i went through her instagram to try to understand what austin could possibly be talking about and i'm still just as confused. there's nothing weird there or remotely comparable to grimes's antics. it's fine to not get this one because it's definitely a sonic departure, though her songwriting at the core feels the same, but all the stuff complaining about her image is baffling
― ufo, Friday, 4 October 2019 23:21 (four years ago) link
The songs I've heard from the new one haven't gotten me, but I haven't spent much time with them. I loved the early, mannered folky stuff, did not get captured by Burn Your Fire, and loved, loved, loved My Woman. One of my favorite things about her was her NPR interview where she talked about how into Mariah Carey she was at 12 - and I'm not that into Mariah Carey -- and I'm not that into Mariah Carey.
Seeing her for the first time in November.
― Mazzy Tsar (PBKR), Friday, 4 October 2019 23:40 (four years ago) link
By the way, I'm not that into Mariah Carey.
I have only one question: Is Mazzy Tsar into Mariah Carey?
― Hinklepicker, Friday, 4 October 2019 23:57 (four years ago) link
Lol.
― Mazzy Tsar (PBKR), Friday, 4 October 2019 23:57 (four years ago) link
The shift in Sister when it takes off at the end is one of my favorite music moments of the last five years.
― Mazzy Tsar (PBKR), Saturday, 5 October 2019 00:11 (four years ago) link
no mention of Scott walker? listening to 4 recently - seems like an obvious reference - except walker is far weirder - this one is just too heavy and drenched for me to get a handle on right now
― clouds (peanutbuttereverysingleday), Saturday, 5 October 2019 06:01 (four years ago) link
i am so in love with this record
― american bradass (BradNelson), Saturday, 5 October 2019 16:34 (four years ago) link
every song sounds as good or better than the last, and even with the (wonderful) clotted string arrangements it's never suffocating, cf. "what it is" is so light on its feet
― american bradass (BradNelson), Saturday, 5 October 2019 17:18 (four years ago) link
The whole way through this, I was thinking "Susanne Sundfør, but drowsy" which, I guess, is a place I'd like to visit occasionally.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, October 4, 2019
never gonna be able to unhear this now lol
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Saturday, 5 October 2019 18:07 (four years ago) link
it’s susanne sundfør in hell
― american bradass (BradNelson), Saturday, 5 October 2019 18:22 (four years ago) link
hahaha
― flopson, Saturday, 5 October 2019 18:25 (four years ago) link
i am...really liking this
why
― imago, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 18:21 (four years ago) link
because it’s incredible
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 8 October 2019 18:38 (four years ago) link
Couldn't get into this at all - to my ears it seems like it's trying too hard to be a Lana Del Rey album.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 18:40 (four years ago) link
chalk and cheese
― imago, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 18:48 (four years ago) link
or rather, there was more ambition, sonic depth and intrigue in the opening track of this than in ldr's entire career so far, and having heard the first four tracks i am v excited to hear the rest
― imago, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 18:50 (four years ago) link
I'm not sure what they have in common. They're records made by women?
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 8 October 2019 18:52 (four years ago) link
they have very little in common. i guess honeymoon is saturated in uneasy string arrangements
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 8 October 2019 18:56 (four years ago) link
chalk and cheese sounds like a classic LJ culinary experiment
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 8 October 2019 19:03 (four years ago) link
both have plenty of calcium. just like olsen and ldr both use drums
― imago, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 19:07 (four years ago) link
― imago, Tuesday, October 8, 2019
not on this thread to debate crazy-ass challops, but lol
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Tuesday, 8 October 2019 19:36 (four years ago) link
this could do with losing some filler from the second half but it's been a good listen
― imago, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 19:48 (four years ago) link
what's the filler!!!
sorry i got very surprised by this, to the point where it is my album of the year?
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 8 October 2019 19:59 (four years ago) link
tracks 8-10 didn't quite hit the same spot and got me thinking that impasse -> change would be a killer ending. here's where it turns out your favourite track is one of my filler choices lol
― imago, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 20:03 (four years ago) link
think the title track is mine
― imago, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 20:04 (four years ago) link
or 'too easy'
these first three/four tracks are something
― imago, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 20:07 (four years ago) link
here's where it turns out your favourite track is one of my filler choices lol
― imago, Tuesday, October 8, 2019 1:03 PM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
summer!
