*all the other stuff
― kinder, Thursday, 19 June 2014 22:06 (nine years ago) link
looking forward to this. "G#" is really good - and reminds me of Chrome-era Catherine Wheel (in a good way).
― Edward Bax, Friday, 20 June 2014 05:26 (nine years ago) link
this is out! http://open.spotify.com/album/6ZkDP9Sw48nJ0eLQ2JEbhs
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 24 June 2014 17:19 (nine years ago) link
I'm just now hearing this after observing you and maura put it out there for a couple weeks. A+ grade so far and I'm only on the first song. Kind of wish her voice had just a little bit more of something—not sure what—but it's serviceable.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 24 June 2014 17:36 (nine years ago) link
Lots of different stuff going on here. The voice suits some songs more than others. And "G#" is phenom!
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 24 June 2014 18:10 (nine years ago) link
woah at the unexpected crescendo + saxophone breakdown halfway through cathedral!
― ginuwine's cousin (monotony), Thursday, 26 June 2014 12:58 (nine years ago) link
This has become one of the default commercials for me on youtube and as a result, I'm kinda getting tired of it.
― how's life, Thursday, 26 June 2014 13:00 (nine years ago) link
so far every single song has sounded completely different from the next. morose, massive guitars on g sharp! love it.
― ginuwine's cousin (monotony), Thursday, 26 June 2014 13:04 (nine years ago) link
"Cut It Out" is a song of the year contender for me. This album is all over the place and goes from crystal castles to prince to the joy formidable over the space of a couple of tracks, but I kind of love it. paramore fans are sleepin'
― ginuwine's cousin (monotony), Friday, 11 July 2014 02:29 (nine years ago) link
i gave this album a shot the other week and there was something about it that was just not clicking despite it *sounding good* and all. "like a stranger" is a jam tho so i may give it another shot sometime.
― dyl, Friday, 11 July 2014 07:00 (nine years ago) link
Really love this now. Took me a little while and it's a bit more throwaway poppy than I originally thought?
― kinder, Friday, 11 July 2014 18:19 (nine years ago) link
Cathedral and G# are ace
I'm glad I remembered to come back to this album as I start rounding up my year-end favorites. A lot of what's novel about this record (and what makes me like it most) is that she's channeling 80s music that wasn't particularly cool then and is no cooler now. "Like a Stranger," for instance, feels like something by Fiona that would play as the credits roll in a C. Thomas Howell movie.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 11 November 2014 19:16 (nine years ago) link
yep! i wish the album were a little more coherent but i basically love what it's doing
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 11 November 2014 19:41 (nine years ago) link
new song!!! VERY reminiscent of suede's 'trash' but with more gothy touches
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z9mvUCL-5U
― maura, Friday, 12 February 2016 16:01 (eight years ago) link
it's exactly Trash (is the first word even Trash)not a problem
and something else in the verses, something like Bananarama...?
― kinder, Friday, 12 February 2016 20:46 (eight years ago) link
this song is great
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Friday, 12 February 2016 20:57 (eight years ago) link
didn't know she'd covered Panic, either (ages ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN1rTKEgBys
― kinder, Sunday, 14 February 2016 23:13 (eight years ago) link
Getting addicted to Fall On Me. Aside from Trash, the sound/production or something else about it immediately reminded me of Johnny Boy's You Are the Generation That Bought More Shoes -- though it's been years since I've heard it so might be faulty memory.
― early rejecter, Thursday, 10 March 2016 16:07 (eight years ago) link
Another new one, this one does actually sound Smiths-y/ The Cure-y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDbXKsd5VtM
there's an EP, Heaven or Somewhere in Between
― kinder, Tuesday, 15 March 2016 22:00 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOn2MlmH7h4
holyyyy shit
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Friday, 8 July 2016 16:03 (seven years ago) link
u2's "numb" as a synth pop song with saxophone, or an alt universe new sky ferreira record
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Friday, 8 July 2016 16:04 (seven years ago) link
saw kitten on friday night and it was so great! chloe chaidez is one of my favorite lead singers out there right now. also the "g#" to "purple rain" segue made a lot of things click in my head
― maura, Sunday, 10 July 2016 23:41 (seven years ago) link
unfortunately i'm only checking in after a few years but the new ep is wonderful
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStNNJTkhXw
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 18 October 2019 15:45 (four years ago) link
that's brilliant and i'm immediately going to track down all the no-longer-embedded songs from this thread
― ufo, Saturday, 19 October 2019 06:40 (four years ago) link
this is still my favorite kitten song, though it's been deleted from most streaming services and the video's gone too :(
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdpsEv_U5_k
― american bradass (BradNelson), Monday, 11 November 2019 16:13 (four years ago) link
i've seen the future, and the future is unkind
― american bradass (BradNelson), Monday, 11 November 2019 16:16 (four years ago) link
new album is wild
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 18 November 2021 00:04 (two years ago) link
'american football' is one of my fav songs of the year
― flopson, Thursday, 18 November 2021 00:10 (two years ago) link
there's a new album?
