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Hey guys ! To celebrate the release of Victory, I've made a remix of Fire Away in a more groovy/french house vibe. Hope you'll like it

I think most of us here strongly suspect that the album is about a breakup, potentially specifically about the time he dated a married girl by accident (as was discussed in a previous post here IIRC, and as strongly hinted in “Hi!”). For “Enjoy” specifically, he said in the AMA that the meaning behind “Enjoy” was quite unbelievable…

Listening to it again, I wonder if it’s about them having sex specifically? The chorus and some of the lines implies a really good feeling (“I can tell this is better than love”, “But I enjoy the feeling”), but others imply some sense of regret (“I’m awake in the dead of the night, it’s just I can tell I better give up”), and even a sense of secrecy (“I’ll tell you you’ve got nothing to fear… I’ll keep it a secret”). As the next song Red Jacket hints, there was also an element of anger at the partner, and there’s bits of it here too (“I’m gonna make you pay for this”)

Moreover, some of the lines seem to imply that this was written from the partner’s POV (“They don’t know how to have fun, so I show them a sip of the sun”), but I’m a bit shaky on that theory.

Anyway, curious to hear the interpretations of other people. One reason I’m still quite shaky on this interpretation is that it feels too obvious. This was just something I noticed while looping the album for like the 25th time or something, and yapped on the train home.

After seeing initial reactions and reading what Hugo has said about the way the album was made, I'm pretty confident Victory will gradually become a fan favorite, especially when new music comes out.

I feel like it'll be similar to Human After All for Daft Punk, but it's much more polished and will stand as a snapshot of Hugo where you can point to and go "He really went there!"

Have you warmed up to it so far?

I'm trying to listen to the announcement but the radio station keeps cutting to a song called Super Platypus or something.

I have Enjoy on repeat, I was lukewarm on first listen but damn it is magical...

Originally listened to Victory on my way to Dallas in my wife’s Tucson. The distortion and graininess DID NOT do well on the standard car audio systems. After listening in a car with a better stereo and headphones, I have to say the difference is HUGE. Songs I originally didn’t enjoy listening to after the first few listens in the car had a totally different sound. Of course environment matters, but with this album I feel it’s night and day.

Reminds me of how Dr. Dre would test mixes on many different speaker setups from fancy monitors to standard car stereos. He had a point.

I'm seeing so many people say that the mixing is bad and stuff, some even say it hurts their ears which I never experienced (and I only have $30 headphones so I'm not using anything fancy here), and honestly I couldn't disagree more. I think the mixing is fine for what the project is.

Maybe I'm too used to really distorted and packed mixes. I listen to a lot of Jane Remover, tsubi club, Glaive, acloudyskye, etc. and they tend to saturate everything a lot and drown their vocals in the instrumentation, and I just don't see how that's ever a bad thing. The voice can be an instrument just like any other, not just teeth and a tongue to say words, and having a lot of distortion in a song reminds me of metal vocalists doing screaming instead of plain singing to portray a more intense emotion, even at the expense of intelligibility.

Again, I fail to see how any of this is a bad thing.

Is anyone familiar with this venue? It is seemingly open from 10pm to 4am, I really want to see the show but not if hes coming on at like 3am that's a bit much. (I just saw him at EF and will see him at another spot on the tour so its not the end of the world if I miss this one but I'd like to go)

I wasn’t overly impressed on my first listen but I’ve probably replayed the album 10+ times by now.

Every time I start listening to something else, my ears crave the weird grungy angst pop from the album and I come back.

Anyone else?