https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOF2pjm9_IE
― giraffe, Tuesday, 10 January 2023 09:05 (one year ago) link
"worth the wait, sounds great" sez my sister (had to text her first thing). i agree!
― fleeting art that floats! (geoffreyess), Tuesday, 10 January 2023 14:29 (one year ago) link
great video now, too
― fleeting art that floats! (geoffreyess), Tuesday, 10 January 2023 14:30 (one year ago) link
I love her smokey voice.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 10 January 2023 14:30 (one year ago) link
Her voice has changed, though this is to be expected after such a long time - 24 years since the last album. It sounds deeper (in more ways than one).
― giraffe, Tuesday, 10 January 2023 14:56 (one year ago) link
sorry i'm this guy-
funny that all it takes is one classic band releasing something new to remind me how shit most other music is.
way too early in the year for such a definitive banger.
kiss me while the world decays.
― i'd rather do music and chill tf out (Austin), Tuesday, 10 January 2023 14:57 (one year ago) link
p sure ben + tracey live on this street
https://i.imgur.com/NOp1ZaQ.jpeg
― i'd rather do music and chill tf out (Austin), Tuesday, 10 January 2023 15:00 (one year ago) link
Wow this sounds great! Her voice has changed slightly - yeah a bit deeper - but I actually think it sounds better.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 10 January 2023 15:29 (one year ago) link
when her voice first hit, i have to admit i was a taken aback. it's changed a lot, even since record - but that was over 4 years ago (unbelievably!).
― kiss me while the world decays (Austin), Tuesday, 10 January 2023 15:46 (one year ago) link
but she sounds absolutely beautiful on this. my god.
― kiss me while the world decays (Austin), Tuesday, 10 January 2023 15:47 (one year ago) link
Perfect return. So classy and understated. Can't wait for the album.
― kitchen person, Tuesday, 10 January 2023 16:00 (one year ago) link
Awesome.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 10 January 2023 16:01 (one year ago) link
I love it.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 10 January 2023 16:05 (one year ago) link
wanted to sing "tessio" over this as it played which means it's about as good as music can be
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 10 January 2023 16:07 (one year ago) link
well i can't listening to anything but everything but the girl today
love that charles hayward plays drums on eden
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 10 January 2023 20:50 (one year ago) link
Love the new single, it’s like the pop song each member of The XX has been trying to make for 10 years
― Tim F, Tuesday, 10 January 2023 21:11 (one year ago) link
I played their Back to Mine mix last night and when Stars All Seem To Weep came on I thought it sounded so much like EBTG, and in particular, Hatfield 1980 and the Temperamental album. I've just gone to look at the details on The Stars All Seem to Weep and it appears Ben Watt is credited with 'Beats', so yeah, explains why it sounds so much like EBTG.
New songs is fantastic, had it on repeat for about half an hour this morning.
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 10 January 2023 22:12 (one year ago) link
This is a nice surprise
― calstars, Wednesday, 11 January 2023 04:22 (one year ago) link
it's pretty good but it's funny that it sounds like what they would have made about a decade ago if they'd never gone away
― ufo, Wednesday, 11 January 2023 04:54 (one year ago) link
Love it. Tracey’s voice has evolved. I’m not sure I would have recognized her if I just heard the “kiss me while the world decays” bit. We’ve waited 24 years but they could hurry up already with the whole album.
― that's not my post, Wednesday, 11 January 2023 05:27 (one year ago) link
I'm v impressed.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Wednesday, 11 January 2023 06:05 (one year ago) link
I wasn't familiar with the band at all, but one week was all I needed to listen to Amplified Heart, Eden, Temperamental, and Walking Wounded. Easy quality listening. Now I have the missing link between Bossa Nova and Roisin Murphy. With a little bit of Sade too.
