The J*Davey album was pretty enjoyable for a few listens. Some keepers there. I look forward to seeing where they go in the future.
Shafiq Husayn's En A-Free-Ka is pretty good, a lot better and a lot more focused than this year's Sa-Ra album. Interesting how most of the rhythms seem to be based more in Afro-beat than hiphop or R&B.
― on a top secret challops mission in contraristan (The Reverend), Monday, 12 October 2009 23:30 (fourteen years ago) link
vid is pretty cool. sounds like a mix between outkast and sa-ra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlyeNkxlNhU
― jaxon, Thursday, 18 March 2010 19:41 (fourteen years ago) link
i dont like that one much -- was def feeling this tho
havent checked the albumhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hWrxfuzwjQ
― The BoyBoy Big HOO$ (deej), Thursday, 1 April 2010 01:59 (fourteen years ago) link
ugh hate that dude. garish neon bullshit imo
― wakaflockapitusberry (The Reverend), Thursday, 1 April 2010 15:11 (fourteen years ago) link
Kinda surprised at the mellowness/playfulness of Kings Ballad, no?
― T Bone Streep (Cave17Matt), Thursday, 1 April 2010 15:43 (fourteen years ago) link
damn, GAM got another album already?
― wakaflockapitusberry (The Reverend), Thursday, 1 April 2010 15:45 (fourteen years ago) link
I know I stan for anything FE-related but OMG this is so fucking good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cV5mNZ_fVnc
I hope you have a little girlAnd she's the apple of her eyeYou'll never see her cryTil somebody breaks her heartThe way you did mineI hope they make her cryI hope somebody makes her cry*cue guitar solo*
― british is happening (The Reverend), Thursday, 1 April 2010 22:38 (fourteen years ago) link
pretty much going to listen to this song on repeat all day now
― samosa gibreel, Friday, 2 April 2010 13:15 (fourteen years ago) link
Early February, yeah -- very good (if not Umsindo level).
― Andy K, Friday, 2 April 2010 13:21 (fourteen years ago) link
The Quadron album is my favorite of the year thus far (without doubt my year-end number one).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InYDnSPaIUE
― Andy K, Friday, 2 April 2010 13:27 (fourteen years ago) link
damn, GAM got another album already?Early February, yeah -- very good (if not Umsindo level).
Kings Ballad is so much more listenable and interesting to me than Umsindo, which often prized weirdness over actual quality. Here the balance is a lot better.
― T Bone Streep (Cave17Matt), Friday, 2 April 2010 13:48 (fourteen years ago) link
FITE
― Andy K, Friday, 2 April 2010 13:49 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RBjMrRXTxI
― Andy K, Friday, 2 April 2010 13:50 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTmAHP1MSck
Reminds me of when we had to take our daughter to Chuck E Cheese and she slept through an entire birthday party while in her stroller, five feet in front of the animatronic loudness.
― Andy K, Friday, 2 April 2010 13:52 (fourteen years ago) link
― samosa gibreel, Friday, April 2, 2010 6:15 AM Bookmark
I did this yesterday. Might do it today.
― The Reverend, Friday, 2 April 2010 15:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Dunno if the J*Davey fans on the thread knew, but they released a freebie ep on xmas day last year: http://jdavey.bandcamp.com/
I'm still waiting for "Dollar or More" to show up in full anywhere. They've been sitting on that song for at least two years, and if it doesn't show up on the next full length, I'm gonna blow a gasket.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 2 April 2010 15:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, I've been meaning to give that ep a second spin for a while
― The Reverend, Friday, 2 April 2010 15:36 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm way into that Yahzarah track posted upthread a bit.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 2 April 2010 15:44 (fourteen years ago) link
i originally thought it had nothing to do with the production since the vocal is so outstanding, but it's not like i ever would've been smart enough to know that pop-punk drums way loud in the mix would ever work in a song like this. any releases i should check out?
― samosa gibreel, Friday, 2 April 2010 23:31 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxihZyey1qM
― Don't Make Me A Burrito (Craig D.), Friday, 2 April 2010 23:33 (fourteen years ago) link
xp: If you haven't, check out the Foreign Exchange's Leave It All Behind (which features Yahzarah, among others, on vocals) and Nicolay's City Lights 2: Shibuya, both of which are produced by Nicolay and of excellent quality, albeit much more subdued than this. I haven't heard Yahzarah's previous albums, though. I may have to now.
I'm also happy to find out today that there's a new FE album in October. I am becoming such a total stan for them. XD
― The Reverend, Friday, 2 April 2010 23:39 (fourteen years ago) link
xp- word, one of my favourite songs of the year so far. i bumped the cult of dilla thread a while ago asking for recs of similar sounding stuff and got told to just read the psychedelic rn'b thread. good things happen when this thread is regularly updated.
― samosa gibreel, Friday, 2 April 2010 23:40 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7ELR-W7BKs
― The Reverend, Friday, 2 April 2010 23:41 (fourteen years ago) link
lead by ryan olson, GAYNGS members include POS, Dessa, Michael Lewis, and members of Bon Iver, Megafaun and Solid Gold.
