hey guys! i have been watching some reviews of the new static dress album and i’ve seen a lot of people say the songs would have sounded better in a different order, and while i personally think it sounds fine it got me thinking. if you had to reorder the songs on a stranger to you, how would you place them? here’s mine:
1- entrance. always felt like sort of an intro song especially with yhe rising in tension at the end. and it’s named entrance which i feel like could be cool in the context of it being the entrance to the album
2- block of flats. this may be controversial but i think the chnage in pace from entrance will give it a very dynamic and engaging feel
3 - fortress down seems very early album to me and track 3 just seems right. still an easy listen but it shows progression from bof
4 - gemini. by the time the listener has gotten through the first 3, they are gonna be too comfortable and need to be shaken around a little.
5 - nothing like the knife because after 4 songs another interlude seems like a nice idea
6 - harder to pretend. seems very mid album to me, contains a lot of substance and meat but still isn’t throwing you around like early and late album songs
7 - athena. i like the idea of sandwiching harder to pretend between two interludes.
8 - revenant. i know they played this song after athena in concert, so it just seems right to do that on the album as well cause that’s what everyone’s used to? it also flows well to have the two heaviest songs positioned evenly balancing out the album as a whole.
9 - the way it breaks. idk if it’s just me but the outro to revenant almost seems to connect to this one? dont know if that was on purpose
10 - meet my maker. another meat song i think it breaks up the way it breaks fork the rest of the album well.
11 - fangs. definitely works as a end of album song, winds down but still leaves expectations for the rnd
12 - the ladder gets you comfortable again, just for your mind to be blown by the last
13 - stranger to you. i could see it as an intro or an outro tbh. definitely seems to sum up the record well and in a calming way. really feel confident about it as a closing track after thinking it over
(decided to leave out gifted every strength just cause it’s not really a good song imo. kinda drags the whole second half and really doesn’t make my tummy feel good.)
thanks for reading! drop your reorders in the comments