this new(ish) song 'the graduates' is so great, my gf keeps playing it at at random and i'm all 'hey this is awesome, what is it' every time
― PORC EPIC SAVVAGE (imago), Friday, 10 April 2015 06:50 (nine years ago) link
this band is the best
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Friday, 10 April 2015 12:34 (nine years ago) link
really odd + refreshing sense of melody in a US pop punk context
― PORC EPIC SAVVAGE (imago), Friday, 10 April 2015 12:40 (nine years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/12/arts/music/sadie-dupuis-of-speedy-ortiz-adds-pop-hooks-to-the-bands-sharp-edges.html?_r=0
She talks about Stephen Malkmus and more...
excerpts--
For its last album, Speedy Ortiz jammed the recording of 14 songs into four days. This time, Ms. Dupuis and her bandmates — Devin McKnight on guitar, Darl Ferm on bass, Mike Falcone on drums — worked for a relatively lavish three weeks...
What do you listen to on tour?
We tour really cheap, in a minivan, and the driver decides. Clipse is probably the biggest overlap. We get so burned out on hearing rock every night that we gravitate a lot toward pop and rap...
What other singers and lyricists have influenced your writing?
Fiona Apple does things with sentences over the course of a verse that I can’t even believe. So I’ll keep that in mind: “What would Fiona Apple do?” I also sang in a children’s choir until I was 16, and we would tour internationally. I was really into stuff that was harmony-heavy because that was what I was spending 10 hours a week doing in rehearsal. I’ve always thought Beyoncé’s vocal harmonies were really weird. A lot of the stuff in the choir was really dissonant, and she’ll do that — the harmony will be in a totally different key. Another one that is obvious to me but maybe doesn’t come across is Aaliyah. There were certain things on this record where I was like: “Oh, Aaliyah wouldn’t push this. She would do it calm.” And the reverse reverb that Timbaland would apply to her vocals, we used that on a couple songs.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 13 April 2015 14:34 (nine years ago) link
That interview has me curious about their new album
― curmudgeon, Monday, 13 April 2015 14:48 (nine years ago) link
It's very good. Hear for yourself: http://www.npr.org/2015/04/12/398062996/first-listen-speedy-ortiz-foil-deer
― maura, Monday, 13 April 2015 15:14 (nine years ago) link
on the first song, this is literally bursting to throw all the melodies in your face
― PORC EPIC SAVVAGE (imago), Monday, 13 April 2015 19:54 (nine years ago) link
literally the point where postpunk emocore brad nelson music atomsmashes into imago melodyprog
― PORC EPIC SAVVAGE (imago), Monday, 13 April 2015 19:55 (nine years ago) link
first song has some serious Chavez vibes
― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 13 April 2015 19:58 (nine years ago) link
^^^yes!!!
― PORC EPIC SAVVAGE (imago), Monday, 13 April 2015 20:00 (nine years ago) link
third or fourth song the low-key intertwining verse segments remind me of Slint a bit, or Slint style interplay applied to a pop song structure
(the one that says don't ever touch my ring you fool you'll be curse for a lifetime in the chorus)
― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 13 April 2015 20:09 (nine years ago) link
there's definitely the hint of math in here, and it's way heavier than other records of its type
is this where I mention the Mitski album from last year too? check it out, srsly
― PORC EPIC SAVVAGE (imago), Monday, 13 April 2015 20:11 (nine years ago) link
not familiar w/Mitski
yeah i like this because it's definitely got great hooks and pop instincts but i hear elements the aforementioned bands, Polvo, etc that type of stuff without getting too in the capital-M math like Don Cab or A Minor Forest or whatever
guys
i love the 90s
― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 13 April 2015 20:14 (nine years ago) link
yh me too
mitski album is my homework assignment for everyone on ilx who likes punk, emo or the 90s
― PORC EPIC SAVVAGE (imago), Monday, 13 April 2015 20:21 (nine years ago) link
Mitski is so good
― flappy bird, Monday, 13 April 2015 20:31 (nine years ago) link
― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, April 13, 2015 3:58 PM (32 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
wow you weren't kidding
― call all destroyer, Monday, 13 April 2015 20:47 (nine years ago) link
how come this sounds so amazing and other indie rock records suck so much
― j., Monday, 13 April 2015 22:11 (nine years ago) link
they're trying harder
― PORC EPIC SAVVAGE (imago), Monday, 13 April 2015 22:12 (nine years ago) link
just saw Mitski w/ Screaming Females a few days ago, she was really great.