― ufo, Thursday, 18 November 2021 00:11 (two years ago) link
personal hotspots, out 12/10
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 18 November 2021 00:58 (two years ago) link
i'll look forward to it
― ufo, Thursday, 18 November 2021 01:01 (two years ago) link
'american football' is one of my fav songs of the year― flopson, Thursday, November 18, 2021 12:10 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
― flopson, Thursday, November 18, 2021 12:10 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
Likewise! Hyped for this.
― Tim F, Thursday, 18 November 2021 01:12 (two years ago) link
ooh. I didn't much like the 'Memphis' stuff.
― kinder, Thursday, 18 November 2021 18:54 (two years ago) link
but this is sounding good
― kinder, Thursday, 18 November 2021 18:55 (two years ago) link
when I google 'Kitten' "personal hotspots" i only get stuff like this https://gizmodo.com/this-wifi-enabled-space-toilet-for-cats-turned-me-into-1847303337
― kinder, Thursday, 18 November 2021 19:00 (two years ago) link
lol i assumed when i got the promo email the album had been announced, sorry 4 the leak
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 18 November 2021 19:41 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8x92lqpRNE
after "american football," this is my favorite of the recently-released singles that made the record
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 18 November 2021 19:42 (two years ago) link
This album is crazy stupid and I love it
― Tim F, Tuesday, 28 December 2021 01:28 (two years ago) link
oh i forgot about this
fun album, some wild decisions, like what the hell is "daddy don't take my phone"? but it works
― ufo, Tuesday, 28 December 2021 04:03 (two years ago) link
Daddy Don't Take My Phone made so much more sense once I that learned it was a Gupi/Umru collab. great album.
― fffv, Wednesday, 29 December 2021 03:05 (two years ago) link
that makes sense but i'd also have never expected that
― ufo, Wednesday, 29 December 2021 03:17 (two years ago) link
I feel about 100 years old but is there a CD or download or is it all streaming these days?
― kinder, Wednesday, 29 December 2021 10:24 (two years ago) link
i don't think there's any sort of physical release (yet?) but there's downloads from itunes, 7digital, etc
― ufo, Wednesday, 29 December 2021 10:27 (two years ago) link
thanks!
― kinder, Thursday, 30 December 2021 11:29 (two years ago) link
Love this. Does it for me better than pale waves if they’re comparable
― xheugy eddy (D-40), Thursday, 6 January 2022 05:59 (two years ago) link
also loving this. i also love the pale waves album, both probably in my top 5
first time i heard 'do u still love me' i thought 'ok this is just too much of a haim rip' but it really won me over
'american football' is the new mitski 'your best american girl' guitar crash landing from 5,000 ft into the chorus
i enjoyed this interview from a couple years ago. kinda refreshing how transparent they are about angling to 'make it' in the music biz. maybe that's an LA thing
What inspired you while creating this EP?Chloe Chaidez: We’ve really been inspired by bands from the early 2000s: Smash Mouth, Linkin Park. Mike Shinoda produced “Me.” I think the sound is a product of the internet age. For instance, the lyrics on “Memphis” are a bit chaotic. I think that’s how I take in “content” on a daily basis. Parker Silzer: When you’ve been doing music for a while like all of us have, you see how music regurgitates itself in 10, 20-year cycles. There was a little bit of calculation on our part of like, ‘We’ve just been living through five, six years of insane ’90s revivalism. We know what’s happening next.’ We all lived through the late ’90s, early 2000s. We know all that music’s coming back. We know if we start incorporating some of those sounds or concepts or visuals now, that’s going to put us in a good place for what’s coming next in music. It also comes from us living through that era and loving it. But then figuring out how to take that assessment of the future of music and combine it with contemporary sound, so it’s not like we’re a revival band. Nobody wants to do that.
Chloe Chaidez: We’ve really been inspired by bands from the early 2000s: Smash Mouth, Linkin Park. Mike Shinoda produced “Me.” I think the sound is a product of the internet age. For instance, the lyrics on “Memphis” are a bit chaotic. I think that’s how I take in “content” on a daily basis.
