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It's that time....
Apr. 8th, 2013 08:24 amReviews are starting to go up for Save Rock And Roll; mostly good so far, although, I've never been one to listen to critics when it comes to music I hold close to me. But this one is well done; absolutepunk.net's Jason Tate did it. The link for the whole thing is here, but here's the part that spoke most to me:
..When I was 18, I fell asleep wishing she'd choked and crashed her car: I found solace in songs that let me know I was not alone in my heartbreak. Now I've grown. I'm no longer the boy I once was. I loved. I lost. I'm now a man that understands that the person you'd take a bullet for is sometimes the one behind the trigger. And as I've changed, Fall Out Boy has changed. Just as when I look in a mirror I don't long for my yesterday, now when the needle hits the record I don't pine for a memory. Today, this is Fall Out Boy at their grandest, and these are the songs that will live within a space of reflective solitude or be shouted amongst friends along a stretch of forgotten highway. When I was younger, this is the kind of album that wouldn't have been for me -- I saw pop and gloss as four letter words. Back then I wanted grungy guitars and the forbidden beat, but here at 30 I've grown to love the grandiose production, these layered synths, and the punchy aesthetic. Each time we select an album and push play, we hope that the music says something to us -- that it speaks, and that while we're lost within the songs another voice becomes our own. And when we go back to the well, it's with the knowledge that each selection says something about us -- about who we were, who we are, and who we hope to be. Save Rock And Roll is an album that fulfills this promise and one that resonates and screams of a band actualized within its own identity even while the listener searches for his or her own. And I know that I'll reach for this album countless times over the years -- aware of what it says to me, and forever unafraid of what it says about me.
That is exactly what I've been wanting to say, and felt, since FOB cameback and we started getting new interviews and lyrics and songs. And said way better than I could ever articulate.
Getting your heart broken at twenty isn't the same as getting it broken at thirty. We all grow up eventually and our favorite bands do the growing with us.
..When I was 18, I fell asleep wishing she'd choked and crashed her car: I found solace in songs that let me know I was not alone in my heartbreak. Now I've grown. I'm no longer the boy I once was. I loved. I lost. I'm now a man that understands that the person you'd take a bullet for is sometimes the one behind the trigger. And as I've changed, Fall Out Boy has changed. Just as when I look in a mirror I don't long for my yesterday, now when the needle hits the record I don't pine for a memory. Today, this is Fall Out Boy at their grandest, and these are the songs that will live within a space of reflective solitude or be shouted amongst friends along a stretch of forgotten highway. When I was younger, this is the kind of album that wouldn't have been for me -- I saw pop and gloss as four letter words. Back then I wanted grungy guitars and the forbidden beat, but here at 30 I've grown to love the grandiose production, these layered synths, and the punchy aesthetic. Each time we select an album and push play, we hope that the music says something to us -- that it speaks, and that while we're lost within the songs another voice becomes our own. And when we go back to the well, it's with the knowledge that each selection says something about us -- about who we were, who we are, and who we hope to be. Save Rock And Roll is an album that fulfills this promise and one that resonates and screams of a band actualized within its own identity even while the listener searches for his or her own. And I know that I'll reach for this album countless times over the years -- aware of what it says to me, and forever unafraid of what it says about me.
That is exactly what I've been wanting to say, and felt, since FOB cameback and we started getting new interviews and lyrics and songs. And said way better than I could ever articulate.
Getting your heart broken at twenty isn't the same as getting it broken at thirty. We all grow up eventually and our favorite bands do the growing with us.
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