Each record is taking more effort to grow on me. I love the craft, but miss the obliqueness. I'm holding out hope for her incorporating her origins at some point, and creating the Karen-Carpenter-Sings-Desertshore album I dream about.
― bendy, Saturday, 3 December 2022 03:25 (one year ago) link
This new one is too samey lyrically and musically compared to the prescience and variety of “Titanic Rising”. Have to give it a few more listens. So far it sounds like a step down.
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Saturday, 3 December 2022 07:12 (one year ago) link
I wouldn't mind samey, for me it's the lack of dynamics / kick, the numb sixties music under narcotics, that prevents me from truly engaging with her (indeed otherwise well crafted) music. I agree the three songs noted by Nostormo are the best by a fair margin here.
― Nabozo, Tuesday, 6 December 2022 09:43 (one year ago) link
Actually I would have said opener + hearts aglow + twin flame, but I also like Empire
― Nabozo, Tuesday, 6 December 2022 09:44 (one year ago) link
I’ve really tried with this one. Big step down from Titanic for me.
― Davey D, Tuesday, 6 December 2022 16:01 (one year ago) link
Same. Supposedly this is the middle of a trilogy. I might leave it for now, til the final part is out.
― maf you one two (maffew12), Tuesday, 6 December 2022 16:04 (one year ago) link
mainly I guess it's just bumming me out too much. Empire Strikes Back in a world without Return of the Jedi ennit
― maf you one two (maffew12), Tuesday, 6 December 2022 16:06 (one year ago) link
"The Worst Is Done" is basically the exact realization of my greatest fears about how Songs About The Pandemic might have turned out. The worst thing she's ever written.
― Davey D, Wednesday, 7 December 2022 00:31 (one year ago) link
Saw her live this week. She's great. Really like "It's not just me"
― corrs unplugged, Friday, 3 February 2023 11:51 (one year ago) link
(although Front Row Seat remains my fave by a mile)
― corrs unplugged, Friday, 3 February 2023 11:52 (one year ago) link
average indie act number 63463567547something
― CerebralCaustic, Saturday, 4 February 2023 00:21 (one year ago) link
man, really contributing to the discourse there, huh, caustic
― husked, tonal wails (irrational), Monday, 6 February 2023 15:13 (one year ago) link
would be intrigued to see the working on that one. whose songwriting is weyes blood's comparable to
― imago, Monday, 6 February 2023 15:17 (one year ago) link
Caustic did the same thing in some other tread I saw. Ignore.
― alpine static, Monday, 6 February 2023 17:05 (one year ago) link
Front Row Seat is my fav too, glad I saw here when she was touring for it. She was wryly sassy and charismatic on stage, and made me love her even more for it.
― octobeard, Monday, 6 February 2023 19:57 (one year ago) link
imo the followup, Titanic Wrysing, was even better!
― maf you one two (maffew12), Monday, 6 February 2023 20:04 (one year ago) link
I'm seeing her in a couple weeks - looking forward to it! I think the last time I saw her was 2014??
― c u (crüt), Monday, 6 February 2023 20:39 (one year ago) link
Having a fun conversation on Nico with the Jokermen pod guys https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jokermen/id1519299517?i=1000597165410
― bendy, Tuesday, 7 February 2023 03:29 (one year ago) link
Man, this album.
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 27 February 2023 08:12 (one year ago) link
I listened to Hearts Aglow most recently on a long nocturnal walk by Lake Ontario on the Friday before Christmas - probably my most uplifting memory of last year. I felt like it opened the emotional door to a post-pandemic way of life that I had been wary of.Now I see that night as the completion of a personal arc that was started by listening to Lana Del Rey's NFR! on a long country drive on Thanksgiving weekend 2019, and the disaster that I felt it clearly foreboded but whose form wouldn't be known for a few months. I do often feel like disaster's on the way, but rarely crystallized neatly in album form.
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 17 January 2024 04:18 (four months ago) link