Perfect Pussy--I Have Lost All Desire For Feeling

OK these guys're fucking great, btw, quite like the name now. As you were

What changed your mind?

Listened to them, loved it.

Oh and I read a couple of interviews etc too

This is def a read-along-with-the-lyric-sheet band

this is a super interesting record imo - lotsa sweet 7th chords all over which coupled with the aggression/blown-out vocals makes for a good listen - remind me of unwound kinda?

oooh unwound! i'm interested now

whiney is REAAAALLY on the warpath about this band! he hate em!!

Deafheaven finished in his top ten for 2013 so http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2013/362/3/6/lol_whatever_kane_by_idera-d6zr9n7.jpg

Well just to be snide that just makes loving them all the sweeter, he's annoying

Relentless has a negative connotation. Yes I see your point. I guess I am a family man now.

upon further review, i am creeping to the "dig it" side of the fence about the first 15 minutes of this and love the last 6-8 minutes. i didn't even make it to the last part the first time i listened.

was a strange little record.

*what not was

(After reading this thread) I have lost all desire to listen to this record

It's not bad! Though it's weird which bands seem to get randomly picked out of underground rock for acclaim... like this seems like a band I would see at a bar and be like I'm digging this but there are probably 1000 bands that are just as cool

Srsly wish I lived where you do

This album is just okay. I'll give it another listen and see if it sticks, but it's not doing much for me.

(Whoops, I was referring to their latest album.)

post here the name of a young noisy rock band that could/should be just as big as Perfect Pussy and I'll explain why PP is probably better.

"noisy rock" much like "experimental music" or is another dress-up box re-enactment society.
don't get it. you need a whipcrack tight drummer & better tunes to pull this off. all i hear is a rushed plod with shouting.
thrilled skinny.

Let There Be Shelving!!! Fine. PP fine also.

at the risk of stepping beyond anything I know about, I heard two hardcore-sounding tracks by this band and thought they sounded like Melt Banana, but less aggressive. Then I heard an indie-rock sounding song, and didn't like it. Am I missing something, or are there a ton of bands who sound like this, 99% of which are not and never will be famous?

I've tried really hard to like this record, especially in light of all the people insinuating that I'm a bad person and/or bad critic if I don't, and it still... doesn't do anything much for me. it's not awful, it just doesn't distinguish itself. it sounds like a thousand vague memories of bands I've seen at death by audio and started to check my phone ten minutes in, whose names even blur together at this point. speaking of, the band name still bugs me, the same way most cutesy-congratulatory-shocking names do.

it sounds like a thousand vague memories of bands I've seen at death by audio and started to check my phone ten minutes in

ding ding ding ding ding

this record sucks

not sold on the sound. i like that scuzzy, raw over-driven sound sometimes; just not working here, especially with the shrieking vocals. but the lyrics i've seen, mostly from the ep but a few songs from the debut, are fierce.

i want to read this album more than i want to hear it.

i think i'm with lamp on this one

Absolutely loving this, fuck why

OK actually cos I love the songs, the noise interludes, and bc they're not called "Melt Banana". Also afaik their name isn't meant to be cutesy/shocking/anything other than affriming

comparing this tepid shit to the mighty Melt Banana is fucking insane

No, it rly isn't. MB're kinda "wacky", I just don't like that

PP'RE SRS MAN

are you talking about them now? or for their whole career?

Just now, I guess. Feel free to recommend better stuff if you want

i'm just saying they've been a band since 92 and just doing this power glove synth thing for a couple years

like they used to just destroy imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgb-T2OeCG0

Yeah that's great! Still like PP better tho, I like the formlessness

Am I missing something, or are there a ton of bands who sound like this, 99% of which are not and never will be famous?

― Dominique, Monday, March 17, 2014 6:04 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

You're missing the thing that twentysomething critics have and thirtysomethings willfully ignore, and that's the idea that 285 Kent was "important" not just a place for millionaires and corporations to harvest talent and enthusiasm at the lowest level under the auspices of "DIY"

no ott

but also it really does seem like only rock critics are fucking with this band, no?

they have less than 500 Spotify followers, and their highest ranked YouTube has 80,753 views?

Zing

cmon there aren't 500 music critics left

be interested to know what attendance is like at their shows, which is a more important metric than YouTube/Spotify/record sales/unqualifiable buzz

How many tracks did they have on Spotify prior to the release of the new album? Looks like a grand total of one. So 500 followers (it's actually closer to 600 according to Spotify, but don't let that get in the way of whatever point is trying to be made here) sounds like a decent amount.

they feel to me like a band whose 'natural' record sales would be somewhere in the three-figure mark, and I mean absolutely nothing disparaging by that

selling records in the wild

Yeah they'e a live band whose sales'd build, def

You're missing the thing that twentysomething critics have and thirtysomethings willfully ignore, and that's the idea that 285 Kent was "important" not just a place for millionaires and corporations to harvest
talent and enthusiasm at the lowest level under the auspices of "DIY"

idg what you mean by this?

sorry

ok? idk it seemed like the vague outline of something interesting - more interesting than whether or not the band perfect pussy is 'actually popular' - and was curious

Wt is 285 Kent

The venue manager just posted on FB - She had her hand totally covering the mic (Sound tech and I were listening through the headphones on the desk, nae vocals)

So yeah, dunno what that was about, but it was a bit shit.

I saw them the other day in a basement and can attest that the either the mic wasn't working or the vocals were completely buried in the mix, such as it was. I heard vocals from other bands so I am assuming it's an aesthetic choice.

Perfect Vanilli

Here's some noisy video I shot of the band playing Philly a couple weeks ago...

Video

Thanks for making me put on the ep again, still love it, submerged vocals and all

opening band

Really really dislike the processing/muffling of the vocals in this band -- perfect example of once edgy thing becoming a well-worn trope.

http://collection.eliterature.org/2/extra/v2images/waterson_trope.png

Yeah, I loved the 4 song EP, but I never have the urge to play the debut album.

opening band

― rap steve (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, September 10, 2014 1:34 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I saw them the other day in a basement and can attest that the either the mic wasn't working or the vocals were completely buried in the mix, such as it was. I heard vocals from other bands so I am assuming it's an aesthetic choice.

― chr1sb3singer, Tuesday, September 9, 2014 9:57 AM (2 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ha, I had already forgotten I had seen them

I haven't, because they are the answer to "who was the shittest band you saw this year?"

I think this piece from the singer may answer some of the questions about low vocals:

http://thehairpin.com/2014/11/never-too-much/

The first time in my life that people have paid attention to what I have to say and it's threatening to take my voice away for good.

just saw them play outdoors in 19°F weather.

http://i.imgur.com/zNzxRvZ.png

overall the sound was shitty, but the vocals were as upfront as you'd expect from any band

I love the energy but my attitude toward the vocals varies - I think the effect works amazingly well on "Interference Fits" when the first thing you really understand is "since when do we say yes to love?"

homage to them in the new "House of Cards" season.

separate from the Pussy Riot stand-in or did that also reference PP? (I've only been able to half concentrate on this season, not explicitly trashy enough.)