does anyone really think lese is better than black up?
*this guy*
― Credit: howtokeepapositiveattitudedotcom (stevie), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 17:03 (eight years ago) link
yea they have very different vibes imo and sometimes i like the spacier more out there ambient vibe of lese, sometimes i prefer black up
― marcos, Tuesday, 4 August 2015 17:12 (eight years ago) link
i mean i still think black up is a masterpiece too!
― Credit: howtokeepapositiveattitudedotcom (stevie), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 17:13 (eight years ago) link
clear some space out so we can space out
― marcos, Thursday, 13 August 2015 16:24 (eight years ago) link
― StillAdvance, Tuesday, August 4, 2015 10:53 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i actually do!
― marcos, Friday, 18 September 2015 13:57 (eight years ago) link
also the opening two tracks on lese are so inviting that i just think of those opening vibes and immediately feel compelled to put the record on
― marcos, Friday, 18 September 2015 14:03 (eight years ago) link
Ha, that's how I feel about Black Up.
― I Am Curious (Dolezal) (DJP), Friday, 18 September 2015 14:04 (eight years ago) link
ha black up is also inviting for sure.
also i have really been digging theesatisfaction's EarthEE, tried a while back and it didn't really stick but i am really enjoying it right now
― marcos, Friday, 18 September 2015 14:12 (eight years ago) link
EarthEE is fantastic
― please don't shampoo your eyes (stevie), Friday, 18 September 2015 15:24 (eight years ago) link
"lavishments of light-looking" track from WOKE, new group w/ fly lo + thundercat + shabazz - https://soundcloud.com/adultswimsingles/woke, this tune has george clinton on it too
more info
http://pitchfork.com/news/61398-flying-lotus-talks-woke-his-new-project-with-shabazz-palaces-and-thundercat/
http://www.thefader.com/2015/09/28/flying-lotus-shabazz-palaces-thundercat
― marcos, Tuesday, 29 September 2015 18:06 (eight years ago) link
in a spa or
sometimes ppl need spas
― j., Tuesday, 15 November 2016 02:25 (seven years ago) link
new song: https://shabazzpalaces.bandcamp.com/album/quazarz-born-on-a-gangster-star
― na (NA), Tuesday, 25 April 2017 15:50 (seven years ago) link
Quazarz is out there now. kookoo good
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 7 May 2017 01:02 (seven years ago) link
This is a group that feels like they should be way more massive than they are. Reminds me a little bit of Animal Collective pre MWP in terms of it being a mass kept secret.
― yesca, Sunday, 7 May 2017 02:57 (seven years ago) link
two new albums
http://www.npr.org/2017/07/06/535282090/first-listen-shabazz-palaces-quazarz-born-on-a-gangster-star
http://www.npr.org/2017/06/25/534316470/first-listen-shabazz-palaces-quazarz-vs-the-jealous-machines
― j., Monday, 10 July 2017 18:03 (six years ago) link
think the first one's got a little oboe solo on it
― j., Monday, 10 July 2017 18:10 (six years ago) link
or an english horn or somethin
im more into what his son's doing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzwIX4GwN8U&t=2s
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Monday, 10 July 2017 22:04 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzwIX4GwN8U
Keep thought leading!
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 10 July 2017 22:22 (six years ago) link
The new albums are great. I feel like I'll be spending the rest of the summer unravelling them.
― Shanty Brunch (stevie), Tuesday, 11 July 2017 09:40 (six years ago) link
i like the albums but ive a feeling nothing will be as good as blackup from these guys. obv these two albums are going to take a long time to figure out, but these two sound much looser than the last two. kind of relaxed, like its just two albums from a group not really striving to do anything in particular, and releasing the results (i know theres some sort of narrative at work, but im not sure it was that sustained).
― StillAdvance, Wednesday, 2 August 2017 12:18 (six years ago) link
The problem with these two albums to me is that it's basically just a sketched out version of a story that was also there on Lese Majesty. But, some of the details are great. I'm not the worlds biggest hip-hop expert, has there been much talk of 'Quasars' before? It's brilliant as a concept, not a star (which were negative on Lese Majesty, too corporate, too gilded pharaoh) but a quasar, QUAsi-StellAR, star-like but in fact powered by a black hole at the center. That's kinda afro-futurism at it's finest, imo.
― Frederik B, Monday, 28 August 2017 12:13 (six years ago) link
cuz there's no theesatisfaction thread - classichttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2powgJ-7t_Y
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Saturday, 7 October 2017 01:25 (six years ago) link
Yes. Their second album, especially.
― Dr Keith Assblow (stevie), Sunday, 8 October 2017 12:08 (six years ago) link
Is it just me or did these guys peak already? Def some interesting stuff on what they've done since but they seem to (despite the big concepts that they seem to adore) have become much more low key, like they just keep making music and putting it out, without any great game plan...
