it is!
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 24 March 2020 22:38 (four years ago) link
Oh, I thought it was going to be Break My Heart but maybe that's just a promo/buzz single. I get so confused. Either would work, but Love Again seems like the most obvious hit on the album.
― kitchen person, Tuesday, 24 March 2020 22:44 (four years ago) link
lol sorry i got their titles mixed up, you're right kitchen person
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nj2U6rhnucI
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 26 March 2020 21:12 (four years ago) link
This album is fucking relentless. And "Break My Heart" is a great covid-19 anthem (I wonder if this is why it was chosen as the next single).
― Tim F, Thursday, 26 March 2020 21:28 (four years ago) link
Chorus reminds me of Shakedown Street
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 26 March 2020 22:31 (four years ago) link
So, this is pretty much the album of the year until the Jessie Ware one comes out right?
― kitchen person, Thursday, 26 March 2020 22:38 (four years ago) link
hi
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 26 March 2020 23:45 (four years ago) link
the "need you tonight" interpolation in "break my heart" is really bugging me, it doesn't quite work with the rest of the song
video rules though
― ufo, Friday, 27 March 2020 00:07 (four years ago) link
Once first listen, loving « Break my Heart »(indeed it’s zeitgeisty !) and the fabulous-kinky-obvious summer hit « Good in Bed » !
― AlXTC from Paris, Friday, 27 March 2020 02:56 (four years ago) link
THE NEED YOU TONIGHT SAMPLE DKGKTKEKKDJFJF
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Friday, 27 March 2020 05:38 (four years ago) link
Oh it’s actually “need you tonight” not “shakedown street”!
“Good in Bed” sounds like Lilly Allen to me, not sure I care about it.
Non-single tracks that I like on first listen: “cool”, “love again”
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 27 March 2020 06:40 (four years ago) link
This album is *Cars voice* just what I needed.
I dig Good in Bed. Fun bop.
― triggercut, Friday, 27 March 2020 10:18 (four years ago) link
You want mei want you babymy sugar booi’m levitatingthe milky waywe're renegadingYEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH
― monotony, Friday, 27 March 2020 10:38 (four years ago) link
very early 00s uk pop throughout.
This ain't the early 00s. But why does it feel so good?
― Matt DC, Friday, 27 March 2020 12:59 (four years ago) link
Damn, I haven’t seen the ILX hivemind so stoked for an album since Random Access Memories.
― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 27 March 2020 20:29 (four years ago) link
We've come too far.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 27 March 2020 20:41 (four years ago) link
It's good; it reminds me of Selena Gomez's January album. I like pop stars releasing these tight albums.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 27 March 2020 20:42 (four years ago) link
― Mr. Snrub, Friday, March 27, 2020 1:29 PM (thirteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
haven't heard a note of this but I'm sure it's better than that turd
― COVID and the Gang (jim in vancouver), Friday, 27 March 2020 20:43 (four years ago) link
It is a lot better than RAM.
It's a good album but it's kind of funny to me that "Katy Perry using Selena Gomez's vocal technique" is apparently the ILX sweet spot.
― DJP, Friday, 27 March 2020 20:48 (four years ago) link
I’m holding my hype for the Jessie Ware album.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 27 March 2020 23:06 (four years ago) link
fwiw I don’t hear selena gomez in this at all
― monotony, Saturday, 28 March 2020 01:32 (four years ago) link
This is good but patchier than I'd expect given how concise it is tbh
― brechtian social distancing (Simon H.), Saturday, 28 March 2020 01:46 (four years ago) link
I don't get patchy at all. It's pretty much wall to wall bangers
― groovypanda, Saturday, 28 March 2020 13:04 (four years ago) link
Katy Perry and Dua Lipa don't sound remotely alike, not least because Dua Lipa doesn't do that big honking thing that sounds like she's constantly mugging to camera.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 28 March 2020 13:07 (four years ago) link
let me be the one to mention “Pretty Please”. nothing’s blowing me away, but the album sounds pretty good on first listen, “Boys Will Be Boys” excepted.
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Saturday, 28 March 2020 14:17 (four years ago) link
I am totally hearing the Katy Perry thing now (unfortunately, thanks DJP!), and it was a qualified comparison to begin with.
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Saturday, 28 March 2020 14:18 (four years ago) link
I really want to connect with this album -- spiritually, it's absolutely up my alley -- but something's not sticking and idk what it is :(
― winters (josh), Sunday, 29 March 2020 00:08 (four years ago) link
and that's okay!
― winters (josh), Sunday, 29 March 2020 00:09 (four years ago) link
hi, josh!
