it might be polite but it's unusually/exceedingly well-arranged and produced imo
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Wednesday, 1 July 2020 06:31 (three years ago) link
I didn't think I'd enjoy it as much as I did but its first three tracks were enough for me. I'd love a whole album of the stuff if it were interspersed with instrumental workouts.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 1 July 2020 15:01 (three years ago) link
I think the Ware is well-arranged to a fault IMO, everything just so, constantly marking out the producer's tasty placement of sounds. I dread when the strings appear in "Save a Kiss" for example.
The lyrics are totally generic as well, too little to grasp onto, especially by comparison to all of the record's references.
― Freeze Instr., Wednesday, 1 July 2020 18:14 (three years ago) link
I thought there was a date appended to this thread title for some reason. As it stands, it's atemporally perfect.
― pomenitul, Friday, 24 July 2020 20:52 (three years ago) link
finally a safe space to dis kanye
― the quar on drugs (Simon H.), Friday, 24 July 2020 20:54 (three years ago) link
Made it 45s into 'Cardigan', 10s into 'Exile' and 5s into 'Betty'. The way it's being talked about makes you wonder whether the paradigm shift is real. It's not.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 25 July 2020 00:46 (three years ago) link
does the paradigm shift involve waiting for the vocal to come in before you bail? lol
― Your dream has symbolic content (morrisp), Saturday, 25 July 2020 01:29 (three years ago) link
you should have given cardigan and betty the opposite number of seconds tbf
― imago, Saturday, 25 July 2020 01:32 (three years ago) link
I skipped forward for a split second to better acquaint myself with the latter two tracks, so I know what I’m talking about.xp
― pomenitul, Saturday, 25 July 2020 01:33 (three years ago) link
I made it all the way through "Betty," about halfway through "Cardigan" and less than a minute into "Exile." I'm bummed because I really liked Lover.
― Lily Dale, Saturday, 25 July 2020 01:44 (three years ago) link
I checked out that Jessie Ware album that folks here are raving about, and... well, I don't "wanna complain" about it (it's not bad), but I def. "don't get" the raves. ILM tends to go for this polite, bloodless dance-pop that doesn't do anything for me - despite my love for, well, other forms of dance-pop.
― Pat McGroin (morrisp), Tuesday, June 30, 2020 9:09 PM (three weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink
totally agree there's no blood in its veins. and I liked Ware's first two albums
― Get Me Bodied (Extended Mix), Saturday, 25 July 2020 02:27 (three years ago) link
― pomenitul
when I originally made it I had "2017" before "releases" but it was changed by mod edit (by my request) after the thread kept going
― sleeve, Saturday, 25 July 2020 02:42 (three years ago) link
I guess I just find it sad that these are the only kinds of releases that spur a sustained, urgent discussion on ILM in 2020, but perhaps 'twas always so. There would be no bitterness on my part if our collective enthusiasm wasn't apportioned so unevenly. Canute, tide, etc.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 25 July 2020 14:33 (three years ago) link
tbf on a broader cultural level i think “thinking things are good” is not really “in” right now
but fuck parquet courts fr
― Vapor waif (uptown churl), Saturday, 25 July 2020 21:32 (three years ago) link
yeah impt to not forget parquet courts on this thread every time it is bumped
― imago, Saturday, 25 July 2020 21:35 (three years ago) link
So the corrective is to say 'all music is good, especially this one album, which we'll ensure everyone jabbers about for weeks on end at the expense of all others'?
― pomenitul, Saturday, 25 July 2020 21:37 (three years ago) link
taytay album is like good or w/e but the disproportionate share of the discourse artists like her get on ilm is a sign of a reactionary discourse imo
― imago, Saturday, 25 July 2020 21:51 (three years ago) link
gonna post the word 'discourse' eight more times now until we are all listening to bonkers electropop and weird metal
― imago, Saturday, 25 July 2020 21:52 (three years ago) link
thread to discourse hyped releases
― pomenitul, Saturday, 25 July 2020 21:54 (three years ago) link
this thread is a dis course
― methinks dababy doth bop shit too much (m bison), Saturday, 25 July 2020 23:54 (three years ago) link
That, and a diss curse.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 25 July 2020 23:58 (three years ago) link
― imago
PUDDING!
― Kate (rushomancy), Sunday, 26 July 2020 00:00 (three years ago) link
i never thought it would come to this, but can we go back to talking about k*nye, please?
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 22:25 (three years ago) link
Omg google for "kanye" and find Austin
― XVI Pedicabo eam (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 23:10 (three years ago) link
Is it out yet?
