i rate the yaeji EPs (2 isn't as good imo) but found it pretty easy to get burned out on her stuff. Not much replay value as there's not a whole lot of depth, ya
laurel halo album was a disappointment for me, way too esoteric and weird for weird sake
― In a slipshod style (Ross), Friday, 15 December 2017 21:28 (six years ago) link
Xxp Kirby has a concept, though. Granduciel is walking in socks over cold coals.
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Friday, 15 December 2017 21:30 (six years ago) link
I still don't really get what everyone liked so much about Black Beatles. I don't hate it, just does nothing much for me.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 15 December 2017 21:31 (six years ago) link
I think this is the first Laurel Halo album I like mainly on the strength of Moontalk alone but yes... it's way too dependent on its own quirks and weirdness.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 15 December 2017 21:32 (six years ago) link
moontalk is an amazing song! yeah
― In a slipshod style (Ross), Friday, 15 December 2017 21:33 (six years ago) link
moka check out the king felix stuff if you haven't heard it, "spring" by king felix and her halo album "king felix"
― In a slipshod style (Ross), Friday, 15 December 2017 21:35 (six years ago) link
I did not know about that project. Listening to spring now and it sounds amazing! Thanks for the recommendation.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 15 December 2017 21:46 (six years ago) link
:) sweet
― In a slipshod style (Ross), Friday, 15 December 2017 21:49 (six years ago) link
the Fever Ray album was really disappointing to me
― ufo, Friday, 15 December 2017 22:41 (six years ago) link
why? show your work :)
― sleeve, Friday, 15 December 2017 22:43 (six years ago) link
Sleaford Mods - this guy used to sound angry, now he just sounds bored (I do like most of the previous records)
― sleeve, Saturday, 16 December 2017 01:09 (six years ago) link
Fever Ray was also so-so for me. I like the knife and the first fever ray album a lot, so I thought for sure this would be one of my favorite albums of the year but alas it ended being one of the most dissapointing ones for me. It’s just so hard to sit through... even harder than ‘shaking the habitual’ and that’s saying something.
I can get past the hamfisted lyrics (either way lyrics has never been her strong point), but the textures and production are sort of uninteresting too, the middle of the album is specially boring or annoying and contains some of her worst songs ever (“this country” really wtf is up with that).
I don’t know... I guess it’s just alright in small doses but I don’t want ‘just alright’ from her.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 16 December 2017 08:33 (six years ago) link
Ok maybe the production isn’t uninteresting... but it’s too harsh and irritating more often than not. I get that maybe that was her intent with this particular album but I’m not a masochist, sorry.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 16 December 2017 08:43 (six years ago) link
Yeah, my love for the first Fever Ray album is immense, this one is not bAd exactly, just very disappointing
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Saturday, 16 December 2017 10:56 (six years ago) link
yeah I agree with all of that Moka
the production mostly feels like lesser retreads of Silent Shout and the Fever Ray s/t, and the songwriting lacks the memorable melodies. the lyrics are a step down too - Silent Shout especially could be quite evocative but they're more hamfisted here and the BDSM subject matter of some of it is completely uninteresting to me
― ufo, Saturday, 16 December 2017 11:09 (six years ago) link
heh this = lack of money > money
King Krule was the overrated hype of the year for me. Could barely get through that mess 3 times.
