iirc things got nasty between her and the record label
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 26 February 2021 15:43 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt0w1LDMlqcNew single "Safe Passage"
― vcrash, Wednesday, 3 March 2021 18:24 (three years ago) link
hmmm
this is a bit too cliched-80s for my liking. doubtless you'll all go apeshit. where's Brad
― imago, Wednesday, 3 March 2021 18:31 (three years ago) link
i mean it's got some lovely melodies and all but the sound is so...it's so what I said
Sony dropped her in 2017, I'm sure that slowed things down
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/laura-mvula-record-label-sony-dropped-email-a7641066.html
― akm, Wednesday, 3 March 2021 18:44 (three years ago) link
This is nice, but there's not much of a song beneath it.
Making 80s music at a time other than the 80s is a perfectly credible and legitimate thing to do and I'm tired of people pretending it isn't. Nobody ever complains about jazz sounding "too 50s" or house music sounding "too 90s." It's a choice and it's a valid one.
I'm mostly glad a bunch of people it appeals to actually frequent this place. It's one of the reasons I stay.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 4 March 2021 00:00 (three years ago) link
I mean, quit looking at it as pastiche and nostalgia mining and start looking at it as making new art with an established tool box.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 4 March 2021 00:10 (three years ago) link
Her voice is as incredible as its always been and despite the 80's production it's still undeniably her and has distinct elements of her style. I like the single, but it doesn't have a well defined hook, which is what I think the criticism is over.
I also don't get the 80's dissing. Musicians have been riffing on retro styles since there was music to be remembered. Should we jump on Todd Rundgren for copping the sound of 50's rock and 60's soul in the early 70's?
― octobeard, Thursday, 4 March 2021 07:43 (three years ago) link
otfm
― octobeard, Thursday, 4 March 2021 07:44 (three years ago) link
'new'
it's not that this is mining the 80s, it's the degree to which it sounds like a direct unaltered copy
― imago, Thursday, 4 March 2021 20:18 (three years ago) link
http://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/A17LM3kHXuL._SS500_.jpg
Album out in July, second song "Church Girl" out today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHdIqqUZLoM
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 17 March 2021 12:10 (three years ago) link
I really can't get enough of this chorus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-I5jF1fDcw
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 16 April 2021 12:12 (three years ago) link
A (Google-sponsored?) dance video and remix by Dmitri from Paris:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cHh2EAupZ0
― vcrash, Friday, 30 April 2021 16:25 (two years ago) link
And, for completeness, the Romare remix:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cdwxB7AM3o
― vcrash, Friday, 30 April 2021 16:26 (two years ago) link
came here to post that Romare remix, it’s fantastic
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Saturday, 8 May 2021 11:09 (two years ago) link
...and it isolates that chorus to mantra-like effect!xps to JF
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Saturday, 8 May 2021 11:37 (two years ago) link
"got me"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD7LMNCLbwA
― monotony, Thursday, 13 May 2021 01:51 (two years ago) link
Love this one too. What struck me most is there are some chord voicings/progressions in this song that no one has used since 1986 and lordy I've missed them. If you're going to use this toolbox, as I've alluded to upthread, use all the tools.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 13 May 2021 03:37 (two years ago) link
A video for got me, which is just as 80s as the song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJohzGzstag
― vcrash, Wednesday, 2 June 2021 14:10 (two years ago) link
latest single is a duet with the lead singer of biffy clyro (not as awful as that proposition might seem):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rX3TFjduDw
― monotony, Thursday, 17 June 2021 23:36 (two years ago) link
Listening to the whole album now. There's some variety here, but dynamically the parts that are meant to be quieter are still not quiet enough. Possibly a combination of a powerful singer and a producer afraid to go easy. Good, could've been better.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 2 July 2021 04:37 (two years ago) link
I’m finding it immensely fun though I can sense the “pastiche” critiques will come thick and fast.
― monotony, Saturday, 3 July 2021 07:42 (two years ago) link
I'm in on the "immensely fun" thing. I love it most when it reminds me of the Parachute Club album.
― glenn mcdonald, Sunday, 4 July 2021 17:25 (two years ago) link
this is good but why does the guy from biffy clyro show up lmao
― ufo, Tuesday, 14 December 2021 02:31 (two years ago) link