Car Seat Headrest--Teens of Denial

Like the Semisonic dude

and Desmond Child

Lucy Dacus is sort of an indie-folk PJ Harvey, which I guess is a bit more original than Car Seat's 80s and 90s retro rock, although sometimes he's more catchy than her despite being derivative

there's no reason the intro to Vincent had to be 2 minutes

but it's the best part of the song :P

how is it possible no one has mentioned toledo has listened to much modern lovers way too much

One band not mentioned as an influence (possibly because they weren't on Matador) is Archers of Loaf, and his vocals sometimes sound like Bachman in subdued mode, as do some of the more anthemic bits of the better songs. I like a few tracks on this a lot, think he'd be better with a better band but that might be coming, and don't see any reason to dislike him for not being more than he is.

This squonk wishes he was half as good as Archers of Loaf

half would be generous

I love AoL, but really don't see the need to run this guy down. He's put out a pretty good throwback indie rock album in 2016. Of all the people to criticize, he seems pretty low on the list. It's a catchy album, decent band, decent recordings, and Butterglory got an awful lot of press back in the day. (And I still like them ok as well). Just seems silly for this band, of all bands, to have a backlash at all.

Wait ... what does Butterglory have to do with this? I'm missing something.

can we run down people whose idea of rock is so narrow that this is the album that determines how good of a year it was for it

like with a car?

throw car seat headrests at them

i don't think this is necessarily "more of the same" indie nonsense, it's clearly got some sense of ambition, i just think that ambition actively detracts from the songcraft, which is merely ok

― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Thursday, December 8, 2016 5:11 PM (one year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is doubly true of the twin fantasy remake that just came out

it's so so bloated! the original was long enough at an hour and then he added another 11 minutes onto it

Only on my first listen but I can't tell if this record is amazing or an overindulgent mess. There are great moments in it and I like its "this-record-will-save-your-teenage-self"'s level of ambition, but aahhhh I just wish he'd write a strong, simple hook - something that so many other bands can do with songs that aren't 12 minutes long. It's a good record and I understand it's appeal, but it's emotional weight doesn't always translate into greatness. Also that "I am a good person" monologue is cringeworthy as hell

someone should edit his stuff down and put it on Bandcamp like that one dude did with JT's 20/20 Experience

i...quite like this

whyyy

like, much more than TOD which imo wasn't very good

super into twin fantasy, "Body's" in particular.

Skimming thru this thread, I'm surprised at the reactions to "ToD"... I thought that album was absolutely terrific -- big, ambitious, funny, anthemic, audacious, self-effacing; great/quotable lyrics ("I felt like a walking piece of shit / In a stupid-looking jacket"; "The effects are so good these days / If there were gears behind those big brown eyes, I wouldn't be able to tell the difference"); hot production, super rockin', "1937 State Park" blasting at full volume; really "going for it," not afraid to be corny or "mainstream"; communicating "big ideas" through crowd-pleasing rock 'n roll in a way that very popular rock artists did in decades past but seems to have fallen out of favor recently (...I'm aware I may be setting myself up with that last one).

The fact that it sounds "like '90s indie rock" seemed incidental to how great it was -- though I admit that I love '90s indie rock, and that very well may have helped!

I also dug the "Twin Fantasy" redo, but have only listened to it a few times....

That chorus on '1937 State Park' pulls off the very rare vulnerable/anthemic and blows me away every time.

that's the one song i like off tod, i appreciate the inward digging his stuff aims for but that track besides it feels mostly like inward trudging

is there a new album

Another lyric I love:

I’ve been waiting all my life
I’ve been waiting for some real good porn
Something with meaning, something fulfilling
I’d like to make my shame count for something

I feel like there’s something (half-)ironic, or subtly tongue-in-cheek, about the pathos on this album — a gentle, straight-faced mocking of his own drama — which elevates the proceedings, and is part of why the lyrics are so great. I guess Lou Barlow presents a rough precedent for this kind of “dry self-awareness about the singer’s own melodrama.”

By contrast, the lyrics of Twin Fantasy are more straight-up emo (Will was actually a teen when he wrote them, no?) — but still very good!

(One thing to add is that I’m not usually much of a “lyrics guy” — but Will Headrest’s lyrics are so good, I find myself really aware of & focusing on them.)

there's an eye for detail that reminds me a lot of Courtney Barnett actually.
In the 'I did not transcend, I felt like a walking piece of shit in a stupid looking jacket' the jacket lyric so perfectly captures the feeling of alienation.

...and she’s my other current rock fave!!

The "new" one is a great record, IMO... it and the new Parquet Courts have been enough to scratch any "indie rock" itches this year.

while this is good, what you just wrote is hideously incurious and lazy

also fuck parquet courts

Yeah, but I don't give a fuck what you think.

you're such a dull cunt

Also, the new Arctic Monkeys album is one of their finest yet - it's been a decent year for this kind of stuff.

'this kind of stuff' - would you seriously call the CSH album the same 'kind of stuff' as the AM album ffs

No, but I'd call you a dull cunt.

GOAL TURRICAN (Turrican)

Turrican 1 - 1 imago

The Northerner responds just a minute later, in identical fashion - a scrappy equaliser, but they all c(o)unt!

Like, keep hinging your entire existence in presenting to the internet how esoteric you think your tastes are in order to draw attention to yourself in some sort of "please love and respect me" exercise and perhaps one day - you can only hope - some poor deluded fucker will ram their tongue straight up your shitpipe.

Buoyed by the goal, Turrican knocks it around confidently in midfield. The crowd have started to find their voice!

^ Imagospeak for "Look at me, internet people! Please tongue my shitpipe. Anybody!"

It's starting to get a bit repetitive and momentum has been lost. The crowd starts to drift out, unsatisfied

^ Your lasses glittering review of your bedroom technique.

omg just make out already

Those Boys

Anyway, while I can't help but wonder what happened in his life that he ended up like this in the first place, I wish LJ well in his quest to convince the entire internet to kiss his arse, I really do.

(Not holding my breath, though.)

I <3 a good Britfight