― Nabozo, Friday, 13 January 2023 13:51 (one year ago) link
speaking of bossa nova: beautiful mid-90s live version of Corcovado recorded for Red Hot & Rio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PA8Pv_gTjLg
― that's not my post, Friday, 13 January 2023 16:01 (one year ago) link
approximately 30 seconds into that new single i realised this will win the '23 albums poll, and there's nothing any of us can do about it
― imago, Saturday, 11 February 2023 11:31 (one year ago) link
(i like it tbf! i wouldn't have said that if i didn't)
― imago, Saturday, 11 February 2023 11:32 (one year ago) link
(but it does tick every single ILM box in triplicate lol)
― imago, Saturday, 11 February 2023 11:34 (one year ago) link
Saw the video for the new song. The cynic in me wants to call out EBTG for using these young people in the video, as if to conceal the fact that the artists themselves are in their seventh decade.
― Melomane, Saturday, 11 February 2023 13:57 (one year ago) link
Shoot a fan edit and move the setting to a retirement home
― calstars, Saturday, 11 February 2023 14:17 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEK6U2nRO24
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 22 February 2023 14:39 (one year ago) link
lol are they allowed to be doing this???
― up and down. SO FAST! stay together.💙 (Austin), Wednesday, 22 February 2023 14:52 (one year ago) link
LET ME IN
― up and down. SO FAST! stay together.💙 (Austin), Wednesday, 22 February 2023 14:54 (one year ago) link
nice
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 22 February 2023 14:56 (one year ago) link
i like it even more than "nothing left to lose" and when it gets to the reprise of "all the stars aligning, shimmering shining" ... okay, yeah. they clearly did.
― up and down. SO FAST! stay together.💙 (Austin), Wednesday, 22 February 2023 15:14 (one year ago) link
Not as keen on this one so far but NLTL was great.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Wednesday, 22 February 2023 15:33 (one year ago) link
And I'm sittin', sittin' at the top of the stairsAnd you're cryin' out on the towpath by the riverWith all the swans and all the people walking by
And all of a sudden I'm stuck with an urge to unlock a doorWith a key that's too big for my handsAnd I drop it, and it falls at your feetCome on, come on, it's there at your feet
― Shard-borne Beatles with their drowsy hums (Chinaski), Wednesday, 8 March 2023 20:10 (one year ago) link
and I neeeveeeerrr
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 8 March 2023 21:17 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lo9b4buZCNo
― ufo, Tuesday, 14 March 2023 21:48 (one year ago) link
holy shit her deepening voice suits a piano ballad as much as it does the dance tracks.
― the very juice and sperm of kindness. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 14 March 2023 21:51 (one year ago) link
Wow that’s an awesome tune her new voice is perfect
― that's not my post, Wednesday, 15 March 2023 01:08 (one year ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/mar/10/everything-but-the-girl-on-their-unlikely-return-this-life-came-into-our-music-we-didnt-have-control-over-it
this is a good read too
― ufo, Wednesday, 15 March 2023 01:13 (one year ago) link
On Sunday, the release date of Eden in 1984 will be as close to the end of World War II as it is to the present date.
― Portsmouth Bubblejet, Wednesday, 15 March 2023 06:03 (one year ago) link
"Run a Red Light" is fantastic. So from that Guardian article where they talk about using autotune to distort her voice, is that why it sounds so much deeper than it ever has? I don't know if I've ever heard it used to this effect.
― Chris L, Wednesday, 15 March 2023 08:26 (one year ago) link
her voice has just deepened a lot with age, it was pretty deep on her last solo album too
― ufo, Wednesday, 15 March 2023 12:07 (one year ago) link
I was thinking her Christmas album was fairly recent but I just saw it came out a little over a decade ago.
― Chris L, Wednesday, 15 March 2023 12:21 (one year ago) link
Good interview.
― the very juice and sperm of kindness. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 15 March 2023 13:42 (one year ago) link
3 for 3
― ''can be prusuaded to show gayness'' (Austin), Wednesday, 15 March 2023 14:07 (one year ago) link
probably gonna be the best album ever
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 15 March 2023 14:16 (one year ago) link
most likely, yeah
― ''can be prusuaded to show gayness'' (Austin), Wednesday, 15 March 2023 15:01 (one year ago) link
If y'all haven't read Thorn's Bedsit Disco Queen, drop everything.
― the very juice and sperm of kindness. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 15 March 2023 15:06 (one year ago) link
My copy of this came today ^^^.
― Shard-borne Beatles with their drowsy hums (Chinaski), Monday, 20 March 2023 15:44 (one year ago) link