― fuck me, archipelago (Simon H.), Monday, 13 April 2015 22:13 (nine years ago) link
from now on all bands should try harder
― j., Monday, 13 April 2015 22:14 (nine years ago) link
agreed
― PORC EPIC SAVVAGE (imago), Monday, 13 April 2015 22:16 (nine years ago) link
love bands that can bring everyone together
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Monday, 13 April 2015 22:37 (nine years ago) link
mitski is touring with speedy!! so is krill <3
― maura, Monday, 13 April 2015 22:46 (nine years ago) link
love the falling-down-the-stairs drumfills in 'raising the skate'
― ciderpress, Monday, 13 April 2015 22:54 (nine years ago) link
mitski sucks
god i hate mainlander, emo bullshit with boring crunchy guitars. why didn't that trend get left in the early aughts?
i'll try speedy ortiz though
― hackshaw, Monday, 13 April 2015 22:57 (nine years ago) link
this from the genius who called pc music 'insensitive'
― PORC EPIC SAVVAGE (imago), Monday, 13 April 2015 23:01 (nine years ago) link
i mean, it is insensitive. you're talking about a bunch of upper class art school haircuts selling you their idea of the "future" in the form of j-pop theft
i'm glad you think your progressive
― hackshaw, Monday, 13 April 2015 23:05 (nine years ago) link
― j., Monday, April 13, 2015 5:11 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
YES THIS
"Foil Deer" raises the stakes (no pun intended, I swear) in the best possible ways
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 13 April 2015 23:48 (nine years ago) link
Mainlander?
― flappy bird, Monday, 13 April 2015 23:58 (nine years ago) link
Is the album as good as The Graduates?
― Van Horn Street, Monday, 13 April 2015 23:58 (nine years ago) link
"mainlander" = college rock bands situated in a local area
(my word for it)
i went on Urban Dictionary and apparently that term has offensive connotations. didn't mean that. doh
― hackshaw, Tuesday, 14 April 2015 00:00 (nine years ago) link
yes
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 14 April 2015 00:46 (nine years ago) link
Thanks for the Mitski tip. I'm a sucker for this kind of style and the songs/lyrics/persona are more distinct/memorable than most. This is what I'm hoping the new Waxahatchee album will be like (when I get around to hearing it).
― o. nate, Tuesday, 14 April 2015 01:25 (nine years ago) link
a little bit of Tilt in her voice.
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 14 April 2015 01:38 (nine years ago) link
A little bit of Liz Phair too
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 14 April 2015 03:25 (nine years ago) link
Mitski is the pure shit
― How Butch, I mean (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 14 April 2015 13:00 (nine years ago) link
it was thanks to you that we discovered her! shuffle find on the traxpoll spotify, instant liking
(this is where my gf informs me that she knew about her already or w/e but you still did well nominating her)
now back to speedy ortiz, this is one of the strongest opening salvos to an album in recent memory, 'raising the skate' is a fucking classic indie rock song already
― PORC EPIC SAVVAGE (imago), Tuesday, 14 April 2015 17:41 (nine years ago) link
god i hate mainlander, emo bullshit with boring crunchy guitars
only now listening to the mitski album and as a fan of emo bullshit with boring crunchy guitars this is a very uncharitable and inaccurate description of the record itself
it's pretty good
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 14 April 2015 18:06 (nine years ago) link
'my dead girl' is the lower-order classic on this album, based on 2 listens, but it really is all great
― PORC EPIC SAVVAGE (imago), Tuesday, 14 April 2015 18:07 (nine years ago) link
yeah "my dead girl" is amazing
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 14 April 2015 18:43 (nine years ago) link
Mitski is the core, the heart music
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 14 April 2015 18:55 (nine years ago) link
get a similar rush from this as from catherine wheel's poppier stuff
― PORC EPIC SAVVAGE (imago), Tuesday, 14 April 2015 19:05 (nine years ago) link
what kinda fuckin space-age bass drum micing technology did they cook up to record this thing
― j., Wednesday, 15 April 2015 04:31 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnUWcm6KK6c
― How Butch, I mean (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 15 April 2015 17:59 (nine years ago) link
pro mitski
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Wednesday, 15 April 2015 18:00 (nine years ago) link
hey, that's my favorite One Direction song
― rap is dad (it's a boy!), Wednesday, 15 April 2015 20:51 (nine years ago) link
this is quite possibly album of the year
― imago, Saturday, 18 April 2015 19:17 (nine years ago) link
you always say that
― j., Saturday, 18 April 2015 19:39 (nine years ago) link
every year
evidently i cannot accurately gauge your emoness
probably for the best
― mookieproof, Saturday, 26 September 2020 03:10 (three years ago) link
i'm just drunk, dude
― treeship., Saturday, 26 September 2020 03:15 (three years ago) link
lol you think i'm not?
anyway literally every other ilxor would be shocked that you, like Peter, so casually disavow your savior
― mookieproof, Saturday, 26 September 2020 03:34 (three years ago) link
lol do ppl here really think i am a death cab for cutie fan--a teenager, preserved in amber, from 2001?
― treeship., Saturday, 26 September 2020 03:38 (three years ago) link
― mookieproof, Saturday, 26 September 2020 03:39 (three years ago) link
that's cool i guess
― treeship., Saturday, 26 September 2020 03:40 (three years ago) link
there's a subset that wonders if you're cute (seriously), but if they dwelled too much on you, they'd just become misanthropes
― mookieproof, Saturday, 26 September 2020 03:50 (three years ago) link
New album sounding good. "Cry Cry Cry" is huge, one of their best.
― soup of magpies (geoffreyess), Monday, 25 September 2023 02:53 (seven months ago) link
Her voice is great but Rabbit Rabbit album songwriting seems musically formulaic to me .
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 17 October 2023 22:10 (six months ago) link