here's hoping the new single is more memorable than "Downhill Lullaby"― Murgatroid, Sunday, April 3, 2022 2:51 PM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Murgatroid, Sunday, April 3, 2022 2:51 PM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink
lol welp
― Murgatroid, Thursday, 26 May 2022 02:19 (one year ago) link
i like them both
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 26 May 2022 03:19 (one year ago) link
I really like this, not sure it was worth waiting a decade for but I love the bending guitars in the chorus and her voice sounds great.
― boxedjoy, Thursday, 26 May 2022 07:36 (one year ago) link
It’s too bad this stuff couldn’t have just come out as an album as opposed to drop by drop. (There are probably extenuating circumstances for why, of course.) As a mass of tunes, there would be a different feel to things.
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 26 May 2022 10:09 (one year ago) link
As it happens, listening to NTRT last weekend, first time in years, I thought, this is surely one of the decade's most powerful albums, no? One of the more searing album-long inquiries into industry exploitation.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 26 May 2022 11:56 (one year ago) link
she's still calling it masochism? i would have guessed it wouldn't be that similar to what she had planned for it way back when -- but then again based on this song, maybe it is lol
i like the song tho! it's no revelation but it's solid. btw "downhill lullaby" was great in its way and would probably be viewed more favorably if it had actually been followed with the album instead of being some random one-off thing
― dyl, Thursday, 26 May 2022 15:06 (one year ago) link
new song is like a shattered '80s synth pop song with the shards reassembled out of order, love listening to it
"downhill lullaby" still like a cigarette drag in slow motion 10/10
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 26 May 2022 15:11 (one year ago) link
"out of order" is actually the first thing i thought of when i listened to the song! it sounds like a good song with all the elements out of order
― Murgatroid, Thursday, 26 May 2022 16:45 (one year ago) link
downhill lullaby is amazing (havent listened to this yet just needed to intervene)
― xheugy eddy (D-40), Thursday, 26 May 2022 19:20 (one year ago) link
ok I listened to the new one, also great
― xheugy eddy (D-40), Thursday, 26 May 2022 20:00 (one year ago) link
downhill lullaby makes me think of bobbie gentry, 100/10
― xheugy eddy (D-40), Thursday, 26 May 2022 20:01 (one year ago) link
ooh "Don't Forget" works
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 26 May 2022 20:11 (one year ago) link
Pitchfork review swing and a miss
― xheugy eddy (D-40), Friday, 27 May 2022 17:54 (one year ago) link
it's a good song, reminds me of michael damian's version of "rock on" at times lol
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Friday, 27 May 2022 18:09 (one year ago) link
I never became a music writer for a reason, but even I would never use the phrases "pretty bland" or "rock-tinged." I guess everyone's got to start somewhere, and that's what blogspot used to be for. Is there nowhere else to practice writing now before Pitchfork hires you?
Anyway, agree with the overall assertion that it's not a great single, but whew that review.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Friday, 27 May 2022 18:54 (one year ago) link
do campus papers, esp. those for smaller schools, exist anymore or has the state of publishing + the laser-targeted focus of conservatives on post-secondary campus matters bludgeoned them into oblivion
― Murgatroid, Friday, 27 May 2022 19:11 (one year ago) link
It’s a great single imho. People are confused because it’s retro or whatever. But she clearly cares about this stuff—the purpose of the surfaces—to a greater degree than most. Lyrics are great
― xheugy eddy (D-40), Friday, 27 May 2022 19:16 (one year ago) link
I think it's great, and it made more of an impression than "Downhill Lullaby" (which I did like, but I'm sure I will appreciate more in album context if that ever happens).
― Doctor Madame Frances Experimento, LLC", Saturday, 28 May 2022 00:41 (one year ago) link
it's not a big stylistic shift from the album but the lack of hooks is
― ufo, Saturday, 28 May 2022 01:18 (one year ago) link
What “lack of hooks” lol
― xheugy eddy (D-40), Saturday, 28 May 2022 09:16 (one year ago) link
revisiting her old stuff, "lost in my bedroom" is still my favorite song of all time
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Saturday, 28 May 2022 17:40 (one year ago) link
"heavy metal heart" is the best sleigh bells song ever
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Saturday, 28 May 2022 18:30 (one year ago) link
my brief run of posts upthread where i expressed my indifference toward/hatred of night time, my time especially hilarious now that i think it's the best record of its kind, whatever that kind is, a mutation of new//wave//alt//rock so breathy and aggressive and wounded and hostile and seductively dangerous it's like a mouth in the earth opening onto hell. title track is like whatever machine made the rest of the record broke down and started producing only motion blurs. best album ever
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Saturday, 28 May 2022 18:45 (one year ago) link
i may have already said this but i expected an immaculately pretty synth-pop effort from sky and got something much grungier and more gross so it makes sense why i couldn't get my head around it at first. thank god though
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Saturday, 28 May 2022 18:46 (one year ago) link
think i also identified new wave specifically because so much of this album sounds like a blondie record that was remastered too hot (a compliment, a perfect sound)
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Saturday, 28 May 2022 18:59 (one year ago) link
OTM x1000. Very close to album of the decade for me
― J. Sam, Saturday, 28 May 2022 20:48 (one year ago) link
Japanese xmas might finally come this year
― J. Sam, Saturday, 28 May 2022 20:50 (one year ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/jun/17/i-got-robbed-of-my-20s-sky-ferreira-on-fighting-her-record-label-and-refusing-to-compromise
― ufo, Saturday, 18 June 2022 00:16 (one year ago) link
my brief run of posts upthread where i expressed my indifference toward/hatred of night time, my time especially hilarious now that i think it's the best record of its kind, whatever that kind is, a mutation of new//wave//alt//rock so breathy and aggressive and wounded and hostile and seductively dangerous it's like a mouth in the earth opening onto hell. title track is like whatever machine made the rest of the record broke down and started producing only motion blurs. best album ever― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Saturday, 28 May 2022 18:45 (three weeks ago) link
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Saturday, 28 May 2022 18:45 (three weeks ago) link
Those posts are hilarious because to me this is such a brad record.
