okay so this is some ill 80s revival shit--obviously a little bit of peter gabriel (otherwise why would i even be fucking with it) but mostly sort of uhhhh new wavey? i dont really know about music, except that this rules. (cutty was the one that "hipped me" to this dude so you know this shit is on point)
anyway i know it deserves a thread now because hipster runoff wrote about it: http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/2010/08/will-twin-shadow-be-the-only-harvestable-buzzband-of-2k10.html
you can download some mp3s there. "i can't wait" is a jam. and now when this shit goes huge you can all be like "max was there from the very beginning."
― max, Thursday, 26 August 2010 04:38 (2 years ago) Permalink
annoyed that you werent the first to post that cee-lo song huh
― just sayin, Thursday, 26 August 2010 11:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
Those songs were boring. Sorry
― van smack, Thursday, 26 August 2010 11:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
oh wow i didnt realize...
― max, Thursday, 26 August 2010 16:19 (2 years ago) Permalink
now i feel pretty embarrassed for starting this thread
"max was there from the very beginning."
I put "Castles in the Snow" on one of my mixes LAST YEAR. So, no.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 26 August 2010 16:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
FURST
multiple xposts
― unchill english bro (history mayne), Thursday, 26 August 2010 16:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
Oh no, wait...I was thinking about the wrong one. I put "Castles in the Snow" on one my mixes in APRIL. Still, no.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 26 August 2010 16:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
oh christ can we just talk about how good this is instead of the joke i made about being there first
― max, Thursday, 26 August 2010 16:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
Yeah, it's good. The dude looks kind of like a cross between Phil Lynott and a genie.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 26 August 2010 16:26 (2 years ago) Permalink
highlights so far for me are "i cant wait" and "tyrant destroyed"
― max, Thursday, 26 August 2010 16:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
highlight so far is "yeah i like muscle cars"
― a dystopian society awaits if we continue on this path. (contenderizer), Thursday, 26 August 2010 16:39 (2 years ago) Permalink
so i guess 2011 is going to be about unfiltered, unadulterated 80s pop then? huh.
― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Thursday, 26 August 2010 16:46 (2 years ago) Permalink
this is much better than that swedish faux toto b.s. u tried to push on us before
― NOT FUNNY NEEDS MORE GUCCI (deej), Thursday, 26 August 2010 17:00 (2 years ago) Permalink
Montee
― NOT FUNNY NEEDS MORE GUCCI (deej), Thursday, 26 August 2010 17:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
that was matt dc, and it was good
― max, Thursday, 26 August 2010 17:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
if you dont like toto i dont like you ®
really stretching to hear the peter gabriel connection. doesn't come anywhere near as as TVOTR sometimes do. as much chris de burgh as peter gabriel, but not in a bad way. "slow" kinda reminds me of the smiths, and in some distant way the bronski beat.
― a dystopian society awaits if we continue on this path. (contenderizer), Thursday, 26 August 2010 17:04 (2 years ago) Permalink
It's high noon in Brooklyn but its always midnight on southern, dead end suburban streets. Here, there is total silence except for the house at the very end, where inside a tin roof garage, teenagers are kissing for the first time. The humidity is too great, the boys peel off white t’s and the girls cheeks are flushed, beet red under the garage’s two fluorescent stripes. In a pond behind the house an alligator waits for a snow birds’ Pomeranian to take its night stroll. A child is sleep walking for the first time. Some one is running away for the last time. The music is too loud on the 12 D battery boom box radio, the cops are on their way. It’s at this moment you hear the music of Twin Shadow on a radio station transmitting suburban ghost dreams that sound like a slow motion shot of a cannon, singing about spirits, visions, and aural hallucinations cutting through the first American night.
