I spent a few minutes staring at the tracklist on Spotify to find out if they'd randomly changed it or removed a song and then I realised that 'I See You' is now 'ICU'.
― Matt DC, Monday, 22 June 2020 14:08 (three years ago) link
Matt's assessments otm
― unashamed and trash (Unctious), Monday, 22 June 2020 17:50 (three years ago) link
lol (i don't know if ppl w/o reddit accounts can see this)
https://www.reddit.com/r/phoebebridgers/comments/hdfegw/had_to_do_it/
― alpine static, Monday, 22 June 2020 19:59 (three years ago) link
^^ otm
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 22 June 2020 20:03 (three years ago) link
anyone check out the recent christian lee hutson album that phoebe produced? sounding really nice to me today, and likely will to you too if your favorite song of punisher is 'savior complex'.
― ACABincalifornia (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 23 June 2020 21:24 (three years ago) link
That album is really great.
― DJI, Tuesday, 23 June 2020 21:34 (three years ago) link
I’m still stunned by how good this is
― treeship., Wednesday, 24 June 2020 04:16 (three years ago) link
Painful and cathartic truth in every verse
“Cause I don't know what I wantUntil I fuck it up”
― treeship., Wednesday, 24 June 2020 04:30 (three years ago) link
The sound on this is really weird in general, like everything is slushed together in the mix and backgrounded and then her voice is absolutely front-and-centre and crystal clear over it all.― Matt DC, Monday, June 22, 2020 2:29 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Matt DC, Monday, June 22, 2020 2:29 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink
Feel like this is really what's making me not grasp onto this album too. I like a lot of parts of it but not the whole. I find it too distant and ethereal (or smushy) sonically and even with repeated listens that isn't changing.
Definitely feel that's the point of the production style too. Maybe it'll hit me differently at some point in the future.
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 10:19 (three years ago) link
i feel that all this heavy-handed studio production is impeding her and it's such a shame. the new bright eyes record is the same. i used to love listening to BE for mogis' creative production, and it's completely absent from their new songs, it all just sounds distorted and sterile. though phoebe's production is more creative... the arrangements for ICU are top.
in her 'what's in my bag' ameoba records episode she talks about liking elliott's 'new moon' bc of how stripped down it is... i'd like to hear her make a record with just a four track, too.
― maelin, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 12:27 (three years ago) link
"Alps" was pretty stripped down and she's said in interviews she specifically wanted something different for this one.
― abcfsk, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 13:14 (three years ago) link
because i think when you're gone it's foreverbut you know i'd stand on the cornerembarrassed with a picket signif it meant i would see you when I die sometimes when i can't sleepit's just a matter of time before i'm hearing thingsswore i could feel you through the wallsbut that's impossible
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 13:18 (three years ago) link
that whole song is just incredible
― treeship., Wednesday, 24 June 2020 13:28 (three years ago) link
Hayley Williams identified a pretty obvious stand-out part lyrics-wise as well
#nl @phoebe_bridgers pic.twitter.com/5QenjWNdii— hayley from Paramore 🌺 (@yelyahwilliams) June 18, 2020
― abcfsk, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 13:31 (three years ago) link
people desire transcendence. we don't feel at home in this world.
― treeship., Wednesday, 24 June 2020 13:32 (three years ago) link
sometimes a poet can make this ancient wisdom sound new.
― treeship., Wednesday, 24 June 2020 13:33 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcQl5lerI3E
― NAthaniel (cajunsunday), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 13:37 (three years ago) link
i like the skeleton outfit. maybe i'll get one.
― treeship., Wednesday, 24 June 2020 13:41 (three years ago) link
just dropping by the thread to declare my love for this album
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 20:12 (three years ago) link
xp people will just think you're obsessed with donnie darko. this album rules.
― the warm seafood salad that exists (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 20:45 (three years ago) link
I keep listening to it despite initial reservations about the sonics, so who knows, maybe it could be this year’s Field Day.
― Barry "Fatha" Hines (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 20:56 (three years ago) link
Garden Song does sound muddled and weird but it still brings tears to my eyes when the harmonies start.
― DJI, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 21:14 (three years ago) link
give Phoebe credit for attacking this weird promotional environment with just enough humor and creativity to stand out from the rest of the livestreams.
the "tour" of her house, that cute A-for-effort Corden performance, the commitment to the pajamas ... it's all small stuff, but it's something!
― alpine static, Thursday, 25 June 2020 00:21 (three years ago) link
This would have been a top 3 album for me back in 2002.
― pomenitul, Friday, 26 June 2020 02:19 (three years ago) link
it will always be 2002 for me bb!
