Tinashe - Aquarius (out October 7 2014)

Tinashe had a recurrent role on 2 And A Half Men, who knew

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

jake and celeste were also the names of lily kane's parents in VERONICA MARS

hey the bonus tracks/offcuts are good too

album is very soothing to listen to on a cold winter's night, i'm increasingly enamoured of it tbh

what really, really differentiates itself not just from a lot of albums of this ilk but a lot of albums in general is that the songs never blur into each other - each one is distinct, has its own memorable character. subtly different production details, unusually strong hooks, good sequencing probably all play a part in that.

wish "indigo child" was longer than an interlude, beat is sick

ayo is that a kalenna songwriting credit i see on "thug cry"!

That makes a bit of sense actually, Thug Cry was the one that really stood out on first listen. Second half in general is a bit stronger than the first I think, once it gets out of its whole hippy ambient thing, the exception being that one track near the end that sounds like The Scientist by Coldplay.

lyrics don't get more kalenna than those

How Many Times is amazing.

This is a good album, although something is missing to make me think it's a great one. "All hands on deck" and "watch me work" are jams

her feature on the Calvin Harris album is pretty dope

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttUNDQjZ7wU

This record sounds really great after spending a few weeks away from it

I made a mistake of playing Aiko's album before this one on Sunday; the two bled into each other, all cool yearning.

Tinashe's vocal style is so much more appealing to me than Aiko's

yeah great album

this is a great great great album

lot of great vocal moments on this, both large and small

great great great album seconded. start to finish, really. tons of great production details too. "far side of the moon" is astonishing.

def top 5 of the year for me.

tons of great production details too. "far side of the moon" is astonishing.

― lex pretend, Tuesday, November 18, 2014 6:34 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

yeah the songs that sound like the moody/atmospheric ones at first -- cold sweat, far side of the moon, bated breath -- really start to stand out the more you listen

pleasantly surprised you guys dig it so much

best pop album of the year I think unless Sucker ends up being fantastic

yeah this and 1989 for me

Her lower register is so much stronger and with so much more personality than the Ciara-esque breathy upper register she spends most of this album in, and I don't really understand why she does so.

Far Side Of The Moon is some crazy-amazing shit.

Sometimes I'm like "what is truth if truth is subjective? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯"

this is a very good version of an unexciting direction to me, like the kehlani tape is making far more interesting choices but nothing is really quite as perfectly executed as this is

I will take "perfectly executed"...Was happily enjoying this last night

this is p dreamy

https://vine.co/v/Ogjdx2KdZUa

Sometimes I'm like "what is truth if truth is subjective? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯"

― Tim F, Monday, December 1, 2014 3:15 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol it's a sign of how much I love this album that this line now makes me smile rather than rmde. current favorite moment is how she pronounces "funny" on All Hands.

to be clear, I feel likwise.

Or perhaps I'm smiling with RMDs in my eyes.

for some reason i always get snagged on that question every time i've done LSD, wish i would just read some philosophy and figure it out

fyi reading philosophy doesn't really help ime

tinashe is right to insert a mental shrug at the end of her question

thanks to the album poll, I gave this album another shot. I love it. * plays "Thug Cry" for sixth time *

ah, I thought your post might have been rooted in affection, Tim, but wasn't sure. imo the tripping in the dorm room loopiness of that line turns from lead to gold once you grasp that the truth/subjectivity of the scenario in Pretend is a lot more earthbound than your average philosophical dilemma

more philosophy from R&B singers imo

This album is fine, and I'm glad that she's gotten so much love around here, but I still like the mixtapes better.

I'm diving into this deep. I think "How Many Times" is my fav atm. Are her mixtapes seriously this good too???

i thought this was a gigantic step up from her mixtapes, which never hooked me in much

Are her mixtapes seriously this good too???

no

yeah her mixtapes weren't *but* this track she did with ryan hemsworth is as good as any song on aquarius imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM_L8ZVoWA8

The album was a big step up but the mixtapes are still solid rnb albums. Her first one is the best.. I think. I got them all at the same time so it's sorta all a big mass of music.

she's releasing "all hands on deck" as the next single! yay!

...iggy azalea's doing a rap feat on it (burn everything)

Got tickets to see her in a couple of weeks. It'll be right after TKA Twigs the night before, so should make for an interesting contrast!

* FKA Twigs, obv.

i saw her friday - a heap more tracks from the mixtape than i'd expected and no live band (only a drummer adding more to the backing tracks) but she's an engaging performer and the dancing was fierce

she's releasing "all hands on deck" as the next single! yay!

...iggy azalea's doing a rap feat on it (burn everything)
--bae sremmurd (monotony)

uuuuuuggghhhhhhh

Yeah probably my least favorite on the album

Heavily jamming this remix of 'Pretend' by Redlight: https://soundcloud.com/redlight-uk/redlight-x-tinashe-pretend

she was excellent live last night. such a smoothly paced show

My fave Aquarius track gets a video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIgKMmnj4Zs