Tirzah

not dated, but lacking in detail and depth. Which is part of the charm in the first place I know, but some of the tracks just fell flat after a few listens. On Holding On and Gladly especially, the quirk started to work against itself and I now can't listen to the latter because of how much the snare annoys me.

― ninthyoung, Monday, September 24, 2018 2:57 PM (two weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

disagree with this so hard

I didn't get this record until I played it super loud while closing up the shop I work at late at night.

The minimalism and small details (a doubled vocal here, a tom hit there) give it atmosphere/depth. I can see how the aesthetic choices wouldn't be enough to hold people for multiple listens.

V into records that I can actively listen to or play over-and-over while working and jamming this works for both. Into it.

So they’re on tour and Mica is in their band? I’m at their show right now and it’s uhhh well it’s mindblowing in the most cool and understated way imaginable

I kept trying to type imaginable and it kept autocorrecting to “imago ableist” make of that what you will

Mica has been there producing and co-writing since the beginning I think? I’ve read some articles that actually describe Tirzah as a duo.

They seem to me like two of the coolest women in music nowadays. Would love to hang out with them.

are they playing new material?

Would love to see this (and lol @ auto-correct)

last month

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuC1eP7FhNA

today

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyHpnhTTE7I

I love both.

This isn't by Tirzah but could be. On stroom from 2019 although it's on a compilation so it could be older.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVrTWc70EAQ

New album out this week:

https://pitchfork.com/news/tirzah-announces-new-album-colourgrade-shares-new-song-tectonic-listen/

Four of the songs are previously released (a couple above) on the excellent Hive Mind EP:

https://open.spotify.com/album/0zkvB981BoEJdo526JVfe8

Out now

Was not expecting it to be as experimental as it is. Sounds like Dean Blunt in places. I need more time with this one.

Completely fails to grab me

Yeah it’s definitely not something I’m immediately in love with as I was with Devotion.

I’m assuming Mica is not involved in this one?

She is, she co-wrote and produced 9 out of 10 tracks (apart from the Dean Blunt one).

It's definitely a grower compared to Devotion but I don't mind it at all, I'm looking forward to spending more time with it over next couple of weeks.

Oh Dean Blunt is involved too? What track is he on? Is it “sink in”? That’s the one that reminded me of his music.

Where do you check credits? I was checking on allmusic and it only lists Tirzah as songwriter/producer for this.

https://www.discogs.com/release/20430979-Tirzah-Colourgrade

Huh, I’m actually loving this one on first listen, whereas her previous album was a grower for me

"Tectonic" reminds me of Jenny Hval's The Practice of Love.

this is great
very hushed, hypnotic

crepuscular rays almost reminds me of durutti column

It’s creepy as fuck too. The first album was dreamy and sensual, and this one feels like designed to be dreadful and nightmarish. It’s menacing right at door with that opening title track.

I like that she's gone in such a different direction. Don't know if it's good yet, but it at least has my attention.

Oh I’m 100% for change and love that he went somewhere completely unexpected but I’m not on board with it for now. It’s too much of a bad trip for me and I’m in no mood for bad trips this year. Maybe later this month since it’s horror season I’ll give it a chance…

She not he

I do like that somehow she managed to make her music even more sparse sounding.

Songs like “crepuscular rays” doesn’t even sound like a song it’s like two filtered things bouncing back and forth in a manually controlled loop. It’s kind of pretty but I can’t shake that feeling of dread…

Living in South London the past few years, I feel that Tirzah and her broader milieu of collaborators like Mica Levi, Coby Sey, Dean Blunt, CURL, etc. really capture the overall feeling here during these times, and then the UK in general... so yeah, that the new one is dreadful and nightmarish makes perfect sense to me.

This live video with Coby Sey and Mica Levi has made it click for me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jip3cc7AzT8

I love this way more than anything else I've heard from her.

I'm sad this latest album doesn't seem to be everybody's thing, that's ok, but I adore it. As was said above it does seem to portray the vibe in S London, if not the rest of the UK (not at all sure about the latter tbh) Voted it very high in this year's poll but I guess it may not place.

Oh it will definitely place.

this is hilarious and beautiful

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4LvpaAUr04

1471 · Babyfather ft. Tirzah

New Tirzah + Mica Levi song for charity as Taz & Meeks is great. I don’t think it will be available on streaming services:

https://sibin.bandcamp.com/album/s-b-n-vol-1

I’m still head over heels for DEVOTION. It’s a very alienating yet sweet record.

