Now that was awesome

I think it really may be a 10/10 song & music video combo.

the covid single and the two songs off the new LP are fucking garbage so far. shame. band looked like they were heading somewhere good with beyondless.

^we'll have to agree to disagree because I think Beyondless was their worst and this is way preferable.

Hard [2] Beyondless was good but it only has two songs that really stood out to me, Plead the Fifth and Catch it. This is better than both. On par with the peaks of Plowing Into the Field of Love.

oh, i agree that Beyondless is their worst. But it looks like they're heading into a more commercial direction, which that LP tackled decently without losing soul. These new songs have bad identity crisis and are tumbling into the worst aspects of Marching Church, long plodding strained craps. The Lord's Favourite will remain the best thing this band did.

Lmao HELL NO. That was their pop single and it's a good song, but they had better tunes as a hardcore band and better tunes all over that album. How Many, Simony, Forever, and the t/t beat it easily.

they're all grand ideas squandered on awkward turns. this band can start a song, but for the life of them, cannot finish it in style. the first two albums are solid, but come on, they're just boilerplate raw post-punk with a hardcore touch. nothing new, been done better since the early 80's.

anyway, all my opinion, of course.

"been done better since the early 80's." By whom?? Seems to me like their blend of those sounds was uniquely their own.

"this band can start a song, but for the life of them, cannot finish it in style." I genuinely don't understand this. The dissonant tinge of the outro of Plowing Into the Field of love is pummeling and epic. Forever's Morricone-esque climax with the trumpet and strings. The almost folkish outro to New Brigade. The brutal wall of chord hits at the end of In Haze.

beyondless is stinky ass compared to this. And first 2 albums are each one of a kind. Tf u on about botulist

Yeah, I feel it's disingenuous to be like "It's been done better" and have no examples, too. And I deep dive into old and new punk pretty often. Groups that mix post punk and hardcore in the flavor of that early Iceage content or even the way Death Index do it are just pretty rare.