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Shunkymonky
Sep 10, 2006
'sup
Whilst the video is pretty stupid, I've been constantly playing this song by Melbournian Alyx Dennison to push through a breakup and I must share it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJC7WBgYYOw

Now as you lie next to me
Its not of me you dream
There is love in the room
It's not you loving me
I try hard not to breathe
So that you can sleep
If that isn't me loving you I don't know what it could be

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FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

In all seriousness I hope we get another Elastica album. Or just let their lead singer guest on a Breeders album.

a shitty king
Mar 26, 2010
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dX6LL7b8Y0

New Titus Andronicus.

WHOOPS
Nov 6, 2009

SgtScruffy posted:

I saw Matt & Kim last night, and drat do they put on an energetic and enthusiastic live show.

They are kinda cringey though because a lot of the audience banter was Matt basically saying "KIM HAS A NICE rear end HEY KIM TWERK A BUNCH FOR THE PEOPLE ISNT HER rear end NICE EVERYONE?"

maybe Matt thinks they are still filming the music video for Get It?

Slandible
Apr 30, 2008

I'm seeing Matt and Kim this week and a bit worried what it might be. Their new album was pretty disappointing, and some of the banter you guys are talking about sounds pretty cringey. Is their set list pretty balanced out, or just loaded with the new album?

Slandible fucked around with this message at 00:11 on May 18, 2015

Ass Catchcum
Dec 21, 2008
I REALLY NEED TO SHUT THE FUCK UP FOREVER.
IMO Matt and Kim are great openers but boring headliners.

CRINDY
Sep 23, 2010

forget about ur worries and ur strife

Slandible posted:

I'm seeing Matt and Kim this week and a bit worried what it might be. Their new album was pretty disappointing, and some of the banter you guys are talking about sounds pretty cringey. Is their set list pretty balanced out, or just loaded with the new album?

Most of the setlists available from this latest tour indicate 6 songs from Lightning and 5 from New Glow out of about 17-18, so you're probably out of luck.

Relevant to recent discussion: Matt and Kim were dope when I saw them live, but that was nearly 5 years ago at this point. I was probably second or third from the rail at Metric's NYC Synthetica album release show and they loving ruled, even though the majority of the show was stuff I hadn't heard more than two or three times at that point. They did "Empty" and "Dead Disco" and the place loving erupted.

New music discussion: the new Hot Chip record drops Tuesday and it's really great, probably right under "In Our Heads" for their second-best record so far. The album closer slays, it just keeps building.

Ass Catchcum
Dec 21, 2008
I REALLY NEED TO SHUT THE FUCK UP FOREVER.
In our heads is considered their best? Good for them. I loved the albums before that but just never got into that one

Avalanche
Feb 2, 2007
Just a reminder that this is coming out in a couple hours:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxBVUL-6DJY

Mt. Modular
May 18, 2006

rear end Catchcum posted:

In our heads is considered their best? Good for them. I loved the albums before that but just never got into that one

Agreed. It's good, but in a world where The Warning and Made in the Dark exist, I'm surprised to hear anyone call that one their best.

CRINDY
Sep 23, 2010

forget about ur worries and ur strife

Mt. Modular posted:

Agreed. It's good, but in a world where The Warning and Made in the Dark exist, I'm surprised to hear anyone call that one their best.

i'm a fan of the late-era stuff more than the early (and it's very possible i'm on the wrong side), but Joe Goddard himself said "In Our Heads" was his favorite so far. http://noisey.vice.com/blog/rank-your-records-hot-chip-joe-goddard

I mean, if you like any Hot Chip, you'll like Why Make Sense. It's an expansion of the computerization they used on "IOH", pushing it further into different styles. The rap on Love Is The Future is probably the low point, but even that kinda fits. The live drums on the title track also blew me away. It's fun and detailed - basic Hot Chip but good Hot Chip.

Polo-Rican
Jul 4, 2004

emptyquote my posts or die
If you search for Joanna Newsom on Spotify, you get exactly one track - The Muppet Show Theme. I wonder if this is a bug or working as intended.

T Bowl
Feb 6, 2006

Shut up DUMMY
Joanna Newsom's shtick got really loving old really fast and i'd be amazed if people actually listened to her music for an real length of time past release.

Ass Catchcum
Dec 21, 2008
I REALLY NEED TO SHUT THE FUCK UP FOREVER.
I have never listened to her. I have one friend who thinks her album Y or whatever is one of the best records ever made. what do you think her sctick is?

Chamberk
Jan 11, 2004

when there is nothing left to burn you have to set yourself on fire
Have One On Me is a bit much, even if it is brilliant. Ys was pretty perfect.

T Bowl
Feb 6, 2006

Shut up DUMMY

rear end Catchcum posted:

I have never listened to her. I have one friend who thinks her album Y or whatever is one of the best records ever made. what do you think her sctick is?

Listen to her singing and you'll get it. The music itself is very orchestral and lush usually and she bases it all around the harp, however her singing gimmick to me personally gets old real quick. To each their own.

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

I don't think it's a gimmick, I think that's just her voice.

OhSnapGangsta
Jun 24, 2006

All the arms we need are for hugging

FactsAreUseless posted:

I don't think it's a gimmick, I think that's just her voice.

If you watch videos of her performing, she definitely is contorting her face into unnatural positions to make the sounds.

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

OhSnapGangsta posted:

If you watch videos of her performing, she definitely is contorting her face into unnatural positions to make the sounds.
Good, unnatural positions are awesome. Vocalists should be weird.

