BRAND NEW - THE DEVIL AND GOD ARE RAGING INSIDE ME
My, my, Surprise Suprise emo is dead (DUH)... So if Deja Entendu was the epic emo album then this is............ Jesse Lacey being introspective/analogical to the most extreme... emo janai ;)
DUDEEE this is a far break away from Brand New okayyyyy!!!
So... did they all just grow up? Grow Old? MELLOWED? or what.........?
So when i downloaded the demos 6-9 months ago, they were well, demos.. Some very solid songs in it to add to that (especially tracks 1-3 and 5). Well, the songs in the demos were bare, just the guitar and vocals, the usual stuff, no purcussions (except for song 2 actually which did not appear on the album btw)... But you know, the usual sound and style of what a demo is....
loooooo and BEHOLDDDDD.........
dude... the album was the same!!
really... The songs were quite bare, very stripped, and the vocals were very hollow too like a demo you know! It's almost like a Brand New quasi-acoustic album, seriously.
So the pattern of the album is this:
1) The song is either entirely mellow and slow or....
2) the song starts of mellow like every other song, then in the middle it breaks into the usual angry Jesse style with loud guitars, screaming and purcussions... brilliant i must say, especially in the opening song and first single Sowing Season. But then, c'mon Jesse, that trick grows old after the same mellow start off into a crescendo of sounds in the middle is repeated in three four other songs.
So.... what can I say about this album?
Funny thing is that my iTunes loads the new songs before the songs of The Holiday EP... And so after every song from the new album finishes it goes on to "Logan To Government Center" demo from the Holiday EP and my goshhhhhhhhh... the difference in the styles and sounds of Brand New from The Holiday EP to The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me is just astounding. As far apart as the earth is to heaven so is the difference between what Brand New was, and what Brand New has become today.
I'm really really curious as to how Jesse would translate these songs to the live versions and DAMN that's one thing I won't get to see anymore. HELL.
But really, I am very curious cause many of these songs are so mellow, you can't play a 45 minute - 1 hour set with just these songs... dudeee where's the energy for the pit gonna come from??? I don't think just Jesse's good looks are sufficient to do the trick!
GET SOWING SEASON HERE
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