^^^^ Yeah I bet there's some amazing stuff that simply won't see the light of day as a result.
OTOH, OMG at "Somebody Else".
― Tim F, Tuesday, 10 November 2015 22:41 (eight years ago) link
lol i'm already wearing this album out
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 10 November 2015 22:46 (eight years ago) link
yeah that was pretty cool again, they're not a one-trick band at all - and whatever they do, they do with exceptional sonic boldness, which is nice & suits them
― avant-garde, sissy bounce, zombie rave, aquacrunk, warlock, oceangrunge, (imago), Tuesday, 10 November 2015 23:38 (eight years ago) link
wow all those new songs sound great
― ufo, Wednesday, 11 November 2015 01:20 (eight years ago) link
The Sound is apparently the next single and deservedly
― ufo, Wednesday, 11 November 2015 01:24 (eight years ago) link
"she's american" sounds like every song off the first album boiled down to one track but it also sounds lighter than air i'm very down
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 11 November 2015 01:52 (eight years ago) link
i already deeply love this song
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 11 November 2015 02:02 (eight years ago) link
[Chorus]And she likes to kiss but just don't eatIt was so intense, yeah, she's AmericanAnd she says I gotta fix my teethMan she's so American, she's AmericanAnd she likes to kiss but just don't eatSocially elegant, she's AmericanAnd she says I gotta fix my teethMan she's so American
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 11 November 2015 02:06 (eight years ago) link
head-shaking lol
― thwomp (thomp), Wednesday, 11 November 2015 02:55 (eight years ago) link
i wonder if that's about taylor swift
― art baengels (monotony), Wednesday, 11 November 2015 03:15 (eight years ago) link
Yeah the moment I saw the name of that song I thought the same thing.
― cpl593H, Wednesday, 11 November 2015 13:39 (eight years ago) link
http://i63.tinypic.com/10yq98n.png
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Wednesday, 11 November 2015 20:50 (eight years ago) link
repeating that face from a magazine motif from "she way out" i see
― art baengels (monotony), Wednesday, 11 November 2015 22:44 (eight years ago) link
from "robbers"! + additional references to "the city" and "sex"
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Wednesday, 11 November 2015 22:48 (eight years ago) link
magazine motif repetition already felt lazy by "she way out", at least it seems deliberate here.
In the live performance the lyric that jumped out at me was "You said I'm full of diseases / your eyes were full of regret".
Because Matt's lyrics are such a mash of dialogue it's often hard to know who's saying what about whom, though.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 11 November 2015 22:52 (eight years ago) link
and then you took a picture of your salad and put it on the internet
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Wednesday, 11 November 2015 22:56 (eight years ago) link
Got 3500 words with the boy Healy, talking about the new album, and drugs, and his "breakdown" and lots of other things in the paper.My two favourite songs from the new album aren't being played live: Paris is part Only You, part Every Breath You Take, part self loathing; If I Believe You is a big deep soul ballad about atheism, but done with electronics instead of horns.
― Roaming gang of aggressive circlepits (ithappens), Thursday, 12 November 2015 13:14 (eight years ago) link
Sorry: I should have said piece is published on Sunday. 3500 online 2200 in print.
― Roaming gang of aggressive circlepits (ithappens), Thursday, 12 November 2015 13:15 (eight years ago) link
Odd thing: in the piece I said Healy's lyrics reminded in a peculiar way of Craig Finn. Who also references back to earlier songs all the time. I wrote that before seeing the Change of Heart lyrics.
― Roaming gang of aggressive circlepits (ithappens), Thursday, 12 November 2015 13:17 (eight years ago) link
ok "the sound" is hilarious
http://i66.tinypic.com/2l94bo2.png
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Friday, 13 November 2015 19:57 (eight years ago) link
My interview with him … http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/nov/15/the-1975-matt-healy-no-ones-asking-you-to-inspire-revolution-interview
― Roaming gang of aggressive circlepits (ithappens), Sunday, 15 November 2015 12:24 (eight years ago) link
great writeup!
