I salute your trying, imago. Sometimes it’s just impossible to get there.
(I don’t think I’ve ever heard the band in question. Eventually.)
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 16 February 2022 00:47 (two years ago) link
but the 1975 at their best gain power from being stylistically all over the place, and making these big sprawling unpredictable albums that work pop-rock angles in hypermodern, unusual ways
are CHVRCHES doing...that too? just in a way that's subtler?
as I say I am massively sympathetic to some of their ingredients (the cure and aereogramme being associated acts, and garbage, whose first album is absolutely my shit!) and How Not To Drown is indeed really good, but I can't bring the rest into focus...yet
― imago, Wednesday, 16 February 2022 00:51 (two years ago) link
not really, which is why i wouldn't have expected you to love it
― ufo, Wednesday, 16 February 2022 01:02 (two years ago) link
If anything about this debate was useful for me it was when Brad highlighted their emo influences so matter-of-factly—a connection I'd never made myself—which explains why I like almost nothing about them. Not that I needed a reason, but it bothered me not to have one.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, 16 February 2022 02:43 (two years ago) link
the CHVRCHES album is more mining one vein to superb effect imo - I also would not guess imago would like it based on what I usually see you champion
― Vinnie, Wednesday, 16 February 2022 05:33 (two years ago) link
(added the apple playlist to the OP)
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 16 February 2022 05:39 (two years ago) link
incoming: more of number 41:
PLAY WITH THE CHANGES REMIXEDARRIVES SEPTEMBER 16THCLICK THE LINK TO PRE-ORDER NOW🦋 https://t.co/MLsvZnHKx4 pic.twitter.com/jSBoCtoKBO— R O J O (@Rochelle_Jordan) July 26, 2022
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 26 July 2022 19:38 (one year ago) link