the elite gymnastics thread

I'll send you a telegraph

guess dude was too young for geocities

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.

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.

http://24.media.tumblr.com/b77f4dab70a2db5a61a486363c0cd0c5/tumblr_mprff1dVGa1r67k03o1_500.jpg

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

'on fraternity' is probably the only good indie rock song in years

i actually blieve that

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

^yeah that's so good. early aoty contender for me tbh.

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.

It is actually an amazing album. It reminds me of The Russian Futurists except with the best lyrics I've ever heard

whew, reading through this thread was a wild ride

Thank you for the great record, James <3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHVMdGL0kno

congrats on the new video, james

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

:P

<333333333333333333 JB

james you made an amazing album thank you

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

new album, a kind of reimagining of the previous one https://magicalpessimism.bandcamp.com/album/pain-mop-girl-2020

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...