― a dystopian society awaits if we continue on this path. (contenderizer), Thursday, 26 August 2010 17:05 (2 years ago) Permalink
what the hell is that
― gg eileen (jjjusten), Thursday, 26 August 2010 17:06 (2 years ago) Permalink
really stretching to hear the peter gabriel connection
That's Francis and the Lights where it's very pronounced. I don't hear it all in Twin Shadow.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 26 August 2010 17:07 (2 years ago) Permalink
artist's statement
xpost
― a dystopian society awaits if we continue on this path. (contenderizer), Thursday, 26 August 2010 17:07 (2 years ago) Permalink
"tyrant destroyed" is apparently the suburban ghost dreams part
really stretching to hear the peter gabriel connection. doesn't come anywhere near as as TVOTR sometimes do.
Ha, "Castles in the Snow" reminded me of TVOTR.
― jaymc, Thursday, 26 August 2010 17:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
really enjoying the suburban ghost dreams part btw
― a dystopian society awaits if we continue on this path. (contenderizer), Thursday, 26 August 2010 17:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
― max, Thursday, August 26, 2010 12:02 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
whoa whoa whoa -- i didnt say anything about toto, i said montee& they fit in w/ your 'personal brand' so i associated them w/ you the retro style felt like the only 'trick', the transcendent bridge or w/e ... spot on pastiche but not more than pastiche
― NOT FUNNY NEEDS MORE GUCCI (deej), Thursday, 26 August 2010 17:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
that artist statement tells me everything i need to know about never listening to this
― gg eileen (jjjusten), Thursday, 26 August 2010 17:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
Yeah, out of all the '80s big pop fetishists out there, Montée are among the least interesting.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 26 August 2010 17:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
― gg eileen (jjjusten), Thursday, August 26, 2010 12:11 PM (29 seconds ago) Bookmark
u might be reading it too literally
― NOT FUNNY NEEDS MORE GUCCI (deej), Thursday, 26 August 2010 17:12 (2 years ago) Permalink
yeah, it works better if you laugh
― a dystopian society awaits if we continue on this path. (contenderizer), Thursday, 26 August 2010 17:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
still kinda o_O
some of these songs work fine as demos, but it all screams for a big, glossy 80s production
― a dystopian society awaits if we continue on this path. (contenderizer), Thursday, 26 August 2010 17:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
specifically thinking of "when we're dancing"
― a dystopian society awaits if we continue on this path. (contenderizer), Thursday, 26 August 2010 17:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
only listened to 2 songs, but so far this is rad
― just sayin, Thursday, 26 August 2010 17:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
it is rad, and it doesn't let up. there isn't a bad song on here. otoh, it starts to sound a bit wallpapery after a while. like dude has made a such a close study and perfect reproduction of 80s moody pop that it eventually gets swallowed up by your memories of other stuff. "tether beat" is quite a standout though, love the vibe and quizzical guitar.
― a dystopian society awaits if we continue on this path. (contenderizer), Thursday, 26 August 2010 17:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
the guys voice sounds like peter gabriels voice
― max, Thursday, 26 August 2010 21:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
i dont know why i bother starting threads on ilm im always disappointed when people dont love stuff as much as i do
*sighs heavily*
just do not hear the peter gabriel thing at all, not even on "castles in the snow", which otherwise sounds exactly like TVOTR sounding like peter gabriel. i do like it in spite of it not sounding even a tiny bit like peter gabriel.
― a dystopian society awaits if we continue on this path. (contenderizer), Thursday, 26 August 2010 22:03 (2 years ago) Permalink
this thread is a pretty good example of 'branding'
― dayo, Friday, 27 August 2010 00:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
i really like these tunes max, thanks for starting this thread
― caek, Saturday, 28 August 2010 11:08 (2 years ago) Permalink
just remember: i was there first
― max, Saturday, 28 August 2010 14:14 (2 years ago) Permalink
putting you in the acknowledgments of my thesis right now
― caek, Saturday, 28 August 2010 14:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
i preferred the start of this thread
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Saturday, 28 August 2010 14:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
cool dog
― dayo, Sunday, 29 August 2010 00:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
― a dystopian society awaits if we continue on this path. (contenderizer), Sunday, 29 August 2010 02:36 (2 years ago) Permalink
what is this crap? where's the steel guitar?
