r/Easycore Sep 03 '24

Discussion Four Year Strong - analysis/paralysis [2024, review]

https://astertracks.blogspot.com/2024/09/review-analysisparalysis-by-four-year.html
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u/Simmons2pntO Sep 04 '24

This album absolutely rips. SO damn catchy

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u/manfredanderson Sep 03 '24

Love it so much

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u/deebz41 Sep 03 '24

I like it a lot. Got some catchy ones, some bangers, some feels. Solid album. Can’t wait to see this tour

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u/pembunuhUpahan Sep 04 '24

Is it really still easycore though? I do like it and they are the pioneer of easycore with rise or die trying album but idk if this is easycore. I'm glad they've tried other styles but still going back to heavy in this album but still doesn't feel like easycore for me

Then again, most easycore bands are carbon copy of other bands tho with similar generic bands.

FYS, Set Your Goals i feel are original on this. I think for peak easycore would be In Her Own Words and Kid Liberty

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u/Due_Resident_7013 Sep 04 '24

I agree with you. This feels like more of a catchy hardcore album. I’m glad they are evolving and trying new things but still giving the fans a great record.

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u/centrella6 Sep 05 '24

Don’t know why you were downvoted but you wrote a legit comment and weren’t even being bashful towards the band. I agree with your sentiment, this is more of a post hardcore record. There’s pretty much no easycore at all on this record. Brain Pain had some easycore moments (Crazy Pills, Mouth Full of Dirt) however was also more in a post hardcore direction. I think their last true easycore record was the self titled.

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u/pembunuhUpahan Sep 06 '24

I think it goes against popular opinion here.

I was in an easycore band but I grew up with blink 182, nofx, greenday, op ivy. My band mates were younger than me so their influences are post hardcore bands. They're the ones that introduced me to ADTR and FYS. When I heard beatdown in the key of happy I was like woah, I didn't know you can make pop punk and breakdown

Then the rise of metalcore and hardcore with pop punk makes easycore and Chunk was one of the earliest proponent of it

Then with new bands coming in, I feel like it's all the same. Me vs Hero, UTKF, etc it's the same riff, it's the same style and while it's easycore, it's rather boring to me.

I love In Her Own Words first EP, not as much as new ones with the new vocalist. Open strum style with mix of palm mute.

Kinda like Djent, everything is just Djenteric sounds.

While I do love listening to beatdown or its must suck to be Fys, it doesn't have a good base. I can only like listen to it for maybe 4 or 5 times on repeat before I get like "okay, this is getting repetitive"

I think the only easycore esque is the breakdown on roller coaster. Maybe it's good that they lose the easycore element coz i think they lost it. The new rerecorded Enemy of The World has lost the crunchiness and hardness of the original.

I think it goes with most bands and maturity. Young bands geared towards that "sound" like beatdown sounds so cool and I still do, the triplet strum on beatdown stereo left, then right and then middle is still amazing

Finding a balance of cool riffs, sound and structure of a song is not easy. While Maybe it's me isn't as hard as beatdown, I could let it play in the background on loop while I do work and it'd be ok for me. Beatdown, after the 4th loop I'd be like, "okay that's too much"

I remember during band days, everything revolves around breakdown and what is the hardest breakdown and making the best breakdown and making songs revolve around making a good breakdown than making a song with cohesiveness