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HOW DARE CHRIS CUNNINGHAM MARRY A DIRTY DRONEROCK BASSIST THAT ISN'T ME. HOW DARE HE.

Wait, no, sorry, I forgot, I'm married to Interpol's haircuts now, never mind.

i love the fact that they got all these a-list music dudes involved so they could make a completely insular and weird record. well done, ladies!

o weird, did not know that! i did notice jenny's thank you to "cc" while reading the liners ("my beautiful husband and best friend"). stuck out because she's the only band member to so pointed thank a significant other.

does this mean that the song "cc" is about chris? suppose it must...

xp back to cad on the thank yous

OMG, women in having individual tastes independent if their "a-list music dudes" partners shocker!

i was talking about flood and nigel godrich more than cc but please feel free to never respond to my posts

xpost

that's not what anyone said

i guess i'm surprised that any album involving flood and nigel goodritch in 2014 could be actually interesting

yeah that too, lol

You mentioned neither Flood nor Nigel Goodrich before that post, CAD, but talked about her husband at length. I am a post-reader; I am not a mind-reader!

you read what you want to read

I also worried when I saw Flood was producing because in recent years I've come to associate him with horribly misjudged glossy crossover attempts (Glasvegas, Editors etc) but I forget that he's often just a great facilitator - almost transparent in the way that he helps get the artist's ideas across.

yeah i forgot he did the last pj harvey record which was fantastic of course, and totally in keeping with your use of "transparent"

wonder how much (if any) james blake influence seeped into this record

yeah i forgot he did the last pj harvey record which was fantastic of course, and totally in keeping with your use of "transparent"

― call all destroyer, Wednesday, February 19, 2014 10:33 AM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^oh really? ok that was great

yeah, i love LES and didn't realize it was a flood production. guess i like his work more than i thought.

he also did To Bring You My Love which is my fave

Flood (ft Warpaint)

Flood needs to just do the straight up dub album he's always had up his sleeve (at least since his lower profile 80s work like Bird Wood Cage.

this album would lend itself pretty well to dub or remixes of any kind really

i guess i'm surprised that any album involving flood and nigel goodritch in 2014 could be actually interesting

I think Godrich is a more talented producer than Flood, but I don't really understand this comment at all.

i was skipping around on this while driving around in the snow and finally realized what made disco/very seem so familiar to me--it is one of the few songs not made by liars that sounds like it could have been made by liars. the vocal sneer on the "we'll kill you line" (and the line itself) is so angus andrew.

also, no boston date on their tour, dammit.

So good live. Amazing rhythm section even when the bassist is ill. And surprisingly tight in terms if not really jamming things out; I was half fearing full Grateful Dead jamness but 90% was played exactly as on record, which has altered my perception of their compositional deliberation somewhat.

did they do the I Feel Love cover?

No! Didn't know that was a thing. Sadface.

They did it in Brighton in January, it was immense.

How did Flood manage to get Stella to sound like Larry Mullen Jr?

Saw 'em live in DC last night. Some songs I loved (atmospheric, nice guitar sound, effective bass), some (mostly ones that emphasized faster programmed beats from the keyboard underneath, rather than the drummer) seemed underwritten.

I mean some songs seemed quickly written and less than fully developed idea-wise--lets just add miscellanous sounds ontop of these beats, while others felt more fully composed and developed.

I thought my wife would like this, but she said it sounded like an indie version of Lorena McKennitt.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lc7Ke9Org9U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lc7Ke9Org9U

I see the resemblance. It's the drums + breathy reverbed vocals.

This is better with the lights out

or long walks at nite in cool temps

or in a bus on the motorway in the pouring rain

this album super rules

"Up all night..."

http://pitchfork.com/news/55005-warpaint-criticize-beyonce-and-rihanna-for-hyper-sexual-music/

Um, plz shut up.

yeah. Apart from the fact that calling music hypersexual as a pejorative is horribly outdated and basically just stupid, the most sexually charged songs on the Beyoncé album describe interactions between a man and a woman in a 10+ year relationship - yes, it's shamelessly sexual, but it's also an album about love and devotion and the triumphs and pitfalls of a relationship. It's not the portrait of a "slut".

And also, Warpaint aren't exactly prudes themselves. Pretty sure a lot of people were fascinated with them early on because of that topless picture of the bassist that did the rounds, as well as the very suggestive video for "Elephants".

Theresa's clarification. News items say she was "misquoted" but she seems smarter and more honest than that.

https://www.facebook.com/warpaintwarpaint/posts/10152319640790186

Chal Ravens ‏@chalravens 21m
Warpaint apologise (read: grovel in face of mighty Beyonce) and claim to have spoken as 'fans and consumers, not card-carrying feminists'

Chal Ravens ‏@chalravens 20m
PSA: Feminists must carry their cards AT ALL TIMES. If you are speaking in public or to a journalist, FLASH YOUR CARD.

The weird thing is that Q obviously doesn't think the comments were a big deal because they're not in the standfirst or pullquotes - they're just an aside really, and the writer is possibly the most upbeat and least devious interviewers I know.

"A journalist came on our bus and casually asked us..."

Hmmmm. Maybe I give musicians too much credit for knowing what is and what isn't an interview situation, but this strikes me as disingenuous.

I can certainly relate to "complex arguments and commentary taken out of context and reduced to simplistic and misrepresentative ones" but that whole "oops, forgot my Feminist Card that day" is a bit weird.

On the other hand, not having read the Q interview in full, I have no idea if the agenda is on the part of Warpaint or on the part of a journalist who wanted to represent them a certain way. "White Feminists (tm) Are Racist" is certainly true in many, many cases. But I'm also aware of how "White Feminists Are Racist" is a trope much used by white males who are not actually anti-racist but just anti-Feminist in order to discredit any woman with an opinion. It really comes down to who the journalist is, and I dunno, but hmmmm.... because it's Q Magazine, I'm guessing the journalist in question was probably a white male and not a black woman? Unless Q has vastly changed its hiring practices?

I don't know who to side with here. Warpaint don't come off well either in the quote or in the apology, but, y'know, Q Magazine are hardly standard bearers for gender or race issues, so I am really fucking suspicious of the way that this is presented.

Journalist was Sylvia Patterson, white but not a man. Feels to me as if a longer conversation was condensed for space reasons and as a result feels more strident or simplistic than Wayman intended, but she doesn't claim she didn't say the words.

Oh, it was Sylvia Patterson. Never mind. x-post

Also, the fact that Lily fucking Allen is on the cover means that has just lost Q any credit I may ever have granted them.

tbh of the multitudes of people, both self-identifying as liberal feminists and not, who STILL hold these slut-shamey opinions, warpaint are hardly a blip - it's more illustrative of how deeply entrenched these ideas are that remarks like this can be made as asides by a marginally famous indie band

Surprised she used the word slut tbh but it's OK to express disappointment with certain decisions made by artists you generally admire. I still have problems with Drunk in Love because of Jay-Z's Ike Turner lines, which is a pisser because it's such a great song.