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 29 March 2020 00:18 (four years ago) link
Her singing is competent, but lacking in personality (she sounds bored). The music is mostly polite, generic dance-pop. The White Town sample is distracting, as samples of well-known songs can be. I like what “Break My Heart” does with the INXS melody.
― morrisp, Sunday, 29 March 2020 00:46 (four years ago) link
well, the White Town sucked too
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 29 March 2020 00:48 (four years ago) link
the white town sample is way less distracting than the inxs one
― ufo, Sunday, 29 March 2020 00:56 (four years ago) link
"Boys Will Be Boys" reminds me of this recent song (but I like this one better):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PG8PqSXY6O8
― morrisp, Sunday, 29 March 2020 00:59 (four years ago) link
Went for walk in the park the other night that turned into a disco stepping affair to the beat/tune of this album. “Break My Heart” and “Pretty Please” are on a par with the two big singles for me, but “Levitating” and “Hallucinate”, enjoyable as they are, had me restless for some Fever-era Kylie. I settled on a loop of the full non-edited “Groovejet”. iow, mixed results (but man did it feel good to be outside again - shame it’s so cold right now)
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 20:38 (four years ago) link
I have to admit I'm thoroughly enjoying both sample-heavy cuts. Imho "Love Again" tops "Break My Heart"; it's simply a better song. On the other hand, "Break My Heart", really does it for me with the... cleverness? i'm not sure that's the word but it's the best I can think about. Any way, it's clever in the way it integrates the INXS riff, and it's so sticky.
But the two songs that I keep hearing in my mind when I'm not actually listening to the album are "Hallucinate" and "Cool". I think those two will end up being my favorite cuts. "Hallucinate" in particular is totally relentless and reminded me of "Fever" too.
― cpl593H, Friday, 3 April 2020 15:18 (four years ago) link
I'm also hearing "patchy" but not in a bad way. The payoffs are big.
― billstevejim, Friday, 3 April 2020 17:15 (four years ago) link
the last song is bleh.
― billstevejim, Friday, 3 April 2020 17:16 (four years ago) link
my choice cuts: levitating, love again, break my heart, don't start now. really, everything but the closer (billsteve otm), it's a super bubbly, crafty, and enjoyable record.
― ooga booga-ing for the bourgeoisie (voodoo chili), Friday, 3 April 2020 17:43 (four years ago) link
I think the debut was patchier than this, but higher in the peaks. I love her at her most relentless, "Begging" in the debut, "Hallucinate" here.
― cpl593H, Friday, 3 April 2020 17:57 (four years ago) link
title track https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24MI99Df3FM
eerily similar to "up all night" by the right nowhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM9Tc3JBfQo&feature=emb_title
― davey, Monday, 20 April 2020 07:19 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM9Tc3JBfQo&feature=emb_title
― davey, Monday, 20 April 2020 07:20 (three years ago) link
weird that it refuses to embed in my posts :/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM9Tc3JBfQo&feature=emb_title
― davey, Monday, 20 April 2020 07:21 (three years ago) link
Physical > Levitating > Pretty Please (terrific bassline) is a sublime sequence. Prefer it by a wide margin to the debut. If she named it Bangerville it wouldn't have been arrogant.
― Wally P. Doyle, Monday, 20 April 2020 07:30 (three years ago) link
"Levitating" has become my favorite. What a jam. I dance to it in my isiolation.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 20 April 2020 11:28 (three years ago) link
i’ve just discovered her today and am loving the absolute pants off future nostalgia
― karmic blowback for dissing pip and jane baker (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 20 April 2020 12:20 (three years ago) link
gave this album a listen, it's quite good but i kind of expected it to be... better based on all the effusive praise?
― dyl, Monday, 20 April 2020 16:44 (three years ago) link
Moka upthread OTM, "Good in Bed' sounds like a rejected Lily Allen song from 2006. The rest of the album is great.
― braised cod, Saturday, 25 April 2020 07:29 (three years ago) link
I know Dedicated was well-liked in these parts, but this album gives me the feeling I was hoping to get from that album. I caught the White Town sample but didn't notice the INXS interpolation. Guess I'll just listen to the whole album again
― Vinnie, Sunday, 26 April 2020 00:30 (three years ago) link
At long last, a bunch of remixes for “Physical”. josh is hyping the dreamy Erika de Casier Remix on the EdC thread, but I’m here for the hi-energy Leo Zero Disco Remix:http://www.youtube.com/watch?=fC_wSCls3h0
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Sunday, 26 April 2020 09:35 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fC_wSCls3h0
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Sunday, 26 April 2020 09:36 (three years ago) link