Pretty much agree with every dude on that sub Reddit.
And one guy brought up the Pendulum Self vs Self collab. That was a bad ass song. After I heard 6+ years ago that I went back and listened to all of Pendulums songs and unfortunately didn't like them. But that song is awesome. I wish THAT was the direction they would go in for their 2019 album.
And regarding that 2 week demo period for this album. Imagine if they just spent 2 weeks every year doing demos. That would be at least twice as much songwriting time as they have been doing. We'd at least get a SOAPF. Every 6 months take a 1 week off and write and record. 6 months later when you wrote again you'll throw half away, improve what's left, and come up with some new stuff. I know they wrote their early stuff fast but Fredrik was strict and filtered the heck out of it. If they wrote demos early and came back later, they themselves could gain the benefit of objective review.
I'm a big fan of EPs. If all of the last In Flames albums were EPs, condensed and distilled to the core I'd be happier. They don't have enough meat on these bones.
I just wanna quit you, In Flames.
And one guy brought up the Pendulum Self vs Self collab. That was a bad ass song. After I heard 6+ years ago that I went back and listened to all of Pendulums songs and unfortunately didn't like them. But that song is awesome. I wish THAT was the direction they would go in for their 2019 album.
And regarding that 2 week demo period for this album. Imagine if they just spent 2 weeks every year doing demos. That would be at least twice as much songwriting time as they have been doing. We'd at least get a SOAPF. Every 6 months take a 1 week off and write and record. 6 months later when you wrote again you'll throw half away, improve what's left, and come up with some new stuff. I know they wrote their early stuff fast but Fredrik was strict and filtered the heck out of it. If they wrote demos early and came back later, they themselves could gain the benefit of objective review.
I'm a big fan of EPs. If all of the last In Flames albums were EPs, condensed and distilled to the core I'd be happier. They don't have enough meat on these bones.
I mean, if I was going to stop giving a shit about them it would have been after Siren Charms. I really can't imagine they will ever go any lower than that. Admittedly, I remember thinking similar after STYE and ASOP... but still, objectively, Siren Charms really is bottom of the barrel. It would be really hard for them to make anything I would hate more. I'd take an album of songs based around The Truth's sound than another Siren Charms.
