i'm still undecided as to whether how to dress well is the worst music ever or if i'm actually kind of into it. constantly catch myself oscillating between feelings of disgust and groovin
― samosa gibreel, Friday, 15 October 2010 00:31 (thirteen years ago) link
me 2
― truly blunted rhyme fiend (J0rdan S.), Friday, 15 October 2010 00:33 (thirteen years ago) link
How To Dress Well is surprisingly brilliant live. Or at least he was when I saw him in London over summer.
Faded high is such a great song off Relayted.
― Duran (Doran), Friday, 15 October 2010 01:13 (thirteen years ago) link
me 3
― Tim F, Friday, 15 October 2010 01:28 (thirteen years ago) link
"meander pointlessly" and "ersatz" yes ("affectless" no) - but listen with "balearic" ears
if i do this, it's just a less-satisfying version of actual balearic music, without any of the detail or lush sound design that i prize there. (bear in mind i never particularly liked a mountain of one ,or anything that veered too much to the beardo end of the spectrum)
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Friday, 15 October 2010 08:20 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm still undecided as to whether how to dress well is the worst music ever
give me a how to dress well song to listen to so i can decide for you
dude you would hate this shit i don't even need to
― samosa gibreel, Friday, 15 October 2010 08:21 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnoIjY4aPTM
― truly blunted rhyme fiend (J0rdan S.), Friday, 15 October 2010 08:21 (thirteen years ago) link
like, the first three seconds will repulse you
i really like that song tho
― truly blunted rhyme fiend (J0rdan S.), Friday, 15 October 2010 08:22 (thirteen years ago) link
hahaha otm about the first three seconds
― samosa gibreel, Friday, 15 October 2010 08:23 (thirteen years ago) link
is it meant to sound like that?
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Friday, 15 October 2010 08:26 (thirteen years ago) link
like, recorded in a toilet?
yeah i guess, that's one thing i've never understood
― truly blunted rhyme fiend (J0rdan S.), Friday, 15 October 2010 08:26 (thirteen years ago) link
(genuine qn, it could well be shitty youtube quality)
(not that it sounded like it'd be good anyway)
oh so it is meant to sound like that
an insult to well-dressed people everywhere imo
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Friday, 15 October 2010 08:27 (thirteen years ago) link
haw
anyways yr totally right, its awful music -- blatant incompetence mustered up as art. just sometimes, idk, you catch yourself nodding your head to the hand clap beats & getting into that big lo-fi reverby wall of sound. against all better judgment
― samosa gibreel, Friday, 15 October 2010 08:34 (thirteen years ago) link
a lo-fi wall of sound seems to fundamentally misunderstand what's good about a wall of sound
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Friday, 15 October 2010 08:44 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.audioheritage.org/images/jbl/photos/pro-speakers/grateful.jpg
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 15 October 2010 08:58 (thirteen years ago) link
disagree completely, but that's to be expected. massive walls of sound are one of the few things that fuzzed out, bargain-basement lofi recording can really get across.
― contenderizer, Friday, 15 October 2010 09:15 (thirteen years ago) link
soz really didn't mean to post such a big image...but look at those fuckin stacks!!
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 15 October 2010 09:20 (thirteen years ago) link
Whose sound rig is that?
― Harrison Buttwhistle (NickB), Friday, 15 October 2010 09:22 (thirteen years ago) link
grateful dead's (circa '74 - you can actually see em rehearsing at the bottom of the pic) - they called this set up 'the wall of sound', hence...
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 15 October 2010 10:04 (thirteen years ago) link
you wont need me where im going is pretty affecting imo but it has nothing to do with r&b
― teflon dawn (uptown churl), Friday, 15 October 2010 11:47 (thirteen years ago) link
How To Dress Well is an exercise in nothingness. I don't get the adoration at all.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, October 14, 2010 5:28 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark
cf dubstep
guess you don't like beats
― the parking garage has more facebook followers than my band (Jordan), Friday, 15 October 2010 13:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Thing is: strip away the appalling production on HTDW's records and when you see Tom Krell live, suddenly he's ace. He does a particularly good song over a loop from Jacko's Baby Be Mine which is great. I don't get what all the 'fashionably distressed' piss poor recording technique is about on his studio output... (which there's also too much of).
