Saw them at the Eye Contact and boy was it good.
― Van Horn Street, Friday, 18 May 2018 22:32 (five years ago) link
Eye Contact tour*
Thru and Thru is a masterpiece fuiud
― Van Horn Street, Friday, 18 May 2018 22:35 (five years ago) link
They were amazing on the Eye Contact tour. The news stuff is lovely but here's hoping the new album has the sort of rollercoaster moments that both that and Dymphna had.
Listened to SD this week in anticipation (first time in maybe seven or eight years?) on way better speakers and headphones than I had back when I first heard it and I don't think I really appreciated how much space there is in the sound on Vaccum. It's like rattling around in a tank of noise.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 19 May 2018 09:23 (five years ago) link
Same here bud. Just rolled it with some new Sony headphones and damn it sounded good. I think sd and eye contact are their masterpieces. I’d be happy with just a good record with no frills at this juncture
― Ross, Saturday, 19 May 2018 09:25 (five years ago) link
For a band that's all about finding exciting new frills that seems like the wrong approach to me.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 19 May 2018 09:36 (five years ago) link
What I mean is they’ve made enough dope records to just put a solid record. Anyway love the two new singles and imagine they’ll as per usual drop Bombs
― Ross, Saturday, 19 May 2018 09:38 (five years ago) link
I’ve been a fan since their first lp but I’m just happy they’re producing new material
― Ross, Saturday, 19 May 2018 09:40 (five years ago) link
Love how Chinese high goes from littleMermaid to like lounge family sitcom music
― Ross, Saturday, 19 May 2018 09:55 (five years ago) link
haha i can't believe there were people this into their shit show they called a live show. They were the worst band I've ever seen live other than the chromatics, and I saw them at their 2009 peak. Awful hot mess.
― mickcsmith (micarl), Monday, 21 May 2018 21:44 (five years ago) link
You could replace Lizzi with a 10 year old who had no drumming experience on those tom drums and they could keep the same rhythm she has. Maybe the bad-ness of it is the appeal but it's lost on me.
― mickcsmith (micarl), Monday, 21 May 2018 21:48 (five years ago) link
Owch
― Music is confidence (Ross), Monday, 21 May 2018 23:14 (five years ago) link
lotta negativity on ilx today
― Paul Ponzi, Monday, 21 May 2018 23:16 (five years ago) link
The one time I saw them live was at a festival and their sound problems were so bad that they managed to finish I think 3 songs in a total of an hour.
― monotony, Monday, 21 May 2018 23:43 (five years ago) link
Haven’t seen them live but I love their records.
Can’t stand for this dissing
― Music is confidence (Ross), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 01:51 (five years ago) link
The two new songs sound to me like the best thing they’ve done since saint dymphna
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 04:05 (five years ago) link
Then again they were pretty much inactive for 7 years, I thought they had disbanded already.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 04:07 (five years ago) link
saw them around a year after saint dymphna came out?
cool show i really enjoyed it
― nxd, Tuesday, 22 May 2018 09:03 (five years ago) link
The first time I saw Lizzi play was with her drum-duo side project, and I liked her energy but musically it was a lot of undistinguished thumping. So I was surprised the first time I saw GGD how well her drumming worked in the confines a more structured band. Like I said upthread, both times I saw them they were totally in sync and on point, their sets were seamless.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 20:06 (five years ago) link
Yeah saw em 2010 and they slayed, it’s almost as if there are variances of quality across performances depending on context
I think this band has the best futurism
― Vapor waif (uptown churl), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 20:29 (five years ago) link
Don’t sleep on the beedeegee album which is a continuation of the strange pop distortions of saint dymphna. Features the gang gang singer as well on “rain man”
I like st the most cuz it flows as one song so brilliantly
― Music is confidence (Ross), Wednesday, 23 May 2018 03:26 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9xfTw5WkfE
this one just sounds like 'more Eye Contact' but that's not really a bad thing
― ufo, Wednesday, 6 June 2018 16:15 (five years ago) link
Went in one ear and out the other tbh
― Slippage (Ross), Thursday, 7 June 2018 14:21 (five years ago) link
So this album totally rips!
