#21

Garage? HELLO! Let’s get rare.

#22

Another beast! Getting quite hyped for this album.

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#23
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#24

Absolute banger. Seeing them next week too.

#25

Was very kindly given a free promo CD of the new album yesterday in a record shop in town when buying one of their 7"s :smiley:

it’s excellent. hadn’t realised Steve Albini recorded this one, maybe should have been obvious enough from the singles

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#26

stream

http://www.npr.org/2017/09/14/550444874/first-listen-metz-strange-peace

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#27

fwiw i think this is their best album so far

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#28

This is excellent

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#29

yeah it’s good… Metz innit. Will be fun seeing them with Protomartyr tho

#30

Last time I saw them they played with Protomartyr and Idles, good night that.

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#31

This is great, as always. I’m not sure how it ranks with the others yet, and I haven’t fully come around on some of the slower songs yet, but everything keeps getting better and better with each listen. The chorus to “Cellophane” has early Beatles all over it, and the last song coincidentally has a hook very similar to a song on the Wavves album from this year (which I don’t think was ever discussed here?).

I love this band. Whenever I’m done one of their albums it’s hard to listen to anything else after.

#32

Pre-emptively sorry for my slightly snarky upcoming review then :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

#33

As much as I like the last two albums, it feels a bit like there’s a greater depth to this one, for me. Find it easier to listen to again and again. The slower songs break things up nicely I think

#34

Haha it’s ok, I’m a massive Smashing Pumpkins fan so my skin has become thick over the past 20 years. I definitely understand potential criticisms of this album though, I had / still have some, but today it finally started clicking and felt less like they were rewriting The Swimmer and Knife in the Water. Being incredibly sleep deprived and having had too much coffee helped (pretty much the ideal Metz listening conditions, short of throwing “driving to a job you hate” on top of them.)

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#35

I gave up halfway through it as it just sounds like Blink 182 again

#36

As in, still a fan of current Pumpkins?

Don’t get me wrong, I like the new METZ album and Albini’s production is excellent, it’s just as you’ve touched on, they haven’t progressed loads (and borrow from Nirvana HEAVILY)

#37

I liked it based on first listen. Might take a few more to really sink in. I liked it better than their last album, which I thought ran out of steam quickly.

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#38

Yeah it’s def better than II

#39

Yeah, probably a topic for another thread since I can write volumes on this, but I think his post-reunion output gets treated unfairly for the most part, Oceania and Zeitgeist especially. (Not to say there aren’t valid criticisms - new vocal style, vocals pushed up front, phoned in lyrics in the case of Monuments, etc.). But even back with Adore and Machina (and even Mellon Collie) there were some really negative takes that probably took a few years off of my life.

I think we agree actually - it might just be one of those situations where an album gets a different grade whether reviewed on its merit as a standalone album vs. in the context of the band’s history. If this were the first time I had heard them I’d be pretty excited. I definitely would have liked them to have pushed things more, but at the same time it’s still another 30 minutes of METZ doing their thing and until now we’ve only had an hour of that.

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#40

Yeah for sure I’d agree with that. If this album does get new listeners (which it might due to Albini) it could be pretty exciting to new audience, but as it is it’s like “yeah okay, cool, new Metz album that’s der better than the second one, I’d rather have it than not but I’m not going to shout about it necessarily”

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