#conditions of a punk

[masterfuldoodler]

I made a new quiz! Have fun!

[cuddlycryptid]

half•dead (evil half•alive) is topping the charts with their hit song bummerland

[jabberjay-tblr]

1. hot tea

2. conditions of a punk

3. never been better

4. call back

5. what’s wrong

(6. everything machine)

i keep forgetting to tag you sorry @masterfuldoodler

[nogenderonlyrat]

The song High Up by half•alive album Conditions Of A Punk release October of 2022

High Up specifically at its climax starting at 2:55

Ghostknife

Ghostknife specifically in that episode in season 2 where Vyncent jumps off that really high building towards William so he can get his powers back or whatever

Do you see my vision?

[l00ney-m00ny]

“You can call me what you like, as long as you call me” and its challenger “Would you call back if i called you and it didn’t go through”

[melit0n]

"The more that I grow, the more that I've come to know; it's hard to be someone and it hurts to be nobody."

[its-flame-art]

| 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦'𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘧𝘪𝘹 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵'𝘴 𝘸𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘨 |

don’t know why the quality is so bad…if you want to see it in a teensy bit better quality plus a cool time-lapse of said drawing check me out on instagram!

[xsirenvx]

I can't get over how good half•alive was live and there is way too less content about them to be so obsessed

[jackbkwiq]

Keep changing like the weather, I'll stop tryin to make you better

half-alive “I’ll Stop”

[nighttimedaydreamer]

Leaves are changing colour... mmm

Also just take a look at these guys. These are all my own photos, from the half•alive 'Conditions of a Punk' world tour, part 2 concert in Cleveland Ohio. First one of the tour! I was so lucky to have been able to go, it was totally sick. They're my current favourite band, and it was cool to be in the same room as them and sing my heart out to their songs with a bunch of other fans.

[joshyposhy]

My favourite albums of 2022 (in no particular order)

Honourable Mentions:

MUTEMATH - Play Dead Live

Taylor Swift - Midnights

Marcus Mumford - (self-titled)

Madonna - Finally Enough Love

Lights - PEP

[sunkissedliterarylightofchrist]

Rank the half•alive albums and explain why pls

Along with the full albums, I sprinkled in my favorite EP’s because I totally 100% decided to just be extra and not at all because I forgot the function and difference of an EP from an album until halfway through writing this uh yep don’t worry about my musical terminology definitions at all I am a musician I do in fact certainly know these things shush.

5 - Conditions of a Punk

This album is nice. Like- it’s nice. I don’t dislike it, I think it’s good! Just not in the same incredible level as their other stuff.

Instrumentally, it’s not as great as their other stuff. With this one they were really trying out different styles and techniques, and I like some of it, but not all. I don’t like the effects and ‘washy’ effects like I love the fuller, richer tones in their other works. But I’m grateful for it because they learned a lot from it that they then put into their future work!

Lyrically, the subject and theme of romantic breakup isn’t something I have personally been through, so I don’t understand it to the same degree that others might. BUT, when thinking about some specific songs through the lens of friendship breakups, (cough, Did I Make You Up? cough) it is FANTASTIC.

How much I like this album really is a case by case basis with each song to be honest. Or maybe it’s because I haven’t been compelled to do a deep dive analysis into every single song, so I don’t love CoaP as a whole, I don’t know.

It gets bonus points because it has the most songs on it and everybody likes as much music as possible. But then again, that’s where one of its big flaws lies. The storytelling in this album doesn’t feel cohesive and smooth like in their other music. By putting so many songs in that didn’t all fit together, it caused some tension on the album overall.

So yeah. The album is okay, the songs are better as individuals than as a whole, but also these are the ‘worst’ of their songs (although I don’t think h•a has any bad songs at all, they’re far too skilled for that. Just my spur of the moment two cents here.

4 - In Florescence

I. LOVE. THIS. EP. SO. STINKIN. MUCH.

Okay, this is four of the songs from Now, Not Yet (RUNAWAY, still feel., creature, and BREAKFAST) remastered with an orchestra. And it’s ✨GORGEOUS✨

With each song, they took the same lyrics and the same overall beats of the song, but changed everything else. And not just for the sake of changing it, but to make the songs even better! From the length of the songs, to the different orchestral arrangement, to the beat drops, to the overall mood and tone, heck, even the way that Josh and the choir sing the songs (let’s all just take a moment here for Josh’s incredible controlled vocal cracks and wavering vulnerability with the way he projects oh my GOSH some of his best singing of all time is right here in my opinion wow he is good)

I adore the original versions of each of these four songs so much and I love these versions of these songs just as much, if not more, and this remastering was the best idea ever and I adore it and I think everyone should give it way more hype and listen to it WAY more often.

