thread to dis hyped releases that you don't get/don't like/wanna complain about

Have no idea who Billy Woods is, but if u start a thread I might read it

the thread where ilxors find out who billy woods is

you really don't all need to pretend the new jessie ware single (which i've unfortunately just listened to) is good

have some standards for your pop

I don't really know Jessie Ware all that well, but the first thing I noticed about Pearls is that the bass line is very similar to This Is What They Say by Carly Rae Jepsen (off of Dedicated Side B), and that's definitely a better song.

no shade but "Jessie Ware song sounds a lot like X" is basically the first step of listening to any of her tracks

ldr sux

I've never been able to get into an Angel Bat Dawid record.

same, despite my affection for almost everything on that label. To be fair, I almost always have hang-ups with vocals on any jazz record made after 1955

I think it's that the execution doesn't measure up to the high concepts for me

more like boregenius

(am I doing this right??)

I've never been able to get into an Angel Bat Dawid record.

this record wouldn’t be hyped by any of the sensible posters on ilm but god sleep token fucking sucks

at least something occasionally happens in a coldplay song. oooooh! punked u all etc

(have already more than said my bit about this album on RYM but being mentioned in the thread is too much to resist lol)

i was afraid you were going to dis my dick ... what a relief

i listened to a few tracks and put on Juliana Hatfield instead

Did you make it to track 5 at least(??)

I’ll give it another shot

okay but what album is this

well it’s sort of fun to not say, part of the charm of this thread, but … it’s guts. there’s something extremely instagram about that record in its protools cyborg try-hard optimized vocal tic thing. I only wish I caught 90s vibes. defiantly non slacker energy

that was obvious lol, now front up and say it on the thread, I'm lonely

oh this ariana grande got some teeth, don't it.

(beats aren't even good?!)

Please join the two (2) of us in the main thread, we could use the company!!

i... (big sigh)... don't wanna be the asshole in there. i'm sorry. i don't have any real thoughts anyway; it's sza-lite. no thanks.

(but ty for the invite!)

SZA-lite is an interesting take, IMO!

not heard it yet but why is vampire weekend still such ilmcore, why must everyone agonise and theorise and give it so much energy, there is so much other music

it's like they're the rory gilmore of music or something. a+ comparison lj well done

it's an interesting album because it is full of great ideas but ends up being pretty bad in spite of that, they forgot to write actual songs

your consistent defence of interesting songwriting is always cheering, but by the same token, how great is a great idea if the execution is lame

ffs i'm going to have to listen myself and become part of the problem lol

Everyone I know is over the moon aboit the Cindy Lee album, and I am just like “huh? we went through this in the mid 2000s!”

that was 20 years ago tho

I saw someone on twitter call this album a "non-problematic Ariel Pink," and while I acknowledge that this is a reductive criticism, it is now all I can hear

to engage w/the discourse i got about three hours into the new Taylor Swift album and tapped out, i think i was only on track nine.

BNM for an album I find almost impressively irritating:

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/still-house-plants-if-i-dont-make-it-i-love-u/

(I do find myself wondering what ILM poster imago thinks of it; which may be a sign I need a long sabbatical…)

I'll check it out right away!!

Initially quite liked it, wearing off now

yeah it's a sort of slow-burn annoyance, creeps up on you and rewires you to its idiosyncrasies lol

my unhealthy provincials aversion to london accents makes its a bit of a struggle

fantastic band imo. new one is like tirzah fronting this heat. incredible expressive voice, band kind of reminds me of the dead c's improvised approach to rock, but without the distortion pedals.

lacks the focused intensity of tirzah or the swelling momentum of this heat imo - the brew is compelling but ultimately a bit too static

if anything the best moments are when it seems to fall apart, lose momentum and submit to entropy - i guess that's a vibe that works for a few tracks but over a whole album it gets a little stale

Well that's all part of improvisation, I think they just write the intros and then take it from there. I personally love the sound they have so it's all good to me.

btw imago while you're here, plz go listen to the clarissa connelly album ok? :)

haha okay okay

i am catching up with some recent folk atm in fact! that OXN is pretty good eh

(now onto harry gorski-brown, which is v promising at first contact)

band kind of reminds me of the dead c's improvised approach to rock, but without the distortion pedals.

oh I'd semi-forgotten about that whole era of bands but that is a good shout