Let's Eat Grandma

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGVv7SQ_jus

this album seems like it will be fantastic

cosign

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8FoJjlxlmY

this is probably the most straightforward thing they've done, still really nice but i always love this sort of thing

They sound like PC Lorde to me.

that's pretty accurate for this one and also why i like it

oh wow the album has two 9+ minute tracks i'm super excited for that

The Lorde-ness is offputting imo

I am excited for the long songs though a bit

Listening to an advance of the whole thing. Pretty good! Current favorite track: "I Will Be Waiting."

Also I never thought I'd actually like a track called "Donnie Darko" but here we are.

i love this album, it completely delivers on both the gorgeous pop songs and the 9+ minute psych epics

I only have the four songs that have been released ahead of time, but they're great. Looking forward to the psych epics.

Yeah I'm looking forward to seeing them here in September.

I bought the Zine they've made (plus the vinyl edition). Will report back if the Zine is any good. The distributor has warned the package could take up to 2 weeks to arrive.

This album is muuuuch better than the debut

yeah it's a huge step up in every way. the debut showed promise, I especially liked Deep Six Textbook and Eat Shiitake Mushrooms, but I'm All Ears has so much more ambition and focus. it also helps that it's way less twee too

Falling Into Me -> Snakes And Ladders is the best bit of this record. Latter especially is quite something

my album of the year probably

I'm also not sure that Cool & Collected doesn't invent a new genre

probably my AOTY so far too

ok this is cool as hell

i love literally everything that is happening on this record lol

pulling off an 11-minute closer called "Donnie Darko" takes some serious chutzpah

All of the shifts feel so natural, the album flows really nicely. They ARE all ears, it sounds great.

"i will be waiting" >>>>>

also i'm completely in awe of "donnie darko"

Yeah as I muttered above, that rather surprised me, that one.

It is an amazing track. Best psych epic of the decade?

This is great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sR8J3Jo_hOY

They did the same thing in primaverasound but the crowd was better imho;

https://youtu.be/-qyjym_bQjA

Yeah, Donnie Darko is amazing.

just reminds me
of AULD LANG SYNE

I love this shit

Terrible band name tho

Terrible vocals too.

Excellent vocals

Like, one of these girls has the most fucking annoying accent. It's a shame, because otherwise I like this record - although it's not great.

Wow, this album is fantastic. I really didn't expect to love it this much after how I little I thought of the debut. Everybody is OTM about Donnie Darko, it's one of the best things I've heard all year.

This is really shaping up to be an incredible year for albums and we still have Mitski and The 1975 to come!

Yeah, I agree that this is turning out to be a great year for albums - the best since 2013, probably. As for this album - it's okay. I had another listen to it, but got about three tracks in and put the latest Chvrches on instead. 'Donnie Darko' is decent, but doesn't deliver to the level everyone is saying it does - I suspect it'll be a different story once they've lived with the album for a while.

Okay, fourth listen and singing aside, this rules. 'Cool & Collected' the clear highlight, IMO.

I don't know how you could only be annoyed by one of them, I can't tell them apart at all (they're not annoying at all though)

The thing about Donnie Darko is that it's basically its own Jacques Lu Cont remix. The whole thing is pretty great, they have a lucrative future in soundtracking action-packed kids movies when the band reaches the end of its shelf life.

I thought the name was annoying until I realised a) they're actually teenagers and b) they fit into a kind of cartoonishly macabre British tradition that doesn't make its way into pop very often (thinking Roald Dahl, Angela Carter in particular here).

'Cool & Collected' the clear highlight, IMO.

I like too many songs to have a clear highlight, but I do love C&C. Among other things it feels like the long-awaited sequel to Sinead's "Jackie."

My LP and Zine have arrived. The Zine looks very nice but it's mostly photos, not much text. The main concept: the duo ask various other ppl they've worked with (photographers and artists as well as musicians) four set questions about creativity and print their responses. Conversely, Faris Badwan talks about L.E.G.'s creative processes; interesting fact: "Hot Pink" was originally "Slime Green"!

The thing about Donnie Darko is that it's basically its own Jacques Lu Cont remix.

I was also put in mind of Ewan Pearson remixing Cortney Tidwell and Michael Mayer remixing Baxendale - though I like it as a song better than either of those.

Like, one of these girls has the most fucking annoying accent.

This is a weird criticism.

No it isn't.

Yes it is.

I mean you'd think some people never even bothered to listen to CocoRosie.

Some people don't enjoy the sound of the saxophone. Others don't enjoy the sound of slap bass. I don't enjoy the sound of her voice - I mean, it's not a difficult thing to comprehend.

Accent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzbLODUb1sA

solo track from Rosa, decently enjoyable

Okay lol @ Turrican’s freak out upthread, especially the “let me deflect these implications of sexism by repeatedly using a phrase containing a word that has become a racist slur”

LOL what a tool, I still have no idea what his problem was with the accent of one of the singers.

new single, "Hall of Mirrors", and new album is out January 2022:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfZenGN29ZQ

basically just continuing what made the last album good, not exciting but i'm still here for it

Agree with that take

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kh8breFdFZI

album two ribbons out jan 28

title track is a little pretty but lacks anything that made them interesting unfortunately

def feels like the only marketable choice rn is between 80s synthpop and pop-country, and LEG have chosen the one they're worse at

Yeah. The video is also so Folklore-y that it ought to be a parody. Still, will give benefit of the doubt til I hear the album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R9qLldd7_U

once again it's not bad but i'm not really feeling this either

Yeah, it's fine but not interesting.

the main synth riff is v generic in quite an off-putting way, but even so i do like this song, definitely felt some odd jumble of emotions watching that

wow this is a bummer was excited to see the thread bumped, they really chucked it all to go for "random indie band opening for angel olson"

Bit disappointed by the new album. It's nice enough and the vocals are fantastic but they took away a lot of the things that made the second album so compelling. Some of it sounds pretty generic compared to what they were doing before.

Sad to hear this take.

yeah i agree, it's mostly solid (though the last two tracks are a fair bit weaker) but it lacks anything that really made them distinct before. i quite like "levitation" at least

Those last two songs are a real mood killer and feel like they should be bonus tracks. Kind of reminds me of Future Nostalgia in that way.

We are so gutted to have to pull tonight's show at Stag and Dagger in Edinburgh, there were tech issues beyond our control 😔 All tickets for tonight should be eligible for entry tomorrow in Glasgow - really hope to see you there 💝

— Let's Eat Grandma (@thelegofgrandma) April 30, 2022

hmm, I think this album's pretty great, esp. "Happy New Year" and "Two Ribbons." latter is one of those songs where I keep hearing the tension of it not going bigger in the way it seems ready to, so that every detail (slight distortion, a second voice tripping over the first, "watch them wash away") reads as a massive ripple in the fabric. reminds me of some other closing track(s) I can't quite place, has "So Tonight That I Might See" or "Looking Glass" energy maybe.

Agree the bookends are great, certainly the highlights for me based on one listen.