George Clanton

I made a meme about this

https://i.imgur.com/Y107cLO.png

new one in two days

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKIKSt4m6MI

huge fan of both fenkadelic and porliament here

just killing me

yeah I still LOL at that one when I open this thread

If I was a musician and my real name was that similar to a musical household name I would have used a nom de plume

Ad and music has a happy Mondays feel

when I first heard of him I thought it was! I mean it's not like vaporwave ain't full of people calling themselves things like "Barry Seinfeld"

holy shit @ this thing's RYM rating

Rob Harvilla briefly got into the Clanton/Clinton thing on his latest podcast...

“It doesn’t matter what you think of me / You’re never gonna be the vapor king”.

Hahaha what

i like the tracks where he's going for loveless-with-synths

My facebook post about this album. It's rough but it's not like I'm being asked to write about it properly.

So, George Clanton's Ooh Rap I Ya is my AOTY, so far by a country mile. Maybe I'll soon find it's my favourite of the decade so far.

Mostly I really like there being this whole modern sphere of heartfelt musical pastiche that I don't have it in me to be at all cynical about. My favourite dance record of all time - especially in its Subsonic Grid Mix - is the Grid's Floatation. Both of ORIY's lead singles sounded like committed tributes to it, and now the rest of the album expands and progresses from that notion. The oceanic Weatherall rhythms, Balearic piano crashes - they're all present and correct and effective, but also genuinely vital sounding. Where chillwave has generally tended to sound leaden and conservative to me, it feels like Clanton's smart idea to negotiate conference between it and the music of Hypnotone, Sheer Taft, the Boy's Own crew and other likeminded thinkers from 1990 - that beautiful year of unbridled optimism and melting pot music - has finally fully realised chillwave's potential. It could even be seen as joining parts of the early, wide-eyed Saint Etienne (where A.R. Kane, World of Twist, baroque and Italo house were natural allies) with their, cough, *vaporous* contemporary selves (cf. I've Been Trying to Tell You). I'm going to really enjoy listening to this one over the year and seeing what else it is I notice it doing.

Nice post

Personally I find it very samey sounding. I liked the Esprit stuff - very effective gateway to vapor - but all of his later solo stuff has left me cold

I usually avoid hyped albums until the hype dies down a little but this one is actually very impressive.

it's a good album but i'm not blown away or anything, i don't quite get all the rym hype

i think he should have put woodwinds all over this, would have been a good vibe

solid record
think i prefer slide but deffo gonna give this a few spins

I have it a second chance and glad I did

He was the opening act for Caroline Polachek a few months ago, an amiable goof with cool pot leaf and super Mario visuals. I was surprised how much he sounded like Deftones with the heavy guitars replaced by synth drones.

Deftones is stoner music so it pans out

George would probably appreciate that comparison

I was expecting it to be way more vaporwave, but it was fun

anyway I do think white horse's review is spot on. like a lot of 100% Electronica stuff this very much feels like what music might sound like today if a different set of 90s trends really took off. I actually dig how samey his stuff is - I don't think he's repeating himself exactly but he's obviously one of those artists with a specific library of sounds. I guess this feels like Slide & 200% at once but kind of the best of both worlds. plus it sounds nice, although it's still kinda blown out in a way that makes me wonder if he has hearing damage.

saw him last night, this dude is very much enjoying being a rock star right now. crazy to think I was watching videos of him playing to like 3 people in a bowling alley nearly a decade ago. also got to meet death's dynamic shroud (well, 2 of them) and they were incredibly nice. gotta say though that might be the loudest show I've ever been to, even with earplugs in the whole time my ears are still buzzing

album is definitely mastered in the red. it seems like people are latching onto what the record wants to be (voice of a generation post vapor wave recession internet malaise reclaim the promise of the 90s type shit) than what it is (a couple solid vaporwave-pop bangers alongside some less solid efforts)

idk I don't think the record "wants to be" much more than a cool nostalgia-tinged dance record, there are tons of vaporwave albums out there which try to make grand cultural statements but this doesn't feel like one of them. I can tell you at this show it kinda felt like the times I saw LCD Soundsystem back in 2007 but it was a different type of young crowd, I mean these people were geeking out trying to pull his clothes off and shit

as far as the mastering goes I'm never quite sure if his records are actually supposed to sound that way. I always thought it was a bit like James Ferraro's lo-fi stuff where the blurriness makes you hear a lot of cool stuff that maybe isn't actually there. live it sounded awesome but yeah given the volume I can get why he masters them like that