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Preoccupations (formerly known as Viet Cong) album is out on Spotify. I really love their new sound, especially the way they treat the vocal tracks. I don't think it's as good as their previous album but it's a great listen! https://open.spotify.com/album/1BedrXdH4el7fWWIYMC99N Silver Apples also have a new album on Spotify today that's about 100 times better than I was expecting. I love this dude! If you don't know Silver Apples, stop whatever you're doing and listen to their self-titled debut https://open.spotify.com/album/3VZpIoEv5y68viqapa3ZJV edit: oh god i love silver apples Polo-Rican fucked around with this message at 20:31 on Sep 16, 2016 |
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Also new Kishi Bashi is out. It's p good. I like how he's expanding his sound.
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turnip kid posted:the guy they kicked out of The Flaming Lips. yeah that narrows it down to like ten people
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Fenech-Soler is an awesome electro pop band who have a new single out today, Kaleidoscope: https://youtu.be/3NacHRonI_w It's bouncy and positive and cool. Sounds a bit like a Phoenix song. It's part of a 4 track EP, also out today on the usual services.
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Nice will definitely get the reissue of Fuzzy Logic.
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Hashtag Banterzone posted:I bought 2 weekend passes to ACL Weekend 2, but my Austin buddy that I'm crashing with just told me he can only do the first weekend. I managed to get weekend 1 tickets but I paid out the nose =/ I still got the passes and I'll take face value ($255 each). PM me if interested.
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Hashtag Banterzone posted:I still got the passes and I'll take face value ($255 each). PM me if interested. I may know someone who's looking for tickets. I'll let you know my man, gonna ask around.
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Gorillaz are currently posting a sort of timeline of their releases on Twitter and Instagram. Oh boy, could this be it?
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Dugong posted:Gorillaz are currently posting a sort of timeline of their releases on Twitter and Instagram. Oh boy, could this be it? Has it honestly been 6 years? Yeah! Hoping fo a Demon Days caliber record
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Julien Baker eat your heart out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb2Sh9MBDIc
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Anyone have thoughts RE: the new Okkervil River and Local Natives albums? I like them both fine. New OR has some tracks that I'd put up against anything they've done; "Days Spent Floating (In the Halfbetween)" is absolutely gorgeous. As for LN, Sunlit Youth also has some good tracks that recall their earlier work; maybe a few songs that are a bit too arena-ready, but they're catchy.
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Very surprised Pitchfork didn't get around to reviewing Sunlit Youth, but they had press about it the entire time. They seem to have been doing that more and more lately though, less indie "rock" music reviews, more R&B and synth pop. As for the album I like it, has some great tracks.. but overall not as good as the other two (I actually like Hummingbird the best).
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Sometimes I wonder whether Pitchfork sits on certain albums for several days past their release dates because they don't care for them, but don't want to poo poo on the artists, either. They haven't reviewed the new OR yet, too. E: Oh, poo poo I missed that. Didn't see it in Metacritic at first. Real Name Grover fucked around with this message at 16:15 on Sep 21, 2016 |
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Real Name Grover posted:Sometimes I wonder whether Pitchfork sits on certain albums for several days past their release dates because they don't care for them, but don't want to poo poo on the artists, either. They haven't reviewed the new OR yet, too. Yeah they have actually: http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/22288-away/
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Dugong posted:Gorillaz are currently posting a sort of timeline of their releases on Twitter and Instagram. Oh boy, could this be it? Here's hoping! Time to reimmerse myself in their discography.
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T Bowl posted:Julien Baker eat your heart out: Aww you got my hopes up.
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Polo-Rican posted:Preoccupations (formerly known as Viet Cong) album is out on Spotify. I really love their new sound, especially the way they treat the vocal tracks. I don't think it's as good as their previous album but it's a great listen! it's really disappointing that they caved in on the naming issue. kind of ridiculous that anyone would get so loving worked up over it. new album is great, though
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justbread posted:it's really disappointing that they caved in on the naming issue. kind of ridiculous that anyone would get so loving worked up over it. Being bothered by a band not being huge assholes about a dumb name is even more ridiculous. Preoccupations is a loving terrible name though
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T Bowl posted:Very surprised Pitchfork didn't get around to reviewing Sunlit Youth, but they had press about it the entire time. They seem to have been doing that more and more lately though, less indie "rock" music reviews, more R&B and synth pop. i enjoy the new album also but i have just accepted that they'll probably never release another as good as hummingbird unless somebody elses mom dies and someone else quits the band
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Henchman of Santa posted:Being bothered by a band not being huge assholes about a dumb name is even more ridiculous. we can all breathe a sigh of relief now that a bunch of pissy white twentysomethings can move on and find something else to be offended by and don't get me wrong, I respect their decision to change the name considering it was actually affecting their careers / ability to book shows. I just think the exaggerated response to their name choice was loving stupid
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please excuse me while I finish writing this strongly worded letter to Ian Curtis
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Shoulda changed their name to National Liberation Front.
