[direwolf74]

Call me underwhelmed by the single...I found it a bit boring on my first listen. Hopefully it will grow on me, but if the rest of the album is produced like that I'll be disappointed. Since when was Johnny Fay replaced by a drum machine!?! I'm really tired of the whole Pro-Tools/drum trigger/replacement that is so prevalent in music these days.

Johnny isn't playing a hi-hat on this song, which is probably why it sounds a bit different. Also his snare drum seems to have more of a stripped down sound than on previous albums. If you listen closely, you can actually hear the snare rattle a bit. That's not a drum machine you're hearing. Those are definitely live physical drums. Especially when you hear the bass drum and the way he rides the crash cymbal on the chorus-ey parts.