#mcr5 i'm predicting an overall heavier/dirtier sound but with airier moments incorporating more fingerstyle btw and i cannot WAIT

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Is it just me or did Ray get even BETTER at guitar over the breakup lile i mean of course he would have gotten better but like he's been slaying non stop

oh one HUNDRED percent. the thing about being a touring musician who's performing mostly the same songs every night is that you just get really good at playing those songs and you're often not actually improving at your instrument or as a musician. ray's literally had almost ten years to explore new techniques and learn more about mixing and production and pick up whole new instruments. it shows in how joyful he is up there and how much more confident he is as a performer even though he went ten years without playing a single show, and it shows through in all the gorgeous new solos that don't just rely on high-speed shredding to be impressive. you can hear a lot of the techniques he used in remember the laughter in some of them for example 🥹🥹🥹 - like the low bluesy jamming around in teenagers, and like how the semi-improv outtro he's doing in kids from yesterday is so reminiscent of the solos in the great beyond and take the world.......let me tell you if they do have another album coming out it is gonna blow all our tits clean off. i know i'm very biased but there is literally no denying ray is easily one of the greatest guitarists of his generation