kate bush comparisons are so o_0 wtf becoz yes, all otherworldly gurl singer-songwriter auteurs must be cut from the same cloth and that is the ETHEREAL staitjacket oh yessss
No, it's not that. What Paul in Santa Cruz heard is the best example of what I heard: "The "Paint a black hole blacker" bits in "The Stranger" seem like an obvious Bushism."
Actually, I don't think I've heard another artist that I've thought sounds like Kate Bush.
― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 15 December 2009 13:09 (3 years ago) Permalink
(I should say that it's the way that portion of the song is arranged and sounds and maybe St. Vincent's delivery -- not the lyrics themselves -- that triggered the comparison for me)
― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 15 December 2009 13:11 (3 years ago) Permalink
i guess you could say some kate comparisons are more valid than others...
― mdskltr (blueski), Tuesday, 15 December 2009 13:13 (3 years ago) Permalink
it just seems like such a lazy bad "female, a bit mad, slightly technological" reference point that it's come to be meaningless
― Karen Tregaskin, Tuesday, 15 December 2009 13:14 (3 years ago) Permalink
Who else is supposed to sound like Kate Bush?
― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 15 December 2009 13:18 (3 years ago) Permalink
come on, i've heard it used to describe everyone from florence & the machine to voice of the sodding beehive
― Karen Tregaskin, Tuesday, 15 December 2009 13:24 (3 years ago) Permalink
(anyway i don't actually care about this enough to argue - if it makes more people come around to st.vincent then fine use whatever terminology you want)
― Karen Tregaskin, Tuesday, 15 December 2009 13:25 (3 years ago) Permalink
Bat for Lashes, Florence and the Machine, a couple of songs w/female vocals on the last M83 album (e.g., "Up").
― Nuyorican oatmeal (jaymc), Tuesday, 15 December 2009 14:23 (3 years ago) Permalink
Patrick Wolf sounds like Kate Bush occasionally, and very deliberately. Also dresses like her from time to time too. He has a penis.
― exploding angel vagina (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 15 December 2009 14:36 (3 years ago) Permalink
But yeah, I was saying to Em the other day, I don't know how I'd describe St. Vincent. At all.
― exploding angel vagina (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 15 December 2009 14:37 (3 years ago) Permalink
Blue Roses
― We should have called Suzie and Bobby (NickB), Tuesday, 15 December 2009 14:40 (3 years ago) Permalink
one sad note - the album is solid gold awesome super brilliant for 7 tracks, but then loses momentum in the final stretch...'just the same but brand new' is really good, but 'the bed' and 'the party' slightly sabotage the flow
― dyaaaow (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 15 December 2009 17:08 (3 years ago) Permalink
sheer martial panic of the slightly 'lonesome tears'-esque ending of 'black rainbow' into the similarly rising but this time utterly sweet rising motif of 'laughing...' = incredible feat of sequencing
― dyaaaow (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 15 December 2009 17:35 (3 years ago) Permalink
erm delete the second 'rising'
― dyaaaow (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 15 December 2009 17:36 (3 years ago) Permalink
The Party has such beautiful lyrics though, Louis.
― exploding angel vagina (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 15 December 2009 19:41 (3 years ago) Permalink
Especially when she stops singing words.
i realise i'm pretty late to this, but having discovered this through the ilx albums poll a couple of months ago, i can safely say it's the most played thing i;ve had in the house this year... jesus is it already mid-April? I'll be 60 before I know it.
― village idiot (dog latin), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 14:46 (3 years ago) Permalink
Annie has certain co-lineage w/ Sufjan; what mighst bequeathest if thee parturitate? Immediate immaculate and blinding white-hot winged ascension?
Tonight's Austin City Limits (http://video.pbs.org/video/1697650631/) demonstrates an axe-maven extraordinaire with, yes, the red lips and white skin of the aforementioned "minx" entrenched. It's all true; and i love her for it.
God save St. V!
― suspecterrain, Sunday, 19 December 2010 04:39 (2 years ago) Permalink
the Sufjanphonic Squee
― buzza, Sunday, 19 December 2010 04:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
i want to eye fuck annie clark while she makes fuzzy noises with her electric guitar
― jumpskins, Sunday, 19 December 2010 13:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
Well it seems you've come to the right pl
― ARP 2600 vs. Atari 2600 (Ówen P.), Sunday, 19 December 2010 13:48 (2 years ago) Permalink
Out of everything I discovered through last year's albums poll, "Actor" is the album that I come back to time and again. Absolutely amazing. Had it on constant rotation for 12 months and I still come back for more.
