dohhh
― harold melvin and the bluetones (jim in vancouver), Monday, 31 October 2016 20:32 (seven years ago) link
dev hynes had to move to ny to learn how to be cool
― lag∞n, Wednesday, November 25, 2015 5:01 PM (eleven months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― lag∞n, Monday, 31 October 2016 20:52 (seven years ago) link
because of my friend getting a babysitting call she can't refuse, I have come into a free ticket to this guy's performance of his 'score to the easternsports art installation' tonight at the whitney. I know literally nothing about him or his music. IDK sometimes these very random opportunities are great.
― his eye is on despair-o (Jon not Jon), Friday, 3 February 2017 16:35 (seven years ago) link
That was fucking cool. Basically a continuous ~1 hr solo instrumental piece starting on piano then moving to synth then back to piano then to EWI then finishing on piano, with backing tracks but not very many of them. Reminiscences at various times of McCoy Tyner, Reich, Penguin Cafe, and Vangelis (massive sawtooth sound controlled by EWI in a slow ecstatic solo, the high point of the performance)
― his eye is on despair-o (Jon not Jon), Saturday, 4 February 2017 03:03 (seven years ago) link
Are blood orange smoothies any good
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Saturday, 4 February 2017 03:11 (seven years ago) link
bowled over by the new album
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 25 August 2018 04:02 (six years ago) link
*listens*
― 21st savagery fox (m bison), Saturday, 25 August 2018 04:29 (six years ago) link
Kind of amazed there's been so little talk about this so far. Just realized a few minutes that this exists when "Charcoal Baby" showed up on spotify radio with its incredible detuned guitar.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Saturday, 25 August 2018 19:55 (six years ago) link
have begun jamming
― sprout god (lag∞n), Saturday, 25 August 2018 23:26 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVaNFE2bb3U
WOWWW a man after my own heart
― 21st savagery fox (m bison), Saturday, 25 August 2018 23:31 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PTzbz6layI
― 21st savagery fox (m bison), Saturday, 25 August 2018 23:32 (six years ago) link
was just thinking there was some reichy marimbas on the last album so this makes a lot of sense
― 21st savagery fox (m bison), Saturday, 25 August 2018 23:33 (six years ago) link
on first listen the first half is some of his best work ever, especially Orlando, but it falls off by the end.
― ufo, Sunday, 26 August 2018 03:24 (six years ago) link
His albums always take awhile for me to really, really like. Always love what he's trying to do, but the choruses don't immediately stick
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 26 August 2018 03:39 (six years ago) link
i just love the production throughout... i think it's such a warm palette and fits his songwriting better than arrangements w more structure
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 26 August 2018 05:38 (six years ago) link
project pat on this
― sprout god (lag∞n), Sunday, 26 August 2018 06:43 (six years ago) link
production is indeed nice, but i feel like it seriously lacking in hooks compared to the previous two
― marcos, Monday, 27 August 2018 13:31 (six years ago) link
First listen was more vibes than hooks, but obviously I think I need to pay close attention to the lyrics. Not sure I'm down with all the spoken word interview interludes, but there weren't many of them, iirc.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 27 August 2018 13:32 (six years ago) link
his records sound so good though in the summer, it was like 81 and humid at 8am today and this was so pleasant to hear
― marcos, Monday, 27 August 2018 13:33 (six years ago) link
On Instagram Dev Hynes called the Blood Orange gig I just saw Friday night a "DREAM SHOW IN DC..." Nitpicky me was intermittently impressed with his songcraft,arrangements, guitar playing, & dancing; but (maybe it was the microphone & sound system & not him) at times his voice wasn't strong enough; many songs felt like '90s r'n'b homages but without the hooks, he didn't play the piano enough (which he sounds great on). I feel like he's on the verge of eventually doing something consistently great but he's not quite there yet.
Oh on Instagram, Dev also says he composed a new 75 minute score for a dance piece by the Chicago-based Hubbard Street Dance Company that premiered in Chicago recently. He says it's his "longest classical piece yet." It's a collaboration called "There was Nothing" with impressive Memphis juke dancer Lil Buck Da Legend and Third Coast Percussion.