― not everything is a campfire (ian), Sunday, 29 August 2010 02:39 (2 years ago) Permalink
see best line in "graceland" thread
― a dystopian society awaits if we continue on this path. (contenderizer), Sunday, 29 August 2010 02:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
Pitchfork gives it an 8.4 and their best new music tag.....let the backlash/indifference begin.
― Tim. E "LazRus" Lucas (Prose b4 Hoes...and Big Hoos), Monday, 4 October 2010 06:06 (2 years ago) Permalink
really loving this so far
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Monday, 4 October 2010 10:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
couldn't get into it. I don't like the guy's voice.
― dmr, Monday, 4 October 2010 11:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
man I can't wait for this 80s thing to be over so we can get on with an ironic nu-metal cargo shorts revival
― (e_3) (Edward III), Monday, 4 October 2010 14:14 (2 years ago) Permalink
oops sorry, thought this was the bat for lashes thread
― (e_3) (Edward III), Monday, 4 October 2010 14:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
http://cdn.stereogum.com/downloader/?file=/files/mp3/Bear+In+Heaven+-+Lovesick+Teenagers+(Twin+Shadows+Twins+In+Heaven+Remix)/
― caek, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 21:36 (2 years ago) Permalink
lol ilx url api sux
try again
― caek, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 21:37 (2 years ago) Permalink
Hey I am really liking this album.
And I *do* see the Gabriel thing, at least on a few of the songs - early era Gabriel, not shit like "sledgehammer" ffs. Something about the production and vocal work.
It has a real 80s 4AD feel to it as well: a bit Clan of Xymox, a bit Modern English, in feel.
I am liking this muchly on first listen.
― cathedral-sized jellyfish in your mind (Trayce), Thursday, 21 October 2010 04:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
Stuff like "Slow" on the other hand sounds massively Morrisey-esque.
YES i knew the gabriel was there thanks trayce
― max, Thursday, 21 October 2010 04:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
u r welcome. I totally hear it! Which makes it really bloody good.
― cathedral-sized jellyfish in your mind (Trayce), Thursday, 21 October 2010 04:51 (2 years ago) Permalink
hey guys i'm looking for max's official thread on this band, is this it?
― george pimpton (s1ocki), Thursday, 21 October 2010 04:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
I've been loving the shit out of a few bands doing this kind of dreamy 80s pop lately - Bell Hollow, Veil Veil Vanish, old Prids stuff.
xpost haha.
― cathedral-sized jellyfish in your mind (Trayce), Thursday, 21 October 2010 04:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
Also, "im always disappointed when people dont love stuff as much as i do"
I so agree with this :/
― cathedral-sized jellyfish in your mind (Trayce), Thursday, 21 October 2010 04:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
hey slocki--youre in the right place--have a seat
― max, Thursday, 21 October 2010 04:56 (2 years ago) Permalink
Last.fm poster said: "Molly Ringwald is dancing to this in her bedroom". hahah <3
― cathedral-sized jellyfish in your mind (Trayce), Thursday, 21 October 2010 05:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
*awkwardly squeezes through row of sitting ilxors and takes last empty seat as max's presentation begins*
― george pimpton (s1ocki), Thursday, 21 October 2010 14:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
Realised too late for my top 10 of 2010 ballot that this is my favourite album of the year :/
― Stevie T, Thursday, 21 October 2010 14:37 (2 years ago) Permalink
it's october?
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 21 October 2010 14:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
Monthly print mag lead times wait for no man.
― Stevie T, Thursday, 21 October 2010 14:42 (2 years ago) Permalink
― george pimpton (s1ocki), Thursday, 21 October 2010 14:57 (2 years ago) Permalink
i like this a lot.Random friends of mine that have heard me playing it in the background around the house seem to dig it too
― Aerosol, Thursday, 21 October 2010 15:06 (2 years ago) Permalink
*raises hand*
― I love you girls but that music is for radical faeries (Matt P), Thursday, 21 October 2010 15:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
how can i hear this without clicking anything OR buying anything
*farts*
― I love you girls but that music is for radical faeries (Matt P), Thursday, 21 October 2010 15:13 (2 years ago) Permalink
http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/album/Forget/4580052
Just a few clicks?
