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Originally Posted by swa(y)
i want to hear thurston do an acoustic record. something super-personal w/ minimal percussion.
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There was a time when i might've agreed with you on that but in recent years at least I just think it'd end up sounding like the stuff he's done quite recently with SY in that kind of vein: stuff like 'Or', which I really haven't liked at all.
I really do believe that the more SY have tried to gravitate towards a more lyric-centred/'mature' styles of songwriting, the more they've shown that the band really lacks a good songwriter. The thing that always drew me to SY in the beginning was their riffs and the overal sonic architecture of their songs. The lyrics were always buried within that and I atleast tended not to take too much notice of them. The more they've been pushed to the fore the more evident it is (to me anyway) that words really aren't SY's strong suit - and maybe Thurston's least of all - and I think that a 'singer/songwriter' style acoustic album from Thurston would only confirm that.