lol
radiohead sucks tho
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I literally just logged in to post this. But, in the jam and cringe thread 
Waitā¦Kid A was viewed as a masterpiece from minute one.
If you donāt like this album, youāre unhappy and donāt like to have fun.
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I had to reply. Fucking cringeworthy to hear AFAF compared to Kid A. Our scene is delusional.
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Ikr. AFAF is way better
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Kid AFAF
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Didnāt read through much of this thread but want to echo some previous comments that Escape Goat seems like it will definitely be the top jam vehicle from this album. Stoked to see how that one develops in the live setting.
The first time I listened through I was like Dafuq is this; but after listening through a few more times itās grown on me a bit. Is this the Umphreyās album I was thinking we would get? Not exactly, but itās also not as bad as people are saying I donāt think. Sure there are a number of songs that wonāt work great in a live setting but then again Iām pretty sure every one of their albums has some type of that element to them. I remember when mantis came out some people on the old bort thought some songs were pretty poppy too (M2M definitely comes to mind) hiccup and escape goat are my favorite tracks. Am I the only one excited for some new tunes at shows? Im hoping with new music to inject into shows will mean more exploratory jams. Wishful thinking? Guess weāll find out.
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I like that takeā¦
Still have yet to listen to a single track, but we plan to make time to do so at some point soon here.
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Sure, Iād be happy to hear Hiccup or Escape Goat after they play The Haunt Iāve been chasing.
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To be fair, you have to attend shows in order to be chasing anything 
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I was chasing it before my 5 year hiatus.
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At the end of the day, I love Umphreyās for the technical elaborate instrumental music they nake. Not their voices. Not their lyrics. Especially not the serious emo crap.
This album just is going to add more crap into their live show I donāt want to hear.
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But do you like Kid A?
I kind of like this record after sitting with it more. I canāt really listen to a jam band studio album for a band almost 25 years into their career expecting it to have no filler. How About Now sucks but aside from that every song in the second half is at least good, and a couple are very good. The first half is too up and down and adult contemporary for my tastes but I can at least see the live potential in a few of the songs, especially after seeing IDKWIW and Small Strides get improv recently. Like most of their records Iām not going to be sitting around listening to the studio album a ton, so my feelings on this batch of songs will probably be more clear a year from now when we see which ones they play the shit out of and how willing or not they are to extend them.
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Yeah I think the album is fine. I will say I have been casually coming back to it a week after itās been out and I donāt think Iāve done that with any of the previous albums. Could also be because these songs havenāt been played live yet. There are certainly some horrendous lyrics and annoying Bayliss but jam bands never release good studio albums (besides Sweet Oblivious Antidote)
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The goat of jamband albums
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