album rules probably her best so far
― your original display name is still visible (Left), Wednesday, 6 September 2023 14:17 (eight months ago) link
Tirzah and Mica are on some other level shit.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 6 September 2023 16:46 (eight months ago) link
damn I agree with louis .. ahh well cant win them all
― xheugy eddy (D-40), Wednesday, 6 September 2023 17:45 (eight months ago) link
every so often an album comes along that literally everyone on ilx agrees about
― imago, Wednesday, 6 September 2023 17:46 (eight months ago) link
really unique melodic sensibility that doesn't feel mawkish or sentimental, I dig the use of repetition, rides a cool line between 'does this work' and 'wow this is good'
― xheugy eddy (D-40), Wednesday, 6 September 2023 17:46 (eight months ago) link
feels like a very private ley line to the musical core
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 7 September 2023 01:09 (eight months ago) link
It does one thing and does it well, there's surprising texture from few elements, but this is a little of an atmospheric blur at first listen I must say. I am probably not sold on the monochromatic drabness with occasional light and distortion.
Does anybody see a continuity between her and Erika de Casier (besides being both liked here) ?
― Nabozo, Thursday, 7 September 2023 14:22 (eight months ago) link
They’re almost inversions of each other in my mind — se casier is very dynamic and derivative (tone:neutral) in her melodic sensibility whereas this feels almost like an exercise in melodic experimentalism
I don’t remember much of this album after I listen to it but I remember that I had a good time while I was there
― xheugy eddy (D-40), Thursday, 7 September 2023 15:37 (eight months ago) link
I hear more of an aesthetic similarity to some Dean Blunt ‘s work.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 12 September 2023 00:40 (seven months ago) link
the big difference is de casier is making pop and tirzah isn't. a vague similarity at best
― ufo, Tuesday, 12 September 2023 01:34 (seven months ago) link
De casier has no hits so what exactly does that mean… I thought ppl liked her use of certain retro surfaces (g funk two step etc) that feels more indie than anything
― xheugy eddy (D-40), Tuesday, 12 September 2023 02:33 (seven months ago) link
I think I agree with them being inversions. Sure they’re both rooted on some alt pop/r&b thing but while Erika’s music is very dynamic with glossy production and filled with arrangements, Tirzah’s music is very skeletal, minimal and lo-fi.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 12 September 2023 02:37 (seven months ago) link
The repeated beat makes this feel like a riddim album, I was getting Rhythm & Sound ‘See Mi Yah’ vibes. My only complaint is that it doesn’t appear on EVERY track.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 12 September 2023 07:16 (seven months ago) link
the entropy into shoegaze nightmare is so gorgeously managed tho!
― imago, Tuesday, 12 September 2023 14:25 (seven months ago) link
de casier has written hits for newjeans now even if she has none of her own... but come on lol. de casier writes very direct classic r&b melodies, her music is accessible and full of hooks. tirzah is much more left-field even if she's got a bit of an r&b influence
― ufo, Tuesday, 12 September 2023 14:37 (seven months ago) link
I think we’re agreeing on the same thing? Tirzah and Erika being day and night, 180 degrees separated.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 12 September 2023 15:33 (seven months ago) link
To elaborate, I feel a similarity in them both fighting monotony / lethargy / numbness, both sounding like they're inside a glass wall in claustrophobic or ghostly spaces, a reliance on repetition until nuance and details accidentally appear, songs that are slow and minimal, monochromatic or pointillistic or "midi", or still the way they're using whispers or the tendency to hide into the music. I don't know, I also find De Casier skeletal. Obviously there are big differences as well, de Casier sticks closer to r&b, Tirzah is in an abstract space of her own.
Feeling the Tirzah much more on second listen btw.
― Nabozo, Tuesday, 12 September 2023 19:05 (seven months ago) link
loving that fuzz sound on 2DICUV, so thick! hearing some similarities with the DJ Python/Ana Roxanne album
― NickB, Tuesday, 12 September 2023 19:42 (seven months ago) link
de casier's 'hits' for new jeans ... come on now.
― xheugy eddy (D-40), Tuesday, 12 September 2023 21:04 (seven months ago) link
Is the album actually out? Have seen September and November release dates for it?
― djh, Saturday, 16 September 2023 19:56 (seven months ago) link
Digital only until November
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Saturday, 16 September 2023 20:26 (seven months ago) link
Ta, Moodles.
― djh, Saturday, 16 September 2023 21:27 (seven months ago) link
Colourgrade is such a great album too, there´s nothing quite like it
― groovemaaan, Sunday, 17 September 2023 19:24 (seven months ago) link
Weird, I have just noticed that the album is not true lossless on Apple Music? Compare the size to the other albums I have downloaded on my phone. Not that I really mind given the overall lofi quality, just curious
https://i.imgur.com/2UvwzSu.jpg
― ˈʌglɪɪst preɪ, Saturday, 23 September 2023 15:51 (seven months ago) link