― Bernard V. O'Hare (dog latin), Wednesday, 2 February 2011 16:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
(realises he posted something similar only a few months back).
― Bernard V. O'Hare (dog latin), Wednesday, 2 February 2011 16:23 (2 years ago) Permalink
Set me on fire.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 23 May 2011 17:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
Is there a new album coming soon? Please!
― lol sickmouthy (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 23 May 2011 17:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
holy shit shes awesome
― just sayin, Monday, 23 May 2011 17:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
Really excited for a new album from her, but I'm sure I'm the only person on ILM that thought the last one was a minor disappointment. It seemed to be universally loved, but I wasn't as excited by it as I was by her debut.
― 'what are you, the Hymen Protection League of America?' (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 23 May 2011 17:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
The last one wasn't a disappoint, but it wasn't nearly as entrancing as Marry Me.
― failure to recognize semi-ironic 'faggot' (Alex in Montreal), Monday, 23 May 2011 18:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
that big black cover, oh yeah.
i want to eyefuck her while she makes fuzzy noises with her pedals
― jumpskins, Tuesday, 24 May 2011 07:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
So great.
― We need to talk about Bevan (DL), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 09:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
Wow. Yeah. "eyefucking". Great.
And you guys have a problem with how *I* talk about, say, Patrick Wolf on this board?
― Karen D. Tregaskin, Tuesday, 24 May 2011 09:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
― Karen D. Tregaskin, Tuesday, May 24, 2011 5:25 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark
I have absolutely no problem with how you talk about Patrick Wolf, so long as you agree that he's mind-blowingly pretty and totally fuckworthy.
But, yeah, while Annie Clark is v. attractive, the proper focus should totally be on the fact that she is a total musical genius.
― failure to recognize semi-ironic 'faggot' (Alex in Montreal), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 18:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
I'd assumed DL was going "great!" at the cover rather than the weirdo posting above him.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 24 May 2011 20:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
I should probably go back to the last album, I liked it but it never quite resonated with me.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 24 May 2011 20:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
after seeing this thread i relistened to the last one again. i loved it before, still loving it.
― so come right back, we have count dracula and we have adam rich (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 20:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
Aw, Alex, I've come around on Patrick Wolf, but this isn't the thread for that.
I've just realised I've never actually listened to Marry Me. Which is completely remiss considering how much I loved Actor.
So it's like I get a brand new album now instead of having to wait for one!
― Karen D. Tregaskin, Tuesday, 24 May 2011 20:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
To be fair Karen she does have some very large eyeballs
― THE Alan Moulder?!? (Ówen P.), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 22:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
Haha! Oh I'm so looking forward to this. Why did I never check marry me?!?!
― broodje kroket (dog latin), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 22:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
New album Sept 13. Stoked.
― Deverly (Bangelo), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 21:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://www.4ad.com/news/13/7/2011/stvincentunveilsstrangemercyartworkandtracklisting
― Dear Projectionist (blueski), Thursday, 14 July 2011 13:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
Holy moley, her song Surgeon is absolutely dynamite!!
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 29 July 2011 03:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
It's really good. Hated that high pitched ending though.
― The Sunspots In Your Eyes Are Actually Cataracts, Mr. Rudich (AWALL), Friday, 29 July 2011 12:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
listening to actor atm
― markers, Friday, 29 July 2011 22:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
Quick trainspotting question for the ILX brane:
The descending vocal part in the intro of this new song, "Surgeon?" It's referencing a big string melody from some kind of soundtrack, something John Barry-ish, or maybe 60s sci-fi -- something I remember mostly because it was prominently sampled as the breakdown of a rave/hardcore track at some point. It's sort of bugging me; anyone recognize those first two lines?
― ንፁህ አበበ (nabisco), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 21:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
― buzza, Tuesday, 2 August 2011 21:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
You Only Live Twice?
― Aphex Twin … in my vagina? (Karen D. Tregaskin), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 21:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
Ah, thanks! Thinking it was a score for something sent me barking up all the wrong trees.
― ንፁህ አበበ (nabisco), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 21:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
Or at least the "score" part of the trees instead of the "title theme" part
it's from You Only Live Twice:
― Jamie_ATP, Tuesday, 2 August 2011 21:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
doh too slow