sounds, smash hits, melody maker, nmeall sound like a dream to me
― minecraft on a milk sea (diamonddave85), Tuesday, 11 January 2011 20:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Winter spring summer and fallAnimals crawlTowards deaths embrace
just typing this out and realizing it's a nice little play on the carol king song.
― Moreno, Tuesday, 11 January 2011 21:06 (thirteen years ago) link
Whereas I usually set up a mic to do the "real vocal take" and everything, I found that I could get the relaxed quality I wanted for this record while I was, like, lying down on the couch.
Pitchfork: Did you actually record some vocals lying down on the couch?
DB: Yeah, I did.
― rihanna rennavated my dick (rennavate), Tuesday, 11 January 2011 21:21 (thirteen years ago) link
I didn't think it was possible to love this man more.
when i first wrote this song i had intended it to be a waltz, but the musicians i was playing at the time apparently were unable to play a waltz... and that's why this country will always be at war
― flopson, Tuesday, 11 January 2011 22:02 (thirteen years ago) link
That's a great quote!I wonder what Soto and/or Matos would think of this record, especially if they haven't liked Destroyer in the past
― Iago Galdston, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 00:54 (thirteen years ago) link
So this is going to be huge.
― slagterm, Friday, 14 January 2011 18:17 (thirteen years ago) link
duh, it's awesome
― bernard snowy, Friday, 14 January 2011 18:46 (thirteen years ago) link
where else is this getting buzz aside from here? in the "we've heard it and it rules" sense, not the "this is comin out" sense
― ullr saves (gbx), Friday, 14 January 2011 18:51 (thirteen years ago) link
theres def other places
― *gets the power* (deej), Friday, 14 January 2011 18:59 (thirteen years ago) link
srry if that sounded snide. afaik sonically this is a v. accidentally trendy album
― *gets the power* (deej), Friday, 14 January 2011 19:01 (thirteen years ago) link
80s soft rock /quiet storm kinda feels like a thing right?
hipsters love sting
― Lamp, Friday, 14 January 2011 19:04 (thirteen years ago) link
It has become a thing and I wish it would go away. Aside from "Savage Night at the Opera" and "Poor In Love" I think this record is total dreck.
― scott pgwp (pgwp), Friday, 14 January 2011 20:16 (thirteen years ago) link
lol rong, those are the two worst trax
― fruit of the goon (k3vin k.), Friday, 14 January 2011 20:17 (thirteen years ago) link
they're also two of the shortest
― bernard snowy, Friday, 14 January 2011 20:18 (thirteen years ago) link
so like if you just don't like the album, those wld probably be among yr least disliked
and they're two of the rockiest
basically what i'm saying is i think pgwp sux
― bernard snowy, Friday, 14 January 2011 20:19 (thirteen years ago) link
otm
― fruit of the goon (k3vin k.), Friday, 14 January 2011 20:19 (thirteen years ago) link
if u want short rocky songs go listen to a guided by voices album or something, jeeze
― bernard snowy, Friday, 14 January 2011 20:20 (thirteen years ago) link
zing.
― scott pgwp (pgwp), Friday, 14 January 2011 20:29 (thirteen years ago) link
gtfo
― ullr saves (gbx), Friday, 14 January 2011 20:45 (thirteen years ago) link
stfu
― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 14 January 2011 20:47 (thirteen years ago) link
>--(O___O)--< )))\___\
― ullr saves (gbx), Friday, 14 January 2011 20:49 (thirteen years ago) link
― scott pgwp (pgwp), Friday, January 14, 2011 1:16 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
I hope the P4k opinion is not this.
― rihanna rennavated my dick (rennavate), Friday, 14 January 2011 21:24 (thirteen years ago) link
honestly i kinda hope this gets like a middling 6.0 from pitchfork so we don't have to deal with all the associated nonsense. i'm pretty certain it'll break 9 tho and then again i do want this dude to get paid so
― fruit of the goon (k3vin k.), Friday, 14 January 2011 21:28 (thirteen years ago) link
pgwp is not plagenhoff i dont think. i agree abt this being accidentally trendy but what other evidence besides last year's ariel pink record is there?
― flopson, Friday, 14 January 2011 21:30 (thirteen years ago) link
ha he can speak for himself but no he's not & i don't have any problem w/ pgwp & read his blog from time to time. think we were just ribbing
― fruit of the goon (k3vin k.), Friday, 14 January 2011 21:33 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't write for Pitchfork. pgwp stands for pretty goes with pretty.
I think that awful Gayngs record is another example of the trend - not coincidentally those are my three least favorite albums of the last few months! It's a trend that must be squelched.
xpost thanks k3vin.
