the kniφe - shaking the habitual

well you dont

are you saying i don't have a brain or making a point about volume dials? i'm on yellow alert here.

Her's the Pursuit Grooves remix - http://www.gorillavsbear.net/2013/04/05/premiere-the-knife-a-tooth-for-an-eye-pursuit-grooves-remix/

the german spiegel online gave this 9.5, i don't think they give such high notes very often.

Was in Bristol yesterday and Rise Records had the CDs of this on sale already, so I picked up the double. Just stuck it on the big hifi and it sounds AMAZING. Not heard a note except very very distractedly on 6music prior, so coming into this blind.

I'm predicting Pitchfork gives this 8.7

― crowhurst, Friday, April 5, 2013 6:38 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

close...

*dies of shock*

Was expecting them to get excited enough to 9.something it, honestly.

i dont really get why they would give it 8.4 and best new music when there are albums that get more than that and dont get BNM? do they basically have to give it that honor because it's ~The Knife~?

BNM doesnt correlate completely with scores

youll have to ask a pitchforkologist but i think like, a high 8 score but no BNM means 'really good genre album'

whereas a 'MBDTF' means "we're gonna troll everybody and get some of those unique ip addresses by putting a '1' in front of the '0.0'"

lots of backhanded slaps at their first album in that review

Listened to this album this morning... enjoyed it for the most part, but probably won't be listening to the whole thing in one sitting too often.

that review pisses me off because the debut is so so so so SO much better than Deep Cuts

Keith Fullerton Whitman's Playthroughs received a 9.7 about the time Best New Music was just starting but did not receive the distinction. I asked Ryan Schreiber about this once and although he said he personally loved the album, it simply didn't have wide enough appeal to merit a BNM.

haha i was waiting for u to post that and on cue xp

lol

I mean, I do love "Pass This On" and "You Make Me Like Charity" and "You Take My Breath Away" etc but "Heartbeats" is overrated and most of the other fantastic songs are Hannah Med H material

meanwhile the debut has gloriously weird, understated stuff like "Neon", "Lasagna", "A Lung", "NY Hotel" and "Reindeer", all of which pretty clearly signpost the various odd directions they've branched out in starting with Silent Shout

Does anyone actually care what does and doesn't go into BNM other than lamers who want to be spoonfed everything?

Proposing an automatic threadban for anyone who's all 'Let's predict the Pitchfork score!' on an anticipation thread as well.

my wh4t.cd ratio appreciates it

Thatcher's death is gonna get a 9.3 next week

you have the power to make it happen xp

Anyone who takes it below 10.0 is a scab imo.

I wonder, can we take Brent D's Kid A review and replace all of the Radiohead references with Thatcher references and still have it be awesome?

Does anyone actually care what does and doesn't go into BNM other than lamers who want to be spoonfed everything?

― Matt DC, Monday, April 8, 2013 4:09 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Proposing an automatic threadban for anyone who's all 'Let's predict the Pitchfork score!' on an anticipation thread as well.

― Matt DC, Monday, April 8, 2013 4:11 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

for fucking real

I don't like this either but actually seeing people complain about it makes me want to start a rolling "predict the Pitchfork score" thread because, well, I have a sickness

It got three-and-a-half stars in the Chislehurst Chronicle, by the way.

it's bad enough that there are so many weirdo p4k-watchers but even worse is the obsession with "bnm" and the exact fucking decimal score and then nobody can be fucked to discuss what was actually WRITTEN

obviously some arbitrary little label is much more important though

What if there was betting involved? Would it be fun then?

Talking about BNM usually happens because we know that tag affects record sales/overall attention dramatically and collectively shapes tastes in the indie world.

okay where's my popcorn

Not saying I think there is any value in predicting exact scores at all.

I like BNM as an indicator of, like, what's getting lots of traction and stuff but I certainly don't listen to BNM stuff exclusively

maybe I am a dumb indie sheep :(

ayo dudes i dont really care about BNM u can chill

It's not the only thing ever to do this to me but my first listen to this album reminded me of the super intense time I turned on the tv in the middle of the night at 10 years old and saw the entirety of Gregg Araki's The Living End.

I listened to this on headphones for the first time today and it's kind of monstrous. Although I can't work out if the drums and flutes on Without You My Life Would Be Boring are endearingly wonky or unspeakably naff. There's a distinct air of 'midday jam session in tiny Glastonbury hippy tent' about it.

'Stay Out Here' is amazing.

Endearingly wonky IMO.

There's lots of moments here that insistently and incessantly whisper '1989' to me for as yet unfathomed reasons.

"full of fire" is really growing on me - not sure if its hooks are digging in to me with time or whether, now i have the whole album, it doesn't have the weight of being wholly representative. a lot of the hooks here are in the rhythms and arrangements rather than the vocal line. also, i love how angry it is. echoes of digital hardcore

"wrap your arms around me" is the album's towering monolithic emotional peak though

LET'S TALK ABOUT GENDER BABY LET'S TALK ABOUT U & ME in the last 30 seconds is some "fancy"-level switch-up

Yeah Full of Fire sounds fantastic at high volume. In general where this album sags it's where it's not weird ENOUGH, or when they're attempting to be weird and uncompromising in fairly well-trodden ways.

Wrap Your Arms Around Me is fantastic as well.

Agreed with the above, it sounds amazing in the context of the album.

Love the brief house vamp style vocal near the beginning of "Stay Out Here", it's like Nightmares on Wax's "Aftermath".

friend of mine says the first 45 min of this are "unlistenable", t/f

omg yes xp

bits of this remind me a lot of their erstwhile collaborator & onetime imitator planningtorock, too

"Heartbeats" is overrated
― relentless technosexuality (DJP)

Please tell me you've never heard the live version.

i'm gonna buy the vinyl today and even though it comes with a cd, i don't have any cd drives at all so i'll probably have to pirate it in the end to actually listen to it on the computer (lol)

unless the vinyl comes with a free download code...............