Now when I have listened all songs from ToT quite many times, my favourite song is Temple of Thought. I just love the whole song and especially it's chorus.
My other favourites are Skin, The Distance, The Lie Eternal, Kamikaze Love and Morning Tide. I like all of the songs on the album, but those I mentioned are the ones I have listened the most since I got the album in my hands

I haven't bought my digital version of ToT yet, so maybe I should buy another physical album to help reaching the first place...? It's always good to have two identical albums, just in case...


I can't say some songs from the album are better than the others (voted for all songs). I love them all, but in some mood certain songs are the best and the others aren't that good. In another mood, those which weren't that good a moment ago, are now the best and the rest aren't that good. Then there are some songs that are the best in every mood but still I can't say they're better than the others...

I think my favorites from the album are The Ballad of Jeremiah Peacekeeper and The Happy Song because they cause so strong feelings for me and are so brilliant in their own categories. Still can't say they're the best, and now I'm thinking "but what about -"... No, I won't come around. Will. Not.

//Well, I break my promise (wasn't a surprise, eh.. ). Have to add CiL and teh dream (TD) on my favorite list. But that's enough, though the rest of the album is this close to get there too. *tries to demonstrate a distance short enough but nobody can see it without a microscope*

I like pop music, so I listened to MDNA... it's awful. There are two, maybe three songs that get in your ear, but they are the kind of songs that you get sick of after a few weeks of listening and then they just become outdated. She was on to something with Ray of Light and could have become a quality, cult artist by now. Guess pretending you're 20 and creating generic club bangers is more important to her. /2cents

As for PotF, I stopped listening to ToT over a week ago and am waiting for my album to arrive now :> Kamikaze Love started growing on me, so I guess the entire album will be a huge grower. Can't wait to hear it on something that isn't youtube quality, and with a nice booklet to boot

Ok, I voted for all of them. Now that seems like a copout to some, I'm sure, but, like I have said many times, one or more songs will hit me just the right way on some days, which others will do the same on other days. May not make sense to most, but that's how my little brain works

Last night I had to listen to Kamikaze Love over and over and top it off with The Ballad of Jeremiah Peacekeeper and The Happy Song. I don't know about today yet since I just go up, but those three sound really so great right now, I think I'll start my music listening (ok that's after I listened to the whole album over and over on a loop all night with headphones....crazy? Just a little bit )

Brilliant album, kamikaze love and running out of time are my favs, whole album is amazing though!

The first time i listened to the album it didn't really get under my skin. I was like "well it's okay. Not bad". i knew it had to be good, but i was wearing a poker-face the whole time while listening.
But listening to the whole album the second time just blew my mind it was sooooooooo goooooooooood. I was partially afraid that potf might not make the new album as awesome as previous ones, but i should've never doubted them, temple of thought is just great, i love every single song there.

Just wanted to to dedicate a serious "Thank you Poets of the Fall" for this "Magic Piece of Work" you call "Temple of Thought" The Album runs continuously in my Life, giving a lot of Energy It´s complete from start to End, no failure in a Single Song. This shows how true Music has to be made and that you Guys know what you´re doing. I wonder how you keep raising the Bar from on Album to the Next. After "Twilight Theater" i thought there can be no Advancement any more as it was simply amazing , but "Temple of Thought" raises the Bar again. Thank you so much for such great Music...

Glad of it, thank you! And I'm sure we share much more... ("your naked love laid next me" - physical sense is another one) *Hugs*


Thank you, sis! And it is a movie, indeed! My own, precisely... and don't forget you'll be my assistant!
And I really love your thought about TBoJP! Just a great one, for someone who's still not sure about...

Btw, the more I listen to ToT the more I live the connection with its cover:
while listening the whole album mixed feelings come one after the other, depending on the song playing, but also on the same song... Love&Pain are always with me... I felt ToT would have been special for me, for several reasons I love it so, still for the same ones it's riving my soul... Some times I have to quit listening to it...

Ok, I didn't tell my opinion about the album yet.
Although I wrote my review, I don't know, I don't feel now like sharing it now, maybe it's because after listening to the songs more often my opinion had changed a little and I found new interpretations...

This album is totally killing me, like any of the previous. I can’t say it’s the best among all, because it’s just different. I love it, the emotions here and I love that every album has its specific mood. This one is somehow darker and I was living those songs so much, like never before. It gave me lots of feelings, from joy and smile on my face to pain, sadness and screaming inside. The next day when I woke up, my first thoughts went to those songs, I was still thinking about them and what I lived the previous night.
I feel like I lost someone I love, I can’t really explain that, like thinking about this person makes me sad, because we can’t be together, although the memory of him still brighten my day and makes me feel safe, like he was near me. Also I so badly want to help this person in sadness, but I can’t and it leaves me here so helpless...