Healy should have posters made emblazoned with "LOL @ MID-20's"
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 15 November 2015 15:49 (eight years ago) link
lol i love matty. i think he's fiercely if imprecisely intelligent, guy has way too many ideas spilling from his head. but he is also very much 25 (iirc?). great interview
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Sunday, 15 November 2015 16:27 (eight years ago) link
i couldn't be more thrilled to discover one of the new songs is called "ugh"
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Sunday, 15 November 2015 16:28 (eight years ago) link
lol honestly that piece makes him sound like an utter moron
― art baengels (monotony), Monday, 16 November 2015 10:25 (eight years ago) link
ithappens i was looking at your other interview with him (linked in the new one) and i'm really curious whether the slip here is his, can you confirm:
Until late last year he was still living at home. Then, as he puts it, "my band took off, my family fell apart. My parents got divorced. It's kinda good – no good marriage ever ended in divorce. If two people had a really good thing going on and they had to get divorced, that would be really sad. But that's never happened once. That's fine. That was a long time coming. December of last year I went on tour and they sold that house. I went home for two days to move out of my house, and I wrote and recorded Is There Somebody Who Can Watch Me?, the last song on the album, about that moment.
― thwomp (thomp), Tuesday, 17 November 2015 02:51 (eight years ago) link
http://i68.tinypic.com/2ntzpsj.jpg
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Monday, 30 November 2015 18:54 (eight years ago) link
http://i67.tinypic.com/28aoqrn.jpg
https://twitter.com/truman_black/status/662251447199899648
― J0rdan S., Monday, 30 November 2015 19:04 (eight years ago) link
ugh!
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Monday, 30 November 2015 19:18 (eight years ago) link
xpost … Sorry, just noticed that. It would have been taken from the transcription. But I'd have to listen to the tape to check whether I transcribed correctly. So I can't answer your question …
― Roaming gang of aggressive circlepits (ithappens), Tuesday, 1 December 2015 12:14 (eight years ago) link
oh man see them live on this tour
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Friday, 4 December 2015 03:39 (eight years ago) link
the stage setup is nuts
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Friday, 4 December 2015 03:42 (eight years ago) link
whens this album coming
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Friday, 4 December 2015 06:21 (eight years ago) link
26 February
― ufo, Friday, 4 December 2015 06:47 (eight years ago) link
Got a full stream of the record this week (I'd previously heard 90% of it, but in two different chunks, weeks apart). The highpoints are pretty fucking great.
― Roaming gang of aggressive circlepits (ithappens), Friday, 4 December 2015 13:28 (eight years ago) link
Been listening to those shitty versions of "Somebody Else" pretty much incessantly the last few days.
― cpl593H, Friday, 4 December 2015 13:35 (eight years ago) link
get someone you love! get someone you need! fuck that get money!
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Friday, 4 December 2015 13:48 (eight years ago) link
YOU GUYS
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Thursday, 10 December 2015 18:26 (eight years ago) link
UGH!
https://itunes.apple.com/us/post/idsa.03dc0e03-9f63-11e5-9246-5c0ab9b24133
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CV4Wc8BWsAAUbyU.jpg
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Thursday, 10 December 2015 18:28 (eight years ago) link
jam
― Spottie, Thursday, 10 December 2015 18:30 (eight years ago) link
such a jam jesus christ
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Thursday, 10 December 2015 18:36 (eight years ago) link
i wasn't that high on "love me" but damn this is a fuckin banger
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 10 December 2015 18:45 (eight years ago) link
"when i said i liked it better without my money i lied" lol
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 10 December 2015 18:49 (eight years ago) link
:D
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 10 December 2015 19:06 (eight years ago) link
this is dope (i prefer 'love me' tho)
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Thursday, 10 December 2015 19:24 (eight years ago) link
Wow, the song is titled like they anticipated my reaction to it, so I suppose it has that going for it.
― Turrican, Thursday, 10 December 2015 19:34 (eight years ago) link
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― Spottie, Thursday, 10 December 2015 19:43 (eight years ago) link
you're not giving it up again
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Thursday, 10 December 2015 19:49 (eight years ago) link