tUnE-yArDs

i guess that was one word

i'm less interested in what makes people pick up stuff like this than it what makes them (sooner or later) put it down

Fiery Furnaces

okay, five of the six mentioned so far are female-fronted...

i just find the whole idea of "man are you gonna hate this in a few years" spurious on the face of it.

I want a Shackleton remix of Bizness.

In between the gorgeous singing on other parts of the album I get a CocoRosie vibe. Maybe a little Indigo Girls. Do not have opinion, still want remix.

Oh yeah Graceland with a loop pedal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=as91OCbbEsc

New album Nikki Nack in May 2014. Clips sound badass.

happy to hear about this

I have a friend who hates tune-yards more than anything. His name is Nicky. He is very angry right now.

But my name's not Nicky.

Ok yeah this sounds pretty badass

i also hate tune-yards more than anything. i click this thread out of a perverse fascination with my hatred.

yeah that mix above sounds great

excited

"Water Fountain" http://youtu.be/j-KulvW2TUQ

Great stuff.

yep

this has everything that would make me think I'd like it, and yet somehow I don't like it

something about it reminds me of summer camp mess hall

Great stuff. Especially the last part where everything happens at once.

I like this song a whole helluva lot!

fun song. i hate the way she capitalizes odd letters in her name.

sToP cApItAlIziInG eVeRy oThEr lEtTeR iN yOuR nAmE tUnE yArDs

looks like a hostage-taker's ransom note.

It sounds like it'd fun to play on bass.

this album is so massively great

her songs seem bonkers, in a good way.

new album is so good http://www.npr.org/2014/04/25/306543443/first-listen-tune-yards-nikki-nack

""Real Thing," one of the most trenchant comments on modern fame in recent memory, begins with a coy, tightly clustered, Destiny's Child-style verse"

Destiny's Child-style verse from ~tUNe-yArDz~? pass

Love that the difficult punctuation exercise has been replaced with extra italics work, Nikki Nack

This is so great. It feels quite different from whokill. More intricately detailed, fewer simple distinctive song ideas, lots more restless jumbling and scattering.

"Look Around" is incredibly lovely and I feel like I haven't heard anything like it before.

I was underwhelmed on my first listen. Her vocal and instrumental tricks often seem forced. Will give it another listen or 3

It seemed v bitsy/selfconscious on first listen, maybe wrong obv

Her vocal and instrumental tricks often seem forced.

I hear that on, e.g. the chorus to "Wait For a Minute", where the "OW OW OW"s seem to have been forced onto the wrong beat and make the song sound broken. I assume that's Merrill deliberately messing with the smoothness of the track (meant to express self-doubt/stasis).

gonna need a few more spins to determine what I'm thinking, feels a little hit and miss on second pass.
water fountain prob a top ten single of the year for me tho

Sounds marvelous on third listen.

I wasn't sure I needed another Tune-Yards album in my life, but this sounds pretty good to me so far.

I kinda miss the saxophones... The many synths aren't really a good trade, it takes away some of her uniqueness and energy. But I really like her project, I love the lyrics and I love the way she explores identity. Rocking Chair is marvelous.

What type of crazy punctuation/typography thing should she do next to drive the music press crazy?

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A really obvious point to make, given all the post-Haiti-trip drumming on the record, but a lot of this sounds like a lost Slits or Rip Rig & Panic album.

Second the comment above about "Look Around". "Real Thing" and that is a great 1-2 punch.

Could happily listen to Merrill singing all day.

Also really miss the saxophones.

Just watched their recent performance of Water Fountainon Fallon and it's way better than the recorded version -- seems like i recall feeling the same way when i watched the Tiny Desk Concert they did promoting the last album.

ultimately this album feels like a swing and a miss to me; too much exploration of "okay i have a style and i'm famous so now what"
I'll ride for Water Fountain (def fave track for this year so far), Wait for a Minute and Rocking Chair but not a whole lot else. It's easily her weakest LP in my eyes.
Strangely, one of my old interns is touring and doing back up for Garbus; she's in that Fallon performance.

Maybe Nikki Nack isn't as much of a breakthrough as Whokill was, but I think in some ways I like it better. It's more consistent. There are a couple of tracks that I skip on Whokill but none on Nikki Nack - although "Rocking Chair" doesn't feel very essential, it's short enough, unlike for instance "Wooly Wooly Gong" on Whokill which seems to go on forever.

That's an inversion of how I'm listening to it! Different strokes I guess.

finally had a chance to listen to the new one a few times, and I love it. It's like an instant party in a can.
Whokill had higher highs, and parts where you go, "what is this whichcraft?" Nikki Nack just has me blissfully head bopping in the fabulous far-out mix.

i think the "party" aspect is a little deceptive -- the lyrics get pretty dark, all the stuff about rape/domestic violence, identity politics, depression, gentrification.

(not to mention the cannibalism interlude, which i wish she'd left off the record b/c it just feels so out of place.)

i love the record though; it reminds me of growing up in nyc and being exposed to the hulking and ever-mutating mass of pop/synth-R&B/freestyle/electro/new jack/reggae-inflected stuff that was on the radio and coming out of every car window, as well as all the attitudinal fringe-folk weirdos at the little clubs and festivals that my folks dragged me to. i've said before that tune-yards is really evocative of "summer prospect park 1988" for me and that's even more true with nikki nack.

I like the cannibalism skit. Reminds me of the skits on De La Soul Is Dead.

(not to mention the cannibalism interlude, which i wish she'd left off the record b/c it just feels so out of place.)

this, exactly! i don't necessarily hate the interlude, it just sucks a lot of the energy and momentum out of the record at that point!

Maybe 'party' was too strong, but her singing sounds so self-assured and dynamic as apposed to the more experimental stuff. I almost expect to hear her throw in a 'come on now' every now and then.