21. "It's not just the guitars..." In response to In response to 15 Sat Jul-11-15 03:55 PM by Jakob Hellberg
It's in the drums as well; the loose, "dusty" grooves vs. something that just sounds like a metronome or a Hip-Hop beat or "dance" or whatever (NOTE:I still haven't heard the album, just basing it on the singles), like duh-duh-duh.
People say it's all about songwriting and pretend that drums/rhythm don't matter in rock/"rock". After all, it's not dance-music so why bother?
I beg to differ; rhythm is EXTREMELY important in rock/"rock", you may not pay attention to it due to being blinded by melodies or riffs or whatever but best believe you can feel it when it's missing. And I feel that shit on those songs... Just terrible to go rhytmically anonymous when you had such a good thing going...
Anyway, I really dug the drums on both the debut and the second one; this feels like selling out to "electronic music (TM)" stereotypes...
EDIT:Most attempts at making rock/"rock" sound dancey and "looped" and shit makes me throw up in my mouth and has done so since the Madchester era. Of course, you could argue they aren't rock or even "rock" anymore but then they can fuck off because pop/R&B/soul/ANYTHING else they sure aint...