Burners to Slow Jams and the Art of Song Placement

I plan on making a big entry review on Ben Harper and Relentless7's "White Lies for Dark Times" as it continually blows my mind. Best album I've heard so far this year and I've heard some good tunes. The following is an AIM convo with Dave just a few moments ago as we discuss said amazing album and just song placement in albums all together. It's a rant and a ramble and grammar and casing is never important on AIM. But I found this interesting enough

Dave:so I've finally been getting to the end of the ben album a few times
Dave:wow.
Awesome so amazing

Dave:"faithfully remain"
Awesome altho in the middle my fav may be "Keep it Together" faithfully remain is amazing

Dave:I like "boots like these" too
Dave:but "keep it together" is badass
Dave:but "faithfully" and "fly one time" have both started to really stick with me

Awesome "And now i'm caught in between what i cant leave behind and the world i may never find"
Awesome so powerful

Dave:yeah, both incredible songs
Awesome the entire album is so damn solid

Dave:basically every song not "thin skin" is amazing
Awesome skin thin is great

Dave:not a big fan
Awesome alright

Dave:seems to be the weak point in the album
Awesome its awkwardly placed after dress in black. not a good transistion

Dave:a slow down after a burner, but yeah, I tend to agree
Awesome there's a proper way to slow from a burner

Awesome sudden stops of the burner works great

Dave:..I'm trying to think of the name of the song after 'everlong'
like a violent stop
Awesome walking after you
Dave:yes
Awesome everlong has a long fade tho

Awesome a good 10 seconds


Awesome u need either a long fade or sudden stop like "Somebody told me to" to "All these things i've done"

Dave:but the semi-fade in "dressed in black" doesn't lend itself
Dave:interesting theory
Awesome with black its not a slow fade really

Awesome its a wind-down

Awesome like one instrument then another stops

Awesome not all together for a fade or note ring

Dave:it's a tough song to follow
Awesome well that too

Dave:I mean even in terms of how it fades
Dave:what do you do next?
Awesome i could see the word suicide and skin thin swap places


Awesome and solve the problem

Awesome as "Boots Like These" has a long enough fade

Awesome and "...Suicide" has a slow build up

Awesome so following black would work as it creates its own vibe through its slow opening