Re: New Album: Barbara Barbara, we face a shining future (March 18, 2016)
 

Feels like an unfinished jam, and Karl's voice thrown in as an afterthought.

Re: "I Exhale" - first single from Shining Future
 

I dig it, but something is off. In my experience their radio edits usually butcher the full track, though.

Re: "I Exhale" - first single from Shining Future
 

Love the song! And love that the album version will be 8 mins!

Re: "I Exhale" - first single from Shining Future
 

full track here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvU8wuXQgE8

Re: "I Exhale" - first single from Shining Future
 

The 8 min version is available on iTunes if you preordered.

Re: "I Exhale" - first single from Shining Future
 

The 8 min version is rocking my world. It reminds me so some things but I can't say what yet. Its got something of the radioshow vibes in it...

Yes, that it, it's a riverrun... its full of JAL and Peggy sussed...

Re: "I Exhale" - first single from Shining Future
 

My initial reaction first few listens:

LOVE the music. Love the progression of the sounds overlapping. love the background vocals. am luke-warm to Karl's main vocals. my initial reaction this was a missed opportunity to have a rolling spoonman/slippy lyrics set placed on top. as it is now, i get a Me White Noise vibe from Blur - ranting lyrics. Eh. It may grow more on me, but so far its not the homerun i think it could have been. still loving it tho.

Totally a Pixies vibe to the chords. Love that actually.

Re: "I Exhale" - first single from Shining Future
 

The 8:11 album version is so much better. Vocals still remind me of "Ring Road", for some reason, but yeah, echoes of "Peggy Sussed", too, with the buzzy bass and blasts of sound.
You really get the sense that the boys were experimenting with lots of instruments...the often-cacophonous sounds combine to make perfect sense as the sum of their parts.

This seems like a song one could listen to a bunch of times and hear new noises with each repetition. I'm five listens in and went from "eh" to "yeah" over that span. Of course, i'm predisposed to love UW...

Re: "I Exhale" - first single from Shining Future
 

exactly. the only thing not gelling with me at this point are the style of the main lyrics. they're too spread out; i can't sing to this song like i can Jumbo, Slippy, TMO, Moaner. There's nothing to sing except little snippets.

Re: "I Exhale" - first single from Shining Future
 

Yeah that's my biggest beef with this song too. First listen I thought "Oh this is gonna be the intro and we'll get into the song proper in a bit" but then the whole song was like that. Long version doesn't really add anything. Just more of the same.