Slightly unrelated but I've always wondered why Catfish and the Bottlemen always end the last song on their albums abruptly in the middle of a line :lol:

 

And this is also the last track on the album!

Boo at the album being pushed back.

 

Woo at them continuing to deliver excellent singles. 4/4 now. This one is the least instant of the 4 for me so far but I can already tell that it's very likely to grow on me more.

Just as good live as always!

 

 

STONKS

 

anyway everyone listen to Re-Animator~ Big Climb and Black Hyena are instant standouts, and some of the Radiohead-esque slower cuts like It Was a Monstering. Violent Sun has quickly become my favourite of the singles too

And it's charted at #5! It's also their first release on an independent label, so that's even more impressive!

Didn’t realise they were on an independent label, would that be why radio 1 were slow to playlist then?

As I was hoping from how much I loved all of the singles this is definitely a contender to be my album of the year. The only song that sticks out as a low point is 'Moonlight' (it's a nice enough song but definitely filler) - 'Big Climb' and 'Lost Powers' are both top tier anthems in particular, also absolutely love the heavy guitars in the second half of 'Lord Of The Trapdoor', and 'It Was A Monstering' is a brilliant more lowkey moment on the album (definitely quite heavy on the Thom Yorke/Radiohead influence as many have pointed out but that's no bad thing). My biggest gripe on here is the kind of weird echo effect on the vocals of 'The Actor' which brings down what might otherwise have been one of the best album tracks to being one of the weakest ones (still liking it a lot even so though).

 

I didn't realise until recently that they had gone independent for this album, that does probably explain why Radio 1 didn't support them as heavily as usual this era. Thrilled they were able to get another top 5 album anyway though (and I imagine they probably made more money from album sales this time than their previous albums under a label even though it was a lower sales number lol ~)

I’m still learning about this album with each listen it starts and ends amazingly but in between I get a bit bored but as I say there’s plenty of time for me to let it grow!

Black Hyena video came out yesterday!

 

Nice to have a new track to listen to in January from the album!

It's not a new song... :P

Il explain myself better then, it will be added to my on the go list on the new year as the next single!

Foals remix of 'Big Climb' out this week!

 

'Supernormal' B-Side 'Mercury and Me' for Record Store Day was released everywhere yesterday!