thread to dis hyped releases that you don't get/don't like/wanna complain about

Should we start a 2018 equivalent?

maybe, not right now though

ah hell maybe though

goddamn it 'me and michael' is nothing special at all, at this point there simply must be a moratorium on 80s synthpop pastiche

it was the same with that tornado wallace song - competent pastiche + gr8 video = ilxors' minds blown

Yeah not really. I hadn't seen the video til the tracks roll out. Just really loved listening to the song all year

yeah that's not pastiche, man, that's a well-woven tribute

^ or something and Ross otm

can we not talk about how awesome parquet courts are

Sorry no, board rules.

seriously though

feels like damned by faint praise at best

what I really like about this album is how the boring lyrics match the boring music

Beach House? Haven't heard it yet, just blindly guessing.

srsly, with every cocteau twins comparison I think of fotzepolitic or pearly dewdrops' drops or whatever and I seethe

Gotta hand it to Beach House: saw them on tour supporting their first album, maybe 30 people in the audience. Thought "no one will like this boring and terrible band, and even if they do, this sound will get old really fast." Here they still are all these years later, exactly as boring and terrible as that first time, having made a great career out of being boring and terrible. Guess they showed me.

ilm is particularly full of tepid indie bollocks atm imo. nb this is a safe space

ilm is particularly full of tepid indie bollocks atm imo. nb this is a safe space

― imago

Didn't you nominate a song from the Paul Draper album in the end of year tracks list a few months ago?

sometimes tepid indie bollocks has its day. also i didn't come close to voting for it

can we not talk about how not awesome parquet courts are

I don't really keep up with tepid indie bollocks these days but I quite like Beach House

this is the first time beach house have made an album that's not just tepid indie bollocks

mb i should have posted in here

lol no i thought it was a fun post

This hasn't been the best year for new albums afaic. Yes yes Autechre, blah blah but it's not the only thing I want to hear. New Ought is tepid indie bollocks but I really like it - a mitigating factor.

omg that mary lattimore post is heroic

i don't even think my own feelings are quite that strong on the matter

tbf my anhedonia has rendered me numb to all but the most cartoonishly saccharine opinions but that's ok, there's loads of shouting about the importance of taste still available online

it all goes in one hole and comes out the other amirite fellas

This hasn't been the best year for new albums afaic. Yes yes Autechre, blah blah but it's not the only thing I want to hear.

I dunno, it's been the best one in a while for me. Between Andrew W.K., Autechre, Datarock, Janelle Monae, They Might be Giants, and that Daphne & Celeste album, I've got 6 solid favorites already. And I haven't heard the Sea and Cake yet. Plus new albums incoming from Orbital, Koenjihyakkei, The Black Dog (two of em in fact), and some inevitable surprises (new Underworld ????)

you might like that The Armed album, give it a whirl

it's been a great year for albums

maybe i just don't care much about albums right now. I like the Rae Sremmurd and Sun El Musician albums well enough but they're not consistent.

it is a great year for albums every year

but also, a terrible one, hence this thread :)

do people actually enjoy Skee Mask? that new album is like a really bad trip-hop throwback, I was astonished by how much of a slog it was to get through given how much praise it's been getting

I like it! Some of the songs are kinda goes-in-one-ear-and-out-the-other but others (like the last two tracks and 50 Euro) are really stunning. It doesn't really remind me of trip hop? If anything the rhythms on it are more jungle/d&b

It's like jungle/dnb but without any sense of thrill or edge, I thought it was just really polite and tasteful and cold. It's not the jungle of hardcore raving, it's just really plodding breakbeats and pads playing emo chords and I dont get the "future of electronic music from a creative genius" narrative certain publications are running with on it

"Breakbeats and pads playing emo chords" is probably why people like it but it just seems so timid to me in its execution

My interest was peaked so I'm taking a listen. So far it's really good, if not super original. Definitely draws a lot from the LTJ Bukem school of jazzy dnb, but with modern production standards. The beats are the main attraction, with the chords providing a nice serene base for the rhythms to explore. Really high quality with lots of subtlety that you don't often get with dnb. Not really made to light the dance floor on fire, but it's very nice on headphones.

Might be one too many slow tracks though...

albums are inconsistent but he's good

It's like jungle/dnb but without any sense of thrill or edge, I thought it was just really polite and tasteful and cold. It's not the jungle of hardcore raving, it's just really plodding breakbeats and pads playing emo chords and I dont get the "future of electronic music from a creative genius" narrative certain publications are running with on it

― boxedjoy, Monday, June 25, 2018 6:41 AM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is my problem with like 90% of post-2000 drum'n'bass tbf.

I'm listening to the first track now and I quite like it so far. Nice sound design. Maybe it's a matter of hype = false expectations with these things

do people actually enjoy Skee Mask? that new album is like a really bad trip-hop throwback, I was astonished by how much of a slog it was to get through given how much praise it's been getting

Felt pretty much the same way on my first listen (and never really liked his last record which had similar levels of praise.)

After a couple more listens it clicked for me, though ... love it now!

I don't like it, don't understand the hype. I mean, it's fine, but not what I'm looking for and nothing special imo.

I'm listening to the new Martyn album and it is stunning, likewise the new Beta Librae album also makes a lot of similar moves, but neither of them are getting anything like the acclaim this is

ski mask with nardwuar made me think he's a chill dude.

i really like this, don't care what anyone thinks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bo9KXM60l4U

i'm more into andrea & stenny when it comes to Ilian Tape stuff

ski mask with nardwuar made me think he's a chill dude.

different dude (unless that's the joke in which case the joke is on me)

ilx has such a shit taste in indie. not sorry