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+# Review of _Clancy_ (2024)
+
+Last Updated 2024-03-31
+
+## Overcompensate
+
+The first single dropped while I was in Boston. I watched the MV in the
+lobby at the Museum of Fine Art. I cannot say a bad thing about the music.
+
+Things that immediately caught my attention:
+
+- So the boys decided to start an entire album with German (I heard "diese
+  kleine", "gemacht" and "wir glauben beide", but I couldn't figure out
+  the rest until someone on Reddit transcribed it)
+- Interpolation of "Bandito" from _Trench_
+- First "real" line of song begins at 1:46 which, depending on your
+  definition, may or may not make the intro even longer than in "Implicit
+  Demand For Proof"
+- Tyler grins every time he sings the word "overcompensate"
+- His hand signs V on "twice" which is a classic trope all tøp fans
+  recognize
+- On "by the time", he pretends to check his watch, alluding to the short
+  published in 2022 titled "sometimes people ask what we do all day before
+  the show starts." where he does the same
+
+![Left: Tyler sits on a couch and looks at his wrist; right: Tyler stands
+in a red light and looks at his wrist](img/clancy_review/watch.jpg)
+
+- At the end, someone pulls off "Tyler"'s mask only to find another
+  person. Tyler himself is actually far away from Dema, and the "Tyler" we
+  saw throughout the video is just a citizen possessed by Tyler. The
+  citizen has long hair and looks feminine, which is coherent with a fan
+  theory (which I believe) that "Redecorate" from _Scaled And Icy_ is
+  about a transgender person.
+- Josh ordered his like 6th? 7th? 314th? custom drum kit from SJC??
+
+Only problem I have is the youtube thumbnail. Look at Josh. Why he look
+like Elon Musk 😭😭😭
+
+![Josh in front of a projection screen and a line of text is projected
+right on his lips](img/clancy_review/overcompensate_thumbnail.jpg)
+
+## The album cover & meta things
+
+The album cover was not well received. Lots of fans say they could do
+better. I agree. Just look at this.
+
+![Tyler and Josh, in black and white all blurry like crafty newpaper
+cutouts, in front of a red/yellow
+background](img/clancy_review/clancy.jpg)
+
+The art style is ok, and it's reminiscent of the low-res, dithered feel of
+their teasing website,
+[dmaorg.info](http://dmaorg.info/found/15398642_14/clancy.html). It's fine
+if it's the style they're going for. After all it's the first time the
+boys put themselves on a record cover.
+
+But I mean… at least give Josh more attention… like c'mon.
+
+The album is set to drop May 17, which made me worried because if they
+tour right then over summer break I might miss it.
+
+## Next Semester
+
+Haha! They're not touring until August, and the Detroit show is on
+September 29. I guess you could literally… (picks up acoustic guitar) wake
+me up when september ends 🥁🥁🥁
+
+Anyway, a new single dropped titled "Next Semester" and incidentally
+that's when I'll go to their show. I received the newsletter halfway
+through a take-home exam, and I was unable to concentrate ever since.
+
+The song is unexpectedly punk, a _huge_ deflection from the hip-hop of
+"Overcompensate". The bass is punchy af and sounds straight from Mike
+Dirnt. The drumline is almost irresponsibly simple compared to
+"Overcompensate". It's un-Josh.
+
+_Snap, snap, snap — it's not a bad thing._ Given the punk genre, this may
+be intentional. Allow me to go on a tangent about Radiohead.
+
+Back when I was in love with _The Bends_ and thought nothing could top it,
+I tried _Kid A_ and, unexpectedly, it got me hooked in just three seconds.
+For context, _The Bends_ is pure rock, and _Kid A_ is pure electronic
+— synthesizers, drum machines, vocoders, etc. If Wikipedia is to be
+trusted, it's because Radiohead grew tired of rock.
+
+You need dynamics in a song, you need dynamics in an album, and you need
+dynamics in your discography. To make "[genre] and [genre] only" is to
+become a machine. This is why I get bored of some albums by Linkin Park
+and Green Day. To be fair, I get bored with tracks #6-9 on _Vessel_
+sometimes, so I'm not as biased as you think.
+
+Back to "Next Semester". Interesting things:
+
+- Tyler's bass is practically identical to mine; he's got a Fender P,
+  probably charcoal gray, and I've got a Squier PJ in the same color.
+  Great minds think alike
+- Despite probably intended to resonate with students, it did not resonate
+  with me because I'm doing pretty ok this semester and am not
+  contemplating suicide no thank you will check back when i need it
+
+Now.
+
+Tickets.
+
+This is the most stressful part, to get tickets before they sell out,
+probably not into hands of real fans, but resellers who profit with an
+obscene margin. I hope they die.
+
+Here's hoping my luck works out on April 2. I hope it's less than $100,
+but at this point it's not really about cost.
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 - [Review of My Chemical Romance discography](mcr_discog_review.md)
 - [Playlist to put on on my deathbed](deathbed_playlist.md)
 - [How I Discover a Band](band_discovery.md)
+- [Review of _Clancy_](clancy_review.md)