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this stuff u_u

too bad about this guy putting his two bangers 1-2

does this really matter in 2013?

It does if you were expecting more songs rivaling the first two in greatness. It's a good album, but those two songs are clearly the high points.

does this really matter in 2013?

― queeple qua queeple (Jordan), Tuesday, February 19, 2013 4:02 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark

i dunno. it matters in any year where you're listening to an album front to back.

i mean, it matters to me, but i'm old.

trying to figure out why this record feels sort of oppressive and busy even in moments of relative sparseness...i think it's the way he sings + aggressive mastering.

yeah otm about the mastering

he can sing but it's pretty one-dimensional, kinda like the stereotype of what ~the emotional r&b voice~ is applied to every line of every song

i don't really like the concept of moments being "earned" but there's something about the structure of "play by play" that bothers me. the main hook that he repeats for 3 minutes is pretty great but it just feels like he blasts there really early without trying to properly build to it. for a track that's supposed to hit like i assume he wants it to, it feels very pro-forma.

the main hook that he repeats for 3 minutes is pretty great but it just feels like he blasts there really early without trying to properly build to it

^also a very 2013 mentality?

it's sort of like he knew the answers to the test but didn't show his work

Haha great analogy

omg this guy is so super terrible i can't believe it. its a fucking episode of glee. his music should be banned immediately.

glee comparison = he harmonizes?

yes sufjan

"ego free/sex free" is great. "play by play" is much better live.

i wonder if some people are reacting against the production occupying a middle ground between more witchy stuff and actual radio gloss, without slotting comfortably into either.

This should have been an EP, or better sequenced. By the end of the 4th song I was exhausted already and went back to Devotion.

coming around to this a bit

"ego free sex free" is the jam

been really into 'promises'

i'm gonna lose my hearing playing this song

lol @ the nsfw background of the youtube for ego free sex free https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjUQyU3esHI

Yeah, ego free sex free has been my jam from this all week.

yeah i've basically come around to this after being lukewarm to it at first and loving the album a lot

such a busy sound to this record, like Glass Swords with melisma

HE'S PLAYING IN COPENHAGEN ON 4/23, AND I'LL BE THERE!!!! HELL YEAH!!!

I'm excited. God, I can't wait to shout along to Play by Play.

yeah i think this is pretty good! i do wish it was a little less busy and more patiently/normally structured. but that's what i thought about ford & lopatin's "channel pressure" at first and i ended up loving the shit out of that

i love the opening post too

really like this

welcome

first post of this thread only makes the vaguest amount of sense to me. is this witch house?

sorry, only makes vague sense

i think the main takeaway from first post is its released on sacred bones label whose logo is a triangle

lol @ ayo hauntology

right. we dont like triangles, because of salem, or tumblr, or whatever

you should be more concerned if the first post of this thread makes complete and total sense to you.

lol

http://i46.tinypic.com/14udeeh.jpg

I like triangles, and this album.

i don't understand what this guy has to do with salem. reviving this thread to say that he is great. the best thing he's done is still the song sweetheart. i listened to that on repeat one day in fall 2011 while sitting in the public library because it made me feel like things were going to change; that i was on the precipice of a new beginning in my life. this turned out to not be true, but still, classic track: exhilarating, soulful, a unique twist on dreampop i think. the pulsing, swirling, synth background noise reminds me of my bloody valentine because it creates an effect that it manages to be expansive and claustrophobic at the same time. i want to sing along with it in the car but i can't, really.

Can't stop going back to this album.

New album coming october. First song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzFnojEjjiU

so this album rules

on & on reprise as the first track is fuckin enlightened imo

oh yeah I should listen to this

this shit is either going to soundtrack my next emotional breakdown or induce it

this is pretty cool

the last song is so massive and awesome. this is one of the more confrontational albums i've heard in a minute

The title track is exceptional.

He's back!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBA8L_zSZVE

New song is just... Okay. Doesn't feel like he's made any progress in the last seven years.

Loved his 2013 album though.

i just listened to "ego free sex free" and "play by play" for the first time since this thread was active nine years ago and i still like the former and not the latter

anxiety is a near perfect album, something very special about it

new song is fine, glad to have him back at least

This guy's thing feels very...of a time