I've heard 4/20 and 5/11 as release dates for the new album, "relayted"
this sounds like it's going to be some late night, or driving in the car, or late night driving in the car kind of dope shit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1m2pBzdlmHw
― nicky lo-fi, Saturday, 3 April 2010 17:09 (fourteen years ago) link
that lineup sounded pretty dnw, but that is dope
― The Reverend, Saturday, 3 April 2010 18:51 (fourteen years ago) link
That Quadron disc is pretty killer, like a spacey, more R&B version of Roisin Murphy. Love love "Buster Keaton."
― Michael F Gill, Sunday, 4 April 2010 00:42 (fourteen years ago) link
Yahzarah – Why Dontcha Call Me No More Listening now Yahzarah – Why Dontcha Call Me No More 7 minutes ago Yahzarah – Why Dontcha Call Me No More 1 hour ago Yahzarah – Why Dontcha Call Me No More 2 hours ago Yahzarah – Why Dontcha Call Me No More 2 hours ago Yahzarah – Why Dontcha Call Me No More 2 hours ago Yahzarah – Why Dontcha Call Me No More 2 hours ago Yahzarah – Why Dontcha Call Me No More 2 hours ago Yahzarah – Why Dontcha Call Me No More 2 hours ago
― The Reverend, Sunday, 4 April 2010 01:48 (fourteen years ago) link
i would like to point out that i have been otm in this thread
that is a very good music song
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 4 April 2010 01:55 (fourteen years ago) link
if you told me a few years ago that one of the rappers from Little Brother would become one of my favorite working songwriters, I would have looked at you so fucking cockeyed
― The Reverend, Sunday, 4 April 2010 02:07 (fourteen years ago) link
i hope you're happy or whateva
― samosa gibreel, Sunday, 4 April 2010 16:27 (fourteen years ago) link
on second thought not really HEY!
― The Reverend, Sunday, 4 April 2010 17:16 (fourteen years ago) link
:)
― samosa gibreel, Sunday, 4 April 2010 17:21 (fourteen years ago) link
rev can u post mp3
― jihad mane (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 4 April 2010 17:48 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.theforeignexchangemusic.com/2010/03/why-dontcha-call-me-no-more.php
― The Reverend, Sunday, 4 April 2010 17:49 (fourteen years ago) link
yahzarah is a babe
― samosa gibreel, Sunday, 4 April 2010 18:03 (fourteen years ago) link
yah
― The Reverend, Sunday, 4 April 2010 18:05 (fourteen years ago) link
loooool apparently GAM's pops is one of the dudes behind The Secret. that makes weird sense :/
― The Reverend, Monday, 5 April 2010 00:47 (fourteen years ago) link
yah zarah yah
― jihad mane (J0rdan S.), Monday, 5 April 2010 00:50 (fourteen years ago) link
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yup - totally recommended, esp if it's getting to be summer where you are.
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Friday, 30 April 2010 17:23 (thirteen years ago) link
yo rev the yahzarah album has leaked, will report back tomorrow on if there's anything else as good as 'why don'tcha call me no more'
― waka khan (samosa gibreel), Monday, 3 May 2010 05:39 (thirteen years ago) link
oh and i'm really liking that quadron, thx for the rec
― waka khan (samosa gibreel), Monday, 3 May 2010 05:40 (thirteen years ago) link
cool thx
like the quadron album but don't feel like playing it much
― WE THE VIKING (The Reverend), Monday, 3 May 2010 06:33 (thirteen years ago) link
lol at the continuing theme of "yahzarah rescues decent female-fronted stevie wonder songs from albums not a lot of people liked"
― WE THE VIKING (The Reverend), Monday, 3 May 2010 09:00 (thirteen years ago) link
"The Lie" is v good in a "this seems always on the verge of breaking out into stadium disco" type way
― WE THE VIKING (The Reverend), Monday, 3 May 2010 09:05 (thirteen years ago) link
if there's anything else as good as 'why don'tcha call me no more'
― waka khan (samosa gibreel), Sunday, May 2, 2010 10:39 PM Bookmark
i'm gonna call a 'no' on that. album is decent but not as good as LIAB or Shibuya
― WE THE VIKING (The Reverend), Monday, 3 May 2010 09:43 (thirteen years ago) link
*doesn't want to believe it*
― waka khan (samosa gibreel), Monday, 3 May 2010 15:12 (thirteen years ago) link
it kinda has Stankonia syndrome, you know, where anything place after "Bombs Over Baghdad" sounds kinda lame no matter how good it is. except "Why Dontcha Call Me No More" is track #2
― snoop dyao double-g (The Reverend), Tuesday, 4 May 2010 08:46 (thirteen years ago) link
placed*
― snoop dyao double-g (The Reverend), Tuesday, 4 May 2010 08:47 (thirteen years ago) link