― I will always think of you, while (quite) fondly, myself (Evan), Thursday, 21 October 2010 15:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
too many!
― I love you girls but that music is for radical faeries (Matt P), Thursday, 21 October 2010 15:19 (2 years ago) Permalink
*sips latte*
― I love you girls but that music is for radical faeries (Matt P), Thursday, 21 October 2010 15:20 (2 years ago) Permalink
remember i was there before max
― cutty, Thursday, 21 October 2010 15:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
I find that hard to believe, given that max started the official ilm thread
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 21 October 2010 15:23 (2 years ago) Permalink
just to clear up any confusion, cutty "hipped" max to the band!
― I love you girls but that music is for radical faeries (Matt P), Thursday, 21 October 2010 15:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
max doesn't really know about music
― cutty, Thursday, 21 October 2010 15:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
― van smack, Thursday, August 26, 2010 4:31 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― max, Thursday, August 26, 2010 9:19 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark
evidenced here^
― I love you girls but that music is for radical faeries (Matt P), Thursday, 21 October 2010 15:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
I am listening to this and it's pretty groovy.
― 17th Century Catholic Spain (Abbbottt), Thursday, 21 October 2010 15:36 (2 years ago) Permalink
thank max
― george pimpton (s1ocki), Thursday, 21 October 2010 15:38 (2 years ago) Permalink
max, thank you for making this gentle music.
― 17th Century Catholic Spain (Abbbottt), Thursday, 21 October 2010 15:39 (2 years ago) Permalink
lol
― I love you girls but that music is for radical faeries (Matt P), Thursday, 21 October 2010 15:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
lp out in the UK on 4AD next year i think
― caek, Thursday, 21 October 2010 15:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
100 blog years too late
― cutty, Thursday, 21 October 2010 15:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
just to be totally clear here--cutty did NOT start this thread
― max, Thursday, 21 October 2010 15:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
wait a second
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 21 October 2010 15:46 (2 years ago) Permalink
maybe cutty is max's "twin shadow"
PLOT TWIST
THE THREAD IS COMING FROM INSIDE THE SHADOW
― max, Thursday, 21 October 2010 15:46 (2 years ago) Permalink
more like 'twinside' the shadow
― max, Thursday, 21 October 2010 15:47 (2 years ago) Permalink
no one is wondering in what manner i "hipped" max to the recording artist known as twin shadow
(it was a gentle whisper in his ear)
― cutty, Thursday, 21 October 2010 15:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
in whole foods?
― caek, Thursday, 21 October 2010 15:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
i like your band twin shadow max, sent you guys a myspace friend request :)
― S Beez Wit the Remedy (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 21 October 2010 15:59 (2 years ago) Permalink
Major step back on the album cover art tho
― Aerosol, Thursday, 21 October 2010 16:13 (2 years ago) Permalink
Hey a question on this dude - why is the video for "Slow" tagged "NSFW" on the 4AD site/on youtube? I couldnt see anything that would require that tag except what appeared to be a ver brief reference to a smack needle stabbity hole in his arm at the start or I dont know?
― cathedral-sized jellyfish in your mind (Trayce), Friday, 22 October 2010 04:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
not safe for wanking
― dayo, Friday, 22 October 2010 04:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
Poor max ;(
― cathedral-sized jellyfish in your mind (Trayce), Friday, 22 October 2010 04:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
Does the chorus of "Tyrant Destroyed" go "as you sat sinking in my head" or "as you sat sick in my head"?
IT MAKES A BIG DIFFERNENCE.
(I thought it was "sick", but a lyric site suggests otherwise. Are there lyrics on the elpee?)
