What do we think of these kids? I find myself thoroughly enjoying their record. They've got a groovy sound that's totally now.
I hear a strong Gram Parsons influence, clearly they've been listening to Grievous Angel.
Dig The Purity Ring, people!
― kornrulez6969, Sunday, 14 October 2012 02:06 (7 months ago) Permalink
Starting to grow on me whether I like it or not...liking it but hate how the songs get stuck in my head for several hours.
― *tera, Sunday, 14 October 2012 02:17 (7 months ago) Permalink
Listened to the album a few times today, this is what I wanted from Grimes and Crystal Castles.
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 25 October 2012 00:34 (6 months ago) Permalink
The first few singles were excellent, they were surprisingly great when I saw them a year ago, and the album delivers, too.
I keep waiting for the whole thing to come apart at the seams, but so far it hasn't. In my opinion, at least.
― alpine static, Thursday, 25 October 2012 08:02 (6 months ago) Permalink
I adore this album
― Gandalf’s Gobble Melt (DJP), Thursday, 25 October 2012 14:19 (6 months ago) Permalink
Gram Parsons influence? Did he influence 90s r'n'b
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 25 October 2012 14:23 (6 months ago) Permalink
Good album. Other electro pop fixates on 80s heyday, this couldn't exist prior to naughties UK bass music. Lyrically its all high school composition bood ruminations on body parts (skin, sternums, lungs, bones, teeth) and a disconcerting range of fluids. Which
Caveats: the highlights (besides "Fineshrine") are on the pre-4AD 2011 singles, and the singer's from the Clare Grogan/Alison Shaw lineage of lost little girls.
― ‽ Interrobang You're Dead ‽ (Sanpaku), Thursday, 25 October 2012 14:51 (6 months ago) Permalink
Is it worth seeing them live? the album is growing on me. which i thought was impossible.
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 25 October 2012 14:55 (6 months ago) Permalink
Let me reedit that entire post again. Must be getting a migraine.
Good album. While other electro pop fixates on the genre's 80s heyday, this couldn't exist prior to naughties UK bass music. Lyrically its all high school composition book ruminations on body parts (skin, sternums, lungs, bellys, bones, teeth) and a disconcerting range of fluids. Which is refreshing, too.
Caveats: the highlights (besides "Fineshrine") are on the pre-4AD 2011 singles, and the singer veers close to the Clare Grogan / Alison Shaw lost little girl territory.
― ‽ Interrobang You're Dead ‽ (Sanpaku), Thursday, 25 October 2012 14:55 (6 months ago) Permalink
it's probably a stupid generalisation but i have the feeling a lot of young women artist are really into the body parts/fluids thing. not that i'm against that.
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 25 October 2012 14:58 (6 months ago) Permalink
i feel like half the contemporary poetry i hear is like that.
― have a sandwich or ice cream sandwich (Jordan), Thursday, 25 October 2012 15:08 (6 months ago) Permalink
I'd add "Crawlersout" and "Obedear" to the highlight list, personally
― Gandalf’s Gobble Melt (DJP), Thursday, 25 October 2012 15:12 (6 months ago) Permalink
At first listen its a tubercular ward or delivery room, but from the lyrics its just sea water, blood, vinegar, tears, sebum, and sweat.
― ‽ Interrobang You're Dead ‽ (Sanpaku), Thursday, 25 October 2012 15:13 (6 months ago) Permalink
Every review of this I've read has had incredibly harsh things to say about "Grandloves", which strikes me a little like "EW GET THAT DUDE AWAY FROM MY DEPRESSED FAIRY PRINCESS" reactionism given the strength of the reaction; it's not my favorite song on the album but it's not like it's wholly out of step with the overall vibe or even particularly bad.
― Gandalf’s Gobble Melt (DJP), Thursday, 25 October 2012 15:26 (6 months ago) Permalink
this album = the sound of side-chain compression
― *triumphant sauce horns* (crüt), Thursday, 25 October 2012 15:36 (6 months ago) Permalink
i just think the arrival of a male figure is a weird intrusion on this very secluded forest in which only our own "depressed fairy princess" (to quote DJP) exists, and it shatters the illusion of that world, the singer (from here in edmonton too i believe?) doesn't fit that beautiful-but-underneath-dangerous magical forest vibe at all
― king louie riel (rennavate), Thursday, 25 October 2012 16:22 (6 months ago) Permalink
this album is one of the biggest surprises I had this year; it's semi-amazing to me how many times I came back to it
― Bel-Air the Fresh Prince, sitting in a chair (DJP), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 16:52 (4 months ago) Permalink
I am absolutely stuck on this record. Pretty much everything I wanted from this thread, but never got. As far as this latest generation of synthpop goes, this album is best-of-breed IMO. "Obedear" and "Fineshrines" are obvious favorites, but nothing on the album stands out as being out of place, not even "Grandloves."
I don't understand the hate for that track, as you can hear hints of the dude in the songs leading up to it. IDK if it's more like dude-as-bandmate or -producer or -counterpoint, or more like Timbaland on Aaliyah's "Are You That Somebody?" or post-XX influence, but it's not necessarily unexpected or unwelcome. Maybe because the album, and especially the vocals sound so "manipulated," that you're aware that it's a duo and bound to hear from the "manipulator" sooner or later.
Maybe I've had too much tonight, or maybe I just have more fun wondering whether the percussion in "Obedear" was bitten from Strafe's "Set it Off" or Snoop's "Drop it Like it's Hot" that other questions about the album pale in significance.
― naus, Sunday, 20 January 2013 12:30 (4 months ago) Permalink
i find grimes' album far more enjoyable because there's more variety
obviously there are big differences between this album and that besides "variety" but the main detractor for me with shrines was that it was too cohesive
― monotony, Sunday, 20 January 2013 13:20 (4 months ago) Permalink
I actively despised that Grimes album.
― Bel-Air the Fresh Prince, sitting in a chair (DJP), Sunday, 20 January 2013 15:16 (4 months ago) Permalink
the male voice isn't the producer guy, it's a sample of a song by another band that has a male singer
― james brooks, Sunday, 20 January 2013 17:46 (4 months ago) Permalink
i'm not saying this was #1 on my ilx ballot or anything, but it was
― ciderpress, Sunday, 20 January 2013 17:48 (4 months ago) Permalink
oh shit: http://www.whosampled.com/sample/view/163058/Purity%20Ring%20feat.%20Young%20Magic-Grandloves_Young%20Magic-You%20With%20Air/
― naus, Sunday, 20 January 2013 23:02 (4 months ago) Permalink
#1 on my ilx ballot I AM NOT ALONE
― Mercer Finn, Tuesday, 29 January 2013 21:26 (3 months ago) Permalink
#5 on mine
― Bel-Air the Fresh Prince, sitting in a chair (DJP), Tuesday, 29 January 2013 21:27 (3 months ago) Permalink
I should hear this bunch.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 29 January 2013 21:28 (3 months ago) Permalink
You should! Check out in particular "Fineshrine" and "Obedear"
― Bel-Air the Fresh Prince, sitting in a chair (DJP), Tuesday, 29 January 2013 21:31 (3 months ago) Permalink
xp I hated 'Grandloves' but could listen to the rest of Shrines on a continual loop for days on end.
The band remind me a lot of The Sundays. Obv different sounds involved, but that sense of innocent curiosity mixed up with faint dread...
― Mercer Finn, Tuesday, 29 January 2013 21:37 (3 months ago) Permalink
xpost -- and having listened to those two, yeah not bad.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 29 January 2013 21:41 (3 months ago) Permalink