blood orange

I think the Pitchfork review way back when is pretty OTM slotting it in alongside the D'Angelo and Kendrick.

oof i cringed a little when i read that review, seemed like such a cheap and easy critical move to do just bc of some political vocal samples. i love this album but i really don't see it in the same vein as the BM or TBAP, it is very different, honestly i don't even view BM in the same vein as TBAP other than major albums w/ some persona/political themes by black americans?

dev hynes is from london town me old china

i know, i was talking about d'angelo & kendrick

dohhh

dev hynes had to move to ny to learn how to be cool

― lag∞n, Wednesday, November 25, 2015 5:01 PM (eleven months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

because of my friend getting a babysitting call she can't refuse, I have come into a free ticket to this guy's performance of his 'score to the easternsports art installation' tonight at the whitney. I know literally nothing about him or his music. IDK sometimes these very random opportunities are great.

That was fucking cool. Basically a continuous ~1 hr solo instrumental piece starting on piano then moving to synth then back to piano then to EWI then finishing on piano, with backing tracks but not very many of them. Reminiscences at various times of McCoy Tyner, Reich, Penguin Cafe, and Vangelis (massive sawtooth sound controlled by EWI in a slow ecstatic solo, the high point of the performance)

Are blood orange smoothies any good

bowled over by the new album

*listens*

Kind of amazed there's been so little talk about this so far. Just realized a few minutes that this exists when "Charcoal Baby" showed up on spotify radio with its incredible detuned guitar.

have begun jamming

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVaNFE2bb3U

WOWWW a man after my own heart

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PTzbz6layI

was just thinking there was some reichy marimbas on the last album so this makes a lot of sense

on first listen the first half is some of his best work ever, especially Orlando, but it falls off by the end.

His albums always take awhile for me to really, really like. Always love what he's trying to do, but the choruses don't immediately stick

i just love the production throughout... i think it's such a warm palette and fits his songwriting better than arrangements w more structure

project pat on this

production is indeed nice, but i feel like it seriously lacking in hooks compared to the previous two

First listen was more vibes than hooks, but obviously I think I need to pay close attention to the lyrics. Not sure I'm down with all the spoken word interview interludes, but there weren't many of them, iirc.

his records sound so good though in the summer, it was like 81 and humid at 8am today and this was so pleasant to hear

On Instagram Dev Hynes called the Blood Orange gig I just saw Friday night a "DREAM SHOW IN DC..." Nitpicky me was intermittently impressed with his songcraft,arrangements, guitar playing, & dancing; but (maybe it was the microphone & sound system & not him) at times his voice wasn't strong enough; many songs felt like '90s r'n'b homages but without the hooks, he didn't play the piano enough (which he sounds great on). I feel like he's on the verge of eventually doing something consistently great but he's not quite there yet.

Oh on Instagram, Dev also says he composed a new 75 minute score for a dance piece by the Chicago-based Hubbard Street Dance Company that premiered in Chicago recently. He says it's his "longest classical piece yet." It's a collaboration called "There was Nothing" with impressive Memphis juke dancer Lil Buck Da Legend and Third Coast Percussion.

Song Exploder did an episode about the making of "saint" last week

Song Exploder did an episode about the making of "saint" last week

― President Keyes, Monday, October 1, 2018 3:08 PM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh excellent, must listen. truly enjoyed him showing off his gear and his late 80s Manhattan loft in the video for that song.

like most of his albums i feel like the last one features a few really strong songs interspersed with lots of texture and contextual production vibes. always feels a bit uneven, although i really dig the sounds and spaces he creates with them

I really wanna see that dance piece, actually—I'm in Chicago, so I really have no excuse not to (besides like.....lack of funds).

one of my fav albums in years

this album fucks def

so weird how much time has passed since test icicles, a band i saw in langley opening for fake shark (of which Kevin went on to produce for carly rae and many others)

like most of his albums i feel like the last one features a few really strong songs interspersed with lots of texture and contextual production vibes. always feels a bit uneven, although i really dig the sounds and spaces he creates with them

― in twelve parts (lamonti), Thursday, October 4, 2018 3:55 AM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

felt that way about the last one but this one do not

feeling some sort of resonance between this and the moodymann dj kicks

OK fine

heh

diamonds in my hair i’m pretty as fuck

love this album

feeling some sort of resonance between this and the moodymann dj kicks

― lag∞n, Sunday, October 7, 2018 10:16 PM (four weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

how much of the resemblance is down to yaw - 'where will you be' tho?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dA5RW-X2QTc

Loving it. The only track I skip is the gospel track. And I like gospel, but it starts up and NOPE

his vocal chops are def put to the test at some points lol

feeling some sort of resonance between this and the moodymann dj kicks

― lag∞n, Sunday, October 7, 2018 10:16 PM (four weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

how much of the resemblance is down to yaw - 'where will you be' tho?

― flopson, Tuesday, November 6, 2018 9:16 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

great song def idk mostly just a vibe/was prob stoned when i wrote that

oh, this album rules

he did it, i finally don't hate a blood orange album

You hated the last one?

i guess hate is an exaggeration but i’ve never enjoyed his solo work

What's changed in the new one?

idk the songwriting feels stronger and less murky and monotonous in tone

I'm with Brad. He's written songs instead of atmospheres without sacrificing the poignancy of those atmospheres.

way more hooks on the previous two. i couldn't really get into this one

find this pleasant sounding but i have pretty much the opposite reaction to alfred. i.e. it's not quite songy enough but there's some nice atmospheres

I'm with marcos and jim here. Songs feel more like sketches on this new one.