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 28 July 2020 23:12 (three years ago) link
his name is a swear in my house.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 23:15 (three years ago) link
and i'm outta quarters and i already owe the swear jar like ten bucks, so i gotta cool it on that shit.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 23:16 (three years ago) link
is this where it is ok to say that t*yl*r needs to not write about new york because each time is more thought catalog than the last
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Wednesday, 29 July 2020 03:47 (three years ago) link
it's okay to say anything in here.
except k*nye. that's still a swear.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Wednesday, 29 July 2020 15:05 (three years ago) link
I checked themicrophones@hotmail(dot)com like once a week
I tapped out as soon as he delivered this line. It was also a relief to stop pretending that the underlying chord progression was worth my or anyone's time or that I wasn't in fact witnessing the gruelling rebirth of Totally-Not-Narcissus.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 13 August 2020 16:11 (three years ago) link
i liked it because it threw in loads of lovely lo-fi fuzz textures but i can appreciate not wanting to wait for those to really kick in
― imago, Thursday, 13 August 2020 16:27 (three years ago) link
Shorten the intro and make it 100% instrumental and my ears might perk up.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 13 August 2020 16:29 (three years ago) link
I agree that his lyricism is overly revered
― imago, Thursday, 13 August 2020 16:35 (three years ago) link
(nor is it terrible though)
― imago, Thursday, 13 August 2020 16:36 (three years ago) link
The non-'confessional' (i.e. autobiographical ad absurdum) bits are solid. I wish he'd ditch the Tao Lin-isms.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 13 August 2020 16:39 (three years ago) link
well, admitting you're inspired by a certain other songwriter suddenly got much less cool after today. being inspired by him at all hopefully as well
― imago, Thursday, 13 August 2020 16:47 (three years ago) link
I only found out after my attempt at weathering those 44:44 mins but it certainly doesn't help!
― pomenitul, Thursday, 13 August 2020 16:48 (three years ago) link
Anyway, I have no idea how this is a 4.13/5.00 based on 3,655 RYM ratings.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 13 August 2020 16:57 (three years ago) link
neurotic shut-ins love music made by neurotic world traveler
― unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Thursday, 13 August 2020 16:59 (three years ago) link
*ahem*
― pomenitul, Thursday, 13 August 2020 16:59 (three years ago) link
(it's a good album and I have nothing against phil but it shouldn't surprise anyone that the combo of who made it, the fact that it's a 44-minute track and the release timing makes this very obvious RYM bait)
― unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Thursday, 13 August 2020 17:00 (three years ago) link
obviously that fishmans thing is the dictionary definition of an rym-hyped release that i would like to dis
― imago, Thursday, 13 August 2020 17:01 (three years ago) link
y'all are making this record-i-will-never-hear sound like the rym-beloved record "the salmon of doubt" by coin locker kid, which is one of those rym-beloved records i really wish i could hate
― Kate (rushomancy), Thursday, 13 August 2020 17:37 (three years ago) link
yeah, the microphones are extremely overhyped. there's not a single catchy melody to be found on any of the dude's records.
random thought for a thursday: fuck bruce springsteen.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Thursday, 13 August 2020 17:52 (three years ago) link
what's your plan?
― rob, Thursday, 13 August 2020 18:33 (three years ago) link
to never willingly listen to the microphones or springsteen ever again.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Thursday, 13 August 2020 18:41 (three years ago) link
the secret of fishmans is that while long season is kinda inexplicably overrated (i mean the length does make it rym bait and it's good but it's not thaaat good), uchuu nippon setagaya is absolutely a masterpiece
― ufo, Friday, 14 August 2020 01:27 (three years ago) link
The new Liturgy sounds like a hipper flavour of crossover classical if the two advance Bandcamp tracks are anything to go by. I didn’t much care for their previous LP once I got past the immediate ‘at least they’re trying something different’ factor and I’m afraid the new one’s boundlessly earnest, overwrought ambition is even less convincing to my ears because there’s nothing substantial to underpin it, just an awkward collision of clichés drawn from different genres on top of the classical base, distilled into a single Molotov cocktail of self-aggrandizement (Gesamtkunstwerk? lol). So yeah, this is Still Not For Me – Ehnahre’s The Marrow gave us a much better sense of how It should be done. (Sorry, lj & others.)
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 18 November 2020 15:58 (three years ago) link
counterpoint: ehnahre are well boring
― imago, Wednesday, 18 November 2020 16:05 (three years ago) link
AND NOW WE FIGHT!
― imago, Wednesday, 18 November 2020 16:06 (three years ago) link