The worst was the Last Splash anniversary box set with awful new artwork.
Title TK's cover is fairly blah.
I appreciate that the artwork isn't too easy, but once the novelty faded i haven't been fond of how text/font heavy 4ad's artwork tends to be.
― Cow_Art, Monday, 8 April 2019 10:48 (five years ago) link
the whole 4ad thing is all very soft-focus, ethereal, sophisticated and british. lots of text and different typefaces like you say whereas i see the band and their music as being very dry, american, suburban and working class or something? even something vaguely contemporaneous like lush worked better with it as they were at least british and their aesthetic sound-lineage from things like the cocteau twins; the obvious analogue to the soft-focus aspect of the 4ad cover style.
i dunno, all those recent self-released kim deal singles have these really "designed", layered image-heavy assemblages on the covers too, so she clearly just likes that stuff and wasn't just stuck with the 4ad house style. just seems
in some ways it kind of works to differentiate them from their time. if all of their covers were standard '90s sebadoh/pavement/gbv-ish collages or that kind of naive anti-photo thing with some scrawled text on it they would blend in more maybe? the presentation being slightly at odds with the content has an interesting way of gilding it or framing it differently.
― linee, Monday, 8 April 2019 21:31 (five years ago) link
Good summer for this record
― surm, Saturday, 22 June 2019 15:26 (five years ago) link
I'm in the mood for them to chuck out another album fairly speedily. Fucking love "All Nerve".
― djh, Sunday, 23 June 2019 19:10 (five years ago) link
I played it yesterday!
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 23 June 2019 20:02 (five years ago) link
xxp This band has a remarkably ugly set of album covers, IMO
― Consider the coconut (morrisp), Sunday, 23 June 2019 20:27 (five years ago) link
The covers don’t suit the band’s sound for sure.
― bendy, Monday, 24 June 2019 02:57 (five years ago) link
disagree x2
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Monday, 24 June 2019 03:01 (five years ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brutalist_architecture
except in font/layout/design, definitely fits with the savagely precise music IMO
― Ambient Police (sleeve), Monday, 24 June 2019 03:11 (five years ago) link
Walking With A Killer video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xBwXJkxlPI
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 31 October 2019 15:36 (four years ago) link
love it
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 31 October 2019 15:56 (four years ago) link
Nice video but still getting used to the album version of this as opposed to the first 7" version which was so great.
― Hinklepicker, Thursday, 31 October 2019 18:28 (four years ago) link
They don't seem radically different?
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 31 October 2019 19:32 (four years ago) link
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NtcXD3cefuA I mean obviously it's the same song but the original version seems more sure of itself to my ears but maybe that's just the one 'heard it first must be best' thing going on
― Hinklepicker, Thursday, 31 October 2019 19:59 (four years ago) link
Holy fuck this album
― surm, Monday, 21 September 2020 22:50 (three years ago) link
it's so good
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 21 September 2020 22:52 (three years ago) link
Been spinning it a lot lately too - loving Josephine's bass tone, it's thunderous.
― assert (MatthewK), Monday, 21 September 2020 22:57 (three years ago) link
Like the first six tracks are fuzzy goldSpacewoman tho
― surm, Tuesday, 22 September 2020 18:35 (three years ago) link
Also Dawn: Making An EffortFuckkkkkkkkk
― surm, Tuesday, 22 September 2020 19:02 (three years ago) link
title track is a perfect example of Kim’s deeply odd but exquisite sensibility, she’s been a top-5 favourite songwriter for me for 30 years
― assert (MatthewK), Tuesday, 22 September 2020 20:19 (three years ago) link
SameWell 20 for me
― surm, Tuesday, 22 September 2020 20:23 (three years ago) link
― surm, Tuesday, September 22, 2020 2:02 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
otm
― i got a homogenic björk wine farmer permabanned (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 22 September 2020 20:35 (three years ago) link
It's not on the album but Kim's "are you mine" brings me to tears pretty much every time.
― Fetchboy, Monday, 28 September 2020 00:44 (three years ago) link
That and "Likkle More". Both about her mom's dementia I believe.
― assert (MatthewK), Monday, 28 September 2020 04:35 (three years ago) link
wtf hvnt i hrd either of those songs
― surm, Monday, 28 September 2020 05:42 (three years ago) link
All of Kim's solo singles are great. God I wish she would put something new out. All Nerve seems much farther away than two years.
― Cow_Art, Monday, 28 September 2020 05:49 (three years ago) link
they're from a 7" series that Kim Deal's been releasing for the last 5-6 years... most of 'em are still available on her site:
https://kimdealmusic.com/
― avellano medio inglés (f. hazel), Monday, 28 September 2020 05:54 (three years ago) link
O shit
― surm, Monday, 28 September 2020 06:08 (three years ago) link
they can also be purchased as mp3s via Amazon music (does that still exist? that's where I bought my digital copies). The five singles make a pretty excellent mini-album.
― assert (MatthewK), Monday, 28 September 2020 06:22 (three years ago) link
I'm normally very much more into the rockers than the slow songs w/ The Breeders - going back 25 years - but Dawn Making An Effort is definitely my favorite song on All Nerve.
― alpine static, Monday, 28 September 2020 06:41 (three years ago) link
It is really devastating
― surm, Wednesday, 14 October 2020 02:28 (three years ago) link
90
million
miles
away
― cwkiii, Thursday, 10 June 2021 18:22 (three years ago) link
GOOD MORNING
― Left, Thursday, 10 June 2021 18:35 (three years ago) link
staring at their discography and starting to think this is my favorite one
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 10 June 2021 18:37 (three years ago) link
idk if this is my fav breeders album, but "dawn: making an effort" might be my fav breeders song
― the mai tai quinn (voodoo chili), Thursday, 10 June 2021 18:38 (three years ago) link
I'm listening to the whole thing for the first time in several months right now and thinking the same thing.
― cwkiii, Thursday, 10 June 2021 18:39 (three years ago) link
Last post was an xpost but the drums JUST kicked in on "Dawn" and at least at this moment in time I agree with you 1000%.
Just kind of had my mind blow to see that today was the Deal sisters' 60th birthday.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 10 June 2021 18:42 (three years ago) link
happy birthday cool sisters
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Thursday, 10 June 2021 20:06 (three years ago) link
tough kids lovesad songs
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 10 June 2021 20:28 (three years ago) link
happy birthday deals but also mods pls delete this post that makes me feel ancient
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Thursday, 10 June 2021 20:47 (three years ago) link
It's Joey Santiago's birthday today as well, 55 years old
― nate woolls, Thursday, 10 June 2021 20:49 (three years ago) link
Title TK forever but All Nerve is casual majesty, the years will not diminish them
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 10 June 2021 23:26 (three years ago) link
they are one of the few bands I can think of with a pretty flawless run of albums, more so if the Amps record is included.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Thursday, 10 June 2021 23:39 (three years ago) link
I love the slurry singing that Kim sometimes does.
I have fantasies of moving to Dayton and being Kim’s handyman so she’ll have more time to work on music. I wish she would put out some more solo singles.
They are my favorite band, but I don’t think I can pick a favorite album of theirs.
― Cow_Art, Friday, 11 June 2021 01:25 (three years ago) link