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the plugs were pushed all the way in! why are my ears still ringing?!

a couple of years ago i went to charles’ house to hear the new wrens album in its near complete form. it was amazing. at one point, charles introduced a song to us as “one of kevin’s” and before he hit play, he proceeded to tell us how talented kevin was and how his contributions to the album were gonna blow us away. it was really sweet. almost immediately after the song began i had to bite my inner cheek to keep my composure in front of the other people in the studio. it was sooooo good. i wrote this in a little gummer chat the next day…. https://i.ibb.co/GPgxxHX/88-F90-DDC-DBF6-4627-BCB3-9619-F6-A52-B51.jpg https://i.ibb.co/LkbpqGK/C1-EAE201-1-C70-4419-BDBC-80-C2976-EB65-E.jpg anyway, it didn’t enter the world the way i’d imagined, and it definitely sounds a bit different now, but it’s here and it’s still beautiful. i feel so bad for the wrens fans like bloccy, but i mostly feel for charles and kevin. they were buds and they obviously respected the hell out of each other. hopefully, they’ll push through it and figure something out down the road because god damn….they sounded great together. anyway - just yesterday, i found out about its release by AS, so this is me adding it to my year end list. it could have easily topped the list had things played out differently but here we are. life, am i right?

y'all are missing my point - i'd love to own ANY of his basses, but the hofner is the only one that should be pulling that kind of loot. paul and his hof are like thor and his hammer...michael jackson and his weird glove...burt reynolds and mustaches.

funk trader?

right??? such a fucking jam. why didn’t they put that on amnesiac instead of morning bell 2? #bestbandintheworldproblems

😍 they must have just gotten added to the bill!!! my earplugs are gettin a workout on thursday oh boiiiiiii

agreed, but pm is known for a very specific bass guitar and a yamaha it is not. few musicians are associated with a specific brand of instrument more than pauly and his hof. only other beatle bass i’d want would be the fender vi. but hey, i don’t have 500k laying around anyway so what the fuck do i know. at least the cash went to charity!

great point. it definitely deserves to be the most expensive bass ever. i’m sure the finance douche that dropped his november paycheck on it will have a blast showing it to prostitutes for yeeeeeeears to come!

he’ll probably pay 2 mill for eddie van halen’s ibanez acoustic next

if i'm dropping half a mill on one of mccartney's basses, it ain't gonna be the fucking yamaha. i guarantee that whoever bought it is a complete knob. i don't know why this news makes me so angry, but it ruined my day.

hey dude! yeah, i'm back for now but i may not last long - going to see blood incantation/primitive man/withered with spud on thursday. i may finally melt.

lol neither did i

i usually try to keep them separate too, but who the fuck has the energy anymore? such an odd year...back on track in '22 though, right? right?!? sigh...

it got to me the first time i listened to it, and it still gets me every time. the rest of the album is just ok for me, but i absolutely love that jam

1. deafheaven - mombasa 2. war on drugs - living proof 3. beach house - superstar 4. portrayal of guilt - my immolation 5. hand habits - more than love 6. ethereal shroud - chasmal fires 7. shame - snow day 8. witch vomit - necrometamorphosis 9. squid - narrator 10. idles - crawl bonus: radiohead - if you say the word (my actual soty, even though it's 20 years old. imagine being so good you could just sit on a gem like this for 20 years? must be nice)

maybe he lost respect for them when they nominated drake for grammy

i would have named the band BAAB

not who we are as a band. OUR band shits in your ears.

rascal

i like them because they sound like all the best bits of my other favorite bands crammed into one. spud - they played at vitus last week and we totally fucking blew it. we need to get back on our game.