it's a bit owl city
― InfoWarriors (Spottie), Wednesday, 15 August 2018 18:56 (five years ago) link
i think i like it better than "the sound"
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 15 August 2018 18:59 (five years ago) link
it does kinda sound like "cheerleader" tho lol
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 15 August 2018 19:01 (five years ago) link
but it's a pretty direct branch off some of the other stuff they've done... not incredibly dissimilar from i.e. "m.o.n.e.y."
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 15 August 2018 19:02 (five years ago) link
it feels a lot more monochromatic / less dynamic than something like "The Sound." I feel like it yearns for some more content to go with that groove, but that might just be me and my disinterest in this sorta jam
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Wednesday, 15 August 2018 19:07 (five years ago) link
yeah the comparisons aren't off but i feel like those two tracks both capitalize on space in a way this doesn't, "m.o.n.e.y." w the vocal syncopation, "the sound" w the prechorus swings out to snap back in at the chorus
― lowercase (eric), Wednesday, 15 August 2018 19:10 (five years ago) link
*swinging
― lowercase (eric), Wednesday, 15 August 2018 19:11 (five years ago) link
seems kind of bad, when dorian said they were channeling drake i wasn’t imagining trop house drake of a few years ago... but we already know most of the rest of the album won’t be like this so im not stressed . plus it’ll prob grow on me
― flopson, Wednesday, 15 August 2018 20:12 (five years ago) link
uh y'all are on crack, this bangs
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 15 August 2018 20:26 (five years ago) link
feels like it's a minute and a half, just kind of floats along, fun little song
closest antecedent of theirs to my ears is probably "so far (it's alright)"
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 15 August 2018 20:32 (five years ago) link
I admittedly don't listen to a lot of drake, but...drake??
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 15 August 2018 20:51 (five years ago) link
the point about space is well taken but i think this is awesome anyway
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 15 August 2018 20:54 (five years ago) link
Love how you all did everything but actually link the song. :-D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9kT5U2izfc
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 15 August 2018 21:09 (five years ago) link
i can see the Drake comparison in terms of the "top line" which is. three. 🎵 notes. 🎶. just those 🎵 three notes. on a slightly different order, and then again. 🎶
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 15 August 2018 22:04 (five years ago) link
this is a little underwhelming, it's a good starting point for something but the killer hook I was expecting never appears and it just floats along without really going anywhere. the lyrics are also pretty bad and not in an endearingly ridiculous way either
― ufo, Wednesday, 15 August 2018 23:37 (five years ago) link
I'm a little tipsy and it's pretty early so I don't want to say anything I'm going to regret but.......this song is really good, among their very best
― k3vin k., Thursday, 16 August 2018 03:17 (five years ago) link
where are deej tim and brad
― k3vin k., Thursday, 16 August 2018 03:26 (five years ago) link
christ, this is the best band in the world
― k3vin k., Thursday, 16 August 2018 03:28 (five years ago) link
there was a recent episode of The Ringer's On Shuffle podcast that brought in the Switched On Pop guys (who i'm usually eh on but felt a lot looser here) and they ended up talking a lot about the sort of downfall of dynamism in pop tracks (the rise of chill), and how the metric for quality is a little harder to pick out because of that.
this feels like a track that exploits its lack of dynamic shifts in a really good way (lots of little sonic details and tiny tonal shifts). so i guess i find the drake comparisons understandable but nowhere near as negative as some people are framing it—this is earworm drake, not unmemorable hookless drake.
― austinb, Thursday, 16 August 2018 03:37 (five years ago) link
the youtube video hasn't been made available in Australia :-/
― Tim F, Thursday, 16 August 2018 06:49 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTT1qbKMuo8
this one works in Australia
― ufo, Thursday, 16 August 2018 07:26 (five years ago) link
this song is really good, among their very best
― k3vin k., Thursday, August 16, 2018 5:17 AM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
heart u k3v but might this be (tipsy?) hyperbole?
the first two new songs set an impossibly high bar, it's understandable they can't keep that up. this is very much a throwaway, a b-side song though. which is ok.
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 16 August 2018 08:06 (five years ago) link
the lyrics here are 100% fuckboi but i'm extremely into the sound design and it's probably the single i've enjoyed the most from this era so far
― monotony, Thursday, 16 August 2018 08:19 (five years ago) link
xps to austinb, will give that a listen! track's growing on me a bit, i dig how it feels like a fluttering that ends up stuck in a groove for most of it (the color-switching video helps accentuate that probably)
― lowercase (eric), Thursday, 16 August 2018 08:52 (five years ago) link
Okay I think this is great.
It’s “throwaway” but deliberately so, the whole point is the layering which is much more intricate than your typical tropical track.
Basically i’m suspecting it will be the third album’s “Talk!”
