I do like that somehow she managed to make her music even more sparse sounding.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 7 October 2021 04:34 (two years ago) link
Songs like “crepuscular rays” doesn’t even sound like a song it’s like two filtered things bouncing back and forth in a manually controlled loop. It’s kind of pretty but I can’t shake that feeling of dread…
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 7 October 2021 04:37 (two years ago) link
Living in South London the past few years, I feel that Tirzah and her broader milieu of collaborators like Mica Levi, Coby Sey, Dean Blunt, CURL, etc. really capture the overall feeling here during these times, and then the UK in general... so yeah, that the new one is dreadful and nightmarish makes perfect sense to me.
― MikoMcha, Friday, 8 October 2021 07:37 (two years ago) link
This live video with Coby Sey and Mica Levi has made it click for me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jip3cc7AzT8
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 15 October 2021 23:37 (two years ago) link
I love this way more than anything else I've heard from her.
― boxedjoy, Wednesday, 27 October 2021 16:07 (two years ago) link
I'm sad this latest album doesn't seem to be everybody's thing, that's ok, but I adore it. As was said above it does seem to portray the vibe in S London, if not the rest of the UK (not at all sure about the latter tbh) Voted it very high in this year's poll but I guess it may not place.
― kraudive, Friday, 21 January 2022 21:14 (two years ago) link
Oh it will definitely place.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 21 January 2022 21:23 (two years ago) link
this is hilarious and beautiful
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4LvpaAUr04
1471 · Babyfather ft. Tirzah
― corrs unplugged, Tuesday, 15 November 2022 14:50 (one year ago) link
New Tirzah + Mica Levi song for charity as Taz & Meeks is great. I don’t think it will be available on streaming services:
https://sibin.bandcamp.com/album/s-b-n-vol-1
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 18 February 2023 00:23 (one year ago) link
I’m still head over heels for DEVOTION. It’s a very alienating yet sweet record.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 2 June 2023 03:44 (ten months ago) link
Oh yeah btw revive because I got noted there was a new Tirzah video.
A brilliant live perfomance half robot half tirzah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iikd4QgRQ94
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 2 June 2023 03:49 (ten months ago) link
new album! fantastic so far
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 5 September 2023 16:29 (seven months ago) link
Loved it on the first listen, the decision to use one beat for all songs is bold but wow
― ˈʌglɪɪst preɪ, Tuesday, 5 September 2023 16:52 (seven months ago) link
Ha, that was the first thing I noticed, I haven't listened enough to decide whether that's a dealbreaker or not. Was this all recorded in one marathon session or what?
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Tuesday, 5 September 2023 17:32 (seven months ago) link
apparently not
trip9love…??? is the third album from Tirzah, produced by long-time musical collaborator Mica Levi.It was written and recorded at both their homes and various corners of South East London and Kent. After several recording sessions over roughly a year, eventually the music suddenly came into a sound that they wanted to follow. The tracks were built using piano loops on top of one beat, distortion added, then romantic vocal toplines. Poems centre on themes of love, both real and imagined. The world the record finds space in is a lazy club fantasy zone.
It was written and recorded at both their homes and various corners of South East London and Kent.
After several recording sessions over roughly a year, eventually the music suddenly came into a sound that they wanted to follow. The tracks were built using piano loops on top of one beat, distortion added, then romantic vocal toplines. Poems centre on themes of love, both real and imagined. The world the record finds space in is a lazy club fantasy zone.
― Number None, Tuesday, 5 September 2023 19:42 (seven months ago) link
the production on trip9love is absolutely phenomenal. such interesting use of samples. kind of claustrophobic and spacey at the same time
― tremolo, Wednesday, 6 September 2023 10:11 (seven months ago) link
wait this is sounding great
― imago, Wednesday, 6 September 2023 13:17 (seven months ago) link
official massive endorsement
― imago, Wednesday, 6 September 2023 14:14 (seven months ago) link
then again it was listened to while walking around the streets of the aforementioned south london, which perhaps gave it an advantage lol
― imago, Wednesday, 6 September 2023 14:15 (seven months ago) link
album rules probably her best so far
― your original display name is still visible (Left), Wednesday, 6 September 2023 14:17 (seven months ago) link
Tirzah and Mica are on some other level shit.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 6 September 2023 16:46 (seven months ago) link
damn I agree with louis .. ahh well cant win them all
― xheugy eddy (D-40), Wednesday, 6 September 2023 17:45 (seven months ago) link
every so often an album comes along that literally everyone on ilx agrees about
― imago, Wednesday, 6 September 2023 17:46 (seven months ago) link
really unique melodic sensibility that doesn't feel mawkish or sentimental, I dig the use of repetition, rides a cool line between 'does this work' and 'wow this is good'
― xheugy eddy (D-40), Wednesday, 6 September 2023 17:46 (seven months ago) link
feels like a very private ley line to the musical core
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 7 September 2023 01:09 (seven months ago) link
It does one thing and does it well, there's surprising texture from few elements, but this is a little of an atmospheric blur at first listen I must say. I am probably not sold on the monochromatic drabness with occasional light and distortion.