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 30 September 2018 14:42 (five years ago) link
Song Exploder did an episode about the making of "saint" last week
― President Keyes, Monday, 1 October 2018 14:08 (five years ago) link
Song Exploder did an episode about the making of "saint" last week― President Keyes, Monday, October 1, 2018 3:08 PM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― President Keyes, Monday, October 1, 2018 3:08 PM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
oh excellent, must listen. truly enjoyed him showing off his gear and his late 80s Manhattan loft in the video for that song.
like most of his albums i feel like the last one features a few really strong songs interspersed with lots of texture and contextual production vibes. always feels a bit uneven, although i really dig the sounds and spaces he creates with them
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Thursday, 4 October 2018 07:55 (five years ago) link
I really wanna see that dance piece, actually—I'm in Chicago, so I really have no excuse not to (besides like.....lack of funds).
― austinb, Thursday, 4 October 2018 20:10 (five years ago) link
one of my fav albums in years
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 4 October 2018 21:07 (five years ago) link
this album fucks def
― lag∞n, Monday, 8 October 2018 01:52 (five years ago) link
so weird how much time has passed since test icicles, a band i saw in langley opening for fake shark (of which Kevin went on to produce for carly rae and many others)
― montoya (Ross), Monday, 8 October 2018 01:54 (five years ago) link
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Thursday, October 4, 2018 3:55 AM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
felt that way about the last one but this one do not
― lag∞n, Monday, 8 October 2018 02:01 (five years ago) link
feeling some sort of resonance between this and the moodymann dj kicks
― lag∞n, Monday, 8 October 2018 02:16 (five years ago) link
OK fine
― You like queer? I like queer. Still like queer. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 8 October 2018 02:19 (five years ago) link
heh
― lag∞n, Monday, 8 October 2018 02:27 (five years ago) link
diamonds in my hair i’m pretty as fuck
― flopson, Sunday, 4 November 2018 20:58 (five years ago) link
love this album
― flopson, Sunday, 4 November 2018 21:13 (five years ago) link
― lag∞n, Sunday, October 7, 2018 10:16 PM (four weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
how much of the resemblance is down to yaw - 'where will you be' tho?
― flopson, Wednesday, 7 November 2018 02:16 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dA5RW-X2QTc
Loving it. The only track I skip is the gospel track. And I like gospel, but it starts up and NOPE
― Cow_Art, Wednesday, 7 November 2018 02:35 (five years ago) link
his vocal chops are def put to the test at some points lol
― flopson, Wednesday, 7 November 2018 03:06 (five years ago) link
― flopson, Tuesday, November 6, 2018 9:16 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
great song def idk mostly just a vibe/was prob stoned when i wrote that
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 7 November 2018 04:21 (five years ago) link
oh, this album rules
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Tuesday, 13 November 2018 16:23 (five years ago) link
he did it, i finally don't hate a blood orange album
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Tuesday, 13 November 2018 16:24 (five years ago) link
You hated the last one?
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Tuesday, 13 November 2018 16:35 (five years ago) link
i guess hate is an exaggeration but i’ve never enjoyed his solo work
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Tuesday, 13 November 2018 16:38 (five years ago) link
What's changed in the new one?
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Tuesday, 13 November 2018 16:42 (five years ago) link
idk the songwriting feels stronger and less murky and monotonous in tone
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Tuesday, 13 November 2018 16:43 (five years ago) link
I'm with Brad. He's written songs instead of atmospheres without sacrificing the poignancy of those atmospheres.
― I like queer. You like queer, senator? (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 13 November 2018 16:44 (five years ago) link
way more hooks on the previous two. i couldn't really get into this one
― marcos, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 19:14 (five years ago) link
find this pleasant sounding but i have pretty much the opposite reaction to alfred. i.e. it's not quite songy enough but there's some nice atmospheres
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 13 November 2018 19:30 (five years ago) link
I'm with marcos and jim here. Songs feel more like sketches on this new one.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Tuesday, 13 November 2018 19:59 (five years ago) link
I'm with Alfred. Atmospheres feel like songs, songs smell like farts.
― I like queer. You like queer, senator? (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 13 November 2018 20:05 (five years ago) link
i found most of those hooks to be p tepid at best & annoyingly condensed at worst (like, that crj song) so i prefer his songwriting stretched out as it is on the new one. still not totally converted yet but
― lowercase (eric), Tuesday, 13 November 2018 20:11 (five years ago) link
― J0rdan S., Sunday, August 26, 2018 12:38 AM (two months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
also this is otm