Kind of annoyed I can't listen to this until tomorrow at the earliest.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 28 January 2016 15:15 (eight years ago) link
i still want to know what al thinks lol
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Thursday, 28 January 2016 15:18 (eight years ago) link
I succumbed and right now I'm listening this on the phone despite the crappy sound, and so far it sounds like Jones Girls' "Nights Over Egypt" stretched through a wormhole, which is pretty much the best thing I can think of.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 28 January 2016 15:55 (eight years ago) link
This album is incredible. Everything about it is perfect without anything ever feeling forced. Like others have already said, that climax/solo in Oh, Please is everything, very Prince like.
Hey is still my highlight. It feels so cruel that it's only six minutes long, I want to be in that moment forever.
― Kitchen Person, Thursday, 28 January 2016 16:00 (eight years ago) link
okay, queuing up; you guys losing your shit here has me worried/hopeful/terrified/excited
― ulysses, Thursday, 28 January 2016 16:04 (eight years ago) link
not to set the bar too high, but its awesome
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Thursday, 28 January 2016 16:08 (eight years ago) link
omg at "Native Land" this is amazing
― conditional random jepsen (seandalai), Thursday, 28 January 2016 16:25 (eight years ago) link
this is really great so far
puts me in the zone of "Right Here" by SWV but way more layered and complex
― Amira, Queen of Creativity (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 28 January 2016 18:59 (eight years ago) link
i get kind of a 80s jam & lewis' jagged edges sanded smooth via 'i want you'
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Thursday, 28 January 2016 21:13 (eight years ago) link
R&B not my thing at all but this is amazingly beautiful music
― the late great, Thursday, 28 January 2016 22:14 (eight years ago) link
wasnt there another thread w/ King discussion at one point? Maybe rev's alt-R&B thread?
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Thursday, 28 January 2016 22:15 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, I think that's where I first posted about them.
― The Reverend, Thursday, 28 January 2016 22:21 (eight years ago) link
rev, what's the link there? Not sure i have that bookmarked.
― ulysses, Thursday, 28 January 2016 22:22 (eight years ago) link
wow, this really can't be background music on the first listen huh.
should i go to a free KING show tonight and get a copy of the album a week early?
― nomar, Thursday, 28 January 2016 22:22 (eight years ago) link
Nah.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 28 January 2016 22:23 (eight years ago) link
lol
― ZESTY O'PRIDE (imago), Thursday, 28 January 2016 22:24 (eight years ago) link
http://static1.squarespace.com/static/51d86680e4b03f5ac28eb1ba/t/54919cb9e4b0c7f5bb5600e0/1418828985794/trap.jpg
― nomar, Thursday, 28 January 2016 22:25 (eight years ago) link
Oh, I guess Andy K was the first to post about them here. I picked them up via Erykah Badu's twitter.
itt: kinda out there, maybe kinda experimental, maybe kinda pretentious modern r&b
― The Reverend, Thursday, 28 January 2016 22:26 (eight years ago) link
going to their record release show next friday, see y'all there
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Thursday, 28 January 2016 22:26 (eight years ago) link
andy k: prophet
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Thursday, 28 January 2016 22:27 (eight years ago) link
They're playing here in a couple weeks and I have a gig that night. >_____<
― The Reverend, Thursday, 28 January 2016 22:27 (eight years ago) link
going to a listening party in my house tonight. Y'all are invited.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 28 January 2016 22:32 (eight years ago) link
livestream it
― Spottie, Thursday, 28 January 2016 22:33 (eight years ago) link
doing my hair special too
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 28 January 2016 22:34 (eight years ago) link
into track 3 and thinking how many of those pre-programmed casio drum patterns they used. i think i used that tropical drum pattern back in the 90s once too!
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Thursday, 28 January 2016 22:41 (eight years ago) link
...
― bicyclescope (mattresslessness), Thursday, 28 January 2016 22:44 (eight years ago) link
this whole album is lushly beautiful but "Native Land" is fucking stunning
― rob, Friday, 29 January 2016 01:13 (eight years ago) link
So they're killing it at an in-store in Amoeba Hollywood right now. Just check this clip!
https://twitter.com/LauraSterritt/status/692893241083981825
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 29 January 2016 02:20 (eight years ago) link
It's no GEORGIA ANNE MULDROW - Uhuru Flight - LIVE @ Amoeba SF but
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTmAHP1MSck
What's in your bag, KING?