So I will probably dig his next record :P
― Ludo, Saturday, 16 December 2017 19:04 (six years ago) link
Fever ray album is fucking great, just took time to grow on me. I mean it's not that different texturally fromThe debut it's just more hyper kinetic arrangement wise. Give it some time, mustn't hurry
― In a slipshod style (Ross), Saturday, 16 December 2017 19:21 (six years ago) link
Lyrics aren't her strong point?? When I grow up and seven would put that theory to the test, memorable imo
― In a slipshod style (Ross), Saturday, 16 December 2017 19:22 (six years ago) link
think dude had a pretty decent office job for a fair while before the band blew up so I'm not sure this is a big factor. latest album hasn't really landed for me like the previous ones though, could be a law of diminishing returns thing but I had (have) no issue with their complete lack of progression so idk
― thirst trap your hare (DJ Mencap), Saturday, 16 December 2017 22:12 (six years ago) link
You’re right I take it back, heartbeats alone is one of the few sweet songs they have and it has some beautiful lines in there. The debut also has some stunning imagery... I’m just way too frustrated with this album.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 16 December 2017 22:19 (six years ago) link
moka, all good bud :)
i found the album hard to parse for quite a while tbh
― In a slipshod style (Ross), Saturday, 16 December 2017 23:12 (six years ago) link
This thread is tonic
Charly bliss - musical equivalent of doing lines of pixie stix
(Sandy) Alex g - i guess at a certain point all music / art will become a sort of lightly branded tabula rasa content for us to project upon
― pre millennial tension (uptown churl), Monday, 18 December 2017 16:33 (six years ago) link
'Reclaims the avant-garde' is probably a worse line than anything in that 'overpraise' thread. It's nearly time for my hitpiece
― imago, Tuesday, 2 January 2018 16:49 (six years ago) link
Oh yea, the avant-garde has been reclaimed by some Berklee kid with an expensive synth set-up, a cloying lyrical sensibility and no songwriting skill to speak of! But it all sounds so burbly. Oo goo this be thee musick of thee spheres!
― imago, Tuesday, 2 January 2018 16:52 (six years ago) link
I could and will go on
man, fuck you
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 2 January 2018 17:20 (six years ago) link
TBH I fully encourage him to keep all this annoying shit in here this year.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 2 January 2018 17:22 (six years ago) link
I've had a bad day, so fuck you
― imago, Tuesday, 2 January 2018 17:23 (six years ago) link
1. The Gorgeous 2. Sixth Album 3. From California 4. Landscapist Kaitlyn 5. Aurelia 6. Smith Reclaims The Avant-Garde 7. From Noiseniks8. Dronesters, Moaners, Skronkers, Mathletes 9. And Art-Punks10. Challenging 11. But Beautiful12. Pastoral 13. But Hyperactive
― imago, Tuesday, 2 January 2018 17:27 (six years ago) link
this is a thread for slagging off and venting. slag off anything. slag off Richard Dawson. I won't care. but I'm not holding back here
― imago, Tuesday, 2 January 2018 17:29 (six years ago) link
you're engaging with both a record and with a fellow ilxor's writing in a totally disingenuous, obnoxious, shitty way just to tell your "truths" or whatever so like, fuck you, still
matt otm though
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 2 January 2018 17:30 (six years ago) link
there are ways to slag off and vent without being a total shithead imo
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 2 January 2018 17:31 (six years ago) link
i love music, the board for people who love music
― you shoulda killfiled me last year (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 2 January 2018 17:33 (six years ago) link
as requested: sacred paws is just insipid tropical good-vibesy nothingcore imo, but it's no big deal really. if absolutely everyone loved it then I'd be more vituperative but they're a minor concern just doing what they're doing and that can remain someone else's business
― #TeamHailing (imago), Tuesday, 9 January 2018 17:34 (six years ago) link
imago otm
LOL @ hurt butts itt
― the late great, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 19:30 (six years ago) link
Jlin - if I wanted to hear a quantized sample of a CD skipping, I'd listen to an Oval CD from 1999
what if you wanted to hear CDs skipping with heavy 808 bass beneath? oval has non 808 bass
also: king krule rools, u all drool
― the late great, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 19:31 (six years ago) link
I know this is going to make me unpopular but I'm just gonna say it, I don't think Yes needed to release another live album in 2017
― frogbs, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 19:32 (six years ago) link
oh no u
― #TeamHailing (imago), Tuesday, 9 January 2018 19:50 (six years ago) link
just don't say it at late at night in the U.S.