Long time before the release day I decided to wait patiently for my original copy of CD. Which was different this time, because always when the new album came out, of course I ordered it, but the same day of its release I had to listen to the songs, before my copy arrived. But not this time. Even unfortunately there was a leak before release day, but I decided to not touch it, for me it was like disloyalty or betrayal of the band I love. So I waited patiently, but fate wanted to do me a little trick and my copy didn’t arrive even week after release day. Everyone of my friends already listened to the album, and they were saying „you have to listen to this, this one is so beautiful”. But the only thing I could reply was „I know it’s beautiful, although I haven’t listened to it, I know it’s beautiful, because it’s made by Poets and I trust them”. And finally, later than usual, I listened to the album. And what changed about my previous statement? Nothing.

Guys, you did again an incredible work. I appreciate it so much and every time you prove that you are the masters of sounds, effects, instruments, lyrics, voice and in general music. Thank you and cheers for that.

The new album's lyrics are up online.

Thanks you DSoL and thanks to Admin for putting them online

Indeed. I went just so curious about the lyrics of The Happy Song...

http://www.recordshopx.com/single/poets_of_the_fall/kamikaze_love/#cds

According to this, Kamikaze Love will be released in 20.04 in Finland! The price is ridicules though. And I am a ridicules man myself...

Thanks for letting us know DSOL! That Admin, always busy!

I had them, since I had the booklet, but it's fun to see them on the site!

I just registered for the forum today, and I'll probably get yelled at for starting an entirely new topic but I'm still trying to figure out how to work this thing.

Anyway, I was listening to "Skin" today, and after Marko sings "you turned and walked away" I heard him speaking something very quietly. I'm pretty sure he says "and without you, my life ain't nothing but this carnival of rust."

Just thought I'd let people know in case they didn't notice.

Not going to yell at you, but I merged the topic you started into an already existing one about Temple of Thought album. What you mentioned about Skin has already been mentioned here briefly.
Next time, try to browse around a little before you start a new thread, ok?
Welcome to the forum!

Now I've had the time to listen through the album a few times. I got to say...It's a solid album. Even though it kind of felt like it was missing something in the middle, the overall album is a solid entity. However, I'm not a big fan of "The Happy Song". Maybe there's some poetry having it being the last song of this album but I didn't get it.

So anyway. I liked the album. There are some songs I really liked, like Temple of Thought, The Kamikaze Love, Morning Tide, Skin, The Lie Eternal, The Distance and The Ballad of Jeremiah Peacekeeper. Then there were some songs I really didn't like that much like Cradled in Love (it has a good melody but I am just not that big of a fan of how some parts of it were made, love it or hate kind of thing I guess) and The Happy Song which I just didn't get. Rest of the songs were pretty ok, nothing really wrong with them but they didn't grow into me that much like the "best" songs.

In the end. I felt like it was a great album that really fit the theme of being the last of the trilogy that consisted of SoL and CoR and now ToT. It didn't have such an effect on me as the SoL had long time ago but it was still good. Poets have definitely grown in both terms of physical age and their music style. They are not doing the old stuff but rather trying to mix their "original" style with new things. It's going great. They definitely have their own definite music style and yet each album feels very different from each other. Hopefully we'll be able to see even more album from Poets in the future.

I have been listening to Morning Tide a lot recently, and after reading through the lyrics... Does anybody else feel the song is written about a loved one that has passed away? The feeling the lyrics give me, and the way the person the song is about only ever seems to be referenced spiritually.

@KamikazeLove good, so I'm not the only one with that impression? But for me it's like the protagonist singing the song is the ghost coming back to his loved one and asking her to follow him. There are those lines "love is still here / never will it leave" "leaving behind all our sorrow" " into another life" "and no one will know" ... Sure, it's just a feeling and thought I've got in my twisted mind

And I am also incurable Tolkien fan and I will always associate "sailing to the white shores" with dying, in a way.

Yeah, I really like the feeling I get from it. Those lines to me show that the protagonist still loves whoever has died and possibly 'the ocean sigh' and 'brave the crashing waves' meaing life still has to go on without him/her, and that the protagonist needs him/her alongside him to get through it all.

Great album this one.

KamikazeLove and serinde, I don't see Morning Tide in that kind of light at all. To me it's a love story of two people so closely tied that they can feel completely secure in their love for one another to "brave the crashing waves" and to survive the rough waters and to be able to kiss the sorrows goodbye before continuing into another (less stormy phase of) life.