― Andy K, Friday, 29 January 2016 02:40 (eight years ago) link
It feels weird that we've reached a point in time when casio drum patterns are a nostalgic sound.
― The Reverend, Friday, 29 January 2016 03:52 (eight years ago) link
i don't deserve to listen to this album; it's too pure, too luscious, too immaculate for my scummy dirtbag soul
― j. winters (josh), Friday, 29 January 2016 04:58 (eight years ago) link
like i am clutching my heart trying my hardest not to bawl at all of this beauty
― j. winters (josh), Friday, 29 January 2016 05:02 (eight years ago) link
Jesus take the goddamn wheel @ the second half of "Oh, Please!"
― art baengels (monotony), Saturday, 30 January 2016 01:43 (eight years ago) link
I tried listening to the NPR stream but the sound was so poor it was like watching a beautiful flower opening in black and white. I can wait an extra week to hear it in full.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 30 January 2016 11:46 (eight years ago) link
im waiting on two things itt, once all the flowers have been laid at their feet: 1) notorious contrarian crank al shipley, and 2) whether or not ppl think they surpassed their last release
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Thursday, January 28, 2016 10:00 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
it sounds v pretty but i'm not rushing to any judgment beyond that, seems like the kind of thing will either reveal its virtues (besides prettiness) over time or lose my interest
― 77 lines about 77 albums i haven't heard (some dude), Saturday, 30 January 2016 18:33 (eight years ago) link
"hey (extended mix)" makes me feel like this song loves me and cares about my well-being more than any person ever has in my entire life
― j. winters (josh), Saturday, 30 January 2016 19:29 (eight years ago) link
"like i am clutching my heart trying my hardest not to bawl at all of this beauty"
― van smack, Saturday, 30 January 2016 21:39 (eight years ago) link
loving all the hyperbole in this thread, keep it coming
― art baengels (monotony), Sunday, 31 January 2016 00:34 (eight years ago) link
i was being serious if that's hard to believe
― j. winters (josh), Sunday, 31 January 2016 06:47 (eight years ago) link
This sounds like Scritti Politti circa Provision. That's a compliment.
― Jeff W, Sunday, 31 January 2016 14:22 (eight years ago) link
Smoother than I expected on some cuts. Like 80s and 90s "quiet storm" radio
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 31 January 2016 14:59 (eight years ago) link
it sounds like stevie wonder to me tbh
― bicyclescope (mattresslessness), Sunday, 31 January 2016 14:59 (eight years ago) link
a couple of moments i had to stop what i was doing with that same feeling of "this is too much". yall kind of choke things to death around here but that was a nice feeling. i'll look for it on whatever format that isn't streaming and bump this thread in 2019 when i happen to listen to it some random night and no one else is watching.
― bicyclescope (mattresslessness), Sunday, 31 January 2016 15:11 (eight years ago) link
http://i1.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/facebook/000/511/258/66a.png
― van smack, Sunday, 31 January 2016 15:58 (eight years ago) link
preemptively feelin bad about the backlash, you can see it in the distance
― tremendous crime wave and killing wave (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Sunday, 31 January 2016 17:31 (eight years ago) link
not remotely as glassy and fractured. this is more warm and blurred. the chord changes feel similar i guess
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Sunday, 31 January 2016 17:39 (eight years ago) link
backlash?! for what? not being dawn richard? they're not even going for that. they are more or less completely successful at doing something really good
― ZESTY O'PRIDE (imago), Sunday, 31 January 2016 17:48 (eight years ago) link
Yeah but its only natural, given the intensity of love being poured out rn, that there's gonna be something to balance it out
You listen to this yet, JCLC? You have a hot take on the album?
― thank you, based basics (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 31 January 2016 19:20 (eight years ago) link
"native land" is ridic
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 31 January 2016 21:47 (eight years ago) link