thread to dis hyped releases that you don't get/don't like/wanna complain about

;-)

Caretaker - this is just a bunch of thrift store record samples

otm, I've never understood the hype.

Angel olsens new one gets seriously dire in the second half. Love her but hate to say it's a bummer record

i'll just get this out of the way: most of the 2017 music is bad

Caretaker's not hyped though. It's got a steady following, but that's something else iirc.

Anyway I can't get enough of it.

no defences of albums itt imo

I've said this elsewhere I'm sure but the Julien Baker love-in is an album late; the new one is flat and mostly a disappointment

Where's the fun in that? xp

OK fine

but no holds barred. except like actual bigotry

KING KRULE is kind of boring.

oh yeah I can't take his voice for a second

Not as boring as The National though

That Big Thief album is boring as well. A charisma vacuum.

:o you're dead to me

I do like the Big Thief album a lot :(

LCD Soundsystem should be banned on the basis of that atrocious album cover alone. The music stinks, is completely irrelevant up to the point of self-charicture, and seeing critics hailing this has-been baffles me.

*caricature

thoroughly agree with every dis so far btw*. sleeve ur emperor palpatine

*not heard the bjork or big thief yet

Guided By Voices - the songs are twice as long and half as good (tbh I dunno how hyped this really was, but let's open the thread up to all contenders regardless of hype level/EOY standings)

I tried listening to the War on Drugs album once and I had to check the album wasn't starting over at some point. Still can't remember any of the songs in there.

@Moka, same here. It's drab.

Lorde is the new Carly Rae Jepsen - "pop" music that non-professionals spit out after a single taste, but which critics will continue to ride for forever.

Xp that is sort of the point with WoD - it's aural valium for the inhibited and the terminally nostalgic.

Me included.

Sounds like WoD do The Caretaker better than The Caretaker does!

I can't really diss it because I don't hate it at all but Yaeji seems overrated as hell to me. There's just not much going on musically and lyrically... every song seems she runs out of ideas and she just resorts to repeating words in the same monotonic voice.

Again, I don't hate it but I don't see what's so special about it either or why she's making it into so many EOY best songs lists.

Ok I'm done taking those out of my chest... I think... those are the ones frustrating me about their roaring approval.

Well, those an Bodak Yellow heh

i rate the yaeji EPs (2 isn't as good imo) but found it pretty easy to get burned out on her stuff. Not much replay value as there's not a whole lot of depth, ya

laurel halo album was a disappointment for me, way too esoteric and weird for weird sake

Xxp Kirby has a concept, though. Granduciel is walking in socks over cold coals.

I still don't really get what everyone liked so much about Black Beatles. I don't hate it, just does nothing much for me.

I think this is the first Laurel Halo album I like mainly on the strength of Moontalk alone but yes... it's way too dependent on its own quirks and weirdness.

moontalk is an amazing song! yeah

moka check out the king felix stuff if you haven't heard it, "spring" by king felix and her halo album "king felix"

I did not know about that project. Listening to spring now and it sounds amazing! Thanks for the recommendation.

:) sweet

the Fever Ray album was really disappointing to me

why? show your work :)

Sleaford Mods - this guy used to sound angry, now he just sounds bored (I do like most of the previous records)

Fever Ray was also so-so for me. I like the knife and the first fever ray album a lot, so I thought for sure this would be one of my favorite albums of the year but alas it ended being one of the most dissapointing ones for me. It’s just so hard to sit through... even harder than ‘shaking the habitual’ and that’s saying something.

I can get past the hamfisted lyrics (either way lyrics has never been her strong point), but the textures and production are sort of uninteresting too, the middle of the album is specially boring or annoying and contains some of her worst songs ever (“this country” really wtf is up with that).

I don’t know... I guess it’s just alright in small doses but I don’t want ‘just alright’ from her.

Ok maybe the production isn’t uninteresting... but it’s too harsh and irritating more often than not. I get that maybe that was her intent with this particular album but I’m not a masochist, sorry.

