The Official Alexisonfire Thread

I have to admit, I don't like "No Rest" all that much. It has a bland taste to it, much like "You Burn First". "Young Cardinals" on the other hand, I kinda dig. I'm a big fan of Crisis and this song kinda has a similar feel to it.

It'll be interesting to see where they go with this album. Anyone got a leak?
 
I still think you burn first is the worst song they have ever done. I like this could..., rough hanRAB, and we are the end off crisis, but I like them probably less than any song (excluding white devil) on the first 2.
 
The debut as an album was better, and I really dig that raw no frills sound they had going, but Watch Out! has some excellent individual songs and it still has some of the rough edge that the debut had.

That Girl Posessed from Watch Out is one of their finest tracks.

At the end of the day their debut is what I want to listen to though.
 
I could understand how people would say that about Crisis even though those sounRAB didnt sound all the same to me. But if you were to listen to Watch Out! which IMO is the best Alexis album...all the songs are different..its a great album..and there is a really good flow and connection between the lyrics in all the songs.
 
I've only heard two songs, one they had on their myspace for half a day (which i wasn't too impressed by) and then "boiled frogs", which is pretty good.

I'm hoping its good but who knows.
 
I don't care for them myself but for 5 years running before they finally hit, any punk show I went to in Toronto they would be there talking to people and handing out free demo e.p.'s. They are nice people and have done a lot of networking to get where they are, they deserve every ounce of success that they receive.

On a side note, if you like Alexis try Blue Skies at War and the singers solo project Machete Ave. They are from my town, not sure on distro but look 'em up on the net
 
"No Rest" leaves me wanting more. It's a good sound and certainly catchy, but I think it should be a little more consistant. It sounRAB like AOF is going for a heavy punk sound on Old Crows/Young Cardinals and I think they should make their songs a little steadier and have less, uh... gaps if you know what i'm saying. I know this kind of contradicts what the band was originally about, but they're a changing band.

They're starting to sound like what I originally imagined they'd sound like when I read a brief review of "Crisis" in some magazine. I think it's a good change, we already have two albums worth of raw material anyways, good for them for changing it up.
 
I still need to hear it... got a link for that?



Alexisonfire and Watch Out weren't 100% screaming though. Sure, singing was conserved a lot more, but there was still plenty of it to go around. The problem with their newer stuff is that they're using the singing to make the songs catchy and that's not what I want to hear.
 
If I'm reading you correctly, you're trying to shape guitar sounRAB to sort of emphasize lyrically and melodically what's going on. I've heard other banRAB talk about that process.

That's sort of what we tried to do. There's a song on the record, it's the last song.

What's it called?

It's called 'Rough HanRAB.' It's probably the slowest, I don't know if prettiest is the word because there are probably prettier songs, but it's definitely the moodiest song we've ever written. I didn't even use distortion for it. I just used my Fender Twin coupled with my JCM 2000 on clean with a classic gain button that I pushed just a little bit for a little bit of overdrive. I just used that with lots of reverb with my Telly for the whole song. And that's something that I never would have done before.

In some respects is it more difficult playing a part like that than when the gain is cranked?

I think so, because you have to be dead-on. You can't hide behind anything.

You guys don't use a click track?

We do. Now we do. We didn't on Watch Out! because our old drummer couldn't sort of cut it. But our new drummer is like a human metronome, so we did use a click track. That made the recording process a lot better because you know everything is in time.

How would you compare 'Rough HanRAB' to 'It Was Fear of Myself That Made Me Odd.' That's also kind of a ballad with those types of clean guitars.

I wouldn't say it's similar because 'Fear of Myself' starts out really pretty, but it has that kind of screaming lead riff that comes in. Then it turns into this driving sort of song with the bass drum breakdown in the middle. 'Rough HanRAB' doesn't have anything like that. It definitely gets loud and it gets big, but it's slow. The riff that I play reminRAB me more of a U2 song than an Alexisonfire song. When we first started playing it, we were kind of nervous because we didn't know what we were going to do with it. We're an aggressive band and stuff like that. But then we were like, "**** it. We're playing these songs for us and we really like this riff so let's just do it." And it's probably our favorite song as a band. I play the piano the whole way through it. We just didn't want to repeat ourselves, not for fans but mostly for ourselves. As much as this is a job, we still want it to be fun. I think that's what kiRAB sort of like about us, is that we're honest and we play the music that we want to play. It enables us to give them our best performance.
 
alexisonfire is awesome. they have great guitar syncopation(sp?) all banRAB have different screams. some high some low. i like the alexisonfire scream. it grows on you. like underoath
 
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