I love you all!

Jeanie, on 12 June 2010 - 02:52 PM, said:

Now?

Great!!!
dissolve now!

Besides hearing snippets of Escape Velocity from the Coachella vid, a couple of other youtube snippets of Warm Vibe, and a muffled overhearing of Swoon a coupled of times on a distant radio I went into Further with no other tidbit, soundbite, visual or whatnot. Bought the deluxe version on Thursday, didn't have free time to watch it until last night. The best way to explain my reaction is that it captured me from the absolute beginning and has stayed with me in the hours since viewing it. To me Further is pure emotion of the best kind... pure love of music, and it just flows and sounds so fucking beautiful. Congrats to Ed and Tom and Adam and Marcus... thanks so much for this inspirational experience!!!

Last night I watched the visuals with the headphones on. It's amazing how rich this album is in texture!

The visuals were, of course, amazing. Love the mosaic horse and swoon is amazing. The visuals really do show how connected over all the album is, really a great journey, could be my favorite chems album. I know I said that with watn, but they've really gone far (not going to say further, bad joke).

I think back to the horse power discussion, I think it provides for the visual a good intermission for the story that was going on. Like Picasso on acid. When I first saw the visuals I thought of http://t0.gstatic.co...-6lCuMOpUi6npmg

Is there no 3LP promo vinyl of Further??

By The Way, is there the epic transition between Dissolve and Horse Power on the vinyl edition ? Cause as far as I know, both are not on the same disc :

A1 Snow
A2 Escape Velocity

B1 Another World
B2 Dissolve

C1 Horse Power
C2 Swoon

D1 K + D + B
D2 Wonders Of The Deep

1 day left!!!

Bought Klipsch S4s today, since I'm traveling this week and the stock ipod earphones are like piss for this massive soundstorm called Further!!
Now to get the vinyl player fixed, good days!

So i am at work with my headphones on listening to this cd.

It's just amazing. It's not a cd...it's a journey!

Lovely review whirls!

My first opinion after just my second listening to the whole album, so don't get offended if you disagree with me.

Snow is a really good intro track, growing and I love the wierd noise in the beginning.

Nothing to add about Escape Velocity and Swoon, they are the best candidates to be the singles of the album.

Currently, I am still skeptical about Another World though I really like the break in the beginning, but I am not a big fan of the voice.

Dissolve definitely reminds me of Surrender, so I obviously love it.

Horse Power sounds like their early tracks like Acid Children, I may call it a 'rave' track. I can't wait to hear this track live too.

K+D+B : a really cool track, one of my favourite, kinda like The Sunshine Undeground.

Wonders Of The Deep : I am not digging it right now, the last track used to be one of the highlights of a Chemical album.

OMG, Don't Think is so epic, Tom and Ed you've got to play this track live please, it will be pure madness.

But, my opinion will probably change after another several listenings. Besides, the visuals are great but I guess they are even better live on a giant screen than on my 17" PC screen.

I actually noticed a fault in the Another World visuals as there's a certain close-up of those green blobs, and you see the edge of the 'canvas' on the screen where it's a different colour.
Not life-changing, but a bad mistake to make which I've done myself in After Effects.
The Dissolve and Escape Velocity visuals are brilliant. I enjoyed the bonus section too, cool to see how they did it all and differs slightly to what I thought.
Horse Power has also grown on me now.
Epic. Thanks Tom and Ed.

SO i have listened to the album several times now.
My favourits are Wonders of the Deep and Another World. I think my nr one of the album is another world though. It's an amazing track. i LOVE it. the vocals are great!

I am going on a holidays to on august 4rd, drioving by car trough the alpes mountains and this cd will be perfect!!!

Jeanie, on 14 June 2010 - 08:06 PM, said:

the live visuals were incredible for another world...lasers shooting out with the beat and green lights behind the huge screen....

i have to say my favorites are snow, dissolve and wonders of the deep, but im loving k+d+b the more i listen to it. the longer version of swoon is great too.

I'm starting to like Another World.
My favourite are Dissolve, K+D+B and Don't Think ; Snow, Another World and Horse Power are close.

I do love the vocals in Another World--so sincere sounding, and they seem to be about recovering from failed relationships. For me, this song seems to be about hitting its stride and shortly thereafter hitting those gorgeous sweeping acidy synths at the end.

It is impossible to say what my favorites are from the album. The album of the whole is so great. I suppose my "favorite" track right now is DON'T THINK! I love this track! And it is something that I can look at outside of the Further album. I'm unofficially naming it EBW11--It is certainly my most favorite of the EBWs since EBW8, but I don't really count that since it is an extended Saturate. So it is my favorite since EBW7, which blew my mind when I first heard it.

Jeanie, on 14 June 2010 - 01:06 PM, said:

Ooo, that sounds awesome Jeanie! The immense scenery going past as the music is playing gives me goosebumps just thinking about it.

You give me a good idea to go on a nice scenic drive with this album playing at full volume.

I am glad you are warming up to Another World, Wincent

Probass, on 14 June 2010 - 01:59 PM, said:

Definitely hard for me to say what my favorites are right not, as well. It seems like each time I listen, there's a new favorite.

I'm not able to make out all the words to Wonders of the Deep yet but your take on the lyrics is interesting. Have you (or anyone) had a full on crack at the lyrics yet?

Also a general observation my husband and I were chit chatting about the other day is the Chems now have 2 songs which openly speak of forgiveness. A continuing theme perhaps, to compliment the Love Is All theme?

wooooooooow, how awesome is "don't think"?!?!!? can't wait to drop this bomb at my next gig! T&E, i need an extended version from the second half of that track!

can you do that for me?!LOL

brother_ging, on 14 June 2010 - 05:18 PM, said:

GOD, I KNOW! I turned up the bass, which was a tad low, and I found out my right speaker wasn't getting sound. After I fixed those things ->

First of all, this has to be one of the best bass lines I've ever heard--I cannot help myself from nodding along to this track. The beat is also superb, but the textures of the synths are fascinating. The pacing/structure of this track is also really great; just when you think you might stop nodding to the bass line, it cuts out leaving the beat, and then BAM! bass line is back. I love those squiggly high pitched synths that come in after a minute or two. And then the first ascending break down... WOW! And then the second ascending breakdown (aka. "After After Sunglasses) is just so wicked I want to make an edit of this track just to extend this part three times longer! The last part sounds a bit like the synth from Salt N Peppa's "Push It," which is just great. If I ever find the time to make another mix, this track is essential!