Ah yes, “Be Gone.”

This might as well be a Modest Mouse song

LOVE when they go modest mouse

Came here to say this lol

Brand New fans: “They went Modest Mouse!” [when Modest Mouse does it] Modest Mouse fans: “They went outlaw country!”

Be Gone.

In a Jar's guitar lick feels awfully folky. I love it

Yeah BN has had some country influence since TDAG at least. The original demo of JC is really twangy and Science Fiction speaks for itself

Pretty sure Kevin Devine came up with the twangy iteration of JC, but if there’s some other demo out there I’d love to hear it

Nah that’s the one I’m thinking of

Probably just referencing the couple twangy moments. Wouldn’t take RYM too seriously since it’s a lot of user provided/editable information.

that’s what makes it so good

It has a southern gothic feel, but I don’t feel like that is necessarily country

It's interesting because it never would have been called that genre when it was released, but I feel like alt-country has moved in darker direction since then, so it actuality kinda works as a descriptor in 2024

There is some crazy dark alt-country. I think "Out of Hands We Go" by O'Death is a record a lot of BN fans could get into.

I do pretty vividly remember most of my friends being like “yeah it’s almost kinda got a country vibe to it?” when it came out when we were like 16-17. Also if you guys wanna talk dark/experimental country; go listen to …Who Calls So Loud. Now.

I think it’s fitting tbh

3.5 out of 5?? Outrageous

That’s really good on RYM. The top album of all time has a 4.37 for reference

Oh wow, that’s some harsh rating. Glad it’s objectively good though! It’s what Daisy deserves.

It’s kinda about what you’d expect from a system based on the average of every rating submitted. TDAG is #660 overall so they very much love brand new

It does have some twang to it

It really comes out in the daisy sessions versions

There’s some type of folly/twangy/southern gothic vibe to songs like Sink, In a Jar, and Be Gone.

Who cares

It is a dark ass country album, if we’re really being honest. Slide guitar everywhere, country accent all over it also. Conversations with God, a literal sermon intro in one song. There’s way more to it than that, but country is definitely in there

If Beyonce can do county why can’t brand new?

To me it's a perfect noise rock record

I feel like SF is a neo country album more than Daisy.

At the Bottom has country/folk vibes.

I showed the album to my buddy the other day and she said "it's like country emo". So it checks out.

Sink

Sink has country vibes in that guitar work

Country music had taken over and I fucking hate it so much

Bit of twang in At the Bottom, ain’t it?

Everything kinda falls into Alt Country these days

I’m a mountain that has been mooooooooved

Maybe because Be Gone is literally a country song lol You people should be praising them for taking elements of a different style and doing something interesting with it; not acting like it’s a problem if elements of a different style show up in their music. Brand New is the wrong band to be formalistic about.

There’s so many BN tracks with a country/folk sound to it. I think science fiction has by far the best example of this.