I'd expect you to hate them lex but "basic" is just plain incorrect (esp. coming from an xx fan).
― Tim F, Sunday, 16 June 2013 02:02 (ten years ago) link
I've definitely noticed a taste-convergence with Brad this year.
― Tim F, Sunday, 16 June 2013 02:24 (ten years ago) link
Still maintain that they're basically a next gen Matchbox Twenty, except from the UK.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 16 June 2013 03:03 (ten years ago) link
this is an indie band? :\
― 乒乓, Sunday, 16 June 2013 13:30 (ten years ago) link
agree that this is awes
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Sunday, June 16, 2013 3:03 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
(a) this works for - what - two of their songs at most; but (b) for those two songs works in the best possible way.
― Tim F, Sunday, 16 June 2013 13:38 (ten years ago) link
Hey this is really, really good. It's so crisp and spacious sounding. The singles remind me of My Vitriol's 'Finelines', albeit less noisy.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Sunday, 16 June 2013 15:16 (ten years ago) link
More than anything I hear the shoegaze (line of descent via Kitchens of Distinction, though, who were always outliers in their own realm). But yes, good stuff so far here; I admit the name put me off.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 16 June 2013 15:52 (ten years ago) link
Maybe due to age/different reference points but I'm tending to hear things like KoD (and before them, Echo, a hair) as well as chirpy early/mid nineties indie pop on Spinart that wasn't Elephant 6. Stuff like Poole and the like. Not JUSt that, obv., but it's a nice riff on the whole 'big music' trope that has something more sprightly to it than a lot of other bands working out there.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 16 June 2013 15:56 (ten years ago) link
I'm kinda catching some prime-time 3rd Eye Blind vibes on The City
back to celebrate how otm this is, down to the delivery, especially in this track
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAcojLygGHg
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Sunday, 16 June 2013 16:40 (ten years ago) link
i have had a lot of promo emails re this crew - something that always makes me suspicious.clearly there is a degree of some major funding here.so far i am still on the fence re the music : generic indie + current world studio tricks.which is not a bad thing per se (memories of custom blue/south ... ) , just that i aint clicking with what i have heard so far.in a few weeks they are playing a festival that me and the gang are off to, so that may provide more insight as to whether they are worthy of my attention or not ..
― mark e, Sunday, 16 June 2013 16:49 (ten years ago) link
I'm going to continue ignoring any comparisons to 3EB so I may enjoy this band.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 16 June 2013 16:49 (ten years ago) link
never heard any 3eb ... clearly i have lived a charmed life.
― mark e, Sunday, 16 June 2013 16:53 (ten years ago) link
nah, only semi
― 乒乓, Sunday, 16 June 2013 16:53 (ten years ago) link
Haha
― Le Bateau Ivre, Sunday, 16 June 2013 16:59 (ten years ago) link
man ned i kind of want to convince you that you'd like the first 3eb record
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Sunday, 16 June 2013 17:00 (ten years ago) link
I suffered through it and them being big at the time! Some things aren't worth the revisiting!
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 16 June 2013 17:02 (ten years ago) link
I still remember some comments around then going "Well think of them as a pop Pavement" and I'm all "...you really don't know me that well, do you."
"Pop Pavement"... I don't even know what that means
― Le Bateau Ivre, Sunday, 16 June 2013 17:04 (ten years ago) link
ahahaha neither do i, but i feel you ned
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Sunday, 16 June 2013 17:05 (ten years ago) link
It was a strange time.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 16 June 2013 17:06 (ten years ago) link
This music is so allusive of different reference points that are hard to reconcile together. Third Eye Blind, yes - the chorus on "Chocolate" being the other obvious orbital crossover point. Edward O says Robbie Williams for some tracks! Some of the more ambient stuff makes me think of A Mountain of One if they'd gone more pop and less pachouli. Ned says 80s "big music" generally but then also Kitchens of Distinction which I def. hear, and then makes me think of The House of Love a bit. But I also hear Placebo in their emoness and open searching for different ways to be big. And then of course (crossover) emo generally.
― Tim F, Sunday, 16 June 2013 18:34 (ten years ago) link
Also I don't think this is even out yet but it takes the nascent 80s pop influence to new levels, feels like something from a big Hollywood soundtrack:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b77_BS9Pww0
― Tim F, Sunday, 16 June 2013 18:42 (ten years ago) link
when i first heard "sex" i was like "okay post-punk bassline, crossover emo everything else"
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Sunday, 16 June 2013 18:55 (ten years ago) link
yeah totally
― Tim F, Sunday, 16 June 2013 19:10 (ten years ago) link
It also occurs to me that this band could have played every night at The Bronze and handily catered to any and every mood required by the narrative.
