Santigold

Had this since around the year it came out. I really didn't get it. Thought it was half cooked pop rock/MIA wannabe bull. However, listening to it on the way to work and realized it sounded great as a whole. I mean it's influences is worn on its sleeve still, but at least I "get" it now. Plus I tend to forget that MIA is a half cooked Neneh Cherry so it all evens out.

this music is just fucking terrible terrible shit, don't even put neneh's name near this thread

um...wow. It's not that deep or crucial.

And plus, it's hard not to bring up Neneh since she is one of the obvious precursor of these two women.

This album has some awesome songs on it. Any news on an LP2?

New song with Karen O! http://www.lagasta.com/santigold-%E2%80%9Cgo%E2%80%9D-feat-karen-o/

(could a mod change this thread title from "Santogold" to "Santigold" plz?)

NO NEVAH

btw this song is badass

Hey @_M_I_A_ Have you lost a b-side somewhere? I think Santogold and Karen O might know somethin about it...
MrTayloreyes 2 days ago

Still happy she's making new stuff tho

i really like this song

sorta like bow wow wow produced by timbaland

karen's parts of this are way better than santi's

Agree with others. This song is great and it has that "Oh wow of course these two should do a song together" thing to it. I was worried Santigold was going to be an indie one album wonder.

Hey @_M_I_A_ Have you lost a b-side somewhere? I think Santogold and Karen O might know somethin about it...
MrTayloreyes 2 days ago
― The Sunspots In Your Eyes Are Actually Cataracts, Mr. Rudich (AWALL), Monday, 18 April 2011 02:20 (Yesterday)

pulled this album out and not sure why i bought it, "creator" slays but the rest = zzzzz city

rong

whoops you don't like "lights out"

ilxor revives like this are him putting a bag of flaming dog crap on ilx's collective porch, except we always fail to realize that the house won't burn down if we don't put it out

lights out is gold

The new Beastie Boys collab is mighty fine imo.

yeah alright "lights out" is pretty alright, the rest of the album is like m.i.a. playing uninteresting pop-punk/ska tunes tho

ilxor revives like this are him putting a bag of flaming dog crap on ilx's collective porch

pretty sure the Santogold thread is not ilx's collective porch, unless we're ignoring the 500 people who worship new order in favor of the 10 who like santigold???

Can we change this title to Santigold yet?

New track!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxdQ_uD5IWk

she has to be totally baiting the m.i.a. thing at this point, right?

song is kinda hot tho

okay yay Santi, I am super interested in you again

There's also this song she guest on by Amadou & Mariam:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfJ-EmoQil8

*guests

that percussion is like receiving an unrefusable order to break yo fuckin neck

love amadou & mariam so much! "taxi bamako" was my morning hangover music for like three years

Yeah, everyone seemed to know about Amadou & Mariam besides me, so thanks to Santi for giving me an "in". Definitely have listened to them on Spotify in the past couple weeks.

Disparate Youth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgUTVzg8Gn8

^not bad.

damn good.

There's a stream of the new album here http://disconaivete.com/post/21321079127

It sounds a lot more understated than I was expecting. Disparate Youth is the best thing on here by a mile.

I can't get that stream to work for whatever reason

Yeah, most of the tracks aren't even playable.

Maybe it only works for people in the UK? I only found as someone put a link up on the Popjustice forum.

Listening to it now and, while understated, it's fantastic the whole way through. "The Keeper" borrows a little of its contruction/melody from "Little Red Corvette" in a great way.

"Disparate Youth" is one of my singles of the year.

It's one of mine too, cannot believe it only reached number 96 in the charts here. The whole album is really good but that song just blows the rest away.

I know it's not that uncommon but a performer who invites audience members up on stage with her is always going to make me like them that little bit more.

Really like this album - disparate youth (obv) but The Riot's Gone is also pretty outstanding - but absolutely love her live show. The dancers are amazing!

"Disparate Youth" is one of my singles of the year.

― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, April 22, 2012 10:25 AM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^^^

"The Keepers" is almost as good. The rest -- meh.

look at these hoes

i like the slow elegiac ones on this. "disparate youth", "the riot's gone", "god from the machine", "the keepers".

"freak like me" and "look at these hoes" are embarrassing shit that santi should leave to, idk, az banks or someone.

everything else is kinda ok.

funny reading the obama debate over the "shove your hope where it don't shine" line upthread b/c i really can't help but hear it like that now!

Strange how little attention this album is getting. I'm also underwhelmed. It's OK. But I half thought she had the ability to do something new and surprising. My favorite thing she's been involved in is still the Diplo / Santogold Top Ranking Dub mixtape album. So much fun.

lex i totally heard that line that way when i first heard it

(and still do, ahem)

Yeah this is kinda boring, I really like the single, but overall she's much better at doing glossy reggae and dub-inflected pop-rock than she is at doing crazy electro or fake dancehall or whatever Diplo or Switch or whoever are throwing at her. And there's not really enough of the former.