Listening Party Thread - Pawns & Kings

[Ubik]

When you say the back-half delivers - is that because you've already heard most of the front-half already, or is it just not tickling your fancy quite as much?

[MylesKennedy69]

Yeah, I'll be there. Will be flying out of LAX in the late night. Will be in Orlando at around 7 AM. Hopefully, will be at the Beacham at around noon to wait in line. And hopefully, this time around, if the venue security is going to split the line in two, they will do it in hours advance so people can pick a line or divide the line properly so that the people that shows up early gets their earned spot on the rail.

So glad you're doing this again!

[anguyen92]

I didn’t hear any songs prior to this listening party, so more of I just really enjoyed the back half of the album, especially Season of Promise.

[joshuabeau]

You guys should join the discord. Lots of great discussions about the LP and record on there.

[DarkKnight12]

You guys should join the discord. Lots of great discussions about the LP and record on there.

please can you send invite link?

[Ubik]

I didn’t hear any songs prior to this listening party, so more of I just really enjoyed the back half of the album, especially Season of Promise.

Gotcha, glad you had a good time!

[joshuabeau]

https://discord.gg/AKqs3yfq

[DarkKnight12]

thanks man

[Timotheus]

For the people getting the error message while trying to post - try to remove some space between paragraphs, rearrange the message a little bit. No idea why, but it works.

This is literally what my job is like.

[Dolo]

For the people getting the error message while trying to post - try to remove some space between paragraphs, rearrange the message a little bit. No idea why, but it works.

This is literally what my job is like.

Do you do proofreading?

[Crumbso]

For the people getting the error message while trying to post - try to remove some space between paragraphs, rearrange the message a little bit. No idea why, but it works.

This is literally what my job is like.

Do you do proofreading?

Magazine/news piece editor?

[Timotheus]

Software Developer

[AB4Lyfe]

Software Developer

Legitimately what I was thinking

[Crumbso]

Software Developer

Legitimately what I was thinking

I work with software developers. No understanding of what they do but the memes are good!

[ToNsOFuN88]

*crickets*
Man this is deja vu from last album. WE NEED SONG BY SONG REVIEWS PEOPLE! How dare you guys sleep off hangovers and head back home before throwing us a bone!

[AB4Lyfe]

*crickets*
Man this is deja vu from last album. WE NEED SONG BY SONG REVIEWS PEOPLE! How dare you guys sleep off hangovers and head back home before throwing us a bone!

[fix]

Software Developer

Legitimately what I was thinking

I work with software developers. No understanding of what they do but the memes are good!

<the meme>

lmao, as a developer I can confirm.

Also (to keep my comment on-topic): Very curious to hear more from the party!

[Whitebird]

NO REVIEWS FROM ANYONE YET?!!!

[AB4Lyfe]

No in-depth reviews yet, no. That being said... Kev kind of got screwed on posting his so I await the re-return.

[anguyen92]

While I’m at at Vietnamese bakery eating some pastries and drinking a lychee slushie. I’ll try my best again with some song by song details.

Stay: it’s was hard for me to piece Mark’s vocals all night in this track and his live voice so not much nuisance to describe. It did have a Godspeed feel.

Holiday: there were some sections that reminded me of Coming Home.

Fable of the Silent Son: This may actually be the most unique AB song crafted. This is not your typical epic song in the veins like Fortress and The Last Hero. There’s not a lot of solos that the song length suggests. There was at least one.

Season of Promise: Tremendous song. I like it even better than Fable of the Silent Son. Feels like a much fleshed out version of Never Say Die. Very positive vibes with this one.

Last Man Standing: I think this had even a longer solo sections than Fable of the Silent Song.

Pawns and Kings: Best way to describe this song is that this is the right song that fits an AB title track and the album closer.

There’s more I want relisten to, but I’m pleased with this one. Even more than The Last Hero and Walk the Sky. I think they balanced the two albums better with this one without much irks I may have with the two prior albums.