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

maybe you don't really like them!!!!!

still absolute dreck, and dreck that's a decade out of date

(nothing to do with 2018 poll)

board description?

apologies to Mordy in advance but

watching ILM come around en masse to the idea of the thoroughly mediocre and uninteresting Harmony Hall being a great song has filled me with enough bile to last us right up until its inevitable and dismal appearance in the top 20 or so of the 2019 traxpoll. see you there

woo it has those george michael/primal scream pianos woo what a fucking novel and au courant production trick

you're all really old

wow imago you've almost convinced me to willingly listen to a vampire weekend song, congrats

ya imago dislike is almost an imprimatur of quality

I wish I had the musicological lexicon to explain why I can't stand this kind of pop R&B-esque singing, which also irks me when I hear The 1975. I love what Copeland are doing beneath the vocals, but these hopeful intimations of positive sensuality or whatever evoke nothing for me other than climactic scenes in American romcoms.

actually there's something about holly herndon's sound design that leaves me almost as unsatisfied as her approach to melody, but it'd take me a lot longer to pinpoint exactly what

ya imago dislike is almost an imprimatur of quality

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I didn’t get on w little simz either ;)

If we were to come up with a list of 'ILM bait' artists, Holly Herndon would definitely be on it. I also think I'd dislike or be indifferent to most names on that list.

Yeah it’s not even that hi fi rite? Also fuck accelerationist art

you mean her videos contain the same thespy quirkstrel vamping as her music

should there be another thread where you explain your subtweets?

that is one monstrous fucking tracklist

i am full of alcohol and good cheer but i am officially announcing my adversarial stance wrt ilx banging on about awful shit band vampire weekend like no other indie exists

I am somewhat surprised to learn how much ppl here seem to like them.

this has been a bumper month for "this might be their best album!! no wait it is their best album!!!" grandstanding huh

the thing is i'm right every time

I haven't heard it yet but my skepticism can be summed up as follows: 64 minutes.

mods pls retitle board I Love The 1980s

Mods pls retitle this thread, Imago's thread to dis hyped releases that he doesn't get/doesn't like/wants to complain about

That was always part of the fine print.

xp

you're allowed to do it too! xp

Caterina Barbieri - are we really that starved of vaguely pretty synths that we need to be praising this boring, inert and basic music? I read she's a modular synth user but it just sounds like a MIDI arpeggiator with a reverb preset being used in unimaginative ways.

Vampire weekend is some weak boring ass shit

wary of a double CD about settling in / domestic family life from Bill Callahan, after Dream River, which was a fucking snoozer

The love for vw makes my head hurt, it would be hard for me to think of a more nails on chalkboard sound than theirs. The smugness honeyed into “knowingness”, the utterly deracinated arrangements and melodies. They’re really a product of the Obama era, reeking of unexamined comfort allayed enough for the pundit class by a milquetoast ‘wry’ or ‘searching’ quality ... if they popped up in 2015 as a bunch of fresh faced Columbia grads marketing their sound as “upper west side Soweto” I wonder if reception would have been different.

the lyrical content of the first two vampire weekend records is pretty much all examined comfort

i like that as a band they’ve changed significantly between records and yet the lazy dismissals of them use the same old reference points

It’s ok to dislike a band for purely aesthetic reasons, you don’t have to go blaming Obama(!)

Lol fair points what I was trying (evidently unsuccessfully)to say is that the examine but not enough in a way that preempts an interesting examination and just is another point scoring thing imo. I don’t care about them really personally, I’m sure we have the same politics, it’s more the universe they created. I feel like there’s a bit of having it both ways and a sort of highly focus grouped vibe that’s off putting. And they really haven’t changed that much? I guess that’s my thing, feels like they’re graded on a curve

But anyways y’all can go post in vw love thread, haters only here

^

thanks, Obama!

Moreover it’s I think a mistake to separate aesthetics from politics. That stance leaves one open to cringe analyses such as why do indie rockers never want to bass but it doesnt follow that the two spheres are hermetically sealed off from each other

haters only here

― Vapor waif (uptown churl), Tuesday, May 28, 2019 11:36 AM (thirty-seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i guess you'd rather post wrong things in a vacuum, who can blame you

I've never heard a VW song, i don't think, and am pretty okay with that.

cosign

they have a ska song in the soundtrack to the movie stepbrothers but if you're not a cineaste like i you may have missed that film

brad, this thread is specifically to complain so we don’t muck up the main thread

“Wrong” things lol

okay, i listened to a few minutes of a few of their songs to try to understand and yeah, Vampire Weekend fucking suck and are everything i hate about music lol

I've never heard a VW song, i don't think, and am pretty okay with that.

I heard most of one once. And I saw Step Brothers, but I don't remember anything about it except that it was maddeningly unfunny, never mind the soundtrack.

I don't think it's hyped, but the new Sun Kil Moon? AWFUL. To the point where I'm genuinely curious about his motivations. Lyrics continue on the same stream-of-consciousness / diary path as previous albums, production is muffled, vocals are croaked, plus a 22+ minute track is relegated to 2nd cd. It's almost Andy Kaufmann-esque, as if he's daring his audience to stay with him.

https://media2.giphy.com/media/SJb0vHduIW8wM/giphy.gif?cid=790b76115ced9ede35496c344da9c143&rid=giphy.gif

oh FFS