― Tim F, Thursday, 16 August 2018 09:24 (five years ago) link
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, August 16, 2018 4:06 AM (three hours ago)
haha def wasn't the tipsiness, I'm quite enamored. I must have played it 20 times already. I'm just so impressed by how well they're able to pull off all these different styles
I get the "throwaway" comment but I don't see it that way at all. an album track, maybe -- but something tells me this is going to sound great in album context
haven't really paid much attention to the lyrics yet, but the lyrics seem like not the point of this song
― k3vin k., Thursday, 16 August 2018 11:54 (five years ago) link
but something tells me this is going to sound great in album context
I do not doubt this! I think it will, too. As a single, or singled out track, it feels a bit slight to me. But I'm already warming to it so :)
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 16 August 2018 12:00 (five years ago) link
We weren't uh fond of "Love It If We Made It":
http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=26097
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 16 August 2018 12:00 (five years ago) link
dunno Alfred - looks pretty split!
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 16 August 2018 12:27 (five years ago) link
Matty said that TOOTIME is built around a sped up loop from their collaborative track with No Rome "Narcissist" (that's not out yet) so it'll be interesting to hear the original version of the groove
― ufo, Thursday, 16 August 2018 15:47 (five years ago) link
K4th3rin3 St 4s4ph: “We Didn’t Start the Fire” as told by dudes who hilariously quote “grab ’em by the pussy” on their Tinder profile.
Yeesh katherine you don’t see how these read might be in incredibly bad faith?
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Thursday, 16 August 2018 17:51 (five years ago) link
Like what in the tone of this song makes you think it’s some sort of winking indulgence in “self-aware” misogyny and not, like, a harrowing look at the depressing state of the world?
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Thursday, 16 August 2018 17:52 (five years ago) link
yeah I don’t even know where to start with that blurb
― k3vin k., Thursday, 16 August 2018 18:08 (five years ago) link
but as jordan has said let’s make this thread more about the music and less about the various trolls
― k3vin k., Thursday, 16 August 2018 18:09 (five years ago) link
haha i only consider this thread to have one troll... i never said there could be no dissenting opinions. just that turrican is exhausting, useless and needlessly annoying itt.
i do think katherine severely misreads the song and the band's actual fanbase tho
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 16 August 2018 18:12 (five years ago) link
What are you talking about? I've made absolutely no comment on this new track, or any new track from the forthcoming record. I'm waiting to hear the tracks for the first time in the context of the LP.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Thursday, 16 August 2018 18:18 (five years ago) link
Everyone into the pool!
― imago, Thursday, 16 August 2018 18:18 (five years ago) link
Sure, I have my opinions on their lead singer, and I'm entitled to 'em.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Thursday, 16 August 2018 18:20 (five years ago) link
Now, Jordan... you'll notice that I didn't actually feel the need to post anything until you brought me into the discussion - in which case, if you don't like the effects... don't produce the cause!
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Thursday, 16 August 2018 18:25 (five years ago) link
― J0rdan S., Thursday, August 16, 2018 1:12 PM (eleven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i think this problem has become more pronounced on twitter (going back to tumblr maybe) but there's a definite sense to me that people let who they see on twitter liking something shape their impression of what kind of people like something even if its wholly unrepresentative
not saying that's what's happening w/ katherine per se but the way you phrased this reminded me of this point ... i find it super frustrating but also occasionally funny
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Thursday, 16 August 2018 18:25 (five years ago) link
that is absolutely a real phenomenon
― k3vin k., Thursday, 16 August 2018 18:38 (five years ago) link
yeah the 1975's fanbase is the a pop fanbase.... it's mostly younger people, girls especially. at least at the shows i've seen.
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 16 August 2018 19:42 (five years ago) link
there is a list of men I ever want to hear repeat anything from the Billy Bush tape, ironically or not, and that list has zero people on it
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Thursday, 16 August 2018 20:19 (five years ago) link
also good to see I'm officially a troll for disliking a song
basically, my stance is this, so I guess you can go ahead and call Iain a troll too, as well as the billions of people on earth who have committed the obvious bad faith malice of not liking a song: If you’re singing “poison me daddy” and “fuck your feelings” as slogans for satire, you’re still singing “poison me daddy” and “fuck your feelings” as slogans.
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Thursday, 16 August 2018 20:28 (five years ago) link
also, please inform me where I have said or implied anything about the band's fanbase? having young and/or female fans does not insulate an artist from being or presenting as an insufferable asshole, and having young and/or female fans does not mean that critics are obliged to only say positive things about a bad record. if anything I like those fans more, because they have not dragged me into a thread calling me a troll on a Thursday afternoon I was previously enjoying.
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Thursday, 16 August 2018 20:46 (five years ago) link
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Thursday, August 16, 2018 3:19 PM (thirty-four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
when ONE person said this another immediately defended you, no one actually thinks you're a troll although i do think you have a weirdly bad faith reading of anyone who doesnt share your opinions
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Thursday, 16 August 2018 20:56 (five years ago) link
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Thursday, August 16, 2018 3:28 PM (twenty-seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this is an insane expectation of art that I can't imagine you would hold to many of the artists you enjoy
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Thursday, August 16, 2018 3:46 PM (ten minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Thursday, August 16, 2018 1:25 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Thursday, 16 August 2018 20:57 (five years ago) link