Oh yeah btw revive because I got noted there was a new Tirzah video.

A brilliant live perfomance half robot half tirzah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iikd4QgRQ94

new album! fantastic so far

Loved it on the first listen, the decision to use one beat for all songs is bold but wow

Ha, that was the first thing I noticed, I haven't listened enough to decide whether that's a dealbreaker or not. Was this all recorded in one marathon session or what?

apparently not

trip9love…??? is the third album from Tirzah, produced by long-time musical collaborator Mica Levi.

It was written and recorded at both their homes and various corners of South East London and Kent. 

After several recording sessions over roughly a year, eventually the music suddenly came into a sound that they wanted to follow. The tracks were built using piano loops on top of one beat, distortion added, then romantic vocal toplines. Poems centre on themes of love, both real and imagined. The world the record finds space in is a lazy club fantasy zone.

the production on trip9love is absolutely phenomenal. such interesting use of samples. kind of claustrophobic and spacey at the same time

wait this is sounding great

official massive endorsement

then again it was listened to while walking around the streets of the aforementioned south london, which perhaps gave it an advantage lol

album rules probably her best so far

Tirzah and Mica are on some other level shit.

damn I agree with louis .. ahh well cant win them all

every so often an album comes along that literally everyone on ilx agrees about

really unique melodic sensibility that doesn't feel mawkish or sentimental, I dig the use of repetition, rides a cool line between 'does this work' and 'wow this is good'

feels like a very private ley line to the musical core

It does one thing and does it well, there's surprising texture from few elements, but this is a little of an atmospheric blur at first listen I must say. I am probably not sold on the monochromatic drabness with occasional light and distortion.

Does anybody see a continuity between her and Erika de Casier (besides being both liked here) ?

They’re almost inversions of each other in my mind — se casier is very dynamic and derivative (tone:neutral) in her melodic sensibility whereas this feels almost like an exercise in melodic experimentalism

I don’t remember much of this album after I listen to it but I remember that I had a good time while I was there

I hear more of an aesthetic similarity to some Dean Blunt ‘s work.

the big difference is de casier is making pop and tirzah isn't. a vague similarity at best

De casier has no hits so what exactly does that mean… I thought ppl liked her use of certain retro surfaces (g funk two step etc) that feels more indie than anything

I think I agree with them being inversions. Sure they’re both rooted on some alt pop/r&b thing but while Erika’s music is very dynamic with glossy production and filled with arrangements, Tirzah’s music is very skeletal, minimal and lo-fi.

The repeated beat makes this feel like a riddim album, I was getting Rhythm & Sound ‘See Mi Yah’ vibes. My only complaint is that it doesn’t appear on EVERY track.

the entropy into shoegaze nightmare is so gorgeously managed tho!

de casier has written hits for newjeans now even if she has none of her own... but come on lol. de casier writes very direct classic r&b melodies, her music is accessible and full of hooks. tirzah is much more left-field even if she's got a bit of an r&b influence

I think we’re agreeing on the same thing? Tirzah and Erika being day and night, 180 degrees separated.

To elaborate, I feel a similarity in them both fighting monotony / lethargy / numbness, both sounding like they're inside a glass wall in claustrophobic or ghostly spaces, a reliance on repetition until nuance and details accidentally appear, songs that are slow and minimal, monochromatic or pointillistic or "midi", or still the way they're using whispers or the tendency to hide into the music. I don't know, I also find De Casier skeletal. Obviously there are big differences as well, de Casier sticks closer to r&b, Tirzah is in an abstract space of her own.

Feeling the Tirzah much more on second listen btw.

loving that fuzz sound on 2DICUV, so thick! hearing some similarities with the DJ Python/Ana Roxanne album

de casier's 'hits' for new jeans ... come on now.

Is the album actually out? Have seen September and November release dates for it?

Digital only until November

Ta, Moodles.

Colourgrade is such a great album too, there´s nothing quite like it

Weird, I have just noticed that the album is not true lossless on Apple Music? Compare the size to the other albums I have downloaded on my phone. Not that I really mind given the overall lofi quality, just curious

https://i.imgur.com/2UvwzSu.jpg