her season of the witch cover verges into self parody
Obligatory: 'but isn't self-parody her whole shtick?'
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 31 December 2019 16:42 (four years ago) link
original is pretty crap too tbrr
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Tuesday, 31 December 2019 20:48 (four years ago) link
did I ever mention I saw her on tour recently? me and my friend, both of us 40ish years old
it was pretty ok? the stage dressing and framing was so-so
― babu frik fan account (mh), Wednesday, 1 January 2020 08:56 (four years ago) link
kinda burnt myself out on this album so I took a long break and it's still great and not in some corny "predicted the 2020 vibe" sorta way. I confess however that I slightly preferred the gonzo "cuts on his face 'cause he fucked too hard" to what I only just realized is the actual lyric, "fought"
― the quar on drugs (Simon H.), Sunday, 26 July 2020 23:13 (three years ago) link
Yeah I still love this album. and that song !
― AlXTC from Paris, Monday, 27 July 2020 04:53 (three years ago) link
also I thought she was releasing a "spoken word album" but it turns out to be the audiobook version of a poetry collection? for some reason though the concepts are sonically identical, this configuration irks me less
― the quar on drugs (Simon H.), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 05:03 (three years ago) link
wait, sorry, also does this mean pitchfork is going to review an audiobook
― the quar on drugs (Simon H.), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 05:18 (three years ago) link
yo this album is fucking beautiful
― treeship., Monday, 28 September 2020 20:07 (three years ago) link
i spent a long time today looking at the sleeve before playing it on my crosley suitcase player. (need to fix my better turntable). it's a really interesting image--the sky looks painted, with thick brushstrokes, while the rest is a photograph. LA is burning in the background.
― treeship., Monday, 28 September 2020 20:09 (three years ago) link
I'm ashamed to admit that I never looked at it closely enough to see that it was fire and smoke in the background. In my mind I just imagined it to be the orange of a sunset in the background.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 28 September 2020 20:16 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vK1YiArMDfg
this might be my favorite track
― treeship., Monday, 28 September 2020 21:41 (three years ago) link
Last year at this time, I took a long drive listening to this for about the dozenth time, and got a strong prophetic feeling about this record being the last glimpse of a crumbling society before a worldwide disaster. Fortunately 2020 has been completely eventless.
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 29 September 2020 00:05 (three years ago) link
this album manages to take on the idea of america as not just a declining empire, but one that is already over, we're like living in its corpse. somehow the album sustains this big idea. it doesn't collapse under it.
― treeship., Tuesday, 29 September 2020 00:10 (three years ago) link
The culture is lit and if this is it, I had a ballI guess that I'm burned out after allI'm wastedDon't leave, I just need a wake up callI'm facin' the greatestThe greatest loss of them allThe culture is lit and I had a ballI guess that I'm burned out after all
― treeship., Tuesday, 29 September 2020 00:11 (three years ago) link
Bought this a couple of months ago, played it in the car two or three times through. The thing that most struck me was how front-loaded it was--the first three songs were easily the best, I thought.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 29 September 2020 03:22 (three years ago) link
last is a doozy tho
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 30 September 2020 13:48 (three years ago) link
new single not so hot :(
― it bangs for thee (Simon H.), Friday, 16 October 2020 09:04 (three years ago) link
she's kinda descended into self-parody on it :/
― ufo, Friday, 16 October 2020 09:28 (three years ago) link
Yeah, pretty bland.
― AlXTC from Paris, Friday, 16 October 2020 09:51 (three years ago) link
like the melody is extremely ldr by numbers and there's not really anything else going on
― ufo, Friday, 16 October 2020 09:58 (three years ago) link
Usually she's very good at melodic hooks but... not this time.IT's a weird choice for a single.
― AlXTC from Paris, Friday, 16 October 2020 10:30 (three years ago) link
it's ok. not really single material.
― akm, Friday, 16 October 2020 23:36 (three years ago) link
MOJO
― piscesx, Thursday, 18 February 2021 16:09 (three years ago) link
.. oops
MOJO piece is really good.
