Gayngs Chub Licker

'gaudy side of town' is A++++++++++ top ten

btw idg why 'chub licker' is in this thread title

trip hop >>>> dubstep

I don't understand why How To Dress Well is getting all the critical plaudits and everyone has forgot about Gayngs. I enjoy this much more.

totally

man i need to start paying attention to music again. this is great! and its been out for months!

cynical answer: how to dress well fits into a storyline

yeah shit, this is totally max music

gayngs is from minneapolis (right?) and htdw is from brooklyn/germany?

yes altho i think HTDW is/was based in chicago when he started poppin off

also gayngs doesnt use enough triangles in their aesthetic

I love this album! It's like if A Mountain of One had decided to make an entire album out of "Freefall" rather than "Innocent Line".

― Tim F, Monday, July 19, 2010 6:50 AM (3 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this got me really excited but if anything i wish the album sounded MORE like freefall

I was sat in the garden listening to it at the weekend and still love it. I really worry about stuff that's got a bit of a pot head sensibility to it but this is amazing *in spite* of all that stuff - especially the sleeve 'concept'.

― Duran (Doran), Monday, July 19, 2010 12:42 PM (3 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

*shakes head sadly*

this got me really excited but if anything i wish the album sounded MORE like freefall

Well this is a general principle w/r/t all rock pretty much, I would think.

Poor Gayngs, so close to being triangulastic:

http://potholesinmyblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Relayted-Gayngs_480.jpg

yeah, if only there were more freefalls. but ill settle for more im not in loves, i guess. is that old kevin godley in the "cry" video?

ah i see thats been covered. good sport.

OK, I give up. This rules. Wish I didn't wait so long to hear this, as I have a few friends involved. I don't love Bon Iver, I think that's why I avoided it initially. Hope the rest is as good as "The Gaudy Side of Town."

haha this whole thing sounds like it's been made up for a WFMU Best Show call-in

"Mick Nick Pick Mick Nick"

love this album so much i can even tolerate the rap at the end

http://www.thejump.net/id/more-fish/bluehead-chub.jpg

"last prom on earth" is actually one of my least favorite things here, but it seems to get high praise? idgi. "faded high" people!

besides gaudy side of town and cry, i like 'no sweat,' unsurprisingly

Faded High has graduated to my favourite track on the album also.

(Chub Licker was a reference to the anticipatory Fall new album thread which was around when I first posted this.)

"No Sweat" is great also, yes.

I may never get to hear the album because I just keep listening to "Gaudy Side of Town" over and over again.

Live version is just as wonderful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyqVh2KN09E&feature=related

This album was surprising flop. Don't think I saw it on a single 'top ten of 2010' list. I thought this shit would blow up. Maybe they should have sang more about the beach.

dope vid!

Man this record really falls off at the end doesn't it. Still, the good stuff is pretty damn good and 'Gaudy Side' has been my nonstop jam for a while now....

one of my most listened to albums of the latter end of the year, but seriously this thread title. i never would have clicked on it had i not been searching for it

I thought the title of the record was chub licker for the longest time. Glad I didn't GIS it.

This really reminds me of the 'National Trust' album from a few back 'Dekkegar' and a bit like some of the Shaun Smith stuff...basically White Americans take on R&B...

If I'd heard it before the poll, I'd have put Relayted right near the top of my ballot. I absolutely love it.

Why are people comparing this to How To Dress Well? That album didn't move me at all. This however, this is like being hurled into orbit in a tiny metal spacecraft while listening to Radio 2 under heavy sedation. It's got more in common with Ariel Pink than anyone else, if only for the "pop through a dirty lense" approach.

The original 'cry' fucking rules
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxtPRF6NG7I

the last ten seconds are awesome

finally listening to the album, this is rad

i was totally disappointed though when that cliche romantic electric bell piano patch showed up at the end of "crystal rope" and it turned out to just be interlude noodling and not the intro to a real song

this is the worst album in the world, and the fucking up of the totally awesome original godley and creme is its feed you a crap sandwich calling card

lets agree to disagree

nah this is shit.

srsly have no idea why this cover exists outside of hipster lols look all my pals are in a video recreation + look we can pitch shift too. its completely terrible. and lots of these peeps are great when they're doing their own thing, but its like their shitty one off "lol aor" joke is the fucking critical bees knees. wtf

sorry to go so aggro, im just so bummed out that this seems to be the new face of the MPLS/STPL music scene when it is just so laughably awful and irritating in every way

pretty sure lots of ppl like it for more than 'hipster lols'

well i think the point is that it's NOT going for lols & instead it seems to most ppl like they have a genuine appreciation for the music

huh

i mean im glad to be wrong, but nothing in their version of the video says anything other than "pomo obscure reference that people will get if theyre in the know oh shit look we got that actual old dude to be in our video check it" to me. obv part of this is that i think the cover itself is pretty much 100% nudge nudge get it awful.

and sorry if im being a jerk to people that actually enjoy it, i just have no idea why they do.

i agree w/jjjusten

also "they have a genuine appreciation for the music" is really not an adequate defense - i have a genuine appreciation for mariah carey - doesn't mean anyone needs to hear me try to emulate her - i know this and so should gayngs, if they can't actually pull it off, which they can't

"they have a genuine appreciation for the music" i'm only using this as a defense against the idea that they're in it for lols

"they have a genuine appreciation of the music" is only being said in response to people who erroneously assume the project is "lol aor".

Whether it's good music or not is a separate question (it is though, FYI).

i don't really know, it's impossible to really, what their genuine motivation is, but i think the accusation, here & elsewhere, of a band being "in it for the lols" comes when their music is an overt attempt to mimic or revive a particular aesthetic that gets it not-quite-right, so it's part & parcel of their failure of execution

Ha Xpost

It's not an overt attempt to mimic though lex, they're mixing all sorts of ideas.