― scott pgwp (pgwp), Friday, 14 January 2011 21:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Ahh I thought you were Pl@genhoff. And yeah I have no problem with pgwp. Can't blame you about those two songs tho, "Poor in Love" is the most immediate, I think. The "Painter in Your Pocket" of Kaputt?
― rihanna rennavated my dick (rennavate), Friday, 14 January 2011 21:37 (thirteen years ago) link
gayngs yes
― flopson, Friday, 14 January 2011 21:38 (thirteen years ago) link
i like gayngs & this. what dont u like about the aesthetic -- is it u dont like it in gen, or just this version of it?
― *gets the power* (deej), Friday, 14 January 2011 21:41 (thirteen years ago) link
How similar is the Gayngs record? I haven't gotten around to hearing it yet.
― rihanna rennavated my dick (rennavate), Friday, 14 January 2011 21:49 (thirteen years ago) link
they both have saxophones iirc
― *gets the power* (deej), Friday, 14 January 2011 21:53 (thirteen years ago) link
trenchcoat indie
I don't like the aesthetic at all, whether it's done by indie dudes in 2010 or by Lite FM artists of the 80s, 90s, and Today (tm). Though I admit to being especially irritated by the sound's infiltration into indie rock in general.
It comes down to the instrumentation, the saxophone specifically. That smooth sax sound, and sax solos in general, almost always turns me off. I can handle the synths usually, and the terrible drum sound sometimes. But smooth sax kills every song its on, whether we're talking Destroyer or anyone else.
― scott pgwp (pgwp), Friday, 14 January 2011 21:58 (thirteen years ago) link
smooth sax is like my number one favourite thing. if i was in a band there would be smooth sax solos in every song.
― plax (ico), Friday, 14 January 2011 21:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Love the Gayngs record, so I should love this too.
― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 14 January 2011 22:00 (thirteen years ago) link
smoke weed, listen to sade imo
― *gets the power* (deej), Friday, 14 January 2011 22:01 (thirteen years ago) link
this is kindof precise and clear where the gayngs thing is woozy and hazy and lets smoke some weed man
― plax (ico), Friday, 14 January 2011 22:02 (thirteen years ago) link
I will say that of the three albums (Destroyer, Gayngs, and Ariel Pink), Kaputt is the best of them. It contains all the things I usually like about Bejar, just mixed with awfulness. It feels like less of a cheeky joke - rather, just something Bejar wanted to do. I can respect that even if I don't like it. Gayngs and AP, to my ears, sound like they're just having a laugh by playing this kind of music, which only makes me hate them more.
― scott pgwp (pgwp), Friday, 14 January 2011 22:10 (thirteen years ago) link
tbf gayngs do seem like major cunts
― plax (ico), Friday, 14 January 2011 22:11 (thirteen years ago) link
don't see how this sound is a 2011 "trend", I was calling bejar postyacht back in 2006 yo
― i would just like to point out that i have been orange & teal itt (Edward III), Friday, 14 January 2011 22:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Why does it have to be a "cheeky joke," though? Do saxophones have to be employed ironically? What I like about Kaputt is that the saxophones, and the guitars, the beats, is that they're actually good... the saxophone runs are just well, dope-sounding.
― rihanna rennavated my dick (rennavate), Friday, 14 January 2011 22:13 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah if you watch the videos of gayngs live they do this totes gross winky "look at us in our white tux jackets" thing
― plax (ico), Friday, 14 January 2011 22:16 (thirteen years ago) link
ariel pink seems really weird to lump in w/ this and hes been doing this shampoo commercial fuzz pop for like ten years or more right?
― plax (ico), Friday, 14 January 2011 22:17 (thirteen years ago) link
I said Bejar specifically sounds like LESS of a cheeky joke, more earnest. Still hate the sound though.
Plax I'm not familiar with Ariel Pink beyond his most recent album.
― scott pgwp (pgwp), Friday, 14 January 2011 22:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Right, didn't mean to suggest you stated otherwise. I'm just asking the question in general, really.
― rihanna rennavated my dick (rennavate), Friday, 14 January 2011 22:28 (thirteen years ago) link
idk i take a kinda quiet storm radio approach to all this which is 'does it sound aesthetically like other shit i like?' yes -> its dope, no -> its not
the songs are there, i dont detect a half-assedness, all three of these records sound great (gayngs most intermittently) ... i love how much (esp w/ the bass parts) that ariel pink sounds like steely dan
― *gets the power* (deej), Friday, 14 January 2011 22:37 (thirteen years ago) link
this isn't really r&b at all to me, way more like uh prefab sprout and shit like that tho
― mekka lekka hi mega-hiney hoes (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 14 January 2011 22:38 (thirteen years ago) link