ON ACID
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Thursday, 12 November 2015 06:53 (eight years ago) link
and with a lisp.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 12 November 2015 07:14 (eight years ago) link
xpost
*wink*wink*THUD*THUD*
― Cousin Slappy, Thursday, 12 November 2015 16:04 (eight years ago) link
YOU DID US ALL, COUSIN SLAPPY!
― avant-garde, sissy bounce, zombie rave, aquacrunk, warlock, oceangrunge, (imago), Thursday, 12 November 2015 16:05 (eight years ago) link
Title track reminds me of Is there a name for that genre of turn-of-the-90s pop-rock with the positive vibes, huge guitar leads, and gated drums?.
― jaymc, Thursday, 12 November 2015 16:07 (eight years ago) link
I have listened to this album a few more times and like it more (indeed there are many hooks !) but although I find it fun, skillful and effective, there's still nothing as charming and touching as her previous stuff for me.That said, my favourite song by her is "Vanessa" and I haven't really loved anything from her since Visions so I guess she's just going in a different direction, which is perfectly fine.
basically I agree with this post :
since my initial bleh reaction (apart from a few songs) i've been listening to it a few times a day and more of it is clicking. i can't help but think that i'll always prefer Visions, though, if only because Visions sounds like an album that only she could have made. it's tough for me to get as excited about art angels because it feels like her contribution to a universe that's already populated with other people's songs that use a similar sonic vocabulary.― Karl Malone, mardi 10 novembre 2015 23:37 (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Karl Malone, mardi 10 novembre 2015 23:37 (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
funny thing : my favourite thing from Artangel so far is the little instrumental bit at the beginning of "Butterfly" !
― AlXTC from Paris, Thursday, 12 November 2015 16:18 (eight years ago) link
the one bit she didn't make herself
― ogmor, Thursday, 12 November 2015 16:21 (eight years ago) link
yes I know !That said, I'm exaggerating. there are plenty of other cool moments on the album.
― AlXTC from Paris, Thursday, 12 November 2015 16:29 (eight years ago) link
― jaymc, Thursday, November 12, 2015 11:07 AM (37 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah, these are exactly the kind of reference points I was looking for -- where *rock* guitar is used in that very pop-specific sort of way, often sounding very compressed and lighter in the mix than it would be in a rock record
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Thursday, 12 November 2015 16:47 (eight years ago) link
love this album but i feel like opening the album with california and scream is a misstep.. always skip the first three songs when i listen
― George W. Lucas (diamonddave85), Thursday, 12 November 2015 16:51 (eight years ago) link
fwiw, flesh isn't about the mediawithout getting into specifics, it's about other musicians― james brooks, Tuesday, November 10, 2015 8:25 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
without getting into specifics, it's about other musicians
― james brooks, Tuesday, November 10, 2015 8:25 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
so it has to be about Blood Diamonds then? did they have a falling out? or maybe just other musicians giving her grief over "Go" and attributing that Blood Diamonds?
― the grimes of claire boucher ('90s on) (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 12 November 2015 18:40 (eight years ago) link
btw not asking anyone who actually knows to go into specifics. just wondering if this is common knowledge.
― the grimes of claire boucher ('90s on) (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 12 November 2015 18:44 (eight years ago) link
fwiw she's playing "phone sex" and "go" at every show on her current tour
― flappy bird, Thursday, 12 November 2015 18:47 (eight years ago) link
going to see her on wednesday!
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 12 November 2015 19:00 (eight years ago) link
is james brooks grimes?
― dynamicinterface, Thursday, 12 November 2015 19:11 (eight years ago) link
no, he's james brooks
― μpright mammal (mh), Thursday, 12 November 2015 19:12 (eight years ago) link
she brought out blood diamonds on one of her shows recently, def not him. is it that interesting though?
― Leonard Pine, Thursday, 12 November 2015 19:19 (eight years ago) link
it is interesting if you're wondering if there'll be more collaborations
― the grimes of claire boucher ('90s on) (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 12 November 2015 19:20 (eight years ago) link
between those two artists specifically. not in general. there will always be more collaborations.
― the grimes of claire boucher ('90s on) (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 12 November 2015 19:21 (eight years ago) link
There was that quite public exchange of words with Ariel Pink, I hope it's about him if it means they'll never collaborate because he sucks
― Leonard Pine, Thursday, 12 November 2015 19:25 (eight years ago) link
otm
― the grimes of claire boucher ('90s on) (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 12 November 2015 19:26 (eight years ago) link
Win Butler reviewed it, so the matter is settled:
Pop traditionally tries to recreate the world the listener already lives in, just with bigger cartoon eyes and soft corners on the tables. If you’re the victim, you’re always righteous; if you’re the aggressor, you’re always just. Weirdo music (I use the term broadly) creates its own esoteric world – makes up its own constants to plug into the physics equations that determine whether life ever evolves on the planet.
