i wanna choreograph a very sad dance to "memo"
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Wednesday, December 16, 2015 2:23 PM (nine months ago)
― k3vin k., Thursday, 29 September 2016 04:40 (seven years ago) link
OH LOOK SPEAKING OF:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skOAT87JVbU
― Tim F, Saturday, 1 October 2016 11:13 (seven years ago) link
not good :\
― dyl, Sunday, 2 October 2016 17:12 (seven years ago) link
i don't hate it but it's pretty generic by their standards
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 2 October 2016 21:20 (seven years ago) link
Feels to me like Ollie trying to entrench his status as a gay club pop icon. It lacks that air of desperation which makes "Worship" (its closest antecedent, I think) so effective.
― Tim F, Monday, 3 October 2016 00:03 (seven years ago) link
yeah this song is weirdly balanced. i appreciate that the video is as gay as possible though
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Monday, 3 October 2016 01:26 (seven years ago) link
Sounds kind of like a Kylie minogue album track
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Monday, 3 October 2016 18:55 (seven years ago) link
I hope it's a bit of a red herring
yeah i'm assuming it's a one-off for the soundtrack and not suggestive of the kind of stuff they're going to do. the hook is pretty generic but the writing especially is nowhere near the level of some of their best work, which can be so evocative and almost surreal -- to compare choruses describing extreme weather events, for example: "it's shaking the sky, and i'm following lightning / i'll recover if you keep me alive" vs "you hit me like a meteorite"
― k3vin k., Monday, 3 October 2016 18:59 (seven years ago) link
yeah it strikes me that many of their best lyrics sound like English by non-native speakers.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 3 October 2016 20:23 (seven years ago) link
like a lot of recent soundtrack work i think they served an audience of theoretical new listeners something generally pleasing that hews close to their sound but contains less nuance than the songs on their own album
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 4 October 2016 02:50 (seven years ago) link
btw this is suuuuch a good road trip album
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 4 January 2017 20:48 (seven years ago) link
love this record
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 4 January 2017 21:00 (seven years ago) link
11-year-old secular sikh student of mine kept singing 'king' when i taught him this winter, was kind of lovely
― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Wednesday, 4 January 2017 21:04 (seven years ago) link
where rtc at
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 27 September 2016 08:24 Bookmark
it good i liked it. never got the easy breezy slick dance pop vibe from it tho. album aptly titled, very intense, wracked, beseeching, supplicant/domineering/calculating evangelical egotism (some mileage in comparison w/matt 1975 but not a lot)
also curiously totally medieval. good soundtrack for wooden planet spec script alien3 probably
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 4 January 2017 21:08 (seven years ago) link
it is really medieval
they're recording album 2 now
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 5 January 2017 01:35 (seven years ago) link
Fascinating adjective.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 5 January 2017 01:36 (seven years ago) link
if you guys were wondering who that was bopping out of CVS with a 4pack of toilet paper in his hand, that was me listening to "real"
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 9 May 2017 17:41 (six years ago) link
I had been wondering about that
― Tim F, Tuesday, 9 May 2017 21:45 (six years ago) link
#PSEN 0005 - We have received word that the audio sounds of // SANCTIFY --- will be aired on pirate radio station @bbcr1 at 7:30PM GMT by non-sanctioned human @anniemac //.. this is NOT an authorised station in Palo Santo -- report to authorities if you hear this using #SANCTIFY pic.twitter.com/sy5LIYhxOe— Years & Years (@yearsandyears) March 7, 2018
new song today it seems
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 7 March 2018 17:33 (six years ago) link
not sure how i feel about it http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p060dx8y
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 7 March 2018 19:50 (six years ago) link
Olly's hair has not improved.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 20:09 (six years ago) link
sounded dece but not like a Hit Single
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 21:02 (six years ago) link
it's an all right song!
― dyl, Wednesday, 7 March 2018 23:34 (six years ago) link
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Wednesday, March 7, 2018 4:02 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark
yeah i agree. it's an interesting little twist on their sound but i'm surprised it's the first single.
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 8 March 2018 00:57 (six years ago) link
it can be like one of those singles they made videos for on their first album before "king" that were arresting in some way but obviously not going to be hits
― dyl, Thursday, 8 March 2018 02:13 (six years ago) link
I fuck with it, sounds like a very 2000s pop take on a communion album track
― k3vin k., Thursday, 8 March 2018 15:52 (six years ago) link
on replay, not super into this
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Thursday, 8 March 2018 23:43 (six years ago) link
i still kinda like it but it feels to me like a song that could have been on album 1 just w/ slightly different production that doesn't quite do it much favors
― J0rdan S., Friday, 9 March 2018 00:14 (six years ago) link
it's a little underwhelming, definitely not the same level than some of their best work...though it's better than "meteorite"
― k3vin k., Friday, 9 March 2018 01:38 (six years ago) link
I know it's the way it is, but this strategy of testing and teasing the market with dribs and drabs has the effect of dampening my enthusiasm but idk that's mem.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 9 March 2018 01:43 (six years ago) link
*me
july 6th
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 25 April 2018 18:40 (five years ago) link
put it in my veins
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 25 April 2018 18:43 (five years ago) link
― r|t|c, Wednesday, January 4, 2017 2:08 PM (one year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
god bless rtc
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 25 April 2018 18:44 (five years ago) link
already freebasing
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 25 April 2018 19:22 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psn18d-4hBI
not feeling this new single, feels way too twee and like it was written as a commercial jingle?
― ufo, Saturday, 12 May 2018 06:35 (five years ago) link
co-written/produced by Steve Mac so that explains that
― ufo, Saturday, 12 May 2018 06:37 (five years ago) link
yeeeeeeah... i think the songwriting is great but it almost sounds like a sigala song
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 12 May 2018 07:56 (five years ago) link
*cough*
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Friday, 6 July 2018 16:51 (five years ago) link
oh boy
― k3vin k., Friday, 6 July 2018 16:52 (five years ago) link
I was underwhelmed by the singles but this actually turned out alright I think. “Karma” and “Hallelujah” both slap and “All For You” especially. It’s a bit les Kitsuné than the first one production-wise.
― monotony, Friday, 6 July 2018 22:15 (five years ago) link
It's gotten surprisingly positive reviews (my take goes up on Monday). "Surprisingly" because while Alexander is more confident he's also turned the act into Maroon 5 with himself as Adam Levine. The other two are barely involved. Far less angst.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 6 July 2018 22:44 (five years ago) link
The leaked tracks are awful, but look at the credits (Julia Michaels, Thomas Hull).
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 6 July 2018 22:45 (five years ago) link
what are leaked tracks? the album is out
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Saturday, 7 July 2018 05:06 (five years ago) link
ok listening now
― k3vin k., Saturday, 7 July 2018 05:07 (five years ago) link
what u think deej
The album is a lot stronger than I was expecting based on the two singles. Not sure what they were thinking with those choices when they had Hallelujah, Karma, Rendezvous and Up In Flames right there.
― kitchen person, Sunday, 8 July 2018 17:46 (five years ago) link
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), S
"Sanctify" and "Hallelujah."
They were mad to leave "UP in Flames" off the album: an excellent freestyle-soaked banger w/the record's most confident Olly performance.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 8 July 2018 17:51 (five years ago) link
It's on the deluxe edition, that is (you can stream it on Spotify).