T Bowl
Feb 6, 2006

Shut up DUMMY

FactsAreUseless posted:

Good, unnatural positions are awesome. Vocalists should be weird.

Should be? Hmm, I don't think that makes very much sense. And no, no one 'naturally' sings the way she does, especially if they are a fully grown person.

She's just overrated as hell is all I am saying and her voice is nails on a chalkboard to me, gently caress the lush arrangements otherwise.

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

T Bowl posted:

Should be? Hmm, I don't think that makes very much sense. And no, no one 'naturally' sings the way she does, especially if they are a fully grown person.

She's just overrated as hell is all I am saying and her voice is nails on a chalkboard to me, gently caress the lush arrangements otherwise.
"Boy, I sure do like indie music, but only if everyone sounds normal, like Coldplay, or Mumford and Sons."

T Bowl
Feb 6, 2006

Shut up DUMMY

FactsAreUseless posted:

"Boy, I sure do like indie music, but only if everyone sounds normal, like Coldplay, or Mumford and Sons."

Indie music is the norm now.... so what's your point? It's not some ultra creative genre mostly, it's formulaic music based on traditional rock.


Thanks for putting words in my mouth, do you listen to black metal? Do you like the guttural growls? Man you must listen to Maroon 5 if you don't.

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

T Bowl posted:

Indie music is the norm now.... so what's your point? It's not some ultra creative genre mostly, it's formulaic music based on traditional rock.


Thanks for putting words in my mouth, do you listen to black metal? Do you like the guttural growls? Man you must listen to Maroon 5 if you don't.
I exclusively listen to black metal versions of Maroon 5 songs.

T Bowl
Feb 6, 2006

Shut up DUMMY
Weekend Nachos has a Weezer cover album out, get on it.

uggy
Aug 6, 2006

Posting is SERIOUS BUSINESS
and I am completely joyless

Don't make me judge you
Her voice is not that weird at all on ys or have one on me.

Polo-Rican
Jul 4, 2004

emptyquote my posts or die

OhSnapGangsta posted:

If you watch videos of her performing, she definitely is contorting her face into unnatural positions to make the sounds.

Is this true? Can anyone confirm this?? Not sure if I can enjoy her music, now that I know that she possibly made a Face while singing it...

OhSnapGangsta
Jun 24, 2006

All the arms we need are for hugging

Polo-Rican posted:

Is this true? Can anyone confirm this?? Not sure if I can enjoy her music, now that I know that she possibly made a Face while singing it...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbdAVoIJzIk

She looks like she is recreating the troll face meme.

Dodoman
Feb 26, 2009



A moment of laxity
A lifetime of regret
Lipstick Apathy
It doesn't sound like english half the time she's singing.

T Bowl
Feb 6, 2006

Shut up DUMMY

Polo-Rican posted:

Is this true? Can anyone confirm this?? Not sure if I can enjoy her music, now that I know that she possibly made a Face while singing it...

He was pointing to the way her face and throat move as proof of her faux pixie elf thing being forced unnatural singing for her, not that the appearance of it determined opinion.

This rabbit hole has officially jumped the shark. I'm out.

Ass Catchcum
Dec 21, 2008
I REALLY NEED TO SHUT THE FUCK UP FOREVER.
Yeah she's pretty contrived.

The Black Stones
May 7, 2007

I POSTED WHAT NOW!?
Sorry to distract from this weird singer conversation, but Madisen Ward and the Mama Bear's album came out Tuesday. It's great, go buy it. Yellow Taxi is a fantastic song.

LateToTheParty
Oct 13, 2012

The bane of my existence.

The Black Stones posted:

Sorry to distract from this weird singer conversation, but Madisen Ward and the Mama Bear's album came out Tuesday. It's great, go buy it. Yellow Taxi is a fantastic song.

Don't apologize. Thanks for informing the the thread about an album from a really underrated band.

LateToTheParty fucked around with this message at 04:08 on May 21, 2015

Snooze Cruise
Feb 16, 2013

hey look,
a post

T Bowl posted:

faux pixie elf thing

Fey, you could have just said fey you uneducated fool.

Snooze Cruise
Feb 16, 2013

hey look,
a post
That is like describing something as a Dracula Nosferatu thing, or a ET ALF thing, or a Harry and the Andersons Yetti thing.

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

mr.capps posted:

Fey, you could have just said fey you uneducated fool.
Bjorkian is the word you're looking for. As in "drat, Thom Yorke's 'The Eraser' is Bjorkian as hell, what with the electronic sounds and moaning."

T Bowl
Feb 6, 2006

Shut up DUMMY

mr.capps posted:

That is like describing something as a Dracula Nosferatu thing, or a ET ALF thing, or a Harry and the Andersons Yetti thing.

It's Harry and the Hendersons and Yeti, :colbert:.

Real Name Grover
Feb 13, 2002

Like corn on the cob
Fan of Britches
Destroyer is back :dance:

"Dream Lover"

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

And yet Swan Lake remains dead.

Real Name Grover
Feb 13, 2002

Like corn on the cob
Fan of Britches
Of course it is; Spencer Krug never does anything for more than a few years, and more power to him.

That being said, Kaputt and Five Spanish Songs were great so I'm all for Bejar keeping it up

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FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

Real Name Grover posted:

Of course it is; Spencer Krug never does anything for more than a few years, and more power to him.

That being said, Kaputt and Five Spanish Songs were great so I'm all for Bejar keeping it up
I like Swan Lake and New Pornographers so I feel like I should like Destroyer, but they never grab me. Where should I start? They have about 20 albums.

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