The Dear Hunter's new album has a couple tracks that have a structure that feel like one style for the first half, with a different contrasting style closing them out. Two examples are Ring 5 - Middle Class and Ring 3 - Luxury (the music video for that one is just the first half of the song).
I was going to comment the exact same thing - I'd love an album review but, barring that, Ring 3 - Luxury is exactly the music shift he's talking about
Yeah Luxury really kills with the style change. Antimai seems to be getting a lot of hate online but I absolutely love it's sound and shift from the Acts.
Easily my favorite from Colors II. It's an interesting contrast with the first Colors how they actually sit with a section for quite a few bars before moving on to something else.
😍 Absolutely my favorite song from Colors II (Bad Habits a close 2nd). The emotive section you mentioned literally made me cry with tears the first time I heard it. I was thinking it was nostalgia from their earlier works too. Colors II has a lot of throwbacks to their earlier songs and I find it fascinating that they work these ideas into this album. So for me, as a long time diehard BTBAM fan, Colors II is new and not new at the same time. I love everything they do. Thanks for the reaction/analysis and I'm glad you enjoyed it! 😁
this album really has everything. while this song tends to honor their more noticeable style of bouncing around styles, you then get into the two songs ' The Future is Behind us' and 'Turbulent' where this same 5/4 feel is pretty much driving both songs the entire way, giving you time to marinade in it in a more conventional way.
Been listening and watching them live since 2005 with Alaska and I think this is their best album yet. This is really a MUST full listen start to finish. The songs are great on their own but they all fully are one piece. Trust me. You will not regret it. Don't even need to do a reaction just enjoy it fully.
this whole album is amazing and rewards you with new things every time you listen to it. this one has so many interesting things. the 80s van halen drum fills, the old school slam parts, the instrumental part that many refer to as "folk" but I'm not sure what I would call it and my favourite part is probably the way the chorus is structured very weirdly from a lyrical standpoint (the words are emphasized strangely) and the bridge then using the same lyrics but in a more "correct" sounding way which acts as some sort of resolution for the english speaking brain. very fun from start to finish
@@ryanschindler923 Colors II is so much better and well constructed than Colors. Colors was definitely a game-changing album for it's time and the genre while being stepping stone for BTBAM into legendary status, but I'd be willing to say that almost every album after Colors is better than Colors.
@@jwalkblue7 i def would not say that, but it's music so it's subjective. But to me after a certain point they go too techy and notey and seems to lose the riffyness. The Great Misdirect was the last album i really dug into. Like the opening to Prequel to the Sequel is the most amazing opening and to me they've lost those epic riffs and openings like that. But again, it's entirely subjective and down to personal taste. Either way, i'm just happy to see people loving BTBAM.
@@jwalkblue7 talking about construction and composition skills… nothing beats parallax ii. If you take it apart you find close to every motive and rhythmic pattern recurring in another song. Not necessarily whole parts but tiny details not to mention that callback to parallax i in extremophile elite. It’s just amazing how well woven these concepts are. But today is parallax ii, yesterday it was the great misdirect and tomorrow perhaps colors again 😅 the favorite one shifts back and forth
Wasn't super big on this album when it dropped. Tried really hard to like it and now I love it. Listening to the album as a whole really helps every song feel right. I feel that's pretty standard with them now but its been taking me more and more listens since TGM to like their albums but once I do they absolutely hit.
The lyrical analysis of yours is pretty much what I thought of it as well, and it seems to be a prevalent theme in the album. There is a lot of stuff that can be related to conspiracy theories, and funnily enough after the restrictions on public gatherings ended (they couldn't do a tour right after Colors II came out obviously), the first live shows they did was playing in its entirety the complete album from 2009 "The Great Misdirect", which already says a lot of the themes of that particular album.
I still have trouble deciding if this is my favourite from Colors II or if Bad habits is. This is definitely the other epic of this album besides human is hell, and it foster a hell of a lot of emotions. Bad habits is a bit shorter and is a bit more catchier melodywise, but I can't get enough of this song either. They really outdid themselves with this album, and I think this is probably my favourite album from them, even more so than the original colors. I know no one else shares my opinion but I think this album is just written way more tightly and with better production quality, like you pointed out in the beginning
An amazing journey of an album, that for me personally betters the original Colors in any imaginable way. It's definitely a lot more melody forward, the instrumentation is more varied, the production is obviously way better, the guitars and rhythm parts writing is more complex yet catchy and the playing of each member is tighter.
Yeah i think you are spot on about it being about social media. Could just be the internet/society. Also there is a ton of callbacks in the lyrics velvet room, ants of the sky etc.
I finally went through BTBAM's discography last year, but this was before Colors II came out so this was new/fresh to me. I emerged knowing I'd have to give them another listen as it's just a lot to take in. My first thought on this one is how much the opening reminds me of Lamb of God both in the thrashy riffs and in the style of growling that has that super aggressive, but very clear, higher-pitched mode. Of course, being BTBAM I knew there would have to be some wild shifts; while this didn't disappoint in one respect, I'm not completely sold on what it shifted to. Nothing against folk elements in metal, but these just seem rather... pointless? I did like the more melodic directions it went later though... and then I start losing track because, being BTBAM, stuff never stops happening, lol. It's definitely a cool track/pair of tracks, and makes me want to revisit their discography (and hear Colors II) sooner rather than later.
Opeth and BTBAM are nice selections and of course PROG! Changes are expected. How about something Unconventional. Trivium “Departure” off their ascendancy album. It’s American Metal with core, melo-death, and thrash elements. This song in particular has a somewhat conventional radio metal vibe with and thrashy twist after the chorus which leads into straight speed!!! DO IT
Kinda off topic to this track, but curious how you yourself experience music when you're listening critically like this. Is there any synesthesia? Do you conceptualize it spatially, or vibrationally, or thematically? In other words, how do you track all the different layers, instruments, times, etc and the interconnectedness between it all along with the overall structure?
That's a huge question that I'll probably answer in full one day, but it's not synesthesia. I basically compartmentalize ideas by emotion, theme, vibe, spatiality, or reference and later I can open those "folders" when I need to.
@@CriticalReactions I was 20 years old before I discovered that not everybody else had synesthesia...I just thought everyone saw songs and numbers, letters, etc. as having color. A weird conversation ensued. The chorus or whatever you call it in this song is a beautiful cool blue, for example. I have no idea what music is like for everyone else.
Such a good album! Coma ecliptic and automata were good albums, but colors II is so much better. They have out done themselves once again. Glad you dig this chaotic track like the btfam do
Yes to both of those albums, and I’d like to see Bryan do the Automata albums (EPs?) - especially: Gold Distance/Blot, The Proverbial Bellow, Glide/Voice of Trespass!!!
Same but also Revolution in Limbo and The Future Is Behind Us, don’t forget The Double Helix of Extinction and Fix the Error… or think of Human Is Hell (Another One with Love) 😅
