This... might actually be my favourite album of theirs? The songwriting is certainly stronger here than on Powerplant, but it's also so dark that I find i'm not returning to it as much as i did Powerplant two years ago.
But holy fuck, that title track
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Monday, 22 April 2019 05:11 (five years ago) link
the nihilist tells me that nothing is true/ I faked global warming just to get close to you
I could listen to this song all day
― fremmes with neppavenettes (rip van wanko), Friday, 13 September 2019 16:02 (four years ago) link
ok seriously "It Gets More Blue" is the best indie pop song of this decade maybe this century
― fremmes with neppavenettes (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 03:30 (four years ago) link
it's great
I'm still obsessed with All Blacked Out
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 04:01 (four years ago) link
gorgeous
― fremmes with neppavenettes (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 04:31 (four years ago) link
They posted the demos for What Chaos is Imaginary on Bandcamp, recorded before Cleo transitioned. He has a really nice essay that goes along with it that talks about how uncomfortable it is to hear these old recordings but there is a need to make peace with the voice he used to have.
Having said that, I've been lukewarm on recent girlpool mainly because of production choices. Had a hard time with the last song they released.
These stripped down demos sound like a lost early album and I love it.
― Cow_Art, Saturday, 2 May 2020 07:48 (three years ago) link
the demo of "All Blacked Out" is my favorite thing they've done
― flappy bird, Saturday, 2 May 2020 20:54 (three years ago) link
Aw, I love the production on What Chaos, they consistently have the most amazing sounding albums.
The last time I saw them, the enthusiasm for playing the new material was pretty incredible, like Avery sustaining the intensity of the "I let it live" part of "Hire" for the entire song. And the way the older stuff was reimagined, while also winking at its remoteness, was lovely. "Chinatown" with dorky guitar licks after the choruses.
― last updated a group of five done twelve times ago (geoffreyess), Monday, 4 May 2020 01:28 (three years ago) link
I like the album version a lot, it's a great version, but I didn't love the song til I heard the demo. the drawn out tempo & atmospherics of the album version vs. the more platonic demo
Didn't even try to see them when they were here in nov or dec but obv will next time I can in .....3 years??
― flappy bird, Monday, 4 May 2020 02:21 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-sIoRmX6TE
love this one from their upcoming album
― J0rdan S., Friday, 25 March 2022 18:03 (two years ago) link
yeah! I've also fallen in love with "Faultline" since thread's last posts. I'm excited to hear how the album gets from the opening songs to those two toward the middle (and trying to avoid playing any of them much til then).
― sloop johnnin' skater (geoffreyess), Saturday, 26 March 2022 03:11 (two years ago) link
probably just the power of suggestion but "Faultline" really does remind me of Possum Dixon's "Faultlines." the serenity of not knowing when the ground will give way, or something.
― sloop johnnin' skater (geoffreyess), Saturday, 26 March 2022 03:15 (two years ago) link
incredible album, again
― sloop johnnin' skater (geoffreyess), Monday, 2 May 2022 03:27 (one year ago) link