I liked the noisy bit
― a blessing and an inspiration (flamboyant goon tie included), Saturday, 3 August 2013 05:22 (ten years ago) link
http://defaultgenders.tumblr.com/post/57247050954/name-change
― MarkoP, Saturday, 3 August 2013 16:43 (ten years ago) link
In two weeks: PostHuman
Two weeks after that: "Surprise! I was Hugo Schwyzer all along!"
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 3 August 2013 16:55 (ten years ago) link
http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20121031153246/community-sitcom/images/1/1a/Human_Being.jpeg
― some dude, Saturday, 3 August 2013 17:06 (ten years ago) link
I'm glad he changed the name.
― staind in the place where you live (crüt), Saturday, 3 August 2013 18:02 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAocvKHUidg
― markers, Saturday, 3 August 2013 18:02 (ten years ago) link
http://www.spin.com/articles/default-genders-james-brooks-on-fraternity-controversy-response/
― max, Wednesday, 7 August 2013 13:01 (ten years ago) link
this guy and grimes are frustrating because they're on point a lot of the time and obviously have a lot of shit to say, much of which is really important and timely, but when i read their tumblr posts they're so rambling and ill-thought-through (or overthought) and when i listen to their music i just want to turn it off because it str8-up sucks so much (elite gymnastics even more than grimes b/c i hear nothing of note going on there at all)
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 7 August 2013 13:14 (ten years ago) link
^ otm
they're too tumblr-y for me.
― staind in the place where you live (crüt), Wednesday, 7 August 2013 13:32 (ten years ago) link
irl kmt @
There's lot of stuff that maybe when I'm 60 and I don't give a shit, I'll write the Tumblr post to end all Tumblr posts and completely out everybody
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 7 August 2013 13:52 (ten years ago) link
the Tumblr post to end all Tumblr poststhe Tumblr post to end all Tumblr poststhe Tumblr post to end all Tumblr poststhe Tumblr post to end all Tumblr poststhe Tumblr post to end all Tumblr posts
That would just be a self-reblogged selfie.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 7 August 2013 14:09 (ten years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumbling_%28gymnastics%29
― staind in the place where you live (crüt), Wednesday, 7 August 2013 14:43 (ten years ago) link
haha he seems so sure that Tumblr will still be everywhere in the 2040s or w/e
― some dude, Wednesday, 7 August 2013 14:57 (ten years ago) link
I'll send you a telegraph
― carlos danger zone (mh), Wednesday, 7 August 2013 14:59 (ten years ago) link
guess dude was too young for geocities
― maura, Wednesday, 7 August 2013 15:10 (ten years ago) link
seems like people aren't really trying to give this guy any benefit of the doubt because stuff like this i think comes off pretty well:
And so, "On Fraternity" — it's called "On Fraternity." I don't want women to hear it and not be able to relate to it. I don't want to tell any of the women who are listening to it that your reaction to it, positive or negative, is not valid. But the purpose of "On Fraternity," in the context of the EP especially, is to call out my male peers for creating a situation where other people are victimized. I totally failed to do that. I guess if there was any reaction I was expecting, it was that the people, especially in the music industry, who are doing this stuff that's upsetting me would have a problem with it.
― usic for 18 magicians (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 7 August 2013 16:30 (ten years ago) link
How else could it be framed?Even just singing about the rape experience, that's another weird thing that's hard to talk about. Obviously women are much more vulnerable, and it's perpetrated against them much more than other demographics, but the rape experience doesn't belong to women. It's my place as a survivor of sexual assault to sing about that if I want to. I don't want to make that a big issue, because the point of "On Fraternity," like I said before, was to call out other men for creating a situation where victimization is enabled, and the silence that allows victimizers to run around and act with impunity is also something that my peers in the music industry perpetuate. So I don't want to make it about me, like, "Oh, it's about my rape experience." But it's not like I wrote those lines from a place of complete ignorance. The fact that so many people assumed that, based on my race and my gender or whatever minimal biographic information people know about me? That was the roughest part of it.
― usic for 18 magicians (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 7 August 2013 16:32 (ten years ago) link
http://24.media.tumblr.com/b77f4dab70a2db5a61a486363c0cd0c5/tumblr_mprff1dVGa1r67k03o1_500.jpg
― Dan I., Tuesday, 3 September 2013 20:30 (ten years ago) link
I didn't like his last few singles, but the new Default Genders album is okay imo: http://magicalpessimism.bandcamp.com/album/magical-pessimism-2014
Last year he posted about making a conscious decision to place his vocals higher in the mix and not process them as much, but I think that was a mistake cause his voice sounds like fucking Owl City to me lol
― Dan I., Wednesday, 30 July 2014 20:17 (nine years ago) link
'on fraternity' is probably the only good indie rock song in years
― affluent white (Lamp), Friday, 24 July 2015 19:30 (eight years ago) link
i actually blieve that
― johnny crunch, Friday, 24 July 2015 21:15 (eight years ago) link
wasn't sure if I should bump this one or start a new thread, but the new Default Genders is really doing it for me. Springsteen + breakbeats is something I never knew I needed. I also want way more music that uses Air France/Sincerely Yours stuff as a jumping off point and ends up somewhere else entirely.
https://magicalpessimism.bandcamp.com/album/main-pop-girl-2019
― fffv, Wednesday, 20 February 2019 01:34 (five years ago) link
^yeah that's so good. early aoty contender for me tbh.
― ripersnifle, Wednesday, 20 February 2019 01:42 (five years ago) link
I'm bad at articulating my thoughts on music (and I mostly lurk here as a result), but I feel like this is really special.
― fffv, Wednesday, 20 February 2019 01:43 (five years ago) link
It is actually an amazing album. It reminds me of The Russian Futurists except with the best lyrics I've ever heard
― flamboyant goon tie included, Wednesday, 20 February 2019 01:44 (five years ago) link
whew, reading through this thread was a wild ride
― james brooks, Wednesday, 20 February 2019 20:03 (five years ago) link
Thank you for the great record, James <3
― joshywinty (josh), Wednesday, 20 February 2019 21:55 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHVMdGL0kno
congrats on the new video, james
― ebro the letter (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 20 February 2019 22:15 (five years ago) link
it is i who should be thanking y'all for being willing to listen to new stuff from me in the first place
now i'm going to go and dip my head into molten lava until i burn out the memory of ever having hit play on the video whiney posted
― james brooks, Thursday, 21 February 2019 00:47 (five years ago) link
:P
― ebro the letter (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 21 February 2019 01:00 (five years ago) link
<333333333333333333 JB
― you know who deserves sitewide mod privileges? (m bison), Thursday, 21 February 2019 01:19 (five years ago) link
james you made an amazing album thank you
― flamboyant goon tie included, Thursday, 21 February 2019 02:23 (five years ago) link
absolutely love this, it's a little world I keep wanting to revisit. heart emoji xo and vietato calpestare i prati probably my favs atm
― ogmor, Tuesday, 26 March 2019 09:12 (five years ago) link
new album, a kind of reimagining of the previous one https://magicalpessimism.bandcamp.com/album/pain-mop-girl-2020
― The Cognitive Peasant (ogmor), Saturday, 2 May 2020 21:16 (four years ago) link
Jaime Brooks just surprise-dropped "the first album by elite gymnastics"!https://magicalpessimism.bandcamp.com/album/snow-flakes-2022
So far sounds like more primo breakbeat pop à la main pop/pain mop girl. Gonna have to pay close attention to these lyrics as usual...
― J. Sam, Tuesday, 18 October 2022 13:36 (one year ago) link