lewis
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Thanks bro!Exactly! Haha good luck to you and your band.
I will be sure to share our first single/lyric video on here when its done.
(hopefully within the next 2 months)
Thanks bro!Exactly! Haha good luck to you and your band.
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we are in the same dilemma in my band.
We are recording our debut release that only has 5 songs (at around the 30 odd min mark), initially it was obvious to us to call it an E.P BUT, the recording/mixing etc is coming out sounding at a standard much higher than anticipated, we now are debating calling it an album instead.
plus "Debut Album" sounds better in marketing. Hmmm. More thinking needed haha
we are literally "new lineup" mate (working behind the scenes for months), so the first thing on our youtube will be our first single's lyric video when its done.It is not only me, i have seen a video of Ola Englund where he says the same: As a newcomer, do NOT release an album, do not release an EP either, just one song at a time, and watch the reactions on youtube. i would not buy an EP by a newcomer band, except i could stream it on bandcamp first. just my. Hey Lewis where is your band on youtube? gonna check you out ASAP.
As a HUGE fan of Altered State & previously total hater of Polaris, I wanted to chime in both in regard to their albums and live shows (just saw them in Berkeley a couple nights ago).
Sonder really grew on me. To the point that I went back & re-visited Polaris. Upon doing so, I realized something. Polaris is actually pretty great, save for a couple really horrible tracks that totally ruin it. If Dystopia and Utopia were both removed from the album I would have loved it right off the bat. Kind of like the first minute of King. The first minute is just awful but the rest of the song is SO good! Ugh. This band stresses me out haha.
As for their live show, I was lucky enough to see them perform with Ashe twice and I've gotta say, Ashe is a better live performer. He puts more energy into his vocal performance than his stage performance, which is what it seems Dan prefers to do. Ashe was pretty much flawless live & sang all of the more difficult harmonies. Dan awkwardly runs around all over the place, making lame gestures while singing the easier harmony along with the backing track the whole set. Super lame and boring. I'm gonna go out on a limb & say there's a pretty good chance he lip synced all of the screams during the set, too. It's possible I'm wrong, and I hope I am, but there were for sure a couple moments you could hear a scream loud and clear when the mic was nowhere near his mouth for a brief moment. I know he's been sick, so maybe it was just to help him out in that regard.
All of that aside, I still love the band and because of Sonder, will not pass up Polaris next time I come across it on vinyl.
As a HUGE fan of Altered State & previously total hater of Polaris, I wanted to chime in both in regard to their albums and live shows (just saw them in Berkeley a couple nights ago).
Sonder really grew on me. To the point that I went back & re-visited Polaris. Upon doing so, I realized something. Polaris is actually pretty great, save for a couple really horrible tracks that totally ruin it. If Dystopia and Utopia were both removed from the album I would have loved it right off the bat. Kind of like the first minute of King. The first minute is just awful but the rest of the song is SO good! Ugh. This band stresses me out haha.
As for their live show, I was lucky enough to see them perform with Ashe twice and I've gotta say, Ashe is a better live performer. He puts more energy into his vocal performance than his stage performance, which is what it seems Dan prefers to do. Ashe was pretty much flawless live & sang all of the more difficult harmonies. Dan awkwardly runs around all over the place, making lame gestures while singing the easier harmony along with the backing track the whole set. Super lame and boring. I'm gonna go out on a limb & say there's a pretty good chance he lip synced all of the screams during the set, too. It's possible I'm wrong, and I hope I am, but there were for sure a couple moments you could hear a scream loud and clear when the mic was nowhere near his mouth for a brief moment. I know he's been sick, so maybe it was just to help him out in that regard.
All of that aside, I still love the band and because of Sonder, will not pass up Polaris next time I come across it on vinyl.
Yeah, it seems like the version of Tesseract with Dan as the vocalist really likes to ride the line between greatness and butt rock / nu-metal. Those two tracks are just too cringe worthy. I just realized Hexes has a real shitty part in the middle of the song, too. Tourniquet, on the other hand, is beautiful imo & represents the more subdued parts of Sonder which I actually really enjoy after a few listens.That's too funny. Those are two of my favorite tracks on that album. I would remove "Tourniquet" in a heart beat though.
Yeah, it seems like the version of Tesseract with Dan as the vocalist really likes to ride the line between greatness and butt rock / nu-metal. Those two tracks are just too cringe worthy. I just realized Hexes has a real shitty part in the middle of the song, too. Tourniquet, on the other hand, is beautiful imo & represents the more subdued parts of Sonder which I actually really enjoy after a few listens.
That's too funny. Those two and Tourniquet are my three favorite tracks on that album.That's too funny. Those are two of my favorite tracks on that album. I would remove "Tourniquet" in a heart beat though.
That's too funny. Those are two of my favorite tracks on that album. I would remove "Tourniquet" in a heart beat though.
That's too funny. Those two and Tourniquet are my three favorite tracks on that album.
As a HUGE fan of Altered State & previously total hater of Polaris, I wanted to chime in both in regard to their albums and live shows (just saw them in Berkeley a couple nights ago).
Sonder really grew on me. To the point that I went back & re-visited Polaris. Upon doing so, I realized something. Polaris is actually pretty great, save for a couple really horrible tracks that totally ruin it. If Dystopia and Utopia were both removed from the album I would have loved it right off the bat. Kind of like the first minute of King. The first minute is just awful but the rest of the song is SO good! Ugh. This band stresses me out haha.
Yeah, I'm super luke-warm on One as well but a lot of people lose their minds over that one haha.I was a latecomer to Polaris, but it's right up there with Altered State in terms of the band's best work in my opinion. Meanwhile, I'm not a big fan of One (especially the vocals), but lots of folks really seem to like that one.
I guess we all have different visions of what this band should be, haha.
I'm kinda the same way. I like One, but I don't find it to be anything mind blowing. Altered State it still my favorite by far.Yeah, I'm super luke-warm on One as well but a lot of people lose their minds over that one haha.
Great album. I really love Juno.Absolutely nothing new to add here, just wanted to show some love for Sonder.