Yeah, my love for the first Fever Ray album is immense, this one is not bAd exactly, just very disappointing

yeah I agree with all of that Moka

the production mostly feels like lesser retreads of Silent Shout and the Fever Ray s/t, and the songwriting lacks the memorable melodies. the lyrics are a step down too - Silent Shout especially could be quite evocative but they're more hamfisted here and the BDSM subject matter of some of it is completely uninteresting to me

Sleaford Mods - this guy used to sound angry, now he just sounds bored (I do like most of the previous records)

heh this = lack of money > money

King Krule was the overrated hype of the year for me. Could barely get through that mess 3 times.

So I will probably dig his next record :P

Fever ray album is fucking great, just took time to grow on me. I mean it's not that different texturally from
The debut it's just more hyper kinetic arrangement wise. Give it some time, mustn't hurry

Lyrics aren't her strong point?? When I grow up and seven would put that theory to the test, memorable imo

heh this = lack of money > money

think dude had a pretty decent office job for a fair while before the band blew up so I'm not sure this is a big factor. latest album hasn't really landed for me like the previous ones though, could be a law of diminishing returns thing but I had (have) no issue with their complete lack of progression so idk

You’re right I take it back, heartbeats alone is one of the few sweet songs they have and it has some beautiful lines in there. The debut also has some stunning imagery... I’m just way too frustrated with this album.

moka, all good bud :)

i found the album hard to parse for quite a while tbh

This thread is tonic

Charly bliss - musical equivalent of doing lines of pixie stix

(Sandy) Alex g - i guess at a certain point all music / art will become a sort of lightly branded tabula rasa content for us to project upon

'Reclaims the avant-garde' is probably a worse line than anything in that 'overpraise' thread. It's nearly time for my hitpiece

lol

I tried listening to some live Goose a few years back, and I didn't go for it. I think I assessed that they were capable jammers, but didn't have strong songs. "No songs, no dice," has always been my motto when engaging with jambands.

otm

this is enough to be a good covers band but their original material seems very dull

I was not hacked. Goose are fucking terrible, but I have a notoriously low tolerance for "jam" bands in that particular model/style. All the people that I know who follow them are rich kids living out of blinged out vans, stopping at crags around the country to do some climbing while following their favorite band. Sounds fun, too bad the music is fucking awful.

think that might be cos everyone who acts like you're a massive fucking moron if you so much as disagree with them is firmly on board pal

as overmannered theatrepopstar referencecore goes this isn't the most offensive i've heard but i ain't listening twice put it that way

alright 'my way' is bringing some monkey house era dandy warhols goodness, that's better

(DWs being the greatest overmannered theatrepopstar referencecore act o.a.t. obv)

alright this is a bit better than the last one, diss partly retracted

is this still about Goose?

yes

closing track p unbearable. anyway well done everyone

I was thinking of doing a dis of this record too, but I don't think I can be bothered. Really good songwriting, still bored out of my mind half the time.

I wish the best young songwriters in the world didn't sound like they've never heard music newer than 1990 :(

I think there are enough people dissing Geese.

I'm now listening to Inferno, wondering if I have the energy for this too. Burn it all down innit

so far (most of the way through) this is kind of like if you made Linkin Park's A Thousand Suns worse, took out all the vocals and then deleted the guitars too just to be sure

literally the only time i hear anything about goose is when people are like "can you believe there are different bands called geese and goose???"

kinda hilarious to be doing the whole witchsmeller routine about what's left of the professional critic circuit not being completely on board with disney's olivia rodrigo making a concept album about how she's into pop-rock slightly older than herself

i think boards of canada would do a pretty good job at scoring a video game or something like that but it's a real struggle to understand the level of excitement people have about the new one

cringe

nah, otm

I find this thread pretty reliably makes me like whatever hyped release is under discussion a little bit more (or hate it a little bit less) than I did.

Always happy to be of service

Expectations was the other Monkey-House-alike ftr. More of that sort of thing please Olivia. I wouldn't even begrudge you a We Used To Be Friends cover

Wasn’t having a go at you (for once?) imago - just thinking about how this thread’s premise and how it plays out tends to make me search harder for the good in the records being discussed.

