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

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

Oh yea, the avant-garde has been reclaimed by some Berklee kid with an expensive synth set-up, a cloying lyrical sensibility and no songwriting skill to speak of! But it all sounds so burbly. Oo goo this be thee musick of thee spheres!

I could and will go on

man, fuck you

TBH I fully encourage him to keep all this annoying shit in here this year.

I've had a bad day, so fuck you

1. The Gorgeous
2. Sixth Album
3. From California
4. Landscapist Kaitlyn
5. Aurelia
6. Smith Reclaims The Avant-Garde
7. From Noiseniks
8. Dronesters, Moaners, Skronkers, Mathletes
9. And Art-Punks
10. Challenging
11. But Beautiful
12. Pastoral
13. But Hyperactive

this is a thread for slagging off and venting. slag off anything. slag off Richard Dawson. I won't care. but I'm not holding back here

you're engaging with both a record and with a fellow ilxor's writing in a totally disingenuous, obnoxious, shitty way just to tell your "truths" or whatever so like, fuck you, still

matt otm though

there are ways to slag off and vent without being a total shithead imo

i love music, the board for people who love music

as requested: sacred paws is just insipid tropical good-vibesy nothingcore imo, but it's no big deal really. if absolutely everyone loved it then I'd be more vituperative but they're a minor concern just doing what they're doing and that can remain someone else's business

imago otm

LOL @ hurt butts itt

Jlin - if I wanted to hear a quantized sample of a CD skipping, I'd listen to an Oval CD from 1999

what if you wanted to hear CDs skipping with heavy 808 bass beneath? oval has non 808 bass

also: king krule rools, u all drool

I know this is going to make me unpopular but I'm just gonna say it, I don't think Yes needed to release another live album in 2017

oh no u

just don't say it at late at night in the U.S.

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

― brimstead, Friday, December 15, 2017 3:58 PM (three weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i feel this way too? idk. there is little that i feel excited about or drawn to when i go through most 2017 lists

i totally agree w/r/t almost everything that isn't a house 12" or a reissue of some sort

but i think that's down to the age of the listener (toll of 24 years of active music hipsterism) rather than the quality of the music

just don't say it at late at night in the U.S.

I don't really feel that way late at night for whatever reason

Jlin - one track limit with her stuff, just is way too maddening and jarring - def of acquired taste

that was just a tautology, most music from every year is bad

but

i totally agree w/r/t almost everything that isn't a house 12" or a reissue of some sort

yeah same here

vote gabor lazar this year for your "sounds like cd skipping" needs

i like literally dozens of records that came out this year but somehow i still wind up listening to nothing but '70s music all the time

at some point i'll stop pretending but not until i run out of disk space

Wow @ people shitting on Jlin. I thought Black Origami was way more interesting/fun than Dark Energy

my assumption is that they are new to footwork in general and don't really *get it* yet

Loved the final ;_; DJ Rashad album but this has been a bit arid for my tastes. Might return to it

"arid" is a good way to put it

i definitely didn't get it till i saw her live at Day For Night, experiencing it in a physical space really made me engage with the album on physical terms instead of approaching it conceptually like i had been. it's tougher to crack than Rashad for sure, mostly because Rashad consciously aimed to create a "pop"-ish version of footwork and Jlin has absolutely no interest in that from what i can tell.

I think my only problem with Jlin is how people write about it, "futuristic sound design" comes up a lot. To my ears her tracks are these very dense, pointillistic arrangements of one-shot samples that haven't been altered much, they sound like sample packs. And that's very 'footwork', it's fine. Her main innovation imo is doubling down on the 12/8 feel that has been creeping into footwork, and turning it into this West African polyrhythmic thing.

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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this thread will live on long after my death

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.

― a tv star not a dirty computer man (the table is the table), Tuesday, June 16, 2026 10:46 AM (fifty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

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!