― Duran (Doran), Saturday, 16 October 2010 01:44 (thirteen years ago) link
his cover of "i wish" is really good
agree w/ doran's last sentence
― truly blunted rhyme fiend (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 16 October 2010 01:48 (thirteen years ago) link
'gaudy side of town' is A++++++++++ top ten
― whats goin on witchu iron mane (deej), Thursday, 18 November 2010 05:17 (thirteen years ago) link
btw idg why 'chub licker' is in this thread title
― big smang theory (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 18 November 2010 05:18 (thirteen years ago) link
trip hop >>>> dubstep
― smangs of new york (deej), Thursday, 18 November 2010 05:29 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't understand why How To Dress Well is getting all the critical plaudits and everyone has forgot about Gayngs. I enjoy this much more.
― Tim F, Thursday, 18 November 2010 07:45 (thirteen years ago) link
totally
― big smang theory (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 18 November 2010 07:48 (thirteen years ago) link
man i need to start paying attention to music again. this is great! and its been out for months!
― max, Thursday, 18 November 2010 07:49 (thirteen years ago) link
cynical answer: how to dress well fits into a storyline
― big smang theory (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 18 November 2010 07:50 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah shit, this is totally max music
gayngs is from minneapolis (right?) and htdw is from brooklyn/germany?
― max, Thursday, 18 November 2010 07:50 (thirteen years ago) link
yes altho i think HTDW is/was based in chicago when he started poppin off
― big smang theory (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 18 November 2010 07:51 (thirteen years ago) link
also gayngs doesnt use enough triangles in their aesthetic
― max, Thursday, 18 November 2010 07:51 (thirteen years ago) link
I love this album! It's like if A Mountain of One had decided to make an entire album out of "Freefall" rather than "Innocent Line".
― Tim F, Monday, July 19, 2010 6:50 AM (3 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
this got me really excited but if anything i wish the album sounded MORE like freefall
― max, Thursday, 18 November 2010 07:52 (thirteen years ago) link
I was sat in the garden listening to it at the weekend and still love it. I really worry about stuff that's got a bit of a pot head sensibility to it but this is amazing *in spite* of all that stuff - especially the sleeve 'concept'.
― Duran (Doran), Monday, July 19, 2010 12:42 PM (3 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
*shakes head sadly*
― max, Thursday, 18 November 2010 07:53 (thirteen years ago) link
Well this is a general principle w/r/t all rock pretty much, I would think.
Poor Gayngs, so close to being triangulastic:
http://potholesinmyblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Relayted-Gayngs_480.jpg
― Tim F, Thursday, 18 November 2010 07:54 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, if only there were more freefalls. but ill settle for more im not in loves, i guess. is that old kevin godley in the "cry" video?
― max, Thursday, 18 November 2010 08:01 (thirteen years ago) link
ah i see thats been covered. good sport.
OK, I give up. This rules. Wish I didn't wait so long to hear this, as I have a few friends involved. I don't love Bon Iver, I think that's why I avoided it initially. Hope the rest is as good as "The Gaudy Side of Town."
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Thursday, 18 November 2010 12:33 (thirteen years ago) link
haha this whole thing sounds like it's been made up for a WFMU Best Show call-in
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 18 November 2010 12:36 (thirteen years ago) link
"Mick Nick Pick Mick Nick"
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 18 November 2010 12:37 (thirteen years ago) link
love this album so much i can even tolerate the rap at the end
― max, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 08:16 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.thejump.net/id/more-fish/bluehead-chub.jpg
― phish in your sleazebag (contenderizer), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 08:22 (thirteen years ago) link
"last prom on earth" is actually one of my least favorite things here, but it seems to get high praise? idgi. "faded high" people!
― Tim F, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 08:28 (thirteen years ago) link
besides gaudy side of town and cry, i like 'no sweat,' unsurprisingly
― max, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 08:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Faded High has graduated to my favourite track on the album also.
(Chub Licker was a reference to the anticipatory Fall new album thread which was around when I first posted this.)
― Carl Jung Jeezy (Doran), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 09:15 (thirteen years ago) link
btw played a show about 1 1/2 ago with this singer called Mayda who is being groomed/produced by michael bland, so he plays in her live band
he appears not well at all :(
still played like a metronome tho
― dave coolier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 17 February 2012 18:49 (twelve years ago) link