― Sunn O))) Sundae Smile (Trayce), Wednesday, 27 October 2010 03:05 (2 years ago) Permalink
http://cbsstreetdate.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/twin-shadow-castles-in-the-snow-com-truise-remix.mp3?dl=1
― cutty, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 15:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
~explodes~
― mo loko (cozen), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 17:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
this singer reminds me of Caleb Followill sometimes
― modrić in paradise (blueski), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 00:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
this would be a dope show imo
http://s1089.photobucket.com/albums/i359/dg11469/May 1 2011 - May 7 2011/?action=view¤t=twinshadowfallon_Segment100-00-02-00-03-53.mp4
http://www.hulu.com/watch/239163/late-night-with-jimmy-fallon-twin-shadow-i-cant-wait
― jaxon, Saturday, 7 May 2011 22:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
that hair and a hello kitty necklace :D
― jaxon, Saturday, 7 May 2011 22:46 (2 years ago) Permalink
better first link since it broked
http://s1089.photobucket.com/albums/i359/dg11469/May%201%202011%20-%20May%207%202011/?action=view¤t=twinshadowfallon_Segment100-00-02-00-03-53.mp4
― jaxon, Saturday, 7 May 2011 22:48 (2 years ago) Permalink
seeing them at the Scala on Wednesday, looking fwd to it
― Let me help you with your URL problems (blueski), Saturday, 7 May 2011 23:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
― jaxon, Thursday, 16 June 2011 22:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
heard this in urbanoutfitters (lolz) the other day and it reminded me of what a great album this is
― jaxon, Thursday, 16 June 2011 22:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
he was awesome at Primavera
― Gukbe, Thursday, 16 June 2011 22:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
― max, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 20:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
new track:
― GoT SPOILER ALERT (Gukbe), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 22:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
^^this is so cute!!
― Dale, dale, dale (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 22:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
is it, though?
― www.gbokchoymail.com (admrl), Friday, 18 May 2012 03:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
yep
― Fas Ro Duh (Gukbe), Friday, 18 May 2012 03:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
― Fas Ro Duh (Gukbe), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 01:14 (11 months ago) Permalink
I am really digging the album
― now all my posts got ship in it (dayo), Monday, 2 July 2012 23:08 (10 months ago) Permalink
album streaming now: http://www.the-fly.co.uk/feature/general/1014424/twin-shadow-album-stream-2/
― Fas Ro Duh (Gukbe), Tuesday, 3 July 2012 23:11 (10 months ago) Permalink
wasn't sure at first but really getting into this now
its really good.
― ♆ (gr8080), Tuesday, 3 July 2012 23:13 (10 months ago) Permalink
Is that the "Take My Breath Away" bass synth sound or just something very, very close?
― muus lääv? :D muus dut :( (Telephone thing), Wednesday, 4 July 2012 05:00 (10 months ago) Permalink
Huh. I loved the first one, but I'm really not feeling this (yet).
― Never translate Dutch (jaymc), Wednesday, 4 July 2012 06:27 (10 months ago) Permalink
felt the same way, but somehow I've wound up listening to it about 5 times today and it's really sticking to me now.
― Fas Ro Duh (Gukbe), Wednesday, 4 July 2012 06:38 (10 months ago) Permalink
New album is great but takes a few listens. Loving 'Run My Heart'.
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 4 July 2012 10:59 (10 months ago) Permalink
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 4 July 2012 11:00 (10 months ago) Permalink
― Never translate Dutch (jaymc), Wednesday, July 4, 2012 2:27 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― funny-skrillex-bee_132455836669.gif (s1ocki), Thursday, 5 July 2012 04:13 (10 months ago) Permalink
He was amazing last nite in London. Encored with a special 4 July medley of "American Girl" into "Star-Spangled Banner". The Forget stuff still felt stronger tho.
― Stevie T, Thursday, 5 July 2012 08:34 (10 months ago) Permalink
wow i must be amazing because i'm enjoying this on my first listen
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 5 July 2012 16:14 (10 months ago) Permalink
*applauds*
― funny-skrillex-bee_132455836669.gif (s1ocki), Thursday, 5 July 2012 16:16 (10 months ago) Permalink
i really like this! first four tracks in particlar
― max, Thursday, 5 July 2012 16:19 (10 months ago) Permalink
man this is the junior boys album that i wanted that last junior boys album to be
― Whiney vs. (BradNelson), Thursday, 5 July 2012 17:09 (10 months ago) Permalink
it doesn't sound that different from the last album aside from being better/more expansively produced, i'm curious why a couple of people said they were having trouble getting into it?
