blood orange

why fuck w imitation food is how i break it down, just dont eat bread

I haven't heard Blood Orange but I am arrandbey kru and I have nothing against this guy other than that terrible Solange song. I haven't really followed him that closely (never heard Test Icicles or Lightspeed Champion) tbh. This is one of my fave songs this year and he was involved:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZI4NlOCTD3U

terrible artist terrible album thank god solange has broken with him maybe she'll make good music again now

Thank god the lex finally showed up. Now let's move on. Is the new album any good

No, IMO, and this coming from someone that likes "the way", "everything is embarrassing", "losing you", and "chamakay" (mostly b/c of caroline polachek)

its pretty cool

i think i like coastal grooves better, need to listen to this a few more times

I like the other Test Icicles guy Sam Mereigne's stuff, fucked up ultra lofi early James Ferraro

yeah it's kinda meant to be suggestive of this bleary, droning, numbed torpid mumblecore inarticulacy indicating longing and heartache beyond words or whatever. simple is real cos of ~how hard it is to feel things~, to be decisive and put a fine point on it is too painful if not even by implication dishonest. the whole thing's of a piece, you got the washed out instagrammed visuals, the 80s comfort blanket for the emotional foetal position... blah blah the familiar prepack set of lies agreed upon

it's all v boring

― r|t|c, Wednesday, October 3, 2012 12:11 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

rtc re: "losing you" the real deathblow obv

http://i.imgur.com/I47L9JV.gif

masturbating at a party through smoke

aka 'the real deathblow'

a dj

if you will

a deej

so hard to feel things

where is this going? i'll get me coat

so hard to feel things or some things feel so hard

actual lol @ dalston party-goer and baggy sweater aficionado rtc

how hard it is to feel things, presumably

― r|t|c, Wednesday, April 4, 2012 9:38 PM (Yesterday)

lol thank you for checking out the course reader

war correspondent ≠ soldier iirc ;)

tbh if we're pulling irl full disclosure cards the perp had a thing with a girl i knew circa 05 so we were on passing terms for a bit... he was totally full to the absolute brim of shit but laying down more pipe than thames water as a result so can't knock the hustle i guess. (eagerly await now being told i'm butthurt because jel obv)

lol at feeling strongly enough about him either way to be throwing up wanker signs tbh, it's just just kinda ambiguous referential apologetically-shuffling-off-this-mortal-coil slop for ppl too daunted by the world to find art in it

Can we all agree that Circle, Square, Triangle by Test Icicles is still a legit 10/10 banger.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-a6OeX0xFs

per 乒乓 i thought this mix was quite a sweet fit tho

just to build on that earlier point, i mean i was gonna say this on the sky f thread but i'm p cool with having a flavour of circumspect disposable devdom as part of a balanced diet... it's a question of degrees though and if you begin to self-identify with it in an oppositional rather than complementary sense (so like believing the sky album an everlasting best of 2013 classic etc) then it does get to a pop-not-indie shambalalala type personal precious cubbyhole that requires summary clotheslining u feel me

fwiw this guy is a great guitar player!

pop-not-indie shambalalala type personal precious cubbyhole that requires summary clotheslining

gr8s man if u wish to clash me then leave the pussyhole manoeuvres aside and get on with it

sorry i'm just a war correspondent.

cmon what's up buddy, let it all out

u like this artiste, and are butthurt that others do not, is that it. u wanted to start this thread five, five whole weeks ago but u didnt see any kindred spirits around. u feel like u should be lonely, angry, but... it's not... there? u want to tell ppl why this record is meaningful 2 u but it's hard, so hard... why god why it is it so hard... to feel things

lol rtc you're allright

it's too late i'm going to listen to this album now hope ur happy

listen to the last one first imo

this one is better imho

no one be butthurt

rtc is treating this guy like hes just some chillwave but hes p obviously has a lot more observable qualities

I like this. Sort of like a more focused Dam-Funk. (or maybe just more New York -- Dam-Funk's haziness is very West Coast)

i gotta say that fader article has some real spinal tap moments

Sometimes, because of a condition Hynes has called synesthesia, which links the senses of sight and sound in his brain, the city’s noisiness can overwhelm him, especially at crowded bars. But he likes the way the Empire State Building sounds. “It’s a G major ninth up here,” he says, scribbling that fact in a notepad.

ha he sound exhausting but im happy to know hes out there doing his thing being an artist

a lot of musicians do operate on synesthesiac level whether its really a condition or just an approach seeing the colors in music and so forth

recall talking to this guy i knew in passing who worked at the studio where mobb deep were recording maybe hell on earth and he said they would get completely fucked up and pass out head on the mixing board then wake up and start mumbling about colors and how they could see the music and then continue recording

I know synesthesia is a real thing and I'm sure it affects different people to different degrees, but the way reporters always treat it like it's OMG SO AMAZING is funny to me. Like, associating colors or tastes or textures to sounds or shapes or words is not really that hard to understand -- it's a basic tool of poetry, and even of a lot of criticism (e.g. "angular guitars"), it's a normal metaphorical way of talking about sensory experience. I'm sure it operates on a different, more instinctive level for synesthetes, but it does not blow my mind that a certain tone or chord sounds "blue" or "pink" to someone.

it plays into the profiled/profiler dynamic very well is prob what it comes down to

tbf it got what few passing sentences in that piece

No, I know. That's just the second synesthetic artist reference I've seen/heard in the last week (the other was on NPR talking about somebody, I don't remember who). But yeah, it definitely plays into artist profiles in general. You don't hear much about synesthetic bankers.

Think what you're not getting tipsy is that what normally operates at a metaphorical level for non-synesthetes literally operates at a literal level for synesthetes

That's why it's OMG SO AMAZING

DUH

My guess is that there's more like a synesthetic spectrum and we're talking more about degrees of intensity than some on-off switch. But I don't know! I just notice it a lot in feature stories.

i wonder what the color blood orange sounds like to him

it doesnt sound like hes a literal synesthete from the piece tho just kinda speedy, protip anyone can become synesthetic with the right drugs

http://nyulocal.com/on-campus/2013/11/14/dev-hynes-delivered-a-stunning-lecture-on-synesthesia-and-musical-composition/

yeah what a nice suprise to see project pat and gangsta boo on a track! cool to hear them over something kinda spacey/jazzy