I also love that "Pills" follows in the footsteps of "Inbetween Days", "Dreams Never End", and other I-IV pop anthems.
― Marcus Hiles Remains Steadfast About Planting Trees.jpg (DJP), Wednesday, 25 October 2017 20:23 (six years ago) link
i LOVE this record. have never gotten anything out of her other stuff. idk.
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 25 October 2017 23:03 (six years ago) link
otm
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 25 October 2017 23:52 (six years ago) link
I have got *something* out of her stuff before, but found it immune to love. This album may break down that barrier.
― Freedom, Thursday, 26 October 2017 09:12 (six years ago) link
Just not feeling this album so far and I'm not sure why. Feels like a more affected St Vincent, sheened up with the edges razed off. Starting to think Actor is her most genuine-sounding record with the s/t her musical peak. Not that this is a 'bad' album - it's her most accessible to date, but her style is getting predictable and I'm starting to feel worn down by it
― Shat Parp (dog latin), Thursday, 26 October 2017 13:18 (six years ago) link
oh I just said that a few posts ago. I'm just repeating myself
― Shat Parp (dog latin), Thursday, 26 October 2017 13:19 (six years ago) link
you're getting predictable
― akm, Thursday, 26 October 2017 14:15 (six years ago) link
can't turn off what turns you off
― you are juror number 144 and we will excuse you (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 26 October 2017 14:16 (six years ago) link
Oh shit this is exactly what I’m looking for in a St Vincent album at the moment, haven’t listened much since Actor. Same sort of emotional range, but pitched up in intensity- it’s almost like turning up the saturation in a landscape photo. /badignorantanalogy
― for the last while (Hunt3r), Friday, 27 October 2017 16:02 (six years ago) link
Repeating New York all night.
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Saturday, 28 October 2017 07:59 (six years ago) link
Never been a fan or heard any of her records, but I got this one and it's fucking great. Can't stop playing it.
― flappy bird, Sunday, 12 November 2017 21:14 (six years ago) link
First album of hers I've gotten into but I can't stop playing it either. Took a little while to grow on me because it felt like there wasn't much oxygen until "New York" but it's just got a really interesting trajectory and flow. Love the between song interludes that are mixed really low, the key chain guitar parts and the devastating ballads. Front to back classic
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Thursday, 16 November 2017 20:48 (six years ago) link
trying to decide whether it's worth it to pay exorbitant resale prices to see her live
pro: among my favorite albums of the year; I have money now; I don't do this much waffling about taking five cab rides, which is about how much it'd costcon: exorbitant resale prices, the knowledge I've been ripped off by a middleman (for the hell of it I Googled the original owner of my Tori Amos ticket and his online presence had a tad too much MAGA for me to believe he was a Tori fan who had something come up last-minute)
― sick, fucking funny, and well tasty (katherine), Monday, 20 November 2017 21:39 (six years ago) link
(I don't really care about the reviews of the tour or it being largely backing tracks or whatnot -- The Knife's tour was similar and that's still among my top shows of the decade)
― sick, fucking funny, and well tasty (katherine), Monday, 20 November 2017 21:40 (six years ago) link
For what it's worth id say go :-)
― In a slipshod style (Ross), Monday, 20 November 2017 22:01 (six years ago) link
definitely go! you'll regret not going later
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 21 November 2017 05:16 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4HxWVA59zk
― In a slipshod style (Ross), Thursday, 21 December 2017 17:00 (six years ago) link
I've missed something somehow: I just noticed the press around the album repeatedly refers to her life/relationship becoming tabloid fodder.
What's that all about? I literally have no idea.
― alpine static, Thursday, 11 January 2018 00:24 (six years ago) link
Until about a year ago she was dating model/actress Cara Delevingne. Not sure if there was anything after that.
― JRN, Thursday, 11 January 2018 01:31 (six years ago) link
Kristen Stewart I think
― flappy bird, Thursday, 11 January 2018 02:13 (six years ago) link
o_O
― niels, Thursday, 11 January 2018 06:02 (six years ago) link
I've been listening to this album in the car, mostly, and now that I'm listening on headphones that tend to be a little more bass-heavy I'm realizing how punchy the low end is on this album! To the extent I checked to see if I'd switched to some EQ preset that was doing wonky things.
it's not bad, per se, but this is compressed in some interesting ways
― mh, Monday, 22 January 2018 17:10 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfYJt1O8ZjY
― kolakube (Ross), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 02:13 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKKbqntxRN4
― kolakube (Ross), Thursday, 15 February 2018 05:16 (six years ago) link
I watched a decent quality version of her one-person show on YouTube and it really had me annoyed that I didn't go to it when it came here.
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Thursday, 15 February 2018 08:02 (six years ago) link
This album rips. Sequencing is cool in that it starts with the comedown song - all wasted and sad and the party starts fittingly with “pills”.
― after party for the apocalypse (Ross), Sunday, 15 April 2018 16:33 (six years ago) link
I like that side A/side B is readily apparent from the sequencing.
