#marianas trench band

[horizon-penblade]

girls don't want flowers, girls want instrumentals and full choral sheet music for Marianas Trench songs

[smashwolfen]

Went to the first half of my first concert EVER!

MARIANAS TRENCH!!!

Got VIP tickets so got to be apart of a meet and greet and got to ask a QUESTION!!! GOT PHOTO with them!!!!!

Currently hanging out before actual show because too much time in between so food and drink with bestieeeee XD

I brought my lil guy with meeeeeeee XD

[beansmakesthings]

Y'all need to go listen to the new Marianas Trench album right now holy shit it rules

[knbillustrations]

[ghostofpastlovers]

hello hello!!

hi!! this blog has been pretty inactive for a hot minute but i'm hoping to start using it again soon and being more active in the mtrench community!

speaking of mtrench community, we have a discord server!! a few friends and i started it up years ago and are wanting to revive it, so we've done a lot of work on it to tidy it up and get it ready for the public again! we would love it if you could join us! new and old trenchers alike are more than welcome to come and hang out with us, talk about the band, their music, and everything in between!!

here is the link to the server, i hope to see you there!!

[the-best-beep-boop]

the best beep boop: Bracket 1, Round 1, Match 8

フラジール (Pjsk version) (original song by nulut) vs Masterpiece Theatre III by Marianas Trench

[itsnotafashionstatementitsablog]

when a song has a callback to earlier songs on the same album or even songs from a previous album. that’s the good shit right there

[1313-mocking-bird-lane]

I only have 12 options or I would have included so many more (Sum 41, Bryan Adams, Shania Twain, Celine Dion, or Steppenwolf anyone?) ..but go wild in the tags!!

[idle-hands]

MARIANAS TRENCH CHANGED THEIR TWITTER BIO THIS IS NOT A DRILL

THAT IS NOT A QUESTION THAT IS A STATEMENT. THEY ARE NOT ASKING THEY ARE TELLING.

i am clawing at the walls

[pensivespecter]

*before seeing Marianas Trench live* Yeah they're a little corny and Canadian but it'll probably be an alright show.

*immediately after seeing them* Josh is a weird and talented little guy and I'm obsessed with his vibes and energy.

[tumbloggingattheendofitall]

Hi I might be a lil crazy but I think that #JoshRamsay #MattWebb #IanCasselman and #MikeAyley of @mtrench deserve a fckn Grammy for Haven. Like, the song, the album, the amalgamation the tour has become. Something.

I don't like to prop shit up but listen, #Haven is 13-track Journey - which btw most of the MTrench albums have been similarly concept albums. Anyways. This album is a journey to unravel the concept of the Hero's Journey through the lens of a book that Josh read, paired with the experiences of marital and domestic bliss, potential tension and upheaval in that process, and the added tension and fulfillment of parenthood - gaining that experience and simultaneously dealing with the loss of your own parents. It's an album steeped, deeply, in the 20-odd years of songwriting and composing and producing that Josh Ramsay has done in his career -sweeping riffs and strategic synths - mixed together with harmonies that shake the bones and soul of anyone that's listening. If you listen to only the singles, I can understand missing the awards-slash-Grammy potential here but I've listened to the album like a hundred times now and there cannot be a single way that I've somehow spent 52-odd minutes each time in it. And yet, I have. I have spent really, I'd guess, 24 36 hours at least listening to just the album in its entirety in the last 6 weeks. That excludes the singles which are similarly revelatory thus far - and as if their Nights Like These wasn't already anthemic, I anticipate a single/music video release the likes of which is rare in it's ability to unify disparate groups.

This group deserves a Grammy. This songwriter/composer/producer deserves a Grammy. Maybe I'm wrong that this album deserves it, but it's their 6th consecutive album and they've been doing this nearly as long as some of the younger entries to the RNR Hall of Fame and I suspect that the reason they've never received a Grammy has so much more to do with their being a Canadian band that has spent most of their career unsigned in the US, instead of having any reflection on the merit or integrity of their work. The only Signed album they ever delivered was incidentally their highest selling - it had crossover success in American Charts and market that catapulted their international success and has led to the continued ability for global tours by the band, but I do fully believe, having followed them for easily half my life at this point, that even if they'd never signed with a US label, they'd have reached the creative output and zenith that Haven represents. This album is, I would argue, the easiest listening experience I've ever had by this band. I would never categorize it as easy-listening, of course, because it is fundamentally Rock, with a generous dose of Pop, I think (genres are difficult to diagnose) But while they aren't easy-listening by any stretch (the harmonies alone can be soul shattering ok) this album was not Challenging the same way that, for example, Astoria or Fix Me or Phantoms may have been. Each of those has similar concept elements that they played with (Fix Me was possibly the least Concept of the albums available but the overarching narrative can still be felt and is still often inaccessible) which challenge a listener to earnestly interrogate and question the central narrative and even go so far as to consider the narrator. Masterpiece Theatre and Ever After pretty much directly challenge the listener to engage with the entire narrative the album presents and to question the narrator the whole way, to Really sit with that perspective. And even with those wider analyses available, you still wind up with the occasional Nice Single like Fallout or All To Myself which personify specific aspects of the story and/or narrator's perspective in a way that is insanely accessible to any individual who's had the Why Me moment, in the personal, romantic, or sexual sphere.

