tUnE-yArDs

If you like her, you like her I am just saying every person I've met with one exception who is a big tune-yards enthusiastic is your typical trend-watching late to the game pitchfork type person who attends like ~6 concerts a year and illegally downloads all their music. I like a lot of shit music too, and I suppose I like to think it doesn't impugn my character but it probably does sort of.

do you meet very many people? it kinda sounds like you should make more friends.

Tune-Yards rulez!!!!!! Whomever doesn't like their muzik suxxx!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

eXcUsE-mE, bUt I bElIeVe-yOu MeAn 'tUnE-yArDs'

heh

wow -- I bet that killed a few dendrites!

dEnDrItes

oh shoot forgot to capitalize the last E because i was distracted by eating a fAjItA

sUgGeSt BaN

oh shoot forgot to capitalize the last E because i was distracted by eating a fAjItA

You squarez don't understand us kidz and r nonTrAdItIoNal punctuation.

why'd they put all the "difficult" songs at the top of the album? is she trying to scare people off?

bizness through killa is quality listening tho. this is an album that deserves it's own playlist, with the songs i dislike conspicuously absent. the stuff i *do* like is a-list, top quality stuff. i'd probably dig the weird stuff live, too.

The album could use a bit of editing, like most indie. There are a couple of self-indulgent "experimental" tracks that I could do without. But the catchy stuff on here is very catchy. She can write a hook.

album never totally caught fire for me. still like it, and am looking forward to another. I would also like to see her live.

the two minute stretch between 1.00-3.00 of "my country" might be my favorite 2 minute stretch of the last 3 years.

"Wooly Wolly Gong" is the only one I skip -- that one deffo needs editing. "Powa" needs more love aswell.

My fave tUnE-yArDs songs are on the (uneven) debut: "Sunlight", "Fiya" and "Real Live Flesh" are INCREDIBLE. "Bizness" is the only one that reaches those heights for me.

powa and bizness are definitely my favorites on whokill, but really the whole album is solid. when i saw her the other day, i kept thinking "ok i'm pretty sure that's everything i loved off the album" and then another great song would come up.

feelin this

for liek three songs, gets a lil grating after a while

lIvE-bLoG^^

p tuneful overall

Parachute Club of The Future.

i like this

http://read.mtvhive.com/2011/11/10/mwahaha-love-feat-merrill-garbus-song-premiere/

she's also collaborating on something with cut chemist (who opened for her in l.a. last week).

Oh, so this is tUneohfuckit... Tune Yards.

Better than the crazy name spelling would suggest.

If new, I'd start with 'Powa' 'You Yes You' 'Bizness' and maybe 'My Country'

won p+j apparently

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d'oh

well it's not on youtube, that's weird...anyway...

when they played 'gangsta' on jimmy fallon with the roots it was pretty great!

Gave this another shot after seeing it win Pazz/Jop. No idea what it is about the sounds she uses, it makes my skin crawl.

I'm still boycotting based on the stupid capitalization. Can't get over it.

Tune Yards? More like Turd Tunes if you ask me!! Thank you thank you that was my Mark Prindle impression.

I have a nagging feeling that the Brute Heart album from this year shits all over this; I'll probably check it ou just to confirm...

This is kinda weird, because I didn't really notice any particularly big hype bandwagon surrounding this record. I noticed the name and the annoying capitalisation and wrote them off as some jobbing tweepop band.

This was my favorite from 2011.

tUNe-Yards gets the Chuck Klosterman treatment:

I'm not really in a position to argue for (or against) the merits of tUnE-yArDs, simply because I've barely listened to w h o k i l l. Had it not won the Pazz & Jop poll, I might not have listened to it at all. It's been on my iTunes since whenever it came out, I know my wife loved it, and I had no problem with it ideologically. I just never got around to playing it. Somehow, I hadn't read a single story about tUnE-yArDs, so I wasn't even sure what genre of music it was supposed to exist alongside. The only thing I knew was that the words "Tune Yards" were spelled "tUnE-yArDs," which seemed like reason enough to ignore it (not a good reason, but a reason nonetheless). But then it was voted no. 1 in this poll, which made me think, I should at least know what it is.

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/7490324/chuck-klosterman-tune-yards

To which Maura responds:

Most frustrating about the piece, written by one of the country's most celebrated music writers on a high-trafficked platform: It seems to have been the result of a listening session or two in a vacuum, with only Wikipedia and a couple of preconceived notions about Garbus being kind of "out there" as research assistance.

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2012/01/tune_yards_pazz_and_jop_chuck_klosterman.php

chuck klosterman is one of the country's most celebrated music writers?

things are worse than i thought

I think that Klosterman's point is only nominally about tUnE-Yards though and mainly about the way critical acclaim functions within the tiny niche of "serious" pop music.

xxp

klosterman is a fucking idiot

that was one of the worst pieces of published writing i've ever read

I had no problem with it ideologically.

what on earth does this even mean

The album w h o k i l l by tUnE-yArDs was just named record of the year by voters in the 2011 Pazz & Jop poll.

I'm guessing this doesn't mean much to more than (maybe) 10,000 people in the entire country. In fact, if you effortlessly understood 100 percent of this article's opening sentence, you can probably skip the rest of the piece.

Took him at his word, stopped there. Seemed like an okay article to me.

Is he paid by the adverb?

he's paid in Trident Layers

tuneyards will have to keep making records in the next five years so people don't laugh about her in 10? did i read that right

I think so. She has to stay relevant for a while or risk being remembered as the punch-line to a "what were we thinking?" joke in 10 years time.

the same advice Talking Heads got after Little Creatures topped the poll, right?

Well, Talking Heads had already established their brand pretty well by that time. Klosterman cites Arrested Development, Fischerspooner and Cornershop (whom he professes to still like) as cautionary examples.

that was one of the worst pieces of published writing i've ever read

obviously you don't read Grantland often

I think so. She has to stay relevant for a while or risk being remembered as the punch-line to a "what were we thinking?" joke in 10 years time.

i don't really get this. i still like all the music i liked 10 years ago; i'm not embarrassed by my taste at any point in my life. the worst part of "what were we thinking" may be the "we" -- thanks for including me in your own self-consciousness, dipshit.

frogbs don't hurt em