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

well this exchange has managed to make me want to listen to Still House Plants so well done everyone

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.

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?

entirely vibes no actual songs

The 2020 album is good

Vibes are doing well with Big Listener atm, you know this

the vibes are nothing special either though

I mean, I've put that one off indefinitely due to the length (and dark talk of 'no songs')

it's just two hours of very alright 'hypnagogic pop'. i guess pleasant enough background music but nothing more

'it's just vibes' critique seems crazy to me, it's a record full of well written pop songs with catchy hooks!

I do feel the complaint that the Cindy Lee album is “just vibes” but uhhh isn’t that all feted hypnogogic stuff

Lil Ugly Mane - Volcanic Bird Enemy And The Voiced Concern begs to differ!

RYM also informs me that Blanche Blanche Blanche are 'Hypnagogic Pop' which I'm not completely sure about but they could write a song too yeah

also that one Surface To Air Missive side-project Dream Love. okay we're out of the realm of 'feted' at this stage

i mean ariel pink as much as i loathe to talk about him did write some very solid tunes back in his cassette days

that does remind me that the cindy lee album falls into a kinda uncanny valley with its retro reverb sound, there's this cold digital sound to it too

if Cindy Lee is not your thing, that's fine, but to say there's no actual songs there is actually insane

the “problem” with the cindy lee album is that the second half is miles better than the first, and it takes an hour to get there!

listening to the cindy lee now and enjoying it but the impeccable vibes are somewhat disrupted by listening on youtube and having tom brady pop up every 10 minutes to shill for hertz

the official youtube upload is ad free, no?

I was getting ads so now I'm downloading it

i'm listening to the one linked by pitchfork and getting ads
anyways this is very good

"this is too vibey" is the new "sounds dated"

what are the good songs on the cindy lee album? i listened to the whole thing twice and nothing really stood out at all

for a start: all i want is you, government cheque, wild one, stone faces, always dreaming, kingdom come

"stone faces," "dracula," "government cheque," "if you hear me crying," "crime of passion"

tho none are as good as last year's "in a moment divine" with freak heat waves.

sorry, confused "crime of passion" (tho i do like that one) with "durham city limit"

absolutely love government cheque. real stand out to me

Sometimes it takes me a while to get around to a band, and I get that "Why did I wait so long?" feeling. Today I finally got around to listening to Knocked Loose and instead I thought, "Ugh, really?" The riffs are just reheated Emmure, and the vocalist suuuuucks.

Whatever one might think of "Diamond Jubilee", it's pretty awesome that we still have a cultural landscape where even though we're in a year with multiple releases by massive artists (Future, Beyonce, Taylor Swift, Kali Uchis), a relatively-unknown musician can find their way into the ranks of the 'hyped', to where friends of mine with very little interest in trad indie rock have asked me about the record.

I love the Still House Plants. I was patient and let the album rewire me.

My attempt to listen to the Beyonce album did not last long. It was atrocious. The first song was just her making a bunch of awkward warbling noises for America. The second was a terribly overblown cover of Blackbird, which is possibly the Beatles's most precious and intimate song, the third had her complaining about how hard cooking, cleaning and earning $16 a day is. At that point I gave up on this billionaire. She seems to have forgotten Beyonce, the person who made great pop songs.

Kind of glad that some of the A-List artists released duds this year.

My attempt to listen to the Beyonce album did not last long. It was atrocious. The first song was just her making a bunch of awkward warbling noises for America. The second was a terribly overblown cover of Blackbird, which is possibly the Beatles's most precious and intimate song, the third had her complaining about how hard cooking, cleaning and earning $16 a day is. At that point I gave up on this billionaire. She seems to have forgotten Beyonce, the person who made great pop songs.

― a hoy hoy,

I treat it like a mixtape.

Whatever one might think of "Diamond Jubilee", it's pretty awesome that we still have a cultural landscape where even though we're in a year with multiple releases by massive artists (Future, Beyonce, Taylor Swift, Kali Uchis), a relatively-unknown musician can find their way into the ranks of the 'hyped', to where friends of mine with very little interest in trad indie rock have asked me about the record.

― Front-loaded albums are musical gerrymandering (Prefecture), Sunday, 28 April 2024 21:42 (yesterday) link

TBH it's just the magic of the p4k BNM in action. I also have friends who would have never given it the time of day if it weren't for that.

there have been a couple dozen bnms already this year, but this was the first 9+ bnm in years. which i guess still means something!

you say that like ilx doesn't jump every time pitchfork says it

i guess i missed the rapturous posting about hovvdy and 1010benja

naming your act well still has importance