― treeship., Friday, 26 June 2020 02:22 (three years ago) link
or more accurately, 2009
― treeship., Friday, 26 June 2020 02:23 (three years ago) link
I actually love the production on this album. It's kind of ethereal, I described it to a friend as dream-folk. I like that it gets loud a few places too.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 26 June 2020 03:50 (three years ago) link
Does she do “Smelly Cat” on this album?
― OG Honeymoon Ave (morrisp), Friday, 26 June 2020 05:55 (three years ago) link
^ You're thinking of Phoebe Waller-Bridge
― abcfsk, Friday, 26 June 2020 07:10 (three years ago) link
I want to love "Kyoto," but the Broken Social Scene horns (and, I guess, the "mix" generally) just do NOT do it for me. The song turns to mush at the chorus, when it should stay tight and focused. Same with "Chinese Satellite" (my 2nd-fave track), and its strings / sound effects... the production feels busy and overdone, clouding the songs rather than allowing them to shine on their own.
― Pat McGroin (morrisp), Thursday, 2 July 2020 05:39 (three years ago) link
punisher is the album of the year
― treeship., Friday, 17 July 2020 03:30 (three years ago) link
the year isn't over, but i feel like i can call it. "i know the end" feels elegiac, resigned, until about 4:35 when there is a burst of new life. not triumphant, but it's life, and when there's life there is hope.
― treeship., Friday, 17 July 2020 03:34 (three years ago) link
I've been playing deadMy whole lifeAnd I get this feelingWhenever I feel goodIt'll be the last time
some of these verses feel like things i've had memorized for years. they have "the force of inevitability"
― treeship., Friday, 17 July 2020 03:40 (three years ago) link
otm
― DJI, Friday, 17 July 2020 17:19 (three years ago) link
it's the album I've listened to the most this year.
― akm, Friday, 17 July 2020 21:15 (three years ago) link
i think Punisher is terrific but still (so far) think Stranger in the Alps is better. i wouldn't mind if that changes in the future, though.
― alpine static, Friday, 17 July 2020 22:00 (three years ago) link
The lyrics to the title track are so good, I want to quote them all.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 18 July 2020 13:34 (three years ago) link
that song is about Elliott Smith; as someone who saw probably every show Elliott Smith ever played in the Bay Are area and for whom his music was incredibly important for a few years there, I found that song really touching and effective. While my wife was in grad school with lots of people 10-12 years younger than her, several of them were pretty freaked out we'd seen him perform so many times; I wasn't even really aware he had such a strong legacy with people who weren't old enough to listen to him while he was still putting out music.
― akm, Saturday, 18 July 2020 16:27 (three years ago) link
you were screaming at the evangelicals
― Joey Corona (Euler), Saturday, 18 July 2020 16:58 (three years ago) link
Live from Goth Prom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Zal6kbG1V4
― NAthaniel (cajunsunday), Sunday, 19 July 2020 09:03 (three years ago) link
ph*ebe bridgers flew across the atlantic during a pandemic to hook up with Connell from Normal People...messy and irresponsible but we have to stan https://t.co/ok8IjMav97— Sophie (@insopherable) July 24, 2020
😂
― Frozen CD, Monday, 27 July 2020 01:20 (three years ago) link
This story is absolutely delightful for many reasons but particularly the specific fact of them having been outed by the Lemon Leaf Cafe in Kinsdale, County Cork, in an account that is otherwise basically just pictures of cakes.
― Matt DC, Monday, 27 July 2020 10:05 (three years ago) link
next record is called fucklore— traitor joe (@phoebe_bridgers) July 28, 2020
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 29 July 2020 12:27 (three years ago) link
careful phoebe
― the quar on drugs (Simon H.), Wednesday, 29 July 2020 12:28 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJ9-xN6dCW4
wonder if this was shot after COVID; the ending with the empty stadium and the way people are standing apart makes me think so, but who knows.
― akm, Wednesday, 29 July 2020 21:41 (three years ago) link
for real, great video but the ending with the kissing and screaming into an elderly woman's face was pretty o_O considering the circumstances. along with the transatlantic trip, she seems entirely too cavalier about this pandemic thing.
― Roz, Thursday, 30 July 2020 10:16 (three years ago) link
pheebs hearts harry: https://www.vulture.com/2020/08/phoebe-bridgers-favorite-books.html
― mozzy star (voodoo chili), Thursday, 6 August 2020 14:00 (three years ago) link
everyone that age does
― akm, Thursday, 6 August 2020 14:33 (three years ago) link
cancelled
― ||||||||, Thursday, 6 August 2020 14:46 (three years ago) link
i think i'd lie about it in 2020
― The Scampos of Young Werther (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 6 August 2020 15:12 (three years ago) link