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 5 July 2012 17:13 (10 months ago) Permalink
just not catching my earholes the same way
― funny-skrillex-bee_132455836669.gif (s1ocki), Thursday, 5 July 2012 17:20 (10 months ago) Permalink
This is pretty good. Hooks don't stand out like the ones on Forget.
― Spectrum, Thursday, 5 July 2012 18:30 (10 months ago) Permalink
I have never heard them, but I foud this of interest:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/positive-reception-for-twin-shadows-confess-shows-the-low-bar-in-indie-rock/2012/07/08/gJQAV2SvWW_story.html?wprss=rss_style
Chris Richards of the Washington Post:
The album itself couldn’t play it any safer, embarking on another dead-end expedition to the 1980s. It’s all retro-glassy textures outfitted with lyrics about love’s complexities sung by a young man whose ego seems to have replaced his heart.
It’s bad. But what makes Lewis’s music so interesting is how eagerly it has been embraced — it’s critical reception illustrates indie rock’s sexual double standard at work. Earlier this year, an online shouting match erupted around Lana Del Rey, a fast-climbing New York singer whose background was scrutinized as if she were running for office. When her first album, “Born to Die,” debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard charts, the blogosphere chased its tail in a style-vs.-substance debate that is reserved almost exclusively for female artists. Could someone this attractive, this fashionable, this concerned with her image, this unapologetically ambitious, actually be “the real thing”?
New question. Will anyone bother to ask those same questions of Lewis? He’s an equally ambitious, equally good-looking guy who loves to talk about the depth of his ambition and the extent of his good-lookingness. He recently described his look to Spin as “James Dean in Bollywood in the late ’80s.” Other interviews make him look like a first-class narcissist in ways that are both amusing and sad.
But instead of putting him through the wringer, the blogeratti are pinning medals on Lewis’s chest. He’s being championed as a savvy, stylish bad boy for the same reasons Del Rey was dismissed as a fraud.
They’ve both made treacly albums that fail to communicate actual emotion, and “Confess” is the weaker of the two.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 9 July 2012 16:14 (10 months ago) Permalink
lol great headline, looks like something off the national security desk
― du. duplass. duplass mich. (goole), Monday, 9 July 2012 16:18 (10 months ago) Permalink
that might even remotely have a point of TS hadn't already released one really great & critically acclaimed album
― funny-skrillex-bee_132455836669.gif (s1ocki), Monday, 9 July 2012 16:19 (10 months ago) Permalink
Difference is I really like the new TS album and Lana Del Rey had two amazing tracks and a couple of okay ones and a bunch of duds, for me anyway. I don't care about LDR's aesthetics or persona, the same way I don't care about George Lewis'. His album isn't about being a motorcycle gang badboy from the 50s or whatever, so for me that doesn't enter into the quality of the songs.
― Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Monday, 9 July 2012 16:24 (10 months ago) Permalink
But yeah everytime something is hyped there is going to be the reactionary who wants to call out the emperor as having now clothes.
― Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Monday, 9 July 2012 16:25 (10 months ago) Permalink
ha great typo
― du. duplass. duplass mich. (goole), Monday, 9 July 2012 16:25 (10 months ago) Permalink
lol whoops
― Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Monday, 9 July 2012 16:26 (10 months ago) Permalink
Not as immediately catchy/hooky, but who knows, it might be a grower.
― Never translate Dutch (jaymc), Monday, 9 July 2012 16:34 (10 months ago) Permalink
bit plodding if u ask me
― funny-skrillex-bee_132455836669.gif (s1ocki), Monday, 9 July 2012 17:27 (10 months ago) Permalink
Yeah, is there anything with the fast fizzy sparkle of "At My Heels"?