― candyman, Tuesday, 9 February 2021 00:35 (three years ago) link
They peaked with Black Up. That is one of the top 10 best hip hop albums of the 2010s for me, nothing they’ve done after feels as concise and visionary.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 00:55 (three years ago) link
Yeah, I feel the same. Also just weird that they went from black up to almost totally avoiding anything that sounded as tough. Maybe black up was an anomaly, and they approached it diff as it was their sub pop debut and after that they just went back to what's their comfort zone, kinda trippy, ethereal, stoner ish, less concrete material.
― candyman, Tuesday, 9 February 2021 09:17 (three years ago) link
The first two EPs were pretty tough, and are still my favorite even if the production sounds kinda thin/DIY (though it works in their favor imo). Black Up sounds like the full realization of those EPs, and from there it seems like they kept getting more and more into ornate synth-psych production. I haven't kept up with the last couple tbh.
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 15:22 (three years ago) link
Last year's release was good.
― meticulously crafted, socially responsible, morally upsta (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 15:29 (three years ago) link
Jordan xpost every word otm
i treasure my early-DIY copies of the EPs and Black Up holds up, but after that...
― alpine static, Tuesday, 9 February 2021 17:47 (three years ago) link
Theres no ambition to their post black up stuff. Or maybe its just too spacey, idk. But it seems like stuff that's fairly easy for them. Or maybe they're just taking a hell of a lot of drugs, idk.
― candyman, Tuesday, 9 February 2021 19:41 (three years ago) link
EPs prior to Black Up are great I agree!
It’s the stuff after Black Up that has let me down. There’s still some good ideas here and there, but they don’t get even close.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 19:47 (three years ago) link
I've liked most of their stuff but Lese Majesty was a peak for me
― Ray Cooney as "Crotch" (stevie), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 20:47 (three years ago) link
I think I preferred lil b doing ambient weirdness
― candyman, Tuesday, 9 February 2021 21:58 (three years ago) link
I'm relistening to Lese Majesty and it sounds way better than how I remember tbh
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 23:07 (three years ago) link
lese majesty is at least as strong as black up, songwriting-wise, but the heavy-hitting sonics of black up put it over the top for me.
― tiwa-nty one savage (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 23:18 (three years ago) link
Lese Majesty was a peak for me
same here. don't think I've ever been so awed by an album on car speakers. also really liked what I heard from Don of Diamond Dreams, should probably go back to that.
― swing out sister: live in new donk city (geoffreyess), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 23:34 (three years ago) link
same for me too
― Dan S, Wednesday, 10 February 2021 00:37 (three years ago) link
id like instrumental versions of their last few albums, esp lese majesty
― candyman, Wednesday, 10 February 2021 12:35 (three years ago) link
Lese Majesty feels like you're lying on the floor staring at the ceiling in a darkened room where someone has different coloured spotlights trained on a spinning disco ball
― Ray Cooney as "Crotch" (stevie), Wednesday, 10 February 2021 12:45 (three years ago) link
I thought lese would be cool music to have playing if your masseuse was rap inclined
― candyman, Wednesday, 10 February 2021 12:58 (three years ago) link
Hip hop spa beats
― candyman, Wednesday, 10 February 2021 12:59 (three years ago) link
best way to experience Lese Majesty is at a laser show out of your gourd on edibles. I haven't really connected with any of their post-LM material tho. I've also just had mixed feelings since Tendai was transphobic to me in person -_-
― Get Me Bodied (Extended Mix), Thursday, 11 February 2021 02:05 (three years ago) link
ugh, i'm sorry.
I should give their albums more proper listens, LM sounded really cool but didn't have tracks that were as immediately arresting as a lot of Black Up, and I don't think I heard the Quazarz albums in their entirety. The last time I tried to see them live was at the Sub Pop anniversary party on Alki and the bass was so ridiculously loud that it drowned out everything else. The show I saw a couple years earlier was excellent though.
― JoeStork, Thursday, 11 February 2021 05:08 (three years ago) link
damn i'm sorry to hear that EM
he's not in the group anymore, left sometime between the last two albums so it's just a butler solo project these days i think
― ufo, Thursday, 11 February 2021 05:16 (three years ago) link
revisiting the first two EPs now ... shit felt revolutionary at the time.
― alpine static, Thursday, 11 February 2021 23:54 (three years ago) link
and still does, kinda
― alpine static, Friday, 12 February 2021 00:37 (three years ago) link
ish butler has a new e.p. out, it’s really nice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEoE_1-Ctq4
― ludicrously capacious bag (voodoo chili), Thursday, 13 April 2023 02:49 (one year ago) link