She has an amazing voice imo. And the latest album is amazing. But this is an awkward performance. Maybe stress or something. I can’t believe she’s not bigger at this point.
― AlXTC from Paris, Wednesday, 17 July 2019 20:42 (four years ago) link
Front Row is much better than Titanic if only because Do You Need My Love and Used To Be: melodies in the same hige level as the best of Todd Rundgren/Kate Bush/Zombies. Might be my favorite artist od the decade.
― nostormo, Friday, 1 November 2019 21:41 (four years ago) link
those are probably her two best songs yeah
― imago, Friday, 1 November 2019 21:41 (four years ago) link
I'm in the same boat of favoring Front Row Seat over Titanic
― winters (josh), Friday, 1 November 2019 21:46 (four years ago) link
i wouldn't be surprised if she will sign with a big mainstream label for her next record.
― nostormo, Friday, 1 November 2019 21:54 (four years ago) link
FRSTE over Titanic yes but they're both incredible
― imago, Friday, 1 November 2019 22:07 (four years ago) link
sandy denny vibez
― June Pointer’s Valentine’s Day Secret Admirer Note Author (calstars), Tuesday, 12 November 2019 01:46 (four years ago) link
i think her voice sounds great in that Late Night performance!
― grebbmoolb (crüt), Tuesday, 12 November 2019 02:59 (four years ago) link
I much prefer Titanic, even though the second half is a bit weaker and I would have sequenced it differently (as I posted upthread).I like FRSTE but the best songs on Titanic simply hit me stronger.
― AlXTC from Paris, Tuesday, 12 November 2019 10:19 (four years ago) link
I will say this about supposed weaker track Picture Me Better: months later, it now slays me every time. We really did find a winter for its sweater
― imago, Tuesday, 12 November 2019 10:23 (four years ago) link
Picture me Better is one of my favorites on this. I only started liking this album when I started listening to the second half first and then loop back to the first half.
I don't know, maybe it's just that I don't like Andromeda and putting that track second just tainted the whole rest of the album for me on my initial listens.
― silverfish, Tuesday, 12 November 2019 15:00 (four years ago) link
Since hearing Titanic a few months ago and considering it to be one of the albums of the decade, I'm strangely finding the previous material strangely hasn't clicked at all so far.
― PaulTMA, Tuesday, 12 November 2019 16:40 (four years ago) link
Man, "Wild Time" is allll time. What a great song.
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, 12 November 2019 23:50 (four years ago) link
seriously
― imago, Wednesday, 13 November 2019 00:02 (four years ago) link
Yeah "Wild Time" is fantastic. I love the one note piano part during the verses.And that track sounds so warm.Perfect Autumn song !
― AlXTC from Paris, Wednesday, 13 November 2019 10:19 (four years ago) link
concert in berlin tonight is sold out, i am such a sleepyhead!
― walking towards the sun since 2007 (alex in mainhattan), Wednesday, 13 November 2019 14:11 (four years ago) link
Aaaah, I had the same problem in Paris a few months ago, realizing too late she was gonna play in town, so I booked tickets for a concert in another city not too far but then I couldn't go because of an injury...She was here again a few days ago but it was only for the P4K festival and I couldn't bother attend a whole festival (+ I was already busy that night anyway).
― AlXTC from Paris, Wednesday, 13 November 2019 14:23 (four years ago) link
A good album.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 13 November 2019 14:36 (four years ago) link
Goosebumps at the vocal delivery on "you just did what you had toooooo"
― triggercut, Wednesday, 13 November 2019 16:03 (four years ago) link
Saw her live a week ago, on the last show of her current tour. Great performance, incredible vocals, tight band (especially the girl on bass, keys and b/v whose name I unfortunately forgot); she was also quite charismatic as a perfomer and there's a certain old-fashioned star quality to her. She played the whole new album (sans the instrumental interludes albeit the title track was used as a pre-recorded intro), a bunch of songs from Front Row Seat to Earth, and then closed with an encore of "Do You Need My Love", a cover of "A Whiter Shade of Pale" (lol), and a solo version of "In the Beginning". I'd definitely recommend seeing her if she comes anywhere near you - I went in as an appreciator and came out as a fan.
― ˈʌglɪɪst preɪ, Tuesday, 26 November 2019 21:35 (four years ago) link
Zak (Raw Thrills) & Natalie Mering's (Weyes Blood) Mother's first album, Pamela Mering - Childhood Train, limited copies available, self released in 2008. Carole King, Joni Mitchell & Linda Ronstadt Vibe:
https://gunktvrecords.bandcamp.com/album/childhood-train
― nostormo, Sunday, 1 December 2019 18:16 (four years ago) link
"Andromeda" = song of the year
― 💠 (crüt), Sunday, 29 December 2019 23:52 (four years ago) link
It remained my album of the year, too.