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 9 January 2018 19:55 (six years ago) link
i'll just get this out of the way: most of the 2017 music is bad
― brimstead, Friday, December 15, 2017 3:58 PM (three weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i feel this way too? idk. there is little that i feel excited about or drawn to when i go through most 2017 lists
― marcos, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 19:59 (six years ago) link
i totally agree w/r/t almost everything that isn't a house 12" or a reissue of some sort
but i think that's down to the age of the listener (toll of 24 years of active music hipsterism) rather than the quality of the music
― the late great, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 20:01 (six years ago) link
I don't really feel that way late at night for whatever reason
― frogbs, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 20:02 (six years ago) link
Jlin - one track limit with her stuff, just is way too maddening and jarring - def of acquired taste
― kolakube (Ross), Tuesday, 9 January 2018 20:10 (six years ago) link
that was just a tautology, most music from every year is bad
but
yeah same here
― brimstead, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 20:10 (six years ago) link
vote gabor lazar this year for your "sounds like cd skipping" needs
― brimstead, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 20:19 (six years ago) link
i like literally dozens of records that came out this year but somehow i still wind up listening to nothing but '70s music all the time
at some point i'll stop pretending but not until i run out of disk space
― bob lefse (rushomancy), Wednesday, 10 January 2018 03:50 (six years ago) link
Wow @ people shitting on Jlin. I thought Black Origami was way more interesting/fun than Dark Energy
― the man from P.O.R.L.O.C.K. (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 10 January 2018 18:35 (six years ago) link
my assumption is that they are new to footwork in general and don't really *get it* yet
― the late great, Wednesday, 10 January 2018 18:38 (six years ago) link
Loved the final ;_; DJ Rashad album but this has been a bit arid for my tastes. Might return to it
― #TeamHailing (imago), Wednesday, 10 January 2018 18:41 (six years ago) link
"arid" is a good way to put it
― the late great, Wednesday, 10 January 2018 18:48 (six years ago) link
yeah it's a sort of slow-burn annoyance, creeps up on you and rewires you to its idiosyncrasies lol
― imago, Tuesday, 23 April 2024 07:53 (two days ago) link
my unhealthy provincials aversion to london accents makes its a bit of a struggle
― devvvine, Tuesday, 23 April 2024 08:30 (two days ago) link
fantastic band imo. new one is like tirzah fronting this heat. incredible expressive voice, band kind of reminds me of the dead c's improvised approach to rock, but without the distortion pedals.
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Tuesday, 23 April 2024 10:46 (two days ago) link
lacks the focused intensity of tirzah or the swelling momentum of this heat imo - the brew is compelling but ultimately a bit too static
― imago, Tuesday, 23 April 2024 10:49 (two days ago) link
if anything the best moments are when it seems to fall apart, lose momentum and submit to entropy - i guess that's a vibe that works for a few tracks but over a whole album it gets a little stale
― imago, Tuesday, 23 April 2024 10:50 (two days ago) link
Well that's all part of improvisation, I think they just write the intros and then take it from there. I personally love the sound they have so it's all good to me.
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Tuesday, 23 April 2024 10:59 (two days ago) link
btw imago while you're here, plz go listen to the clarissa connelly album ok? :)
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Tuesday, 23 April 2024 11:00 (two days ago) link
haha okay okay
i am catching up with some recent folk atm in fact! that OXN is pretty good eh
― imago, Tuesday, 23 April 2024 11:02 (two days ago) link
(now onto harry gorski-brown, which is v promising at first contact)
― imago, Tuesday, 23 April 2024 11:04 (two days ago) link
band kind of reminds me of the dead c's improvised approach to rock, but without the distortion pedals.
― rendered nugatory (morrisp), Tuesday, 23 April 2024 14:10 (two days ago) link
oh I'd semi-forgotten about that whole era of bands but that is a good shout
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Tuesday, 23 April 2024 14:38 (two days ago) link
"whole era of splattery noise bands" i meant to type
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Tuesday, 23 April 2024 14:40 (two days ago) link
many xps This Harry Gorski-Brown is great! If our job is to reduce everything, this is like Richard Dawson lobbing a molotov into a Wednesday-night folk club.
― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Tuesday, 23 April 2024 14:45 (two days ago) link
well this exchange has managed to make me want to listen to Still House Plants so well done everyone
― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 23 April 2024 14:48 (two days ago) link
I've not listened to a minute of Still House Plants but the conversation has made me think they sound like Life Without Buildings. I'll make like Colonel Poo and go see.
― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Tuesday, 23 April 2024 14:50 (two days ago) link
really do not get the hype around the cindy lee album because it's never any better than ok? who possibly needed 2 hours of this?
― ufo, Thursday, 25 April 2024 06:26 (seven minutes ago) link
entirely vibes no actual songs
― ufo, Thursday, 25 April 2024 06:29 (three minutes ago) link