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Science Fiction is the fifth studio album by American rock band Brand New, released on August 17, 2017 through Procrastinate! Music Traitors, the band's own label. It was the band's first album in eight years, following Daisy in 2009. A fifth Brand New album was originally scheduled for release in 2016 before the band announced in September that it was not ready to be finalized. During the recording process for Science Fiction, the band also repeatedly communicated an imminent disbanding in 2018. The album was surprise-released on August 17, 2017, with its title and track listing previously unknown, after 500 untitled CDs were sent to fans who had pre-ordered the fifth album on vinyl. It was both a critical and commercial success. Science Fiction received universal acclaim from music publications for befittingly concluding Brand New's influential career. It also debuted at number one on the United States Billboard 200 albums chart, the band's first to top the list.
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At the time I skipped Brand New as I thought I did not like emo. As I discovered with "The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me", oh boy how wrong was I. Science Fiction is their last album and the music is a bit less heavy overall. That's not a band thing and "Lit Me Up", "Can't Get It Out" and "137" are fantastic songs.
I had not heard of this band before. I enjoyed it, may check out some more of their stuff. I really enjoyed reading on their Wikipedia page about the feud with the band Taking Back Sunday. 4 stars.
"The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me" is one of my favorite albums of all time, but the rest of Brand New's catalogue doesn't really do much for me. It's pretty good Emo, more "indie rock" than the former album, but nothing groundbreaking or all that exciting. Maybe needs another listen.
Very cool album!
Decent
Rating: 7/10 Best songs: Lit me up, Same logic/teeth, Desert
Don’t think I’ve ever listened to this album before, I was a massive fan of Deja Entendu, so really enjoyed this didn’t realise their later stuff was still a high standard, great album to end the band on, got to be the top of their Genre.
They're almost there. The vocals are in the uncanny valley between clean and interesting
Underrated last album, I pull this out for fall fire pit nights.
This is a real find- very atmospheric and intruiging. A good album to put forward. I need to listen to them more I think for them to gel.
Good stuff
I think I always confused this band with Days of the New. Better than I feared when it popped up.
Couldn’t really engage with this unfortunately
Whiny singing, guitars, a touch of electronic noise, weird samples. Some songs were interesting, some were offputting. Nothing I'd listen to again, but I can see why someone likes it and it is different.
The other Brand New album I got from the user's list ("The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me") really caught me, and it's now one of my favorites. It didn't happen with this one, and they are indeed quite different. It could just be my mood today, but it's a 2-star album. I'll raise it to 3 out of respect for my good memories of having a new great band in my personal favorites list, even if just for a single album.
I thought I liked Brand New but this record had no teeth. I remembered them having teeth. I went back and listened to the other big record and sure enough, there they were. I guess they ran out of gas?
Portentious alt rock, a little overserious for me without making me feel a whole lot of anything. The more acoustic, lighter interludes (in the audio, not the affect sense) helped move it around a bit, but not quite enough.
Overly long meh sounding indie rock. My personal rating: 3/5 My rating relative to the list: 3/5 Should this have been included on the original list? No.
Tunes were decent but too consistently slow. Brand New is capable of bangers
Yep it's Brand New alright
Coming about 15 years after I stopped listening to Brand New, I found this album enjoyable. Glad to see they spent the 2010s evolving their sound a bit, even if I far prefer the earlier stuff.
I guess this was fine.
Indie rock, alternative rock, emo, post-hardcore, experimental rock. Ni fu ni fa.
Something and nothing to write home about on first listen.
Brand New's brand of indie-emo never impressed me and Science Fiction doesn't either. Same Logic/Teeth is good but this lacks either the swagger you want from good indie or the angst you want from good emo, it just sits in the middle in a very boring way. 2.
Rather generic sounding, it didn't really add much to the genre or to the list
This had some parts I really liked, and some less so. Interesting listen but didn’t care for some of the messages.
Forgettable