![]() ![]() Lacey's voice has never been this amazing. I'd say the strongest point of the record is guitarist Vin Accardi's ability to take these total pop riffs and transform them to incredibly depressing echoes of faults, in the same way Jesse Lacey has taken his absolutely magnificent voice and uses it to do nothing but depress you.Īnd he does it well. The band has written some great hooks here, but adding a violin to the introduction of the standout, "You Won't Know," gives this riff a sense of haunting urgency. This is a record that is even better when listened to on headphones. The music that did make the cut takes equal influence from the successful `90s alt-rock/grunge formula, as well as the post-hardcore disregard for standard verse-chorus-verse structure, and the most minute but brilliant of production decisions. I'm sure if the band likes the unused songs, we'll hear them sometime. However, this is the exact reason why it's a bad thing that demos leak from here on out, people will argue what they wish the album would have been instead of what it is, and creates really wasted arguments on subject matter that has no relevance anymore. ![]() It's fantastic and would be an instant classic.if it weren't for the few times it turns around and falls completely on it's face.įirst, let's start off with the inevitable argument of "what demos should and should not have been on the album." Personally, I was hoping to see the first one on here. And it's a strange album to listen to, because most of the time it is 100% amazing. So now we have the finished product of The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me. And for months there were rumors about album titles, lyrics from bootleg videos on YouTube, and what Jesse Lacey had eaten for breakfast that morning. But it was something new from the band (who seems to get bigger for every second they ignore their fans). And then some demos leaked and people screamed (typed) at the top of their lungs (fingers).that they weren't really sure how they felt about them yet. I was left wondering, "Well, that was good it'll be interesting to see how they can take this total transformation and manage to try and top it."Īnd so I waited with what seemed like the rest of the world for this new record. However, when it comes down to it, I found quite a few songs on the record to be skippable, while all the good ones were really, really great. I really loved it at first, simply because the band had taken an all-new direction and really created this strange amalgam of musical styles. Sad Milk Collective: & patreon.When Brand New's sophomore effort Deja Entendu came out, there was an incredible amount of hype behind it. Under the Covers with Jake "the Snake" Foster: Sad Milk Collective: & /sadmilkcollective Today with Brad, Jon, Jake, and guest Patrick Auclair! It's still one of the best sounding albums of the time, but we can't ignore the skeletons if they're not in the closet anymore, and we decided it would be better to talk about it! Knowing that the shame felt throughout "The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me" was because he finally realized how fundamentally screwed up he was for the abhorrent things he did changed how I will listen to this album forever. With the context of knowing Jesse Lacey gaslit and solicited nude photos from underage girls in the early 2000s, the art, which is largely biographical, changed. The music landscape involved countless variations on the "woe is me" trope, complete with nautical themes, and many wrote directly about experiences with depression and shame. In the early 2000s, 'emo' music was all about being as emotional and in your face about it as possible. But some write from a very personal place, pouring out a journal on top of their music. Some lyricists don't put much of their personal lives into their work and their lyrics can stand on their own merit. Sometimes, it's very east to separate the two. Today we have a very frank discussion about the difficulties of separating the art from the artist. Just a small trigger warning, we are going to be talking about predatory behavior towards minors and although we try not to get graphic, we are discussing real world events about the lead singer, Jesse Lacey, and their impact on the lyrics on this album, some of which, with the context of the victims stories, can come across as disturbing. It's the end of Inspector 34 month and we have none other than Patrick Auclair, guitarist & pedal operator of the band, and today we have a very special episode with some heavier-than-usual content. ![]()
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