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 8 October 2019 20:09 (four years ago) link
it's not my favorite track but it's wonderful, a perfect shift in pace and mood right before the closer, the bassline makes you expect disco and then it becomes something wilder and sadder and it reminds me of the yeah yeah yeahs' show your bones
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 8 October 2019 20:12 (four years ago) link
oh i nearly forgot about those synths at the end too
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 8 October 2019 20:14 (four years ago) link
ok maybe, it could open up
tracks 1-4 are legit on course for an lj five-bagger, 5-7 great too, i guess i'll be patient with the rest
― imago, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 20:16 (four years ago) link
reminds me of the yeah yeah yeahs
dude i think you just summed up my lack of appreciation for this record way better than i ever could have.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Tuesday, 8 October 2019 20:17 (four years ago) link
austin i can't even tell if you've listened to this record or if you've dismissed it because of her instagram, please stop
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 8 October 2019 20:22 (four years ago) link
you made the comparison man. i was struggling to figure out just what was so offputting about it to me, and what you said there was a better articulation than i've been able to manage.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Tuesday, 8 October 2019 20:30 (four years ago) link
that the vocal melody of one song reminded me of the yeah yeah yeahs? you're still overdoing it
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 8 October 2019 20:30 (four years ago) link
everyone itt arguing with austin who iirc hasn't heard the record and decided he wouldn't like it based on the angel olsen's insta posts reminding him of grimes (yes, this is the reason he doesn't like this album) would be better of doing literally anything with their time
― Seany's too Dyche to mention (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 8 October 2019 20:32 (four years ago) link
lol brad okay man. my post was genuine. you drew the comparison and it resonated and made sense for me. that anything by angel is reminiscent of yyys is disappointing. and it goes back to what i was saying earlier: this new record and rollout just seems overproduced and overbearing; not at all what i liked her music for in the past.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Tuesday, 8 October 2019 20:43 (four years ago) link
just bc of this stupid argument i have looked at angel olsen's instagram and am enjoying the relatively short series of professional photographs accompanied by paragraphs about the process of making the record and/or music videos
I chose All Mirrors as the title of this upcoming record because I liked the theme; the theme of how we are all mirrors to and for each other. Even if that is not the complete truth, still, there is always an element of personal projection in what we’d like to see in others and in all scenarios.
good stuff imo
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 8 October 2019 20:54 (four years ago) link
brad is OTM about "summer" - one of my favourites too - but the rhetorical position that anything by angel being reminiscent of yyys would be disappointing is amazingly sweeping, and implicitly incurious about music's ability to make connections between things that not only are unexpected but also change the effect of those things
― Tim F, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 22:18 (four years ago) link
ok 'summer' is actually good, 'tonight' is the one that kills the momentum. guess that's what the skip button is for ('endgame' seems like a skipper too)
― imago, Wednesday, 9 October 2019 11:47 (four years ago) link
"tonight" has a kind of static vocal melody that reminds me of older angel olsen song but the strings are devastating and unskippable. "endgame" seems of a piece with "choice" with me, two gorgeous classic-sounding melodies right alongside each other
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 9 October 2019 11:50 (four years ago) link
er "chance"*
i spoke maybe too soon, 'endgame' sounded better this go around. 'tonight' is a hard sell but given how much i like the rest of the album it'll have no choice but to grow on me idk
― imago, Wednesday, 9 October 2019 11:52 (four years ago) link
maintain that those first four tracks are where this album goes from good to mindblowing
― imago, Wednesday, 9 October 2019 11:54 (four years ago) link
they're all stunners that's for sure
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 9 October 2019 11:56 (four years ago) link
all the ways that "all mirrors" reminds me of new orderthe bleary guitars at the end of "too easy"everything about "new love cassette," walk around the block in the crisp fall air to this one
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 9 October 2019 11:59 (four years ago) link
'all mirrors' gave me vibes of the teardrop explodes - the great dominions, it does that melodic postpunk thing so smartly, gr8 bassline too
― imago, Wednesday, 9 October 2019 12:00 (four years ago) link
First four tracks are indeed hard to top but it doesn't feel frontloaded.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 10 October 2019 09:42 (four years ago) link
"too easy" is one of the weaker tracks imo (though by no means bad)
― ufo, Thursday, 10 October 2019 10:50 (four years ago) link
Couldn't get into this. Nothing interesting about the melodies imo and is takes itself too serious and too dramatic for my taste at least.Overhyped? Time will tell. I might be wrong of course.
― nostormo, Thursday, 10 October 2019 10:55 (four years ago) link