@DSoL, sure, I know for majority of people the song is the most beautiful, touching and very happy love ballad, that's why I didn't posted this thoughts in my "review" of the album, but since I'm not the only one with the "ghostly" feelings... Hey, that's the beauty of Poets' songs - countless interpretations

Yeah, I really like how all of their songs can have many different interpretations, depending on the person and mood. It's one of the reasons they're my favourite band.

My thoughts about Morning Tide lead me to a strong connection of hearts and souls between two people that are deeply in love and for some reasons, their love is not fulfilled. It’s about this love which is so strong that it will going to bring and keep them together, no matter how the world will turn... and then, they will take a completely new and different life. The lyrics accentuate the idea of a future life together cause the words "We will" are repeated on and on, between the lines almost during the whole song.
I think that these lines „ Together we'll go/Where the clearer winds blow, far and beyond/Leaving behind all our sorrow and pride/Kissing them goodbye, into another life” are talking about a change, a new, happier, brighter life that this pair of souls will have together. And I don’t know why, the Morning Tide lyrics made me think about Change song, ” Do you ever dream of the world like I do… But I feel a change coming on /Rolling out of the blue like a storm", cause in my mind it has the same theme.

I'll vote when I've listened through the whole album, but after the first two tracks there's something I really need to say:

This is the way I like it

EDIT: The Ballad, without a doubt. Running out of Time comes as a good second, but doesn't get even close

Sooo.... what's the song in which they used the 12-string guitar?

I'm not sure you'll find anyone here who knows the answer to this question, or at least I can't figure it out just by listening to the songs. POTF sometimes answers questions on Twitter and FB, maybe you should try your luck and ask there.

YEP!

Morning Tide... how beautiful! The Dream... The Hope... the last one, maybe... ?

Have you any idea what means to listen to Temple of Thought while walking on a desert beach?
It's just like a journey into another dimension, where time doesn't exist, it's only you and your own emotions, your own visions... And nature surrounding you is the only contact with reality, but you don't read it this way, cos also nature belongs to your own "imaginarium".
It's like a shamanic journey, where mind, heart and spirit meet each other, sharing their own experiences, to sense the truth concealed into the deepest self and to which, just outward contradiction, also the body contributes with all its physicality...
That, at least, is what happens to me, probably cos every single song of this album touches me deeply, somehow, sound included. It's the first time that a whole album involves me so personally, and I guess that's the reason why, after one month, I am still shocked...

The gentle sea breeze caressing my face, the scent of the sea and its sight getting lost into the horizon, with the sound of the waves breaking on the foreshore, (they) enhance the effect every song has on me.
Running Out of Time's rhythm opens me the doors of this journey, carrying me out of time, exactly! Kamikaze Love, The Lie Eternal and Show Me This Life are the most physical: my body quickens... and with TLE it "switches turbo on" (can't share more than this, sorry).
To listen to Cradled in Love, Skin, Morning Tide sat few steps from the foreshore and The Distance, while walking on the shore: what a pathos... These songs become one with the sea, feeling and sound merge into the scenery in front of me and into the sound of the waves (TD - another physical one - and MT are really incredible!)... And I get lost into the sorrow of that Love...
Temple of Thought... a warm light stream embracing me... and I allow it to do that, as if I was waiting just for that... A "revelation" breaking down my defenses and yes, taking away all my fears (which come back after a while, though...). And that's enough, cos pretty hard to explain more.
The Ballad of Jeremiah Peacekeeper: its disarming humanity, into such a scenery, leaves me on my knees and with tear-stained face... Do I need to add more?
And that's when I so need The Happy Song! Just to not last.. lost into that carnival of emotions. Got the "bucket of water to the face" effect...
TBoJP and THS as last two song of the album: for me just the right&better place, indeed!
And an advice: don't listen to CiL, Skin, TD, MT (and also TBoJP) all in a row, while being in front of the sea... they kill your heart&soul... Luckily the beach was desert and no one saw the tears on my face...

P.S.: Captain, I love you so! The sound of this album is... a gorgeous soundtrack! But believe me, I am really not able to express what I feel for it...

@ Claudia

I often was wondering how it would be to go to a beach and listen to ToT. You lucky lady, who has the beach so near, can do it if you're in the mood. I love to hear about your experiences and feelings. Somehow saw you on the beach. Thank you for sharing this moments with us.

I tend to disappear from these boards and reappear around the time of new releases and stuff so a big hello to anyone who remembers me. Just wanted to say that Temple of Thought is pretty cool. I haven't listened to it nearly as much as some of you so I'm not sure of what my favorite tracks are. But The Happy Song is REALLY out of left field.