― Tim F, Monday, 17 June 2013 09:25 (ten years ago) link
I'm kinda catching some prime-time 3rd Eye Blind vibes on The Cityback to celebrate how otm this is, down to the delivery, especially in this track
Oh for sure, hearing 3EB all over these guys work now (sorry Ned, it cant be denied). Was trying to figure out remember the sample source for that song you posted and figured it out...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0Gvptdghwowhich samples the last 40 seconds of thishttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-3N7TBrfOA
― Shock G Mo Collier (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Monday, 17 June 2013 16:13 (ten years ago) link
hearing 3EB all over these guys work now (sorry Ned, it cant be denied)
The advantage of their heyday being a dim, murky horror of shitbaggery means I can listen to the 1975 without such trammeling, for which I am eternally grateful.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 17 June 2013 17:17 (ten years ago) link
holy shit that's a dilla/laura nyro interpolation?
officially i think this band is smart as hell
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Monday, 17 June 2013 17:24 (ten years ago) link
lol Ned
― Shock G Mo Collier (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Monday, 17 June 2013 17:33 (ten years ago) link
The "Under our pet-ee-coats" line in "chocolate" is so well enunciated
― More Than a Century With the Polaris Emblem (calstars), Saturday, 22 June 2013 11:00 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/OEngTOA.jpg
1. The 19752. The City3. MONEY4. Chocolate5. Sex6. Talk!7. An Encounter8. Heart Out9. Settle Down10. Robbers11. Girls12. 1213. She Way Out14. Menswear15. Pressure16. Is There Somebody Who Can Watch You?
out sept. 9th. 16 tracks feels like a bit much. feel really bad for "milk" and "you"
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Monday, 24 June 2013 21:44 (ten years ago) link
I feel bad for everything on the EPs that was not a single.
I hope they don't deprioritise their lush romambience side on the album in a bid for UK indie royalty status.
― Tim F, Monday, 24 June 2013 21:49 (ten years ago) link
let's do this
― J0rdan S., Monday, 24 June 2013 21:49 (ten years ago) link
same. when i fell in love with "sex" i had a "what the hell is this shit" reaction to the rest of the ep and man i was so wrong
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Monday, 24 June 2013 21:50 (ten years ago) link
OMG every single thing on that EP.
I feel like we haven't talked enough about their lyrics yet. So many awesome moments.
"She should 'use your hands in my spare time / we've got one thing in common, it's this tongue of mine'"
"Drink, f**k, spew... telephone you"
― Tim F, Monday, 24 June 2013 22:26 (ten years ago) link
i can't exist within my own headso i exist alone in your bed
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Monday, 24 June 2013 22:32 (ten years ago) link
actually that might be "so i insist on haunting your bed" which, differently good
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Monday, 24 June 2013 22:33 (ten years ago) link
"oh well i'm coming to the end of 23," she said, "is that all right?""and it's coming to the end of you and me," she said, "is that all right?"how can you complain about life and talk about being boredif you just sit at pete's house playing video games, doing sniff that you can't afford
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Monday, 24 June 2013 22:35 (ten years ago) link
i was late but i arrivedi’m sorry but I’d rather be getting high than watching my family die
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Monday, 24 June 2013 22:36 (ten years ago) link
i could do this for a while haha
"Now I'm not trying to stop you, love / If we can't do anything we might as well just f**k"
""Oh I think I did something terrible to your body, don’t you mind? / I put your mother through hell, don’t you mind? / I had your brother as well, don’t you mind? Don’t you mind?"
(might be "I hurt your brother as well", not sure)
― Tim F, Monday, 24 June 2013 22:47 (ten years ago) link
oh i was thinking 'bout killing myself, don't you mind?i love you, don't you mind? don't you mind?
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Monday, 24 June 2013 22:55 (ten years ago) link
NONE MORE EMO
― Tim F, Monday, 24 June 2013 22:59 (ten years ago) link
PUMPT FOR ALBUM
― Shock G Mo Collier (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Monday, 24 June 2013 23:25 (ten years ago) link
these guys were awesome live. they opened with "head.cars.bending" which i thought might not function live but it was massive. they played about half new songs, all of which sounded great, one of which kind of sounded like paramore's "ain't it fun" as performed by a slightly funkier blue nile, another ("settle down," i think) which gorgeously mined the same kind of gauzy fake u2 as "you"
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 27 June 2013 13:50 (ten years ago) link
oh i guess via setlist.fm that cute jam/lewis/blue nile song is called "heart out"
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 27 June 2013 13:52 (ten years ago) link
listening to the ep and yep, i'm sold on this - "me" is definitely hitting some kind of blue nile sweet-spot for me
― IKEA-Guinea (donna rouge), Thursday, 27 June 2013 14:41 (ten years ago) link
kind of sounded like paramore's "ain't it fun" as performed by a slightly funkier blue nile
Geeked up for this even more now
― Shock G Mo Collier (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Thursday, 27 June 2013 15:16 (ten years ago) link
re: "me"
The idea for ‘don’t you mind’ came quite naturally. I was i the process of writing this song and i found myself listening to that 10cc record ‘I’m not in love’. In that song the words ‘I’m not in love’ are used so frequently; as such a statement, that by the last chorus you think ‘….this guy is really in love’.
