What a fucking joke

Classic album. No way listening to it once you catch all the bars

This one of my favorite albums

Really enjoyed checking this out! To me it’s a no skip album. The way you guys spoke back and forth about it made it an entertaining listen 🙌 gotta disagree with your takes on gblogbd and xo though, those two are highlights for me lol

thanks for going into their lyrics,, not even Pete does that he's either a fascinating lyricist or a garbage human being, nd i hope it's the former

Good podcast.

Long comment incoming: Okay, the Oh Hellos are my absolute favorite band of all time and so I greatly enjoyed hearing your analysis and the way you picked up on so many themes of the album! This album is an amazing introduction to the band lol Just some interesting facts about the other albums: Through the deep dark valley is a retelling of the story of the prodigal's son from the Bible, with perspectives given from every party with songs such as "like the dawn" and "eat you alive being from the perspective of the father, "wishing well", "in memoriam", and "the lament of Eustace Scrubb" (another C.S. Lewis reference to the voyage of the dawn treader) being about the prodigal's son himself, and "the truth was a cave" about the son who stayed. The oh hellos next four albums after dear Wormwood are all interconnected, and named after the Greek gods of the wind, the Anemoi. When played in order, Notos, Eurus, Boreas, and Zephyrus tell a story of deconstruction of modern religion. In Notos, the speaker recognizes the performatice nature of modern religion, with references to the tower of babel and the great flood to symbolize the cleansing of the soul. Eurus is the deconstruction, recognizing the flaws of the ways, the focus on riches that cannot be brought beyond the grave, and the speakers realization that they have feuled the fire of the very thing they now disdain, realizing they have only been further "pushing the spear into [Jesus's] side". With Boreas comes the pain and depression of change. While it is cold and lonely, they begin to recognize beauty they've been blind too before. They find that "it would feel like rebirth out of some kind of dying" to truly become who they want to be. Finally, in Zephyrus, with reference to Moses, they find a desire to bring more to the realization they have found. They want to spread pure joy and healing to others who have been swept up in the performative religion. The album ends with one of the most important songs: "Rounds". It is a not simply a bookend, but a connected ending and beginning to not only the other three albums, but dear Wormwood and through the deep dark valley as well, which brings me to the thing that you may have been missing from Dear Worwood in your analysis: the cyclical nature of change. Every oh hellos album carries deeply routed themes of cycles, but they do become especially prominent in the Anemoi albums. They depict the ebb and flow of change. The growth and the relapse. The departure and the return. It is definitely something that is easy to miss if you are not familiar with the entire discography. This is reflected throughout Dear Wormwood, and even within the allegory of the abusive relationship. Healing is not linear, and you will often switch a bittersweet longing for the past, and a strong determined path forward. This is the reason that the album often returns to the same points more than once, but never in the same way. This is because, as it later gets described in "rounds", though it is all a cycle, you grow better and stronger with each rotation. This can also be connected as another reference to a C.S. Lewis book, particularly the ending of the Last Battle from the chronicles of Narnia. In which entering Aslan's country, when one travels further up and further in, things only continue to get better and better. Each cycle is better than the last. Each cycle is easier than the last. Each chapter is better than the one before it. Anyway, sorry for the monster of a comment, I am absolutely INSANE about the Oh Hellos and I could talk about them forever. I really enjoyed the podcast episode so thank you so much for taking the time to create it :D

I love the oh hellos!

Good podcast.

I found Florence through movies. First from the Snow White and the Huntsman, then i thought the voice sounded familiar through the Great Gatsby trailer. I did a search on KZbin, and i got hooked. Truly a unique group who actually care about the work they do. The only time i heard Florence on the radio was when i traveled out of state. Heard very little of Dog Days while in South Carolina.

Endless Summer Vacation album of the year. Good joke 😂😂😂😂

Great choice picking HBHBHB...High as Hope is my personal fav but its not for everyone. New fan here 👋

There are some great songs on the deluxe and Target editions- Pure Feeling, Conductor, and Make Up Your Mind. This is a great album but I love them all.

Isabella and Florence are still best friends and are very close. Isabella just wanted to do some of her own solo work and Florence supported her. ❤️

To much cross talk !

I have thoughts. I’ve made notes. More than 13 of them.

*promosm*

to your point of the 50 states project - Sufjan considers Carrie and Lowell to be his "Oregon" album

👏 *Promo sm*

very enjoyable listen! i'd be interested to see what you think of the demo versions of the songs

Spin,coo done!

You guys are legends for this

One of my favorite albums of all time

Thanks for making this, one of my favorite records ever

hi cool podcast james is cool in this

Love it!

Delightful as always. Like cotton candy grapes.

Great podcast! Bad Suns is one of my favorite bands, period. And their new album Apocalypse Whenever has only solidified my love for them. If you’re looking to know a little bit more about them and the music they make, I just put out a new video on my channel. Sound off in the comments! Would love to hear your thoughts.

james you disapoint me 80-90 country music is better tgen today country music

look up on youtube when dolloy parton enbarasses randy very funny

and this and mack davis was the 2 cassetts we had in the old car

i saw randy 3 rimes in concert and every one was outstanding

Congrats guys, I like your podcast. What about a Mellon Collie episode?

if you two rember mr hooper gives burt and erinie a xmas prestant its the rubber ducky and paper clip they traded for

james you should have done bufflo girls that my favoret

calafora rasin rocls

connor should have talk about the time we did hanaka insted of xmas

Fun, honest review. Would like to respectfully correct something though. You stated that the guitarist kept saying "we" when referring to touring and that bugged you because he would I been 5 when they started touring? That guitarist is Chris Caffery and has indeed been with TSO from the very beginning. And with Savatage before that, all the way back to the early 90's. It sure he'd be flattered to hear that you both thought he was a MICH younger man the he really is though. Lol Also... It doesn't matter where you see TSO. The weird, subdued vibe is EVERYWHERE. What started as Sava"Tux" has turned into TS-"OLD!" 😁

and james connor blamming you for why i didnt get what i wanted for xmas he said you wouldnt take him to go get it REBA was in town and i want him to go kiddnapp her and bring her home so now its your job to ship her up here

you didnt take incount of the covd effect maybe they didnt want to go to crazy getting hot with mask and mask muffels lots of people or that nashvile hates xmas

maybe i should try a drive by bricking that would be funny no sugestions just fun to throw brick thru connor window

ive seen the mix taper contract and it say when james gets a perfet week mix taper gets a pay cut and if you beat him back to back he gets fired.. thin of all the money you can save and hire a real resurch team

middle school i think it was before that if i rember right it was in elamentry school 1-2 grade you to became frends or maybe connor wanted to be friends and it took him till 6th grade to ware you down in becoming friends. my question is why you still deal with him .

congrates james a perfet week and making mix taper cry

connor you crashed and burned with this one not my taste at all i rather have rap again and i hate rap lol.. but funny to see james having to deal with it lol good job boys keep me laughing

what connor nor telling any one he hired a resurch ferm just to do a deep dive into milly life just so he could get them all right.. he cheated james

why james you know connor cant drive this isnt going to go well

The guy who sounds like he's 5'1" with a nasal voice sounds like he's a pop freak, not eligible to judge an album like Plastic Hearts.

ok boys i too a CHANCE but ya no lol .next week is thanksgiveing and im thankfull you rwo are doing this pod cast. keep it going loveing it

Great podcast guys! Couple of pointers tho; you mentioned the How They Remember You EP, it came out in July 2020, not June 2021 haha just thought I'd point that out. Subscribed!