― fragglerock, Tuesday, 31 December 2019 02:24 (four years ago) link
Good song Someting to Believe is better though imo
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― nostormo, Tuesday, 31 December 2019 15:46 (four years ago) link
Gorgeous new song that no one talks about sonehow:
https://youtu.be/DIX1Ftka7U0
― nostormo, Saturday, 11 January 2020 15:25 (four years ago) link
i didn't know about it! but it is great!
― 💠 (crüt), Saturday, 11 January 2020 17:24 (four years ago) link
Sounds like her old ,folky style. I wonder is if it's an unreleased old track or a new recorded one.
― nostormo, Saturday, 11 January 2020 17:43 (four years ago) link
that is amazing. from the atmosphere it reminds me of joni mitchell's first album without the warble.
― walking towards the sun since 2007 (alex in mainhattan), Saturday, 11 January 2020 21:51 (four years ago) link
lovely
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Saturday, 11 January 2020 22:29 (four years ago) link
superb as ever
wondering how much to break my one-track-per-artist rule in the eoy traxpoll
― imago, Saturday, 11 January 2020 22:53 (four years ago) link
how in the hell had I never heard her before yesterday. stunning record
― k3vin k., Friday, 7 February 2020 12:22 (four years ago) link
man if lana del rey had put out 'front row seat to earth' yall wdve gone *apeshit*
― imago, Wednesday, 19 September 2018 16:38 (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink
lol
― TOO LOW, the Curator (imago), Friday, 7 February 2020 12:23 (four years ago) link
Just discovered her last week. Awesome new album. Get Karen Carpenter vibes off her for some reason.
― Darin, Friday, 7 February 2020 19:39 (four years ago) link
she does sound like karen carpenter
― frederik b. godt (jim in vancouver), Friday, 7 February 2020 19:40 (four years ago) link
yeah, i just listened to this yesterday because of the poll, and here i am on my fourth listen already! i haven't listened to her in a few albums, but i'll have to go back and check them out! i didn't realize she had this whole carole king + nilsson thing that seems to come effortlessly
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Saturday, 8 February 2020 17:45 (four years ago) link
did she arrange everything too? they're lovely, throughout
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Saturday, 8 February 2020 17:47 (four years ago) link
Love how similar the first few seconds of Andromeda and Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft are
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 15:48 (four years ago) link
Like this album a lot but 'Everyday' really sticks out like a sore thumb, the jauntiness doesn't suit her somehow. Like she's hit on one style at which she is exceptional but when she deviates from that it feels forced?
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 12 February 2020 19:08 (four years ago) link
Disagree. Good song, Todd Rundgren style, kinda
― nostormo, Wednesday, 12 February 2020 19:10 (four years ago) link
otoh i find it one of the better songs on record ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
― frederik b. godt (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 19:10 (four years ago) link
I really hope her success won't ruin her future music, like it did to so many artists before who got closer to mainstream.
― nostormo, Wednesday, 12 February 2020 19:14 (four years ago) link
ROCKIST!
― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 19:17 (four years ago) link
Everyday was the song that got me into the album. It's a highlight
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 20:01 (four years ago) link
“Everyday” is about dating terrible dudes off Tinder iirc
― uncrut gems (crüt), Thursday, 13 February 2020 10:31 (four years ago) link
last 2 mins of Everyday was definitely one of my tippy top musical highlights of 2019
― alpine static, Thursday, 13 February 2020 19:04 (four years ago) link
i love how it somehow manages to interpolate both Strawberry Fields and Girl while being knitted out of the same material as Penny Lane
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Saturday, 15 February 2020 18:19 (four years ago) link
Fits really well where it is I think. As great as the record gets, the opening 3 (Lot's Gonna Change > Andromeda > Everyday) is my favourite part.
― maffew12, Saturday, 15 February 2020 19:51 (four years ago) link
Listening to her first album, from 2011, for the first time. It’s like a noisier Grouper. Not what I was expecting based on the newest album.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Monday, 17 February 2020 00:11 (four years ago) link
yeah its quite a change eh
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Monday, 17 February 2020 00:36 (four years ago) link
discovered WB recently through my friend's quarantine playlist including "Something to Believe." it rules and i just hyped it on the Solo Beatles Poll thread because it reminded me so much of a George album cut with John playing piano. high time i dig into the rest of her stuff.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 4 June 2020 21:29 (three years ago) link