Not that it's Grammy worthy, but why you should listen to Marianas Trench is because they are also a band that has continuously and unapologetically uplifted their fans and the central people they want to reach, and that have uplifted the value of the diverse people that connect with their music - lots of people from a wide variety of backgrounds can connect with the individual story of a single, and there are lots of those to choose from (may I suggest One Love, Don't Miss Me?, Shake Tramp, or Celebrity Status for your perusal) but they are also always encouraging of the different access points of those narratives. For every person that connects with Fallout or All To Myself or Wildfire, for the yearning or whatever else, there's the people that find them over Sing Sing or Burning Up or Say Anything. And all of these songs have an individual chord within the wider narrative grasp of the story that the album is trying to tell. You spend the album seeing the narrative you're going through played out (in an often cinematic way) - love and loss, joy and ache, all materially spliced into an incredibly uplifting native that tells you as an individual listener that you are seen, heard, understood - no wonder, then, that their audience is so diverse except for the singular commonality of this one band from I think Vancouver?

And so Haven is indeed uniquely deserving because it is not only the Synthesis of these different methods of storytelling and struggle as music, it's also unique in that accessibility - it is arguably their most global narrative ever. I genuinely believe that anybody, anywhere, can relate deeply to at least one song from the album, but by far, for me, there is something that strikes a deep chord in the unity of the central phrase that the Song Haven employs - If We Fall, We All Fall Together. The entire album culminates in another call to action, arguably because there is recognition that once one Hero's Journey ends, another begins. As the narrative of the album falls away, there's a central call to action in the form of CONNECT, STAY, BE PRESENT, BE HERE. It feels incredibly powerful as a bookend to the album itself, and even more powerful when informed by the history of their back catalog.

So said, I suspect that Haven't Had Enough or Stutter or Desperate Measures are much more likely to receive accolades before Haven as an album does, but if I can ever compel anything, I would compel the public who can influence these things, and honestly just anyone who wants a new band to listen to that's maybe just a little different than your usual, to give Haven an honest try as an album and discover which phase of the Hero's Journey in it that appeals deeply to you in this moment. (I'm on Nights Like These and A Normal Life, depending on the context, personally)

It's simultaneously an album Of The Moment, and a timeless tale of cycles and the breaking of them, for better or worse. It's deeply heartfelt, and easily classed as the best album this band has ever released - a hard sell to fellow fans, but I've still received mostly positive counts on this opinion - because Haven culminates over two decades of work and life and experience, both personal and professional, into an artistic endeavor that was ambitious to create but feels only as ambitious as 52-odd minutes of music can be to engage with. And I do genuinely encourage everybody and anybody to just throw it on and let it play. Maybe it's the lyrics that get you, maybe it's the harmonies, maybe it's just the sound or the melodies or the overall vibe. But I can't find a better way to suggest that More People Need To Hear this silly, ambitious installment in the MTrench canon because it is genuinely a portrait of a moment in time and that portrait will look intensely personal to each person that listens.

For example I'm often dumb, very queer, mentally unwell, and etc ad nauseum. I simply think that maybe possibly, this album gets at something closer to Universal than many albums at the time. Also how cool would it be for a Whole Album to be up for various awards in this time frame that's been so dominated by the TikTok and Instagram Short version of musical virality

I don't think anyone I've talked to about it agreed on the best song, but they've all agreed with me that it's something really powerful that's masquerading as an innocuous pop/rock anthem

The accessibility is in the generality, but there are very real and felt inspirations that are expertly threaded here in a way that makes me genuinely lost at how best to explain or offer it to others

In that vein, I will help by posting a song that feels like ripping my heart out and seeing it here in full view even though all I've ever done, at most, was listen to it live and cry a little (a lot.) This is honestly one of the most generic singles they've ever released, but it touched something very deep and central for me in a way that I find impossible to describe without also just spilling my whole life story as fodder for anyone that sees this.

[clearbun]

WE'RE SO BACK

[thekidsarentalright]

so funny to me every time i go to a concert im like. that was great i loved it but i wish it was fob. i wish i was seeing fob i miss them. autism at its finest <3

[holydongbird]

[looking at sing, sing by marianas trench] [thinking about dance dance by fall out boy] SINGGG SINGGG WE'RE FALLIN APAAART TO HAALF TIME

[cecil-less-watcher]

Thinking about that one ent era interview where the guys said they would love to tour with marianas trench.

That tour would be for me I'd be in heaven