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(Left to Right: Kennedy Brock lead rhythm guitarist, Pat Kirch drummer, John O'Callaghan lead vocalist, guitarist and pianist, Jared Monaco lead guitarist, Garrett Nickelsen bassist)
Pictured below is The Maine in their iconic white suites which they wear every time they perform Lovely Little Lonely on tour. Some speculate that they started to dress more put together as a band as their music matured.

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The Maine is a boy band consisting of 5 members that formed in 2007. They started up in Tempe, Arizona and have traveled all over the world preforming their music. The Maine's newest album Lovely Little Lonely (LLL) is not alike any of their previous work. The Maine captured a new sound throughout this album, they used elements such as slowness and silence to really captivate the listener. Unlike any artist in the alternative rock genre The Maine ends LLL with How Do You Feel? which leaves an open-ended question that allows the listener to reflect on the emotions they felt while listening to the album.

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Pictured below is The Maine, I find it interesting that they're almost always photographed in the same order.

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"Slowness in music invites reciprocity: it makes the listener want to fill the spaces with his own content, whether that be associations or movement or emotional response."
(Chp. 2, Pg. 25)
The Maine does exactly this throughout Lovely Little Lonely. With the silent breaks dispersed throughout the songs the listener is constantly being forced to stay engaged and reflective at the material on hand and the emotions it triggers.

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John O'Callaghan the front man of the band describes this song as "spaced out and fragile." Which is exactly how this song sounds with its many instrumental breaks and isolated vocals. The use of silence really emphasizes how lonely O'Callaghan feels while he sings and as the instruments all rush in at the end of the song you can really feel just how desperate O'Callaghan becomes in his need to only talk to that one special person.

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"Used with a little rigor or aggression, the conscious production of less sound or no sound can turn the act of listening upside down. It means that the listener can be listening to, responding to, absences."
(Chp.5, Pg.62)
I think The Maine does an excellent job of portraying this sense of no sound even when various instruments are definitely playing. During these breaks of silence I think the listener can really reflect on the emotions they're feeling in the moment.

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I've been a fan of The Maine since the beginning of time, I've had the privilege of watching them mature in their music. Based on all their previous albums I can honestly say LLL is one of my all time favorite albums The Maine has ever put out. The use of the elements slowness and silence really emphasizes the emotions of sadness, heart break and brokenness through the constant breaks and the instrumental solos.

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I found the song Taxi really slowing it down in order to emphasis the chorus which contain the lyrics “In the backseat of the taxi When you told me we were only Two punch-drunk souls all tangled in the wind And in the backseat when you asked me "Is the sadness everlasting?" I pulled you closer, looked at you and said "Love, I think it is". One thing that caught my eye throughout Taxi was definitely the structure of the song, it starts off slow but the whole time you can literally feel the guitar, piano and drums build up to the chorus. The second time the chorus comes around the song continues to have “these really big choruses that drop into these little sound beds” (Monaco, 2017) that “eventually swell into a loud and emotional guitar solo in the bridge.” (Monaco, 2017) which I think really influence the heavy emotion of heartache and sadness present in this song.