― Tim F, Monday, 20 June 2022 00:43 (one year ago) link
Omanko is one of the most outrageous things ever to appear on a mainstream pop album? Really impressed
― imago, Saturday, 27 August 2022 20:55 (one year ago) link
Still think every song on the album is better than "Everything Is Embarrassing," which seems to be the song most people (who came late) gravitate towards. ¯\(ツ)/¯
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, 22 June 2016 05:52 (six years ago) bookmarkflaglink
otm
― imago, Saturday, 27 August 2022 22:01 (one year ago) link
Serious Madonna vibes in that latest track.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 27 August 2022 22:20 (one year ago) link
xp yeah "Omanko" is absolutely outrageous. It reminds me of Stereolab's "OLV 26" with noisier guitars. And I totally agree that every song on the album is better than "Everything Is Embarrassing"
― J. Sam, Saturday, 27 August 2022 22:45 (one year ago) link
Let’s calm down guys. We can be friends with NTMT and Everything is Embarassing.
― You can't spell Fearless without Earle (President Keyes), Sunday, 28 August 2022 00:56 (one year ago) link
Haha "Everything Is Embarrassing" is great, I just like the album more. Cool thing is we don't have to choose one or the other!
― J. Sam, Sunday, 28 August 2022 02:16 (one year ago) link
the best song on the ghost ep is "lost in my bedroom"
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Sunday, 28 August 2022 02:17 (one year ago) link
"lost in the bedroom" rules
― ufo, Sunday, 28 August 2022 02:32 (one year ago) link
Thanks to this thread revive I searched for a second-hand CD of NTMT. I thought the copy at my local record store was outrageously priced at NZ$12.95 but then checked Discogs... Oh my... Immediately added to my cart.
The vinyl prices are next level. Discogs at its best.
― The Ghost Club, Sunday, 28 August 2022 05:08 (one year ago) link
Took me a decade to be aware of it, but this album is pretty cool. Wish I had been aware back then, 25 year old me would’ve loved it.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 29 August 2022 14:36 (one year ago) link
fascinated by 'moka and imago discover iconic & canonical ilx artists theyve ignored extensive threads on for years'
― xheugy eddy (D-40), Monday, 29 August 2022 17:27 (one year ago) link
jk its not that fascinating
― xheugy eddy (D-40), Monday, 29 August 2022 17:28 (one year ago) link
is there a purpose for these comments or do you just enjoy being snarky at the idea of other posters enjoying something for the first time?
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Monday, 29 August 2022 17:38 (one year ago) link
I mean her follow-up album is allegedly coming out finally sometime this year, so the revive was appropriate either way.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 29 August 2022 18:30 (one year ago) link
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Monday, August 29, 2022 12:38 PM (fifty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
idk, theres like pages of ppl talking about why they like a thing and imago stumbles in like "I deem this great, now that its entered my line of sight" a decade later on multiple threads...its kind of grating & self important
― xheugy eddy (D-40), Monday, 29 August 2022 18:35 (one year ago) link
setting aside whatever beef you have with imago, it just makes this place seem less inviting when we're shitting on people for being enthusiastic about a thing in the appropriate thread just because it's arbitrarily deemed the wrong time. it's easy enough to just ignore if it isn't pleasing to you.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Monday, 29 August 2022 18:50 (one year ago) link
Is it really that different if I had posted “this is a cool album” 10 years ago? By that metric every time anyone on ilm has expressed excitement or approval of an album they’re being grating and self-important.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 29 August 2022 18:53 (one year ago) link
Is it me, or does she look like the love child of Debbie Harry and Kristen Stewart?
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 29 August 2022 18:58 (one year ago) link
It kind of wouldn’t be ILM at this point if we didn’t have imago arriving on various threads at least once a year after a big poll to bestow his canonical blessings like an off-planet Soto who’s been thawed out from cryogenic deep freeze.
― Tim F, Monday, 29 August 2022 19:00 (one year ago) link
Xpost: yes, but she has that chameleonic model thing where depending the era and the photoshoot she looks like different people. I’ve seen photos of her where she also reminds me of Rihanna.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 29 August 2022 19:12 (one year ago) link
Also reminds me of Katherine Langford in some photos.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 29 August 2022 19:17 (one year ago) link