― mind how you go (Ross), Friday, 22 June 2018 10:07 (five years ago) link
J tree album version is different. Which was unexpected
― mind how you go (Ross), Friday, 22 June 2018 10:13 (five years ago) link
different how?
― Paul Ponzi, Friday, 22 June 2018 11:17 (five years ago) link
Actually they’re not different. Just find it weird iTunes downloaded J tree twice. Gotta delete that
― mind how you go (Ross), Friday, 22 June 2018 11:46 (five years ago) link
Damn this is good. Smoothest ggd yet
― mind how you go (Ross), Friday, 22 June 2018 16:49 (five years ago) link
Gorgeous record. Shame there seems to be so little hype for it.
Sure I made the exact same post in the Melody's Echo Chamber thread.
― kitchen person, Friday, 22 June 2018 17:17 (five years ago) link
You’re my main man kitchen
― mind how you go (Ross), Friday, 22 June 2018 18:40 (five years ago) link
New album is totally magical.
― Tim F, Friday, 22 June 2018 20:50 (five years ago) link
Haven't sat down with it to give it a proper listen yet but after sampling it by having it on in the background while doing stuff, I'm already liking it quite a bit (though I fear the two advance singles may be the clear highlights)
― Paul Ponzi, Saturday, 23 June 2018 12:40 (five years ago) link
this isn't as mind-blowing as Eye Contact but it's a nice progression on their sound, love the balearic vibes. J-Tree, the title track, and Salve on the Sorrow are probably the highlights for me so far
― ufo, Saturday, 23 June 2018 14:29 (five years ago) link
Title track rules - the moment when the 90s breakbeat comes in is just so shameless.The entire thing feels like it's singlehandedly trying to rehabilitate billowing gap year hippy Buddha Bar music via depth and phenomenal textual detail.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 23 June 2018 14:51 (five years ago) link
Yep, i’m also reminded of the swooshy first discs of Northern Exposure 1 and 2.
― Tim F, Saturday, 23 June 2018 23:12 (five years ago) link
JE’s involvement means I’ll give this a second and third listen
― calstars, Saturday, 23 June 2018 23:25 (five years ago) link
Tim F otm
― mind how you go (Ross), Sunday, 24 June 2018 14:31 (five years ago) link
I think it’s their smoothest record yet
― mind how you go (Ross), Sunday, 24 June 2018 14:32 (five years ago) link
can't tell if that is a compliment or not
― Paul Ponzi, Sunday, 24 June 2018 20:20 (five years ago) link
Totally is
― mind how you go (Ross), Sunday, 24 June 2018 21:54 (five years ago) link
It sounds really lush to me
― mind how you go (Ross), Sunday, 24 June 2018 21:55 (five years ago) link
Digging this a lot. Not as arresting as Eye Contact or St. Dymphna, but gorgeous and groovy and totally welcome.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 25 June 2018 16:10 (five years ago) link
ama today at 4pm est
― Paul Ponzi, Tuesday, 26 June 2018 11:35 (five years ago) link
Wicked
― mind how you go (Ross), Tuesday, 26 June 2018 16:08 (five years ago) link
some thoughts:
kazuashita sounds like enya/loreena mckennitt mashed with drum and bass
love the use of guitar on this, from spindly to serene
sounds like a logical extension from beeDEEGEE and eye contact
― mind how you go (Ross), Tuesday, 26 June 2018 17:45 (five years ago) link
this sounds like Grimes
― rap is dad (it's a boy!), Friday, 29 June 2018 00:31 (five years ago) link
I think you have that backward
― Paul Ponzi, Friday, 29 June 2018 01:49 (five years ago) link
Grimes like sounds this
― rap is dad (it's a boy!), Friday, 29 June 2018 02:01 (five years ago) link
no, there's definitely a Grimesian note in Lizzi's vocals that wasn't there before
― Number None, Friday, 29 June 2018 06:47 (five years ago) link
lotus definitely has a grimes esque chorus
― stoker (Ross), Friday, 29 June 2018 08:32 (five years ago) link