I'll pick up a copy to look at next time I'm passing a newsstand or idling in a bookshop
― stilt in the wings (sic), Thursday, 18 February 2021 18:31 (three years ago) link
oh wait
― swing out sister: live in new donk city (geoffreyess), Thursday, 18 February 2021 18:43 (three years ago) link
MOJO NIXON collab is really good.
She's the washboard player he needed ever since Skid Roper left.
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 18 February 2021 18:49 (three years ago) link
acc to their review, Weyes Blood sings on the Joni cover.
― stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Thursday, 18 February 2021 18:49 (three years ago) link
new album leaked and only listened to first track so far but wow at it
― ufo, Thursday, 11 March 2021 10:30 (three years ago) link
"tulsa jesus freak" is wild, it has this tiny bit of autotune on the vocals that makes it sound haunted, really fantastic atmosphere
album is the folkiest thing she's done, feels like a natural continuation of the first three tracks or so from NFR. pleasantly surprised
― ufo, Thursday, 11 March 2021 10:45 (three years ago) link
antonoff has really outdone himself with the production & arrangements here
"dance till we die" is really something
i think this is solidly her best, it doesn't reach the same peaks as say, "mariners apartment complex" and "venice bitch" but it's way more consistent overall. "let me love you like a woman" is probably the weakest track, i get why it was the lead single but really not too representative.
― ufo, Thursday, 11 March 2021 11:17 (three years ago) link
and the title track is much better in context too
― ufo, Thursday, 11 March 2021 11:26 (three years ago) link
she finally made an album that is good all the way through and isn't 20 minutes too long for its own good!
― ufo, Thursday, 11 March 2021 11:35 (three years ago) link
About to listen - sounds like Ultraviolence structurally which I am so down for
― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Thursday, 11 March 2021 13:05 (three years ago) link
"white dress" namechecjs sun ra and kings of leon, she has truly gone mad with power
― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Thursday, 11 March 2021 13:18 (three years ago) link
who's that singing on "breaking up slowly"?
― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Thursday, 11 March 2021 13:48 (three years ago) link
"white dress", "tulsa jesus freak", "dark but just a game" and "dance till we die" seem to be the highlights. super low key even by her standards. it does *sound* great. I just really need her to ditch the piano on the next one.
― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Thursday, 11 March 2021 14:02 (three years ago) link
also feels much less emotionally turbulent than NFR!, I suspect lots of quarantine meditation
― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Thursday, 11 March 2021 14:07 (three years ago) link
I suspect lots of quarantine medication
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 11 March 2021 14:11 (three years ago) link
i read the lyrics to white dress and hahahahhahaha no
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 11 March 2021 14:16 (three years ago) link
somewhat ironically brad I listened to that one and wondered aloud "is this a coded message to taylor"
― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Thursday, 11 March 2021 14:20 (three years ago) link
this album is the most aggressively uncommercial thing she's released so far.
― akm, Thursday, 11 March 2021 21:11 (three years ago) link
The last album had a nine-and-a-half-minute song, fully half of which was an extended synth solo. It also had "fucking" in its title.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 11 March 2021 21:57 (three years ago) link
yeah but it also had that sublime cover the label made her include so it would have a radio hit
― akm, Thursday, 11 March 2021 22:10 (three years ago) link
(that's not to knock it, i really like that cover, but it kind of messes up the flow of the record)
― akm, Thursday, 11 March 2021 22:11 (three years ago) link
arguably this is still very commercial, her demo has just changed definitively to Mojo readers
― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Thursday, 11 March 2021 22:16 (three years ago) link
she has fully embraced her inner boomer
― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Thursday, 11 March 2021 22:19 (three years ago) link
At her first run of gigs proper (i saw her first ever show weirdly enough) the audience was *very* Mojo; a pretty polite, sedate vibe, she'd been getting a lot of play on BBC6 etc. It was only later on that the first 10 rows became screaming teens.
― piscesx, Thursday, 11 March 2021 22:38 (three years ago) link