(have already more than said my bit about this album on RYM but being mentioned in the thread is too much to resist lol)
― imago, Monday, 11 September 2023 22:20 (eight months ago) link
i was afraid you were going to dis my dick ... what a relief
― sarahell, Tuesday, 12 September 2023 05:18 (eight months ago) link
i listened to a few tracks and put on Juliana Hatfield instead
― Vapor waif (uptown churl), Sunday, 17 September 2023 03:35 (seven months ago) link
Did you make it to track 5 at least(??)
― my brain goes aahhhh (morrisp), Sunday, 17 September 2023 03:42 (seven months ago) link
I’ll give it another shot
― Vapor waif (uptown churl), Sunday, 17 September 2023 13:47 (seven months ago) link
okay but what album is this
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Sunday, 17 September 2023 13:50 (seven months ago) link
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
― Vapor waif (uptown churl), Tuesday, 19 September 2023 13:35 (seven months ago) link
that was obvious lol, now front up and say it on the thread, I'm lonely
― imago, Tuesday, 19 September 2023 13:43 (seven months ago) link
oh this ariana grande got some teeth, don't it.
(beats aren't even good?!)
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Wednesday, 13 March 2024 23:52 (two months ago) link
Please join the two (2) of us in the main thread, we could use the company!!
― Hippie Ernie (morrisp), Thursday, 14 March 2024 00:11 (two months ago) link
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.
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Thursday, 14 March 2024 00:32 (two months ago) link
(but ty for the invite!)
SZA-lite is an interesting take, IMO!
― Hippie Ernie (morrisp), Thursday, 14 March 2024 00:45 (two months ago) link
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
― imago, Thursday, 4 April 2024 16:16 (one month ago) link
it's like they're the rory gilmore of music or something. a+ comparison lj well done
― imago, Thursday, 4 April 2024 16:17 (one month ago) link
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
― ufo, Thursday, 4 April 2024 16:17 (one month ago) link
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
― imago, Thursday, 4 April 2024 16:23 (one month ago) link
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!”
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Sunday, 21 April 2024 11:18 (three weeks ago) link
that was 20 years ago tho
― brimstead, Sunday, 21 April 2024 15:43 (three weeks ago) link
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
― Paul Ponzi, Sunday, 21 April 2024 16:34 (three weeks ago) link
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.
― omar little, Tuesday, 23 April 2024 03:35 (three weeks ago) link
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/
― rendered nugatory (morrisp), Tuesday, 23 April 2024 04:59 (three weeks ago) link
(I do find myself wondering what ILM poster imago thinks of it; which may be a sign I need a long sabbatical…)
― rendered nugatory (morrisp), Tuesday, 23 April 2024 05:02 (three weeks ago) link
I'll check it out right away!!
― imago, Tuesday, 23 April 2024 05:41 (three weeks ago) link
Initially quite liked it, wearing off now
― imago, Tuesday, 23 April 2024 06:42 (three weeks ago) link
yeah it's a sort of slow-burn annoyance, creeps up on you and rewires you to its idiosyncrasies lol
― imago, Tuesday, 23 April 2024 07:53 (three weeks ago) link
my unhealthy provincials aversion to london accents makes its a bit of a struggle
― devvvine, Tuesday, 23 April 2024 08:30 (three weeks ago) link
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.
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Tuesday, 23 April 2024 10:46 (three weeks ago) link
lacks the focused intensity of tirzah or the swelling momentum of this heat imo - the brew is compelling but ultimately a bit too static
― imago, Tuesday, 23 April 2024 10:49 (three weeks ago) link
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
― imago, Tuesday, 23 April 2024 10:50 (three weeks ago) link
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.
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Tuesday, 23 April 2024 10:59 (three weeks ago) link
btw imago while you're here, plz go listen to the clarissa connelly album ok? :)
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Tuesday, 23 April 2024 11:00 (three weeks ago) link
haha okay okay
i am catching up with some recent folk atm in fact! that OXN is pretty good eh
― imago, Tuesday, 23 April 2024 11:02 (three weeks ago) link
(now onto harry gorski-brown, which is v promising at first contact)
― imago, Tuesday, 23 April 2024 11:04 (three weeks ago) link
band kind of reminds me of the dead c's improvised approach to rock, but without the distortion pedals.
― rendered nugatory (morrisp), Tuesday, 23 April 2024 14:10 (three weeks ago) link
oh I'd semi-forgotten about that whole era of bands but that is a good shout
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Tuesday, 23 April 2024 14:38 (three weeks ago) link
"whole era of splattery noise bands" i meant to type
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Tuesday, 23 April 2024 14:40 (three weeks ago) link
many xps This Harry Gorski-Brown is great! If our job is to reduce everything, this is like Richard Dawson lobbing a molotov into a Wednesday-night folk club.
― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Tuesday, 23 April 2024 14:45 (three weeks ago) link
well this exchange has managed to make me want to listen to Still House Plants so well done everyone
― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 23 April 2024 14:48 (three weeks ago) link
I've not listened to a minute of Still House Plants but the conversation has made me think they sound like Life Without Buildings. I'll make like Colonel Poo and go see.
― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Tuesday, 23 April 2024 14:50 (three weeks ago) link
really do not get the hype around the cindy lee album because it's never any better than ok? who possibly needed 2 hours of this?
― ufo, Thursday, 25 April 2024 06:26 (three weeks ago) link
entirely vibes no actual songs
― ufo, Thursday, 25 April 2024 06:29 (three weeks ago) link
The 2020 album is good
― imago, Thursday, 25 April 2024 08:08 (three weeks ago) link
Vibes are doing well with Big Listener atm, you know this
― imago, Thursday, 25 April 2024 08:09 (three weeks ago) link
the vibes are nothing special either though
― ufo, Thursday, 25 April 2024 08:12 (three weeks ago) link
I mean, I've put that one off indefinitely due to the length (and dark talk of 'no songs')
― imago, Thursday, 25 April 2024 08:17 (three weeks ago) link
it's just two hours of very alright 'hypnagogic pop'. i guess pleasant enough background music but nothing more
― ufo, Thursday, 25 April 2024 08:19 (three weeks ago) link
'it's just vibes' critique seems crazy to me, it's a record full of well written pop songs with catchy hooks!
― devvvine, Thursday, 25 April 2024 08:39 (three weeks ago) link
I do feel the complaint that the Cindy Lee album is “just vibes” but uhhh isn’t that all feted hypnogogic stuff
― Tim F, Thursday, 25 April 2024 09:15 (three weeks ago) link
Lil Ugly Mane - Volcanic Bird Enemy And The Voiced Concern begs to differ!
― imago, Thursday, 25 April 2024 09:25 (three weeks ago) link