r/CSHFans

We’ve gotten a number of posts over the last few months asking about this, and a few more people asking for a pinned post to clarify, so here’s the deal with the weird NYM version on Spotify:

In late 2017, Nervous Young Man was taken off streaming alongside Twin Fantasy (Mirror to Mirror) in preparation for Face to Face’s release. Though MTM would remain down until the following November, NYM returned a few weeks later with the updated cover art we know today. Will would explain in a Patreon stream that he had never been particularly fond of the original cover, and got tired of seeing his naked torso every time he opened streaming. 

Despite having been removed, this “ghost version” of NYM is technically available on Spotify. Though blocked from searches and the band’s discography page, it can still be come up in older playlists or random recommendations. This version is the original October 2013 upload (If you ever see older posts or videos referring to Monomania or MBIKMB as “2013 albums”, this is why. That was the original date they were uploaded to streaming, though they have since been updated to correct the release dates).

Sometimes when albums are taken down or updated on Spotify, tracks on the original upload will appear greyed out, as is the case with Boxing Day and The Gun Song. These tracks have not been removed from the album, this is a glitch on Spotify’s end. The original 2013 Distrokid upload of Twin Fantasy can also be found on Spotify (though missing the original version of High to Death) should you be curious enough to go searching for it. Hopefully this clears things up a bit.

tl;dr:

This was the original upload of the album that was taken down in 2017. It still occasionally comes up in recommendations/playlists, but it's not the "official" upload of the album that's more widely available. Boxing Day and The Gun Song are still available on streaming.

Sort of like how they incorporate the single version ending of dd/kw in their live performances

Hey, I've seen that this album is a divisive one and I'd like to know what y'all think.

Personally, I think it's a banger all the way through. The worse it can get is being mid at a few tracks like Jerks and Burning Man.

For the sake of this post I will pretend to be a new fan because I kind of am. I found twin fantasy through the time when sober to death was a trending audio and I've listened to it more times than I can count. however, I've basically listened to nothing but twin fantasy, and the amount of releases csh has is deeply intimidating. so, where do I start? The beginning? is all of their music on spotify? someone please kindly give me a list of everything and where it is if not on spotify.

I know that I can technically go listen to it from a downloaded file or something but like Bandcamp has such a nice interface that makes my OCD really happy and it's sad that it's gone :(. I wish that Will didn't do this but it is what it is I guess.

hey! so i​ bought the​ special edition vinyl for the scholars​ (the coloured​​ vinyl discs and the number on the back) from the car seat headrest website (which im fairly sure is ran by matador) a few days ago and i know that there probably wasn't going to be a restock of it when it came out over a year ago because of the fact it's numbered. i couldn't get it then and just decided to move on, but recently saw it's in stock again? i'm confused because i saw it wasn't expecting one as it's a numbered vinyl and all. i was trying to think what this may be because i thought i'd see people talking about it if it was restocked. is this maybe just a UK shop thing? like i was thinking maybe it just didn't sell out in the UK or something. not really a pressing issue or question i'm just super curious!

The Scholars is a good album. It's not Twin Fantasy, and it's not Teans of Denial, but it's objectively a good album. Comparison is the thief of joy.

I feel as though The Scholars was VERY criticized upon release especially given the 5 year anticipation of a new album. I do give credit to the critics saying the albums narrative is hard to follow and vocally the album lacks the passion and emotion in comparison to previous projects. and to preface, NO! i am not one of those people who are like “why won’t he just remake another twin fantasy type of album even though he isn’t 19 anymore and is 33 years old BLAH BLAH BLAH.” I will agree very much so that the deep raw emotion depicted in twin fantasy 2018 and all work leading up to it has kind of ran flat in my SUBJECTIVE opinion. that’s really the only thing that struck me as disappointing but considering everything that’s occurred with will since their last album release, can’t really blame him if his whole entire heart and soul wasn’t thrown into this record .

However i think Will’s vocal and production progression over the years has reached its ultimate peak on The Scholars. His vocals throughout the entire album are absolutely BREATHTAKING. I think the track lengths are perfect for what they are. if we’re nitpicking, then the three 10 minute+ track run, back to back to back may make the album feel like it’s dragging on a bit but doesn’t take away from each individual songs performance rating. The in-depth lyrics, chilling guitar riffs, gorgeous and atmospheric vocals/production, beautifully executed pivot to a rock opera genre, all contribute to overcompensating for what lacks on this record whilst pushing this up to a 9/10 album for me.

I originally rated this album between a 9 and a 10 but was open to the idea of that being recency bias. it’s been a bit over a year now since the albums release and i have yet to stop having this album on repeat CONSTANTLY. it has fantastic replay-ability value and my rating has not changed whatsoever. i find more to admire that i hadn’t previously noticed with every listen.

shoutout car seat headrest 🙏

I hope my question makes sense. Was it sort of a twin peaks david lynch situation where he planned putting out the third season after 25 years or did the twin fantasies get called mirror to mirror and face to face after the second one came out.

edit: TWIN FANTASY not final fantasy IM SORRY im playing it rn and i think about it a lot lmao