― valorous wokelord (silby), Sunday, 15 April 2018 16:36 (six years ago) link
Totally. I love the slower songs near the end. The albums crammed with so many sonic details that there’s always something new and to hear. Usually the overly compressed production wouldn’t be my thing but it works here. Killer Floyd reference on “pills”
― after party for the apocalypse (Ross), Sunday, 15 April 2018 16:41 (six years ago) link
the new version of Slow Disco she just put out rules, I like it more than anything from the album
― ufo, Thursday, 31 May 2018 16:15 (five years ago) link
It’s great
― Ross, Thursday, 31 May 2018 16:51 (five years ago) link
I hope she puts out the solo piano/voice version of this record she supposedly has.
― flappy bird, Thursday, 31 May 2018 17:03 (five years ago) link
The acoustic performance linked above is wicked
― Ross, Thursday, 31 May 2018 17:06 (five years ago) link
She’s playing alongside Florence and chvrches at a festival here
― Ross, Thursday, 31 May 2018 17:09 (five years ago) link
Fast Slow Disco really deserves to be her first number one single. I'm obsessed with it right now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNm0b2SCXxY
― kitchen person, Friday, 22 June 2018 05:39 (five years ago) link
Damn, that's a great song.
― louise ck (milo z), Friday, 22 June 2018 06:28 (five years ago) link
yeah, that's a v cool "alternate version"
apparently co-written with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy_Williams_(singer)
― niels, Friday, 22 June 2018 09:10 (five years ago) link
Gorgeous song
― mind how you go (Ross), Friday, 22 June 2018 20:08 (five years ago) link
dece, album version's better
― call all destroyer, Friday, 22 June 2018 20:21 (five years ago) link
Slow Disco became my favourite song on the album. I'm not sure I can pick between that and the remix. They're both so perfect in different ways. Is there any way this can actually be a hit for her? Maybe not a number one single (as it deserves), but could it at least be her Dancing On My Own?
― kitchen person, Saturday, 23 June 2018 01:28 (five years ago) link
that "don't it beat a slow dance to death?" melody at the end is definitely lifted from somewhere.
― gospodin simmel, Saturday, 23 June 2018 09:01 (five years ago) link
or maybe just stuck with me from the album version so nvm. awesome either way.
― gospodin simmel, Saturday, 23 June 2018 09:02 (five years ago) link
I love this version of the song but I'm really surprised at how early 2000s NME band the artwork is (particularly bearing in mind the considered aesthetic of the rest of Annie's ouevre).
https://static.stereogum.com/uploads/2018/06/fast-slow-disco-1527825993-640x640.jpeg
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Tuesday, 26 June 2018 06:35 (five years ago) link
Upon absorbing Strange Mercy more I think it's gotta be Clark's best record. Songs like Cheerleader sing to be the template for the feel of a lot of the tracks, rhythm wise and even thematically there seems to be references to surgeon in a later song (also surgeon of course starts with the Brazil theme as well). MASSEDUCTION on the other hand has maximal production and not as much subtlety as the former record, sort of like if the whole record was played on a key chain guitar shooting off into the stratosphere, the energy is also far more anxiety ridden. Dunno, the production kind of gets in the way on the latest. Newest single takes the electronic tinged arrangements of Mass and dulls the gnarled edges a bit more, so perhaps it will be more successful. Not that Cruel wasn't a stand out single for instance but the newest single is less esoteric
― Garden variety uncouth (Ross), Sunday, 1 July 2018 21:40 (five years ago) link
*seem not sing
― Garden variety uncouth (Ross), Sunday, 1 July 2018 21:41 (five years ago) link
I'd be interested to see an albums poll for her. I'm guessing Strange Mercy would win, but I feel like it would be close.
― kitchen person, Monday, 2 July 2018 00:23 (five years ago) link
what is happening
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBuSKj3XNu8
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Thursday, 2 August 2018 20:45 (five years ago) link
had me wtf'ing for a minute but I see it's "just" a remix
she def gave it a st vincent feel
― niels, Friday, 3 August 2018 07:47 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/QG5OgcD.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/oxbiVeY.jpg
MassEducation:
01 Slow Disco02 Savior03 Masseduction04 Sugarboy05 Fear the Future06 Smoking Section07 Los Ageless08 New York09 Young Lover10 Happy Birthday, Johnny11 Pills12 Hang on Me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yLmAwGpPV8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqNvRMAKj-c
Out next week.
― ˈʌglɪɪst preɪ, Wednesday, 3 October 2018 18:30 (five years ago) link
Sweet! Glad she followed thru and released it. Been waiting for this ever since she mentioned it during promo last year.
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 3 October 2018 18:46 (five years ago) link
lol at people wondering why she re-arranged the tracklisting - I mean hang on me was such a massive downer of an opening track that it appearing last totally makes sense somehow to me here. Additionally, restructuring the order is a good way of making this sound even more fresh than just a simple re-tooling. excited
― montoya (Ross), Saturday, 6 October 2018 02:17 (five years ago) link