Future Islands - On The Water

you mean the notes?

lol

My general reaction to this album is "this is what I wish Destroyer sounded like"

you mean the notes?

― Sufjan Grafton, Tuesday, April 11, 2017 4:49 PM (ten minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

That would be one aspect of it, yes. My, we have some clever people here.

i like the record but nothing they've done has topped the one-off from 2012 "Cotton Flower" for me... that's a perfect song

Really enjoying the new record. North Star has been stuck in my head since I first heard it. It's such a lovely song.

"Comprises of". It's "...is comprised of", Mr Musicology.

Oh yes, that either could have been "comprised of" or "consists of" and in a rush I ended up with a mash-up of both. Shit happens. So yes, you're absolutely right, good catch. Your medal for services to pedantry are in the mail. Unfortunately for you, this doesn't change my stance on this woeful band and their music in any way.

*is

"Comprises of". It's "...is comprised of", Mr Musicology.

― albvivertine, Tuesday, April 11, 2017 10:57 PM (forty-three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

O_O

Turrican: T/S - Future Islands or The 1975? Show your work.

For clarification, I enjoy four aspects of these future island songs: the selected notes, the selected times at which these notes are excited in my atmosphere by my personal transducer, the harmonic content surrounding the notes caused by the way these notes were excited and input into the recording transducer, and the words sung by the vocal instrument.

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and the hooks, yes

that was @ turrypoo btw

Thank you kindly for the offer, qualx, but I'm afraid the prince you seek is in another castle. Ask your dad instead.

I think this is a good band.

I am amused at who doesn't.

That's all

this new one is just 100% hooks its good

Thank you kindly for the offer, qualx, but I'm afraid the prince you seek is in another castle. Ask your dad instead.

― ...so music and chicken have become intertwined (Turrican), Wednesday, April 12, 2017 2:04 PM (six hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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So far I'm convinced this is their best album, although listening to their back catalogue I will say that the format has been roughly the same for several years. I was kind of hoping they'd go full prog for this one.

"Future Islands sound like Robert Palmer struggling to untie a raincoat". David Quantick on Twitter

"Future Islands sound like Robert Palmer struggling to untie a raincoat". David Quantick on Twitter

psyched that Sam wore a Double Dagger shirt last night on Conan.

Sam singing with Double Dagger in 2009:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dD8V-f4L2Jc

I'm out of the loop, is Turrican a less friendly Geir

*yawns*

I'd say a more cheerful Alex in NYC

Actually, I'll take that.

lots of double dagger/FI connections - William Cashion plays in a band with one of the guys from DD

yep, Peals - the record they put out last year is sweet. James Iha plays on "Punk Migration"!

Future Islands and Dan Deacon opened for Double Dagger at their last show in 2011.

So far I'm convinced this is their best album, although listening to their back catalogue I will say that the format has been roughly the same for several years. I was kind of hoping they'd go full prog for this one.

but yeah, I totally agree with the second part and it's been pretty funny to read reviews of The Far Field which are mostly like "they've been generally about the same thing, it's a band that values consistency, sticks to one formula and doesn't try to break musical ground, hey, they're good guys". I guess you can argue there's nothing wrong with making safe record but some of those writers go so out of their way to justify that it's hilarious.

I also think that this one is a lot less hook-based than Singles, nothing really caught my ear too much on this one, it flows pretty much from one song to another.

Every time it hits "Day Glow Fire", I stop whatever I'm doing and look up the song title so I can make sure I remember the name of the song this time. (It never works because, aside from specific new albums that I instantly imprint upon, I can't remember the names of any of the songs/tracks on any of the albums I purchase these days, but that one is a specific standout that distinguishes itself from the other songs to my ears.)

I like the new one a lot. Singles was awesome, why not spend a little bit more time in that mode?

i like this song "ran"

Ran is great. North Star is great. If they carry on in this groove for the next album they'll lose me but for now I'm quite happy to float around in their little weird world

it's got some great cuts like 'Time On Her Side,' 'Ran,' and 'Ancient Water,' but then there are clunkers like 'Shadows,' which is kind of cringe-y (imo)...

"Future Islands sound like Robert Palmer struggling to untie a raincoat". David Quantick on Twitter

^ This is such an insufferable "zing". Can almost hear someone chuckling "Oh, DELICIOUS!" into the arm of their smoking jacket.

a raincoat!

This band is great *and* that's a very funny joke from a very funny writer

joke is ilm xkcd

It's a good joke if you're one of the lamer British people on this board or Alfred Lord Sotosyn.

that is what they sound like though. (still great)

I'm quite enjoying Samuel Herring's debut of his hip hop side project as Hemlock Ernst with Kenny Segal.

ooooh wtf that's him? popped on my recommendations, it's good! i was wondering who the other dude was