If the rest of this is as good as the first three songs then wow.
― Matt DC, Friday, 6 March 2020 08:57 (four years ago) link
tracks 4-5 are some embarrassing spoken word into the Be My Baby beat so I think you can retract that wow
― strangely hookworm but they manage ream shoegaze poetry (imago), Friday, 6 March 2020 10:13 (four years ago) link
i don't like the spoken word interludes (but i never do) but i do like the be my baby noise bit
― ufo, Friday, 6 March 2020 10:16 (four years ago) link
yep, bad album. sorry.
― strangely hookworm but they manage ream shoegaze poetry (imago), Friday, 6 March 2020 10:35 (four years ago) link
Incidental Boogie coming on the Spotify artist mix immediately after it ends, specifically to taunt me
― strangely hookworm but they manage ream shoegaze poetry (imago), Friday, 6 March 2020 10:36 (four years ago) link
"She used to be good! Woman's Work was your song of the year even!"
I don't know what she's become, but it's very on the nose, very irritating and not very good
― strangely hookworm but they manage ream shoegaze poetry (imago), Friday, 6 March 2020 10:38 (four years ago) link
IOU was alright I guess
― strangely hookworm but they manage ream shoegaze poetry (imago), Friday, 6 March 2020 10:42 (four years ago) link
Sir this is a sperm bank
― nashwan, Friday, 6 March 2020 11:35 (four years ago) link
Nah it's a pretty good album but the first three songs made me think we were in for a masterpiece but there's a drop off after that, even if I did enjoy her healthy disrespect for the Be My Baby beat.
Spoken word bits are dreadful, mind.
― Matt DC, Friday, 6 March 2020 14:01 (four years ago) link
It's good.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 6 March 2020 14:12 (four years ago) link
I've been chanting the backing vocals in "Overtime" and "4 American Dollars" for the last week.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 6 March 2020 14:13 (four years ago) link
If the 1st 3 songs are the best ones then there's no need for me to listen to the rest of this album
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 6 March 2020 17:40 (four years ago) link
― Matt DC, Friday, March 6, 2020 7:01 AM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
could see this coming from a mile away after reading a profile on this record
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 6 March 2020 18:23 (four years ago) link
was this after one listen? two? just curious.
― alpine static, Saturday, 7 March 2020 16:49 (four years ago) link
lol this is NOT going to be another Titanic Rising
― strangely hookworm but they manage ream shoegaze poetry (imago), Saturday, 7 March 2020 17:11 (four years ago) link
I really like this. The interludes don't add anything to the album, but they're not as terrible as I was expecting. I did lower my expectations after reading the mixed reactions on here and on RYM, but I enjoyed it straight away. After a couple more listens it feels like a worthy follow-up to In A Poem Unlimited.
― kitchen person, Saturday, 7 March 2020 18:07 (four years ago) link
I really like the album too. I don't mind the spoken word bits, but the re-recordings of old songs feel kind of pointless. I'd rather hear more new songs on a album than something you'd hear in a live setting.
― braised cod, Saturday, 7 March 2020 22:01 (four years ago) link
I don't mind the spoken word bits either, and since I haven't heard anything pre-IAPU, all the tracks are new to me — so yep, good album, not sorry.
― ˈʌglɪɪst preɪ, Tuesday, 10 March 2020 21:44 (four years ago) link
lol I like this album a great deal, almost as much as the last one.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 10 March 2020 21:47 (four years ago) link
I listened through a few times, I like it. So far it feels a notch below the last one, songwise. That one just had so many hooks, this one is a little more groove-driven. Which is fine. She's interesting. It's been fun to see her keep evolving.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 04:02 (four years ago) link
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn)
Same here!
― kitchen person, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 04:10 (four years ago) link
I don't mind the faster, fuller "Red Ford Radio" on here, but I love the original of that song to pieces. It's more of a spooky dirge.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 04:52 (four years ago) link
the spoken word bits are awful but this is why god invented the skip button and playlisting
I was dying for just one person on the fourth track to say "you suck and I hate you"
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 12:46 (four years ago) link
Y Se Mueve is groovy as hell. Saw them last month in NYC and that was a highlight. Super tight band w/ three backing vocalists.
― J. Sam, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 14:47 (four years ago) link
I have come in praise of the Alex Frankel remix of "Overtime", contributing to this lovely summer of disco
― unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Thursday, 27 August 2020 17:02 (three years ago) link
New album out today. Kind of seems like she's fallen off of everyone's radar? Apparently the first single from this album came out back in July and I had no idea.
― Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Friday, 24 February 2023 15:38 (one year ago) link
The opener sounds like....Toto.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 24 February 2023 15:43 (one year ago) link
She had definitely fallen off my radar; this is the first I had heard of the new album.
I saw her live in NYC in February 2020, the last show I saw pre-quarantine. So now I unfortunately associate her (and Heavy Light in particular) with that early-COVID sense of pre-apocalyptic anxiety. I thought the critical backlash to that album was pretty harsh, so I've got high hopes for this one. Only two tracks in right now--Toto OTM re: opener.
― J. Sam, Friday, 24 February 2023 16:45 (one year ago) link
Also re: opener, from this track-by-track interview https://www.stereogum.com/2214480/us-girls-bless-this-mess-track-by-track/interviews/footnotes-interview/:
You said that this song is about the act of creation? Tell me why this one kicks off the album.MEG REMY: Because of how it sounds, how it starts. It hits. As they say, “It slaps.” An instant “Oh, shit.” Thematically, the song’s really all over the place. I was initially writing it in my mind as a duet. I really wanted to do a duet with Julian Casablancas, which obviously didn’t happen. Then there was a brief moment where it was going to maybe be a duet with Donald Fagen. That didn’t happen either — someone got my hopes very up.
MEG REMY: Because of how it sounds, how it starts. It hits. As they say, “It slaps.” An instant “Oh, shit.” Thematically, the song’s really all over the place. I was initially writing it in my mind as a duet. I really wanted to do a duet with Julian Casablancas, which obviously didn’t happen. Then there was a brief moment where it was going to maybe be a duet with Donald Fagen. That didn’t happen either — someone got my hopes very up.
Get Don for the remix!!
― J. Sam, Friday, 24 February 2023 16:49 (one year ago) link
If Holy Ghost and Thundercat can get Michael Mcdonald surely so can she
― nashwan, Friday, 24 February 2023 17:05 (one year ago) link
Feel like Heavy Light showcased most of their worst impulses (or at least the things I enjoyed least about their previous work)... to the extent that it made me question my love for Half Free and In a Poem (which already had some ill-advised clunkers to go with the VERY high highs).
Should I listen to this?
― mr.raffles, Friday, 24 February 2023 18:35 (one year ago) link
early indications appear to be that this has a couple of bangers and a bunch more half-baked stuff, will listen (no matter how cringe she gets, Half Free will always be a masterpiece)
― imago, Friday, 24 February 2023 18:39 (one year ago) link
I liked “Pump” the best on first listen.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 24 February 2023 18:40 (one year ago) link
listening now. at least so far i can say it has a better track than anything on heavy light (the second). however it also has a worse track than anything on it (the third). nice to give yourself an out by calling it a mess in the title lol
― imago, Monday, 27 February 2023 12:33 (one year ago) link
yeah this isn't very good
― imago, Monday, 27 February 2023 12:48 (one year ago) link
It's about as uneven as Heavy Light was for me. The playlist I just made with the best tracks from both is a pretty decent album though!
― Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Monday, 27 February 2023 15:09 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/jAAMOW3.jpg
― calstars, Saturday, 18 March 2023 18:48 (one year ago) link