And it has my favorite song creature, made as my favorite version of it with all the gorgeous instrumentals, so it gets bonus points.

3 - 3

Only reason it’s above In Florescence is that those songs were remastered from Now Not Yet while 3 has all originals, and definitely not because I wanted to make a joke.

All three of these songs absolutely smash and it is 100% their best EP. The Fall, Aawake at Night, and Tip Toes are some of their best songs ever. I never see people talking about these but they 100% should. These songs cover what hovering in the cusp of submitting yourself to Christ looks like— either the first time when you’re saved, or over and over again when you sin and temporarily turn your face from Him in shame before running back into his arms.

Also the sound of it is so good??? Definitely the most techy and alternative of their music. Love love love it. They’ve veered away sound-wise since as they’ve discovered more of their personal style, but when they did do this stuff they totally crushed it and the sound of this EP holds a special place in my heart.

Love every syllable, need do a verse by verse breakdown of it at some point to give this beauty the screen time it deserves.

2 - Persona

My life got SO MUCH BETTER the day this album came out, seriously.

Once again they’re talking about the human condition, and once again they’re nailing it. This album is split between ‘the ache for a healthy world and a call of accountability for how we are hurting it’ and how that pushes us to cry out to Abba Father. Then also, we have to appreciate the past and harness it to drive us into the future, while savoring and appreciating the present, to be able to go into he future boldly without worry because God’s got us. We’ve got to open ourselves up to God and take off our mask, our persona, with Him and with the people who love and care for us.

AND THE ROCK IN THIS ALBUM- SO GOOD. And I loved their soft, melodic style they also leaned into so much, it really goes to show how much range they have and how well they really do it all! A lotta bands and singers do only have a one-note style, so I adore how diverse they can be musically! And the tone that they pair with what they are saying in each song is perfect.

The only reason that Persona is below Now, Not Yet, is I’m incredibly attached to how NNY depicts the walk of faith and what being a Christian looks like so majestically. Persona has elements of that, but is more focused on both the anger and softness of the general human experience and how that affects everyone. But in every other way, it’s equal to NNY, I adore both of these so much.

1 - Now, Not Yet

This album. This album- is a masterpiece. It goes like this:

Life Hurts -> We See Our Condition -> We Want to Run From It -> We Can’t Improve Alone -> Seeing Sin -> Explaining Sin -> Even in Sin, I Feel Alive, But Not Because of Me, Because of Something(One) Who Saved Me -> [Big Shift in the story right here] Maybe I Don’t Have to be Stuck in this Sin -> There is Certainity in the Goodness of This Thing(Person) -> This Good Thing(Person) Has Saved Me -> Oh Wait but I Still Feel All That Pain -> I’ve Been Saved from my Sin but it’s Still There -> I Long for Pure Goodness -> I Find it in this Thing(Person) -> I Need to Rest In It -> True Goodness is Revealed to Me -> I Can Surrender Myself to It -> Jesus is the Answer

ROMANS EIGHT BABY. GO READ ROMANS EIGHT (and how Romans Seven first leads to it) WHILE LISTENING TO THIS ALBUM I BEG YOU.

Point-blank period, no grey area. Up until creature, you could intrepret different songs in different ways, but at that point when they pull off the curtain and show God at the center of it all, everything else suddenly clicks into place and becomes so much richer and better. It starts off pretty ambiguous, but with each song the final point becomes clearer and clearer.

This album is called Now, Not Yet because that’s the theme. We are Creation, both Haunted and Holy. And we feel the tug of the world between our flesh and our souls. We’ve been saved already, its guaranteed. But until that day, we’ve got to continue to fight. And for His Glory, pointing it back to Him in all that we do.

Do I even need to dive into how it sounds HOLY COW YALL ITS A MASTERPIECE OF HEADPHONE GREATNESS AND A TOTAL BOP. Literally do not know how they didn’t win an award with this it’s incredible. Love all the soundboard stuff they did, ‼️the beat drops‼️, and how their music just flows through you and gives you chills in the best possible way. And the way they use percussion to like give glitter to what they’re saying is just so cool?? And gotta love how the bass and consistency of the backing tracks always are, and how it elevates up Josh’s voice- especially with all the add on effects that are added and the echoing in a lot of these songs!

👏So👏amazing👏

IN CONCLUSION I could talk about half•alive and what it means and how it sounds and how all of it glorifies God and how I want all of my friends to listen to them as well and how I hope to meet them all day thank you for giving me an opportunity to talk about this.

[star-girlfriend]

Did u get my vibes man?

[thrawns-babygirl]

Y'ALL!!

[stellaltumi]

my chronically ill best friend just said "I feel like the side effects part of a medication commercial" SO FUCKING TRUE BABE