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Friday, 28 June 2013 19:52 (ten years ago) link
A Brief Deletion of Social Media Accounts
― Vinnie, Wednesday, 27 September 2023 23:24 (eight months ago) link
Way back when my daughter bought a couple of tickets to see the Milwaukee show tomorrow. She can't go, so gave the tickets to me. I don't feel like driving up there, and people are selling tickets for the single digits (maybe in part because they subsequently added a Chicago show), so I can't get rid of these tickets, either. Oh well.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 27 October 2023 18:35 (seven months ago) link
I'd normally be game but saw them the last time they came through. Hope you can find some way to use them.
― Indexed, Friday, 27 October 2023 19:01 (seven months ago) link
As a lesson to my daughter not to just spend money on things she won't use.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 27 October 2023 19:05 (seven months ago) link
this audio sucks but i love them playing "so far (it's alright)" ... a song that has a very special place in my heart for briefly imagining a collaboration between them & dj koze
So Far (It's Alright) Live in Milwaukee#The1975 pic.twitter.com/bsheSp3kWF— The 1975 (@the1975) November 2, 2023
― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 2 November 2023 16:33 (seven months ago) link
looking thru their setlist.fm stats & they've never played "the birthday party" on american soil. that doesn't sit right with me
― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 2 November 2023 16:37 (seven months ago) link
they put out the MSG live show from earlier this year as an album on streaming
― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 7 November 2023 17:57 (six months ago) link
they released more tickets for their previously sold-out show here and ngl I was tempted to go but I really shouldn't spend three digits on a show that's more or less the same show they played less than a year ago
― Murgatroid, Tuesday, 7 November 2023 18:04 (six months ago) link
the best band
― truly humbled underdog (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 3 January 2024 02:13 (five months ago) link
getting re-obsessed with “102” lately
and their last album is actually a classic I’m afraid to tell the haters. the lads had done it again and it was we who were ignorant
― truly humbled underdog (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 3 January 2024 02:14 (five months ago) link
“Oh Caroline” is a huge jam
― brimstead, Wednesday, 3 January 2024 02:16 (five months ago) link
omg taylor swift offered them an opening spot on her tour but they declined I DON'T THINK I COULD EVEN HAVE PHYSICALLY HANDLED THAT BUT OMG IMAGINE
― uberweiss, Tuesday, April 1, 2014 9:52 PM (nine years ago) bookmarkflaglink
!!
― truly humbled underdog (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 3 January 2024 03:15 (five months ago) link
What is “102”?
― Tim F, Wednesday, 3 January 2024 04:24 (five months ago) link
a brief inquiry's japanese bonus track. just an acoustic ballad
― ufo, Wednesday, 3 January 2024 04:39 (five months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLrqm8F7TgM
matty wrote this when he was 15!
― truly humbled underdog (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 3 January 2024 18:43 (five months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZvF2YEkA_Q
love this performance of this song
― truly humbled underdog (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 16 January 2024 05:14 (four months ago) link
Wow! Great application of the "Being Funny" arrangement style to that tune IMO. The only boy band that matters, ha
― If I luge, if I luge, if I luge you on the track (Craig D.), Tuesday, 16 January 2024 15:54 (four months ago) link
new song from some Apple+ TV show is gorgeous
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37ZFDJgVa0w
― Murgatroid, Wednesday, 7 February 2024 17:37 (three months ago) link
i need an album by the 1975 focused in this vibe. unfortunately, that will never happen.
― Nourry, Wednesday, 7 February 2024 19:01 (three months ago) link
self titled expanded edition -core, nice
― truly humbled underdog (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 7 February 2024 21:51 (three months ago) link
https://soundcloud.com/matty-452970975/loads-of-crisps
full release of a demo from the notes sessions that matty teased on instagram ages ago
― ufo, Friday, 29 March 2024 21:20 (two months ago) link
yeah this rules
― brony james (k3vin k.), Friday, 29 March 2024 21:47 (two months ago) link
for the next album, can they get A.G. Cook instead of Antonoff plz
― Murgatroid, Saturday, 27 April 2024 06:44 (one month ago) link
i'm hoping they work with bj burton
― ufo, Saturday, 27 April 2024 12:26 (one month ago) link
they said they worked with him a little before making the last album but scrapped the sessions because they weren't really feeling another album with a focus on electronics right after notes or something like that?
― ufo, Saturday, 27 April 2024 12:28 (one month ago) link
Yeah I think that collab would be great, but Burton and basically anyone would excite me
― Vinnie, Saturday, 27 April 2024 20:04 (one month ago) link
The last album is good but I wouldn't call it classic. It came after Notes on a Conditional Form so it had a lot to live up to and came up short.
― Bee OK, Sunday, 28 April 2024 00:57 (one month ago) link