It’s very hard to write well and genuinely about why a record doesn’t move you, including because people rarely are motivated to try (and fair enough really).

map was a bit unimpressed by my other thread a few months back about good/persuasive/memorable disses, but I think I started it because I rarely see them so the ones that make an impression stay with me.

do we think horse lords are kicking themselves for not thinking to wear polka-dot robes and papier-mache masks

lol, but "microtonal" =! "just intonation"

Haha, fr. It's nice that something like AdP is having success, but it doesn't have much depth imo, or anything that makes me want to go back and listen to it again.

I've also never been able to connect with Boards of Canada, but I'm glad people like it.

xp

it's hard for me to imagine anyone coming fresh to the new boc album and being excited about it, it feels like the whole audience is people who were into old boc music and are nostalgic for listening to boc in the late '90s. which is fine, there are plenty of bands that are equivalent to that for me. but it's a little funny since their whole thing has always been nostalgia for the past so now it's like nostalgia for nostalgia for the past? tldr; i listened to some of the new album and found it mostly dull

Gonna say it: after another few listens, I am seriously underwhelmed by the Crespi Drum Ensemble record that many here are really infatuated with. This is nice enough drum programming with little to no denouement, few peaks or valleys, little dynamism. It's really flat sounding to me. I can imagine it would feel overwhelming and hypnotic on a large system, but in both my very good car system and my quite good sound bar with sub, this just doesn't strike me as anything special. Not trying to yuck anyone's yum, I am glad that people like it, but it is very much not for me.

lol weren't there like 3 or 4 total posts about that one? and fwiw as one of those posters, I will admit that I haven't listened to it a second time. I have a bad (I guess) habit of posting about music in my initial wow phase, including starting threads I forget about a month later

I kind of agree about the BoC record, but I'm also a boring "didn't like anything after Geogaddi" non-fan. I think the thread is rather adorable tbh

i haven’t heard the crespi drum ensemble album but i am adding it to my list. thread delivers again.

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new Horse Lords rules the school

no hate, the new BOC album is solidly "very good", if i received it as a gift i'd keep it, but after it yet again inspiring me to listen to Future Sound of London's Dead Cities, it makes me realize how rich that work is in comparison. I don't even think it's close.

it's hard for me to imagine anyone coming fresh to the new boc album and being excited about it, it feels like the whole audience is people who were into old boc music and are nostalgic for listening to boc in the late '90s.

I've been a big BoC fan since I first heard them, but I totally get people who don't click with them. I don't feel nostalgia when I listen to their music so much as appreciation for musicians who keep refining and building on the sound that made them distinct. I do find it super interesting to get reactions from people of different ages who weren't previously familiar. They've been mostly positive in my circle, but some of that might be them being biased by own enthusiasm for it.

i disagree with the existence of this thread. imo this post

Gonna say it: after another few listens, I am seriously underwhelmed by the Crespi Drum Ensemble record that many here are really infatuated with. This is nice enough drum programming with little to no denouement, few peaks or valleys, little dynamism. It's really flat sounding to me. I can imagine it would feel overwhelming and hypnotic on a large system, but in both my very good car system and my quite good sound bar with sub, this just doesn't strike me as anything special. Not trying to yuck anyone's yum, I am glad that people like it, but it is very much not for me.

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would be a perfectly fine thing on the thread where people are praising the album (although i really dislike the phrase "yuck your yum")

i felt similarly about an erstwhile thread, whose name i've forgotten, but the gist was like "bump this thread to say something you didn't feel like saying in the thread itself". always full of chickenshit vagueposting

it's kind of annoying too because then if you go back all the historical talking about the album isn't in the actual album thread

i have no idea which album imago is talking about in the first few posts of this bump

Olivia Rodrigo...I think

in table's defence, he did post that same sentiment on the rolling thread where it had come up first

iirc I started this thread as a semi-joking imago containment thread ahead of an EOY poll, but UMS has a point

I'm largely anti-meta threads, but it also seems like a futile cause: the original "second thoughts" thread got locked and people started using the joke version, posters have turned the "things you just don't care about" thread into "ilx threads I hate" for some reason

imago containment thread

arguably still doing its job

The bump led me to listen to "My Way" for the first time, which I liked a lot, though it sure felt like the Dan Nigro fingerprints (was a hair away from being a Chappell Roan song and catchy af). Thanks, imago!