I find quite a lot of the album bland to be honest, with this mass communication business I think they've tried to appeal to too many people and have ended up making it a bit MOR.

Ironically I think that'll backfire on them because if they'd injected a bit more energy and pace, it'd be a far better album.

Agreed on the B-sides too. After I'm Leaving You For Solitude, I was expecting more.

I remember you saying some time ago when no-one really knew anything about the album, that you heard the songs and you said they're great. how often do you change your mind?

Auto-Intoxication is probably my favorite song on the album! You're all crazy!

And lyrically, it's some of Nicky's best work in a long time. And if you compare it to the absolutely uninspired SATT ones (except for the title-track and YLAINE), even more so. There's some really good lines here.

Still falling! I Think I've Found It and Last Decent are my faves at the moment. Still got it on repeat. :heart:

My favourites at the moment are probably 'Postcards From a Young Man' and 'Golden Platitudes' :D :heart:

Hazelton Av and Golden Platitudes I'm not so keen on. Nicky completely ruins a potentially good song with his awful singing (do you think Sean ever had to make a stand? "NO! You are not having a go on my fucking drums!"), and I think SKON should be the B side banished to the nether reaches of hell alongside SWSS. The rest of the songs are growing, PFAYM is stunning, I think I Found It - loads of good stuff.

Admittedly, I've still not heard the album the whole way through, but I think it's the other way about this time!

I don't like PLatitudes either. The vocal is lovely (mind you, he could sing the bloody yellow pages and still sound amazing) but for me it's a skip button thing.

I'm liking AWMIE more and more with every listen. It reminds me of something I can't quite put my finger on.

And since somebody mentioned the 'sniffs' on Balconies it's all I've ever heard. I never noticed them before.

It likely shipped Friday or yesterday (my money's on yesterday) and probably wont arrive until Thrusday or Friday of this week at the earliest. Never purchased anything from Townsend Records before however, I'm fairly certain, based on experience, 4-5 business days is the standard wait time for items being shipped from Britain to Toronto unless of course you splashed out for rushed shipping. Even then however, it's a 2-3 day wait.

Well, at least you've bought your copy, I haven't as yet. I'm just not that fussed about it at the moment. From what I've heard, It's not a must have album for me at this time.

I will buy it, I'm just not in a hurry to do so.

Sounded brilliant in the car today! :D Auto-Intoxication has been going through my head alot as well.

I didn't like Golden Platitudes at first but now I think it is superb, definitely a grower. Still not immediate enough to be a single though, I hope Nicky's all-day golden shower on Twitter yesterday doesn't indicate it will be.

It's my favourite on the album. It doesn't even have a proper chorus so I can't make my usual disparaging verse-chorus-verse-chorus-solo-chorus remark. It's the way forward!

Come on Postcards! Get in!

It gets better as it goes on but I'm not mad keen at all after first listen. I dunno, it doesn't feel like a Manics album, although I can't yet put my finger on the problem.

After I read that I did think that All We Make Is Entertainment would have been a much better closer to the album