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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justbread posted:we can all breathe a sigh of relief now that a bunch of pissy white twentysomethings can move on and find something else to be offended by The only major criticisms I saw came from actual Vietnamese people but sure, it's just those drat white SJWs.
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Henchman of Santa posted:The only major criticisms I saw came from actual Vietnamese people but sure, it's just those drat white SJWs. Same. Minnesota has a pretty substantial southeast Asian population, and that includes Vietnamese people. One of my best friends came over at age 6. His father was in the South Vietnam Army, so yeah Viet Cong is still a raw rub.
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Viet Cong is a bad and insensitive band name. I'm not sure how anyone with any empathy or knowledge of history could disagree.
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justbread posted:we can all breathe a sigh of relief now that a bunch of pissy white twentysomethings can move on and find something else to be offended by This is the worst Hot Take I've ever read.
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CLAM DOWN posted:Viet Cong is a bad and insensitive band name. I'm not sure how anyone with any empathy or knowledge of history could disagree. I don't recall arguing that it wasn't an insensitive name, nor did I claim that Viet Cong is the high water mark of band names. is it unreasonable that someone might agree that it wasn't a great name, but still express disappointment that they were basically forced to change it out of threat of having their shows cancelled or protested? Maybe I'm a sociopath  idk sorry for the derail I guessedit: preoccupations is a good album / bad band name, and I'm glad they emerged from this controversy better off than the Morning Benders did snack soul fucked around with this message at 19:04 on Sep 22, 2016 |
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I grew up in a scene with a bunch of intentionally offensive band names (e.g., The PLO, Ancient Chinese Penis, The poo poo Whores, Ricky Retardo), and to me the most baffling thing is that you'd pick that sort of name in the first place if you're the kind of person/band who wasn't actively trying to piss people off. Doing something so deliberately provocative and then saying "oh poo poo apparently we provoked people" is just hard for me to grasp.
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Trig Discipline posted:I grew up in a scene with a bunch of intentionally offensive band names (e.g., The PLO, Ancient Chinese Penis, The poo poo Whores, Ricky Retardo), and to me the most baffling thing is that you'd pick that sort of name in the first place if you're the kind of person/band who wasn't actively trying to piss people off. Doing something so deliberately provocative and then saying "oh poo poo apparently we provoked people" is just hard for me to grasp. They're Canadians born long after the Vietnam War ended. I don't think most young people get what the VC actually did.
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Maybe, but I guess I have a hard time understanding how you could be so loving dumb as to not google your own band name.
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Henchman of Santa posted:They're Canadians born long after the Vietnam War ended. I don't think most young people get what the VC actually did. What did they do, apart from defend their country against the vast tendrils of US imperialism?
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Empire of the Sun - High and Low video out now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntlpTad3PLM 
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I know a lot of people find Dirty Projectors' style annoying but I think their new single Keep Your Name is worth a listen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9tbusKyvMY Context: Amber Coffman broke up with David Longstreth and left the band recently. ------ Kishi Bashi's new album is all over the place in the best way possible. Huge step up from Lighght, and I actually really enjoyed that one too. bowser fucked around with this message at 22:48 on Sep 24, 2016 |
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I love the hell out of Dirty Projectors, thanks!
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Cyril Sneer posted:Empire of the Sun - High and Low video out now This is catchy and perfectly listenable but every song by these guys is almost exactly the same.
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Cyril Sneer posted:Empire of the Sun - High and Low video out now I like this a lot, thank you!
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Who the hell finds Dirty Projectors annoying? gently caress that.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zW_ath9-Y0E New Luke Haines song (he was in The Auteurs and Black Box Recorder). His solo albums are pretty hit or miss, but I think i'm going to like this one.
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T Bowl posted:Who the hell finds Dirty Projectors annoying? gently caress that. I have tried introducing people to their music a few times and got bad reactions every time. I love 'em, tho so yeah, gently caress the haters!
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