One of their finer statements this year, WALLS is an album which you listen when seated on your favourite couch, drinking hot coffee on a cold winter night, all by yourself. Their decision to go stripped down is a right one, with amazing ambient guitar leads, a sense of loud and quiet, and after all, pleasant listen. One of my favorites this year !!!
I love that Caleb wears his crucifix. His voice and talent is God-given. This band knows how to hit people's souls. Very special. God Bless you all ❤🙏🏽
Awesome, awesome songs on this album but the production feels hemmed in and compressed. Every song played live has a grit and a scope the album doesn't. Isn't it the same producer as Mumford & S last album. That also sounds awesome live and tinny on the record. I feel like if a single blow hard who still bangs on about the first two records heard any of these tunes played live - they'd shut up pretty quick. These guys don't know how to fail. I just wish they hadn't worried about getting it on the radio and gone for such clean, boring production. Still can't wait to see em live again on the next tour
thchruan you are right about wanting to get in the radio although they never expected sex on fire to get big it was just written as a joke and wasn't even supposed to make it on the album minus sex on fire and people wouldn't complain too much use somebody is a great song!!
you CAPTURED EXACTLY what I was unable to express. I heard songs for the first time from their WALL album on their Friday concert here in West Palm. and man it sounded amazing, as always. but when i heard it on the track...it felt tinny especially for find me. his vocals were too low, they need to up the vocals, or add more chorus to it on track. either way they are amazing. KOL is THE only artist I have EVER even bothered to see. my first concert in 2010 i believe and my second concert EVER was again...KOL. worth every cent. They bumped up all the ...on stage theatrics which shows some great progress from last concert I was at. again..that is not what is important, but it did make the show kick ass.
Sadly the album as a whole is like a 6/10 max. Nearly every chorus is monotonous and considering the amount of times they decide to sing the chorus in every song it feels like it's on a loop. Over should have been a great song but it's dragged out so much you can't wait for it to end. Stand out song is Muchacho without a moments hesitation. Reverend and Walls aren't bad tracks but the package is a big let down. I'm beginning to think it's not that they don't want to make music like their first three albums, it's that they simply can't.
To be fair, you are kinda right. The rough and edgy on-point-vibe is gone. Could be the drugs, the booze or the kids and wives. On the other hand I read several interviews that they wanted to change their sound. I think they wanna become some kind of pop/country/bruce springsteen/nashville-is-so-proud-of-you-act and I guess you can’t achieve that status with 2-minutes-long southern garage rock pieces about milk and cocaine. I still love these guys and their music sounds live so good.
I get where you're coming from but I'd have to disagree with you on that. I think they have changed a lot, and that, automatically, reflects on the sound, so yes, WALLS is nothing like their previous albums, but that's actually what I love about it, in a way it's like they've evolved. But that's just my opinion, I could be biased. :)
