thread of SHAMIR

got to see him on sunday, love his current live band. the drummer is especially killing.

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omg you are freaking me out just tell us wtf happened to Shamir

ok forget it

xp ha nothing, apparently i just can't post a link.

just paste the url ffs

https://soundcloud.com/chantssound/you-had-me

i think i'm seeing him tuesday; curious how well this holds up live over an hour

haha thx. i was just trying to drop an innocuous little link for those who might be interested and now i feel like an idiot.

forks, his live show is great (i think he was nervous on Colbert and overcompensated with too many sousaphones).

glad to hear, that colbert was my only exposure to him live and i was afraid he took all his least enjoyable eccentricities seriously and was a disaster onstage

this is a much better representation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HOQkCC2l_w

yeah, much better
i wonder if he was afraid he was gonna say fuck on national teevee or something

I saw Shamir in a church basement last night and he was STUNNING (I also saw him like 6 mos ago play a short set at a club at like midnight and he seemed sorta tired and it was just-okay). Most of the crowd was, like, hyperactive high school kids which was sort of surprising and they were also not v well behaved and kept stage diving and trying to mosh, ew. He was so bubbly and engaged ~AND~ he played both "If It Wasn't True" and "Sometimes A Man" which he didn't play last time (also the crowd acted like they were new songs and totally didn't respond). It was so much better than I expected it to be. Srsly go see this lil angel.

https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xat1/v/t1.0-9/12246979_10105744906652899_7873448982649899819_n.jpg?oh=df4b8680e5b5c75753a22d3503aebf28&oe=56F29E20

omg you are freaking me out just tell us wtf happened to Shamir

omg you are freaking me out just tell us wtf happened to Shamir

Lmao this post is killing me

Oops didn't mean to double post

as promised, he was very fun and straightforward live; walked on stage and tweety birded out a HI and it was the cutest thing. He's got a good thirty minutes of sharpness, which is an impressive catalogue for such a youngster. I would only say that after that first half hour, I needed to tap out as (admittedly without the aid of drugs, alcohol or someone to dance with), it started getting to be a bit too much cotton candy all at once. Would love to see a double bill with scissor sisters, which this is reminding me of more and more now.

I thought "In For the Kill" was a HOT CHIP SONG before vox kicked in :P
good song imo

dunno about this album. it sounds fun while its on, but none of it seems to stick. or is it one to grow on?

No.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bnvxqHl7_M

We were talking about this on Facebook. Most of the people involved in the discussion thought this was terrible.

i have no real duranx2 nostalgia at all and i'm inclined to like shamir's voice but, much like his cover of brandy clark's "Stripes", i was happy to listen to this once but have no inclination to want to hear it again.

The song itself isn't suited to rendition as a sensitive acoustic song and the way Shamir sings it neutralizes all of the good things about that voice and emphasizes all of the terrible things about it.

his "stripes" cover is borderline unlistenable

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/live-at-samsung-837-shamir-tickets-24486759557

wow I am v glad I saw him in a church basement that holds like 150 ppl

wow a surprise new album today that was recorded over this past weekend??

https://soundcloud.com/shamir326/hope-full-album

and apparently he's not on XL anymore?

anyways, in case this gets pulled because of legal stuff, here's the manifesto/tracklist:

I was gonna quit music this weekend. From day 1 it was clear i was an accidental pop star. I loved the idea of it, i mean who doesn't? Still the wear of staying polished with how im presented and how my music was presented took a huge toll on me mentally. I started to hate music, the thing i loved the most! When i would listen to immaculate recordings with my friends their praise over the quality of the art as opposed to the art itself made me feel really sad for music as a medium in general. My music only feels exciting for me if its in the moment, and thats what this album is. I made this album this past weekend stuck in my room with just a 4 track feeling hopeless about my love for music. Im not gonna lie, this album is hard to listen to, but it was even harder for me to share. I love pop music, i love outsider music, and i love lofi music, this is my way of combining all 3. Anyway I played, wrote, produced, and mixed everything and big thanks to Kieran Ferris for Mastering an album with an hours notice! its free! Enjoy! Love Yall! Still more 2 come!!!!!!!
Tracklist:
Hope
What Else
Ignore Everything
Tom Kelly
Easier
Like A Bird
One More Time Won't Kill You
I Fucking Hate You
Rain (Blake Babies Cover)
Bleed It Out

Album download: www.mediafire.com/folder/u0wwrkud56vad/HOPE+MP3S

my old Blake Babies friend J0hn Str0hm was totally psyched about that

http://www.out.com/out-exclusives/2017/4/17/how-shamir-abandoned-pop-machine-found-hope-lo-fi-bedroom-music

aw, can't say i'm totally surprised, but good for him. <3

Shamir doing a Blake Babies cover is not something I ever expected to happen in my lifetime

I mean it's a pretty rubbish cover but even so

I got about halfway through this before deciding that I appreciated the sentiment more than I enjoyed listening to it.

sadly, that was my takeaway as well.
tbf, he DOES say this isn't gonna be easy to listen to

watch p4k not even review this

they definitely will review it

They've done a track review

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/19006-shamir-what-else/?mbid=homepage-more-latest-and-video

And they reviewed the album the other day.

Saw this line in an interview: A lot of the producers I was working with felt stuck to making Ratchet 2 or Ratchet Deluxe, which is not what I wanted.

And having helped out on some demos awhile back, I can say I was definitely feeling that.

the review seems kinda unfair

Shamir is not the first artist to fall prey to the trappings of lo-fi—like all “less-is-more” creative strategies, it's deceptively difficult to perfect

but also

If pop music demands perfection and following a regiment of rules, Hope runs screaming away from all of that

Must you.

Today, Shamir has announced his new album, Revelations, with a video for the song "90's Kids." The video for the millennial anthem fittingly features Shamir recreating iconic memes.

yes?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXRG-WWDk7w

ohhhh boy

that was... better than I thought it would be.

I give him tons of props for rejecting the path that was laid out for him and putting out exactly what he wants, and it's obviously very important to him to go back to DIY in terms of honesty/artifice/presentation.

Is there any precedent for an artist putting out a lo-fi, home-recorded album to follow up a very polished & produced debut?

https://www.musicdirect.com/Portals/0/Hotcakes/Data/products/00014d67-0000-0000-0000-000000000000/medium/LDB7620.jpg

http://hw-img.datpiff.com/m90ba814/Chief_Keef_Bang_Pt_2-front-large.jpg

Does in utero count lol