Re: If this was the next album, where would it rank for you?
i really like the vast majority of the newest stuff, with the exception of be yourself. a more laid back, melancholy, reflective, somber, fall/winter-feeling album would be just fine with me. of course they need to capture their sound the way they did in the 90s for it ever to really resonate with me. literally nothing since BTCS has sounded right to me from a recording perspective and that includes BW which is too slick for me and AFTW which to me, sounds like its trying to be something its not. Much of AFTW sounds hollow and sparse, even unemotional, like how busted stuff sounds to me.... never is that more true then on bbn, the riff and if only which simply do not sound right to me. the nuance and layering of their previous work has not been captured again, even by 2012 lillywhite. regardless, if they somehow were able to record DotHS, B&BB, bismarck, samurai, virginia, bob law, here on out, in a manner similar to the way they recorded in the 90s, with more passion and emotion than what they did with AFTW, i would really love it. i also happen to really agree with the lyrical content of a lot of those songs. my two cents.
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