I dunno, the timbre of his voice is kind of dorky, but the rapping doesn't get in the way of the excellent production.
― jaymc, Monday, 30 January 2012 20:55 (twelve years ago) link
xp What's not to understand? The artist and the art are inextricably intertwined in a lot of ways. It would be nice to say that you could look at the work objectively without bringing in outside influences, but that's cutting off an entire aspect of the work.
― Gamera died for our sins (J3ff T.), Monday, 30 January 2012 20:55 (twelve years ago) link
limp and lifeless
otm. just INERT. this is not good sound design - the sonics don't go anywhere or do anything except be ~vaguely~ ~melancholy~
the album's most ear-catching beat is a jamie xx beat - and jamie xx himself was the most horribly overrated british electronic producer of 2011
― first period don't give a fuck, second period gon get cut (lex pretend), Monday, 30 January 2012 20:56 (twelve years ago) link
Drake is a musical canker sore
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Monday, 30 January 2012 20:56 (twelve years ago) link
drake just reminds me of listening to 22 year olds complaining about feeling old
― La Lechera, Monday, 30 January 2012 20:56 (twelve years ago) link
I feel like its a banner day when lex otms me, I feel like we so rarely agree.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, 30 January 2012 20:57 (twelve years ago) link
Good to see Veronica Falls place. Got a good feeling I missed it off my rushed ballot.
― DavidM, Monday, 30 January 2012 20:57 (twelve years ago) link
even on the drake remixes i like, like the jojo one that showed up in the tracks poll, or the angel haze ones, even then the production isn't the attraction - it works as a background foil to a compelling persona or narrative, when it works, not as a thing that's remarkable in its own right
― first period don't give a fuck, second period gon get cut (lex pretend), Monday, 30 January 2012 20:58 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.qkme.me/72mv.jpg
― omar little, Monday, 30 January 2012 20:58 (twelve years ago) link
incidentally all these weeks later i'm still getting angry tweets from drake fans over my review - who'd have ever thought drake fans would be whiny lil bitches? taking after their hero ;_;
― first period don't give a fuck, second period gon get cut (lex pretend), Monday, 30 January 2012 20:59 (twelve years ago) link
clearly none of you have ever viewed the aftermath of a party through a haze of smoke
― Number None, Monday, 30 January 2012 20:59 (twelve years ago) link
The only nice thing I'll say about Take Care is that the cover art is great.
― lag∞n affiliated (The Reverend), Monday, 30 January 2012 21:00 (twelve years ago) link
I don't even love Take Care -- the previous album made more of an impression -- but I guess I always want to defend him because I like the production and mood of his records, and the complaints about his persona or his lyrical POV are irrelevant to how I listen to music.
― jaymc, Monday, 30 January 2012 21:00 (twelve years ago) link
I think he sounds like a nasally fart
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Monday, 30 January 2012 21:00 (twelve years ago) link
The mood is too one-note though and sustaining it over the length of 75 minutes or w/e is just pure torture.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, 30 January 2012 21:01 (twelve years ago) link
I have never heard Drake. But I instinctively know I would probably hate him as much as Lex.
― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Monday, 30 January 2012 21:01 (twelve years ago) link
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, January 30, 2012 1:01 PM Bookmark
OTM
― lag∞n affiliated (The Reverend), Monday, 30 January 2012 21:02 (twelve years ago) link
do people who listen to drake vibe out to lift muzak?
― first period don't give a fuck, second period gon get cut (lex pretend), Monday, January 30, 2012 3:53 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
actually kinda
― J0rdan S., Monday, 30 January 2012 21:02 (twelve years ago) link
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Monday, January 30, 2012 9:00 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, January 30, 2012 9:01 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
otm x 2
― first period don't give a fuck, second period gon get cut (lex pretend), Monday, 30 January 2012 21:03 (twelve years ago) link
oh J0RDAN
wow take care and WTT outside of the top 50 is pretty impressive ilm
― tebow gotti (k3vin k.), Monday, 30 January 2012 21:03 (twelve years ago) link
What the hell is lift ... oh, lol, Britishes.
And sure, why not.