Parker Silzer: When you’ve been doing music for a while like all of us have, you see how music regurgitates itself in 10, 20-year cycles. There was a little bit of calculation on our part of like, ‘We’ve just been living through five, six years of insane ’90s revivalism. We know what’s happening next.’ We all lived through the late ’90s, early 2000s. We know all that music’s coming back. We know if we start incorporating some of those sounds or concepts or visuals now, that’s going to put us in a good place for what’s coming next in music. It also comes from us living through that era and loving it. But then figuring out how to take that assessment of the future of music and combine it with contemporary sound, so it’s not like we’re a revival band. Nobody wants to do that.
to my ears the album strikes a great balance b/w professionalism/chart ambition but also fucking around, they were clearly having a blast going nuts in the studio ('my house', 'daddy don't take my phone')
i'm also super confused by how many bandmembers there are, every photo i've seen of them is a different group of 3-6 ppl lol
https://music.mxdwn.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Kitten-Press-Photo-1-1280x720.jpg
https://www.billboard.com/wp-content/uploads/media/KITTEN-press-photo-2019-billboard-1548.jpg
https://music-b26f.kxcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Kitten-Single-Artwork-2021-600x600.png
― flopson, Saturday, 8 January 2022 21:31 (two years ago) link
pale waves feels much more like a retro exercise to me. what I like about this is that the nostalgia here is all mixed up and 'imperfect' rather than 'nailing a sound,' and it coheres because the closest band that this resembles IMO is the 1975 -- not in surface characteristics, its pastiche is pretty different, but in terms of it being a meta-pop act whos lyrics, concepts, concerns speak to the present even while its music taps on different facets of history ready player one style.
its the best 1975-like thing i've heard because its surface distance creatively lets it feel like its own distinct thing, vs all the other 1975 core stuff sounding like an extension of matt healy. 'what year are we in' makes all this stuff explicit, speaking at once to its creative process and to just the state of modern life without talking down to its audience in this kind of dumbed down effort at 'timelessness.' talking about nostalgia is the 'super nintendo, sega genesis' of 2022 or whatever
― xheugy eddy (D-40), Saturday, 8 January 2022 21:37 (two years ago) link
pale waves is way more narrow in the sound they target but they do it so well and the songwriting is really strong. (also micro-generationally the first avril album is prime nostalgia real estate to me specifically). beeabadobee ep is the other best 1975-core release this year
vs all the other 1975 core stuff sounding like an extension of matt healy
this is probably due to matt being directly involved in producing or songwriting for the others v.s. this just being an afaik totally unrelated band?
― flopson, Saturday, 8 January 2022 21:46 (two years ago) link
sure! I mean I like some of that stuff. I like 'cologne' off the beabadobee a lot. I guess to me this album just felt more substantial/ significant than this other stuff, like its figured out its own path outside his shadow, learning the right lessons etc.
― xheugy eddy (D-40), Saturday, 8 January 2022 21:48 (two years ago) link
I’m going to see the @the1975 tomorow. I haven’t seen them since 2013 , SXSW. This shit will be very sentimental thank u @Truman_Black— KITTEN (@KITTENTHEBAND) February 21, 2020
― xheugy eddy (D-40), Saturday, 8 January 2022 21:49 (two years ago) link
so uh chloe chaidez (kitten's lead singer) is making an album with ariel pink (they've been pals for a while, he's in a kitten video from ages ago) which is already embarrassing enough
but here's a photo he posted months ago apparently featuring her doing a nazi salute (screenshot is one of chaidez's bandmates in another band mad at her for this)
https://imgur.com/a/Fl16z4J
this edgelord shit sucks!!!
― ufo, Sunday, 27 March 2022 09:16 (two years ago) link
like we know pink is a reactionary piece of shit so going along with his bullshit doesn't say anything good about her
― ufo, Sunday, 27 March 2022 09:17 (two years ago) link
oh no
― flopson, Sunday, 27 March 2022 16:25 (two years ago) link
i thought fall on me sounded like it was made for belinda carlisle to sing, like a follow-up to leave a light on or something. the way she handles lyrics like gone, but are you really gone, seem so belinda to me.
not saying there was any intention, but if there was, this is exactly what it would sound like, except, somehow better. more vulnerability and melancholy, but i'm not judging. belinda would have upped the warble quotient a bit. either way, this is my favorite belinda carlisle song.
― slugbuggy, Saturday, 27 May 2023 08:14 (eleven months ago) link