― Never translate Dutch (jaymc), Monday, 9 July 2012 17:29 (10 months ago) Permalink
http://thequietus.com/articles/09339-twin-shadow-confess-review
― Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Thursday, 12 July 2012 21:52 (10 months ago) Permalink
re: run my heart
i could just listen to boys of summer?
― fauxmarc, Thursday, 12 July 2012 21:59 (10 months ago) Permalink
yes, you could listen to it
― max, Thursday, 12 July 2012 22:00 (10 months ago) Permalink
if you have spotify for example, or own the record
of course i don't have spotify wtf BUT YOUTUBE I'VE GOT YOUTUBE
― fauxmarc, Thursday, 12 July 2012 22:01 (10 months ago) Permalink
Only skimmed it, but doesn't that Quietus review (like the Chris Richards one in the W. Post) not mention there was a previous Twin Shadow album?
― curmudgeon, Friday, 13 July 2012 15:13 (10 months ago) Permalink
Regarding that W.Post article, since when was indie-rock's raison d'être to provide rebel heroes? I really hate articles where an album/artist is criticized for mainly extramusical reasons. I thought the whole "real vs fake" dichotomy ended years ago, at least with music journalists.
I'm enjoying this much more than his debut. I found Forget mostly forgetful, which I thought I'd like based on his many positive reviews (80's-inspired music is my personal catnip).
― musicfanatic, Saturday, 14 July 2012 17:39 (10 months ago) Permalink
interesting album
― carly rae (flopson), Saturday, 14 July 2012 18:20 (10 months ago) Permalink
I found Forget mostly forgetful,
― carly rae (flopson), Saturday, 14 July 2012 18:50 (10 months ago) Permalink
"forgettable"
― max, Saturday, 14 July 2012 20:07 (10 months ago) Permalink
i like this whole album but have just abt had 'run my heart' on a continual loop the past few days
― johnny crunch, Monday, 16 July 2012 23:05 (10 months ago) Permalink
Yeah, this is quickly becoming one of my five favourite albums this year. The hooks are so fucking massive.
― heiswagger (rennavate), Thursday, 16 August 2012 00:27 (9 months ago) Permalink
Those enjoying the Twin Shadow album will probably find much to like in the new Chad Valley record
― groovypanda, Thursday, 22 November 2012 09:19 (6 months ago) Permalink
huh this guy is sort of brilliant
― attempt to look intentionally nerdy, awkward or (thomp), Tuesday, 15 January 2013 10:43 (4 months ago) Permalink
duh
― max, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 12:18 (4 months ago) Permalink
Have been playing Confess a lot recently. I bought the first album months ago but haven't got round to playing it yet, I'm not sure what I'm saving it for really.
― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 12:38 (4 months ago) Permalink
a cross between Phil Lynott and a genie.
― friday goodness thank it's (flamboyant goon tie included), Tuesday, 15 January 2013 14:22 (4 months ago) Permalink
cmon guys you have to admit now the 2nd album was a letdown
― zero dark (s1ocki), Tuesday, 15 January 2013 15:01 (4 months ago) Permalink
nah not even fronting. i like the first one a lil more probably but the 2nd was great too
― max, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 15:05 (4 months ago) Permalink
2nd album is way better
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Tuesday, 15 January 2013 17:09 (4 months ago) Permalink
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― zero dark (s1ocki), Tuesday, 15 January 2013 17:22 (4 months ago) Permalink
forget is star wars, confess is empire. five seconds is the at-at attack on hoth.
― ledge, Wednesday, 16 January 2013 11:24 (4 months ago) Permalink
the second album is pretty poor. some of the lyrics are horrendous and make it hard to listen to.
― Heterocyclic ring ring (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 11:36 (4 months ago) Permalink
fyi i prefer star wars
― ledge, Wednesday, 16 January 2013 11:48 (4 months ago) Permalink
Finally got round to playing the first album today (like I said earlier in this thread I've owned it for months now) It totally blows Confess away. This album is incredible! When We're Dancing and Yellow Balloon are my early highlights.