Does anybody see a continuity between her and Erika de Casier (besides being both liked here) ?
― Nabozo, Thursday, 7 September 2023 14:22 (seven months ago) link
They’re almost inversions of each other in my mind — se casier is very dynamic and derivative (tone:neutral) in her melodic sensibility whereas this feels almost like an exercise in melodic experimentalism
I don’t remember much of this album after I listen to it but I remember that I had a good time while I was there
― xheugy eddy (D-40), Thursday, 7 September 2023 15:37 (seven months ago) link
I hear more of an aesthetic similarity to some Dean Blunt ‘s work.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 12 September 2023 00:40 (seven months ago) link
the big difference is de casier is making pop and tirzah isn't. a vague similarity at best
― ufo, Tuesday, 12 September 2023 01:34 (seven months ago) link
De casier has no hits so what exactly does that mean… I thought ppl liked her use of certain retro surfaces (g funk two step etc) that feels more indie than anything
― xheugy eddy (D-40), Tuesday, 12 September 2023 02:33 (seven months ago) link
I think I agree with them being inversions. Sure they’re both rooted on some alt pop/r&b thing but while Erika’s music is very dynamic with glossy production and filled with arrangements, Tirzah’s music is very skeletal, minimal and lo-fi.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 12 September 2023 02:37 (seven months ago) link
The repeated beat makes this feel like a riddim album, I was getting Rhythm & Sound ‘See Mi Yah’ vibes. My only complaint is that it doesn’t appear on EVERY track.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 12 September 2023 07:16 (seven months ago) link
the entropy into shoegaze nightmare is so gorgeously managed tho!
― imago, Tuesday, 12 September 2023 14:25 (seven months ago) link
de casier has written hits for newjeans now even if she has none of her own... but come on lol. de casier writes very direct classic r&b melodies, her music is accessible and full of hooks. tirzah is much more left-field even if she's got a bit of an r&b influence
― ufo, Tuesday, 12 September 2023 14:37 (seven months ago) link
I think we’re agreeing on the same thing? Tirzah and Erika being day and night, 180 degrees separated.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 12 September 2023 15:33 (seven months ago) link
To elaborate, I feel a similarity in them both fighting monotony / lethargy / numbness, both sounding like they're inside a glass wall in claustrophobic or ghostly spaces, a reliance on repetition until nuance and details accidentally appear, songs that are slow and minimal, monochromatic or pointillistic or "midi", or still the way they're using whispers or the tendency to hide into the music. I don't know, I also find De Casier skeletal. Obviously there are big differences as well, de Casier sticks closer to r&b, Tirzah is in an abstract space of her own.
Feeling the Tirzah much more on second listen btw.
― Nabozo, Tuesday, 12 September 2023 19:05 (seven months ago) link
loving that fuzz sound on 2DICUV, so thick! hearing some similarities with the DJ Python/Ana Roxanne album
― NickB, Tuesday, 12 September 2023 19:42 (seven months ago) link
de casier's 'hits' for new jeans ... come on now.
― xheugy eddy (D-40), Tuesday, 12 September 2023 21:04 (seven months ago) link
Is the album actually out? Have seen September and November release dates for it?
― djh, Saturday, 16 September 2023 19:56 (seven months ago) link
Digital only until November
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Saturday, 16 September 2023 20:26 (seven months ago) link
Ta, Moodles.
― djh, Saturday, 16 September 2023 21:27 (seven months ago) link
Colourgrade is such a great album too, there´s nothing quite like it
― groovemaaan, Sunday, 17 September 2023 19:24 (seven months ago) link
Weird, I have just noticed that the album is not true lossless on Apple Music? Compare the size to the other albums I have downloaded on my phone. Not that I really mind given the overall lofi quality, just curious
https://i.imgur.com/2UvwzSu.jpg
― ˈʌglɪɪst preɪ, Saturday, 23 September 2023 15:51 (six months ago) link