James Blake, Mt Kimbie, CD/SD

rza track is awful

the new mt kimbie single is fucking dull as well

oh shut up the new mount kimbie track is flawless, you nitwit.

the distorted radio rip from ben ufo's show sounds way more exciting than the clean studio version (re: mount kimbie)

james blake record is out next week, in the u.s. anyway?

"made to stray", lex? i like it, obvs, as i wrote about it

yeah. in which tedious dubstep producer "goes house" and makes a tune less exciting than...literally ever house producer in existence. BORING BORING GREY MOPEY NONSENSE

so wrong but i love you anyways lex. i wanna hear your thoughts on overgrown tho, should be entertaining

i briefly considered listening to it but i'm not actually a masochist

the single is just terrrrrrrible

the distorted radio rip from ben ufo's show sounds way more exciting than the clean studio version (re: mount kimbie)

― shit tie (Jordan), Thursday, April 4, 2013 9:20 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

this is sadly otm

I hate when that happens :/ it seems to be a kinda common thing

like at this point I kinda can't even imagine the new Jessie Ware track w/o "POM POM POM POM POM SPECIAL DELIVERY"

The new Blake sounded good to me, though the RZA was a bit jarring and the rest resolutely mellow, if exquisitely engineered.

this album is a hot mess

like WTF is this RZA song doing on it

the cover art for this is hilarious

anyone? besides the rza feature and some dumb lyrics i'm feeling it. too bad you can hear those lyrics, i still love his voice as an instrument and a sample-source, but it gets a little cloying when it's out in front for too long.

this feels like the natural album for him to make at this point, combining all his different approaches/vibes into one sound. 'voyeur' is a jam, and there are still lots of smart little production choices all over (most of his tricks are familiar by this point, but who cares). actually it seems like most people don't care...poor JB.

the cover art for this is hilarious

― Number None, Friday, April 5, 2013 4:26 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

he's on his #menswear shit

poor jamie woon i think you meant to say xp

so this album is objectively bad but it's friday night and i'm not minding it

'egyptian song' is the last radiohead song i liked iirc so 'retrograde' can get a pass too

lol just as i posted that he sang "DIGITAL LION" and my laughter broke me out of my incorrect stupor

man i love retrograde but damned if I can find another toehold for this album on the frontend. trying to get all the way through it is a bit of a chore which prior blake has never been. kinda a bummer.

new mount kimbie track is terrible :(

but mostly because of king krule, so there's still hope. is this what he does on his own records?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLozoX1RdnM

dooooooope imo

^^^^^

***V IMPT ALBUM STREAM***

http://www.npr.org/2013/05/19/184809601/first-listen-mount-kimbie-cold-spring-fault-less-youth

tbh this album is nowhere near as good as "Made To Stray" made me hope it would be

it's by far the best thing on the record, which is disappointing.

it sounds like a band that's reacting against the things they do well, trying to surprise themselves and maybe figure out a new sound? unfortunately that sound is pretty boring. :(

there are some really beautiful background sounds and chord progressions that sound like mount kimbie to me, and i like the hissy tape recordings, but the tracks are all pretty square rhythmically. and meandering. i'm missing the sense of melody and sound design that i get from all their previous releases.

also maybe a british person can explain king krule to me.

hard to believe that in '09 darkstar made "aidy's girl is a computer" and mount kimbie made "maybes" and james blake made "cmyk"

actually cmyk was '10 but you know what i mean. scarf artists going on these 2013 "real instruments" trajectories that really don't make good on the promise of their early singles

naming yrself after a character from Donkey Kong Country is not a good look for anyone IMO

scarf artists going on these 2013 "real instruments" trajectories that really don't make good on the promise of their early singles

it's that thing where involving more live instruments and song structures can initially set you apart from other electronic/dance producers, but eventually it tips over to the point where you're now a pop (or "indie" whatever) musician, and have to be compared to the people who are really serious about playing instruments and writing songs.

I blame Daft Punk.

I prefer the King Krule tracks, the others a quite dull on the first listen.

I quite like the new Darkstar album in a 7/10 way but I think of it as a weirdly executed indie album. I'd love another "Aidy's Girl" and "Maybes" too though.

this blake album got zero traction huh

I don't know what happened there. I may be in the minority here but I love it and it's plainly stronger than the debut.

this blake album got zero traction huh

IRL FISTPUMP AT LAST PEOPLE SEE THROUGH THIS FUCKING FRAUD

letz do the same for mt kimbie now

James Blake was used as an example during the Facebook Home demo.

eh, I'm at the midpoint between "plainly stronger than the debut" and "FUCKING FRAUD"
Life Round Here, Digital Lion and DLM are all very good and Retrograde will likely make my top ten singles of the year but the album strikes me as a solid EP overladen with overblown demos

IRL FISTPUMP AT LAST PEOPLE SEE THROUGH THIS FUCKING FRAUD

I think it has more to do with the lack of singles on the new one
I'm under the impression that the half-done nature of a lot of these songs is deliberately fragmentary. When it works ("Digital Lion") it is pretty arresting. Most of the rest is a snooze tho

i get the "deliberately fragmentary" thing as a remix culture filip but dude prolly should have released one ep of more finished music and one of blueprints (or at least added several solid remixes to the finished product) rather than cramming it on one disc and calling it a day

oh my goddd, am actually listening to this and staring at itunes in complete horror at what started coming out of it when the king krule track happened

where's the worst songs of the year thread

saw yr horrified reaction on twitter and got about a minute into the first king krule track before i couldn't take it anymore, yikes

oof lex otm