James Blake, Mt Kimbie, CD/SD

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?

Just remixes.

probably his poppiest song ever but i'm into it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oT_GfzTjNkk

I'm pretty excited for the album after hearing that.

'Timeless'

This sounds like one of his older tunes. Like, first album-ish. I'm into it.

new album out at midnight (Greenwich time?) tonight

the three new songs are nice enough (esp. 'Radio Silence') but are in a very similar mode, hoping for some curveballs on the album.

And it's on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/1WyrGCkFDlH1xPadZ5qTkL

Wow, this album is really long and really slow. Very dark and down.

Definitely not what I expected. Will definitely take a few listens for everything to sort itself out.

kinda worked perfect this morning on the train ride, helped that it's been raining and drab here for like a week.

it is a little long though for sure

Yikes this is horrible

Horrible for sounding like a James Blake album, or horrible compared to other James Blake albums?

I kind of liked his other albums, so I think it's pretty horrible by his standards. Really dry and dull and formulaic.