― jaymc, Monday, 30 January 2012 21:04 (twelve years ago) link
I was kind of grooving on the beat of the first track, and then he started rapping and it was literally the same phobic physical reaction I have when a mosquito buzzes in my ear, only in this case the mosquito was sadly bragging about how awesome he was
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Monday, 30 January 2012 21:04 (twelve years ago) link
irl lol
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, 30 January 2012 21:05 (twelve years ago) link
take care, more like take that shit somewhere else
― Full Frontal Newtity (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 30 January 2012 21:05 (twelve years ago) link
i've done my fair share of drake defending this year, so i'll let all this pass
― J0rdan S., Monday, 30 January 2012 21:05 (twelve years ago) link
I heard Michael McDonald in an elevator a few weeks ago, I could have vibed to that for awhile longer than the ride took tbh.
alright last one today
i forgot to compile the full list in text, my bad
never forget: "shout out to the asian girls, let the lights dim sum" ;_; ;_;
― first period don't give a fuck, second period gon get cut (lex pretend), Monday, 30 January 2012 21:06 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/MAJzB.jpg
61. Lykke Li – Wounded Rhymes (294 points, 10 votes)
P4K: 43P&J: 38
Spotify
― J0rdan S., Monday, 30 January 2012 21:06 (twelve years ago) link
also i stopped using em dashes halfway thru cuz i switched to my work computer which uses windows
file lykke li w/ low in ppl i had no idea put out albums this year
I always want to like Lykke Li more than I actually do
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Monday, 30 January 2012 21:06 (twelve years ago) link
i dont think i knew this album existed (oh lol xps)
― the parable is the parable of the (Lamp), Monday, 30 January 2012 21:07 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, this album was pretty boring.
― skip, Monday, 30 January 2012 21:07 (twelve years ago) link
i discovered recently that one of my favourite songs on the cousin fik album (which i doubt will place) samples lykke li - it sounds immense as a sample and may have to cause me to revise my opinion of her (previously thought she was just a twee menace)
― first period don't give a fuck, second period gon get cut (lex pretend), Monday, 30 January 2012 21:07 (twelve years ago) link
the lykke li album is.....fine
― call all destroyer, Monday, 30 January 2012 21:08 (twelve years ago) link
Btw, Lex, your stock "stock photography" put-down of TTOL (this is at least the third time you've used that analogy, iirc?) only makes sense if the film were just a series of context-less images. It's not.
― jaymc, Monday, 30 January 2012 21:08 (twelve years ago) link
lol this first song sounds sort of like Santigold doing 60s rock
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Monday, 30 January 2012 21:08 (twelve years ago) link
I liked this Lykke Li album a lot when it first came out, but cooled on it significantly as the year went on.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, 30 January 2012 21:08 (twelve years ago) link
leaving aside the fact that the "plot", such as it is, is incredibly thin and uncompelling, it was more of an aesthetic judgment - it's the clichéd nature and weird, polished, slick shine of the film's visuals
― first period don't give a fuck, second period gon get cut (lex pretend), Monday, 30 January 2012 21:09 (twelve years ago) link
Lykke Li is more of a singles artist than an album artist for me.
I dig the Dave Sitek remix of "I Follow Rivers":http://youtu.be/pWaJ35iKUO8
― jaymc, Monday, 30 January 2012 21:09 (twelve years ago) link
incredibly thin and uncompelling
Yeah, we disagree, then.
― jaymc, Monday, 30 January 2012 21:10 (twelve years ago) link
this is the amazing lykke li sampling track btw
cousin fik - collow you (colombiana mix)
― first period don't give a fuck, second period gon get cut (lex pretend), Monday, 30 January 2012 21:11 (twelve years ago) link
i think the only album that placed today that ive heard all the way through is drake's ://
― the parable is the parable of the (Lamp), Monday, 30 January 2012 21:11 (twelve years ago) link
*follow
agh
I really love the Lykke Li album. Thought it was a huge improvement on the debut even though there wasn't anything as brilliant as A Little Bit on there.
― Kitchen Person, Monday, 30 January 2012 21:14 (twelve years ago) link
^^ I agree with that assessment completely.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 30 January 2012 21:14 (twelve years ago) link
woooo WITTR! i have much more time for them than liturgy myself. this album in particular is evidence #1 for "black metal can do more than you think" from this year.
― blurgh (jjjusten), Monday, 30 January 2012 21:15 (twelve years ago) link
well at least among the albums that have any possible chance of placing obv.