Handwritten - the 2012 new album thread

handwritten the song was freakin amazing. if your holding out, more power to you, july 24/25 will be that much sweeter.

too much blood sounds awesome!

Holy shit. Handwritten sounds amazing. When Brian comes in , i get chills everywhere

damnnnnnnnnnn. I'm not watching that again, but the one watch reassured any fear I may have about the album. I mean I didn't have any anyway, but my god that sounds good.

Oh man...I don't know if I want to watch it or not.... arrrrrrgh!

I'm trying really hard to hold off, despite my curiosity. Could someone tell me - from what little snippets you hear, how is the production? I know after the release of the single, some of us were concerned (although the video seemed to be remixed and better than the MP3 of the single I got from Amazon).

Seriously? How is it possible for a band to write songs this perfect? Even with the expectations I have for the album I can tell by that clip they're going to be beaten. I mean Handwritten in particular just took everything I anticipated and blew it up into something I couldn't imagine.

I mean seriously, when the performance of Handwritten cut to Brian talking I think that's probably the first time I've ever wanted him to shut up.

Right, listening to that clip three times in a row and almost weeping like an infant has made me incredibly late. Damn you Gaslight. Damn you.

The bit about finally finding what they wanted to be and sound like as a band....

My willpower is very weak...so I just watched it.

Wow. Just wow.

Handwritten sounds amazing.

I do hear the Lou Reed & Beyonce in that "Here comes my man" clip.

Not sure what I think of Too Much Blood yet.

Oh, July can't come soon enough...

I just want to be assured that it doesnt sound like The Horrible Crowes. Nothing against the project...but only a few songs did anything for me.

Shit, July 24th seems like eternity. I shouldn't have watched that clip.

crutchfield wrote:

I just want to be assured that it doesnt sound like The Horrible Crowes. Nothing against the project...but only a few songs did anything for me.

It does not.

Good! Thanks man.

crutchfield wrote:

Good! Thanks man.

Yeah it is far from the The Horrible Crowes.........very very far. It is a good ole rock and roll album and I will leave it at that.

Jesus. Christ. Monkey. Balls. That's all I can say.

Handwritten sounds great, really enjoyed the solo near the beginning (even though they talked over it!)

Does anyone else think Too Much Blood was perfect to close the video with? I especially love the part that is playing as the song is dying off.....it is just so hopeful sound and what not. AWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!

The site is so slow for me though so I could only watch half the video before giving up

Dammit. This would happen the day after I lose my internet for the next like 5 days. Shitty Starbucks wifi isn't fast enough for the ad to play let alone the video. The anticipation is killing me!

I'm genuinely worried that they've completely undermined their entire back catologue for me now haha, this is just something else.

I'm not gonna lie I was slightly worried about the lyrics and their simplicity but the way Brian sings it, god it's just so heartfelt and real and it works. Alex R in particular sounds really amazing for me, especially alongside the riffs of Brian.

I think there'll probably be some complaints about production as people have mentioned, but it doesn't particularly bother me that the songs sound "huge".

They're going to get big from this. To what extent I'm not really sure, but they're going to be known by a lot of people.

I was never afraid that this album wouldn't be amazing.

But to meet, and exceed, everyone of my great expectations, in the just 90-seconds per song...

Too Much Blood and Here Comes My Man, especially, are amazing.

can't get the fuckin video to work. i tried signing in with facebook, and its not working. i wish i could read what the fuck it was saying.

I really enjoyed hearing clips of a few other songs, but I'm not ready to call it the 2nd coming of christ yet...

Can't wait to hear the full songs and really get a chance to hear what this is all about! The previews are great, but not enough to really know what this album will be!

TGA138 wrote:

can't get the fuckin video to work. i tried signing in with facebook, and its not working. i wish i could read what the fuck it was saying.

Click the Facebook link, and then give the app permission to whatever.

But then after that, go back to the video page. It should play without you having to do a bunch of logging in an stuff. The same thing happened to me.

TGA138 wrote:

can't get the fuckin video to work. i tried signing in with facebook, and its not working. i wish i could read what the fuck it was saying.

Use Google chrome. It lets you translate pages.