The other day I was reading his reviews on Rate Your Music and came across one for Forget that said, Where did the interesting songs, beautiful vocals, and strange production go? I think they were being way too harsh on Confess but I can see what they mean. Forget is quite unique and just beautiful in places, Confess is way more straight forward and seems a little hollow in comparision. Of course Five Seconds still rules all.
― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 02:56 (3 months ago) Permalink
so which one of these albums is better?
― goole, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 20:06 (3 months ago) Permalink
recently picked up Confess, and it's def holding my attention, but it's also giving me a second-guessy feeling which i haven't really figured out.
― goole, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 20:07 (3 months ago) Permalink
the first is way better
― flopson, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 20:24 (3 months ago) Permalink
upthread there's an argument about if/how he sounds like peter gabriel. whether he does or not seems a little beside the point.
i forget who argued this (reynolds probably), but there was an argument out there, in the flush of the "80s boom" ten years ago now, that all of the chilly, harsh, dominatrixy, ice queen type vocals that were all over electroclash and neo-nuwave at the time were a serious misremembering of 80s. that the 80s were a time of very lush and florid and soulful vocals; even about vocal pyrotechnics being attempted by people who really couldn't do them (phil oakey, hi) -- iirc the end of this piece wondered when the bigger, cheesier, sweatier 80s would come back into fashion
i have this in mind because it sounds to me like TS is trying to fully inhabit the lame side of the 80s, the grand reach of "boys of summer" or phil collins or even clapton's "behind the mask". certainly on ilm (and in my house) this is a very natural and welcome kind of move. seems obvious to describe it here, even.
to try to put my finger on it, Confess is giving me a play-acting feeling. like running into someone who always cops an accent. like he's treating 80s arena-pop the same way rockabilly or bluegrass bands treat their referent sources. is he a roots act?
"run my heart" rules pretty hard though.
― goole, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 20:37 (3 months ago) Permalink
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― zero dark (s1ocki), Tuesday, 19 February 2013 21:48 (3 months ago) Permalink
otm
― слабоумие и отвага (cozen), Tuesday, 19 February 2013 21:50 (3 months ago) Permalink
first one is better
― max, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 21:57 (3 months ago) Permalink
all right, shit
― goole, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 21:57 (3 months ago) Permalink
i have this in mind because it sounds to me like TS is trying to fully inhabit the lame side of the 80s, the grand reach of "boys of summer" or phil collins or even clapton's "behind the mask".
totally, see also rhye and the one vocal track on cfcf's new ep
― max, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 22:02 (3 months ago) Permalink
or chad valley for that matter
― max, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 22:03 (3 months ago) Permalink
i'm a full calendar year behind on all music fyi
― goole, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 22:05 (3 months ago) Permalink
thx tho!
haha i am paying extra close attention b/c i have been waiting for this particular flavor of 80s revivalism to break wide since tv on the radio
― max, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 22:07 (3 months ago) Permalink
oh man i never liked them
― goole, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 22:07 (3 months ago) Permalink
― max, Tuesday, February 19, 2013 10:02
What new CFCF EP? Or do you mean Exercises?
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 20 February 2013 10:43 (3 months ago) Permalink
yeah I mean the David sylvian half cover on exercises
― max, Wednesday, 20 February 2013 11:32 (3 months ago) Permalink
Ah. I got all excited for a moment as Exercises was one of my favourite releases of last year.
― groovypanda, Thursday, 21 February 2013 11:47 (3 months ago) Permalink
which rhye tracks/lp do you have in mind, because i'm not hearing it?
― caek, Friday, 22 February 2013 22:31 (3 months ago) Permalink
MUSO POST
i figured out what he's doing on guitar here. it's an alternate tuning! and a pretty odd one; it's tuned to an Eb maj 7 chord
Eb Bb Eb G Bb D
i wonder how he came up with that, and if he writes in that tuning a lot. somebody should ask him!
― goole, Thursday, 28 February 2013 18:31 (2 months ago) Permalink