James Blake, Mt Kimbie, CD/SD

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

lolllll

I just thought the King Krule track was boring; most of the other stuff on the worst songs of the year thread is way more terrible

Yeah, the Loveable Rogues have worst of the year on lock.

it's not lol terrible but i struggle to really hate the lol terrible stuff, it just sounds like a drain

finally:

http://www.npr.org/2013/06/02/187519311/first-listen-airhead-for-years

this could be the james blake/mount kimbie album that people wanted this year (at least those of us who were into the earlier records).

it's gorgeous...so many of these tracks appeared on that electronic explorations mix from a few years ago, but it's nice to hear final masters.

Lots of people seemed to enjoy James Blake on Later last night.

Well, a few people on Twitter and a (not easily pleased) friend who emailed me about it.

i want to tell his drummer to sit up straight

I used to worry about Beth from Portishead's posture ...

im loving this mount kimbie album on first listen

james blake. haha. i like his stuff but man i just get this self-serious vibe. i dunno, maybe that's the joke.

i really like the james blake song "the wilhelm scream" but that's also a really weird title. like i know that is referencing the famous and oft-used hollywood sound effect, but why?

also how come whenever anyone does a study about which songs/artists are more popular in one state vs. another, james blake is always like the musical act whom new yorkers listen to disproportionately.

james blake is very good live which is one thing he has over those other elec acts he came up assc with 2010 era

^ very true statement. i was never really a fan of him until i saw him live at pier 26 last year.

Mount Kimbie and King Krule are really underrated 'round these parts.

Just sayin'.

i didn't like krule at all first but realllllly came around to him via cold spring faultless youth. do they have more material together besides those cpl tracks?