I actually recorded several parts of the show on my digital camera. There was no filming allowed so I just held the camera by my side. So it is essentially just audio. And it is HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE quality. And I have no intentions of making it public out of respect for the band. I feel guilty for even taping it. But I wanted to listen to the new stuff bad, so I just recorded it for personal use.
The new material consisted of several songs we had heard of: misery fell, i'm gonna win, turn the lights off, sacred beast, never meant to know. But there were at least 3 new songs that I had never seen or heard.
Song 1
Zubin does the main vocals. The song has a steady driving beat during the verses -- almost like Franz Fedinand's Take Me Out. Then it hits harmonies in a chorus that goes "You, and me, divine..." The quality of the recording is so bad I can't make out anymore lyrics, but the hook is catchy. The end of the song starts to build in minor chrod harmonies like something off Weezer's Green album. And then the guitars drop off leaving the bass and drums and Zubin singing "You turn around and around...I'll be comin' down...I'll be comin' down" a few times.
Song 2
Joe sings the main vocals. It is hard to describe the sound of this song. The vocals for the first half of the song sound like a walking bass line and step up and down the scale like a warm up exercise. There are not any harmonies. The music behind it sounds like if the Doors had written a song combining elements from Inside the Mind of Simon and The Bidding. Then in the back half of the song everything changes abruptly into a swingy sound almost like Squirrel Nut Zippers or Cake and the timbre in Joe's vocals changes accordingly. I can't make out the lyrics except for "See that Betty...apocalypse(?)...she move her lips and it goes like this..." and "Oh the things we know, the things we don't..."
Song 3
Zubin, Joe and Rob all sing through most of this one. The vocal melody is something that could of appeared on Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon. They sound like an army of singing robots. Picture the "I'd like to say hello and welcome you good day that is my name" cadence during the verses, but extend it a few stanzas. Each chorus uses the lyric, "In the fate of the stars..." wit background harmonizing vocals "Ohhhh...Ohh..Ohhhhhh." Then at the end the song becomes completely a piano instrumental with Andrew playing this beautiful arrangement which sounds like a poor man's Cannon in D.
Altogether, very impressive songs to add to the YouTube songs I have come to love. Completely blown away.
