was an experience. Each song was its own world. A different section of the sea. United by the sound of that synth, and carried by the bass like the bass was the true narrator.
"Oxen of the Sea" drenched me in mystery, only for "We Excavate" to zap me with lightning bolts of clarity. The vocal duets halfway through were such a highlight, that was Queen-like perfection. What can't this band do?
"The Lonely Seas" washed me over, refreshed me, took me on a journey, cheered me up, and "Already Out of Breath" gave me unadulterated beauty, I feel like Sunsetters took me by the hand and showed me the extravagant expanse of the natural ocean, colorful fish soaring in the distance, kelp forests stretching as far as the eye can see, and a whale as large as a mountain barely visible, shadowed, on the horizon.
"The Sinking Song" brought back the mystery, brought back the danger. A Doppelganger... the dangers of symmetry... and excellent riffs.
"Siren of the Abyss" gave me a moment to breathe, which I sorely needed, I realized I was dripping with sweat by this point, the music had been carrying me!
And then "Lowest Point." This is a song we are going to be talking about for YEARS. It has everything! EvERYTHING! It has the BEST riffs, the BEST melodies, it is HARD ROCK! It has the most FRAGILE, SADDEST moments! We went from titans under the sea to some godly breakup in the SAME SONG. I honestly had to stop myself from crying at times, the breakup stuff hit me hard, but I had to focus, I can't just CRY when I'm listening to the new Sunsetters album, I need to PAY ATTENTION!
But then comes "In the Sunken Blue."
They ended us on a hit. This has to play on the radio. They HAVE to talk to the label about that. Because "In the Sunken Blue" is so steady, it's like a dub beat over a Depeche Mode song. I didn't want it to end. I didn't want this ALBUM to end. It's so different from Summer Sucks, but it has the same talent to it, clearly.
I need tolisten to this more. I need to study the lyrics. I need to.. I need to work on an essay that's due tomorrow, oh shit. I DON'T WANT TO WRITE, ALL I WANT IS SUNSETTERS
Throw yourself over me,
Shroud me from the truth.
Pull me over you,
Hide yourself from rebuke.
Shroud me from the truth.
Pull me over you,
Hide yourself from rebuke.
Posted: Feb 09 2003, 04:49 PM
[MrMonochrome's first impressions of the album]
"Many years are nothing more than flashes of dark and light
As black holes make galaxies something bigger in the night."
As black holes make galaxies something bigger in the night."
Posted: Feb 09 2003, 04:57 PM
my CD case has a big crack on it :( but the CD works!
Regards, The Trench Runner
Posted: Feb 09 2003, 05:11 PM
oh Elsie your voice is heavenly...
does anyone know what "Enki" is?
does anyone know what "Enki" is?
Posted: Feb 09 2003, 05:18 PM
After the sensory overload of Summer Sucks, this feels like a total brain-massage. The tone colors are downright cohesive. I wasn't totally sure if this album would really sound like 'water' or not, but there's a downward-trending mood, right from the word "go," then there's this flow upward and down through the middle of the album, and we end up washed over with calm. And that bass. Oh mama. Paul is groovin.
Posted: Feb 09 2003, 05:20 PM
my CD case has a big crack on it :( but the CD works!
lololol that sucks, the album just came out and already that precious physical media is failing you. *salutes your CD case* fare thee well, thou stern sentinel of the world of flesh. the digital world is replacing you, for thou art obsolete.
seek thou the speckled church known to some as kazaa, my friends. you all could have been listening to the excavate a week ago.
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Posted: Feb 09 2003, 05:33 PM
kazaa
the excavate
Oh my god lmao. You mean that crusty 128kbps atrocity? That wasn't even Sunsetters, that was a hoax.
Posted: Feb 09 2003, 05:36 PM
a hoax? says who? it sounds like sunsetters to me.
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