In Art Angels, Grimes is coming, to a large extent, from the world of 2000s pop, but she creates a giant, esoteric, viable world teeming with all sorts of poisonous Jurassic life.
My problem — my personal problem — is that I grew up prejudiced against 2000s pop, and that the atmosphere of the Jurassic period has the wrong ratio of elements for my organism. I’m more Cretaceous.
I appreciate and admire Art Angels. That sounds lame — no, it’s like how Orthodox Jews and devout Mormons get along. “I respect your devotion, and you probably understand me better than, say, anyone else on this F train — but I really, really don’t care that much about your Jesus. High fives on father Abraham, though.”
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 12 November 2015 19:41 (eight years ago) link
flesh without blood is about pc music
― George W. Lucas (diamonddave85), Thursday, 12 November 2015 19:41 (eight years ago) link
win butler sounds like an asshole tbqf
― marcos, Thursday, 12 November 2015 19:44 (eight years ago) link
ok "will butler" nm
― marcos, Thursday, 12 November 2015 19:45 (eight years ago) link
Who the fuck is this Will/Win/Won't Butler. Apart from a colossal cockfarmer.
― La Düsseldork (Branwell with an N), Thursday, 12 November 2015 19:47 (eight years ago) link
He is more Cretaceous than a cockfarmer
― the grimes of claire boucher ('90s on) (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 12 November 2015 19:49 (eight years ago) link
take so hot it ended the cretaceous period
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Thursday, 12 November 2015 19:52 (eight years ago) link
can't wait for Carlos D's review in the guardian
― the grimes of claire boucher ('90s on) (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 12 November 2015 19:52 (eight years ago) link
What the actual fuck does that first paragraph even mean?
― La Düsseldork (Branwell with an N), Thursday, 12 November 2015 19:54 (eight years ago) link
you're living in the Triassic Period, Branwell
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 12 November 2015 19:55 (eight years ago) link
Not sure why this guy's take is so important he needs to write all those words about how he's personally unwilling to engage with the record on its own terms and that's just how it is
― Leonard Pine, Thursday, 12 November 2015 19:56 (eight years ago) link
just generating some content for TheTalkHouse
― the grimes of claire boucher ('90s on) (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 12 November 2015 19:58 (eight years ago) link
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― the grimes of claire boucher ('90s on) (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 12 November 2015 19:59 (eight years ago) link
In “Scream,” there’s angry joy at how well the pieces fit together. It feels like solving a murder. It feels like Elijah calling down fire on the priests of Baal. (So: Elijah and the priests are in a sacrifice-off. They each have a cow on the altar, and they’re trying to call down fire from their god to light it. And the priests can’t do it and Elijah’s like, “What’s the matter? Is your god asleep? Is he taking a crap?” and then he’s like, “Pour water on my logs. Do it again. Do it again.” And then he’s like “BOOM” and the fire comes down from the heavens, and then he’s like, “Now let’s murder these assholes.” It’s so extreme.)But on the other end, the song “Artangels” brings up the same suspicions I feel about “She Moves in Mysterious Ways.” I just keep wondering if the funkiness is justified.
But on the other end, the song “Artangels” brings up the same suspicions I feel about “She Moves in Mysterious Ways.” I just keep wondering if the funkiness is justified.
itt the arcade fire accuses both grimes and bono of unjustified funkiness
― denies the existence of dark matter (difficult listening hour), Thursday, 12 November 2015 20:02 (eight years ago) link
let's murder this asshole
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 12 November 2015 20:07 (eight years ago) link
srsly there's nothing worse than Bible stories given the fifth-rate Andrew Dice Clay paraphrasing nursery rhymes routine.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 12 November 2015 20:08 (eight years ago) link
i didn't know this was a genre until today but i am ready to agree!
― denies the existence of dark matter (difficult listening hour), Thursday, 12 November 2015 20:09 (eight years ago) link
Oh. He is in Arcade Fire? Never mind, that is punishment enough.
― La Düsseldork (Branwell with an N), Thursday, 12 November 2015 20:09 (eight years ago) link
christ, who is this asshole - the sheriff of funkingham?
― gabba cadaver (NickB), Thursday, 12 November 2015 20:25 (eight years ago) link
thank u
― welltris (crüt), Thursday, 12 November 2015 20:26 (eight years ago) link
jesus this Butler review really wants me to like this album
hope Claire comes with an answer
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 12 November 2015 22:12 (eight years ago) link
to be fair that's not the best song on 'achtung baby', i'd reserve that honor for "you were talking about the end of the world" or "like a fly on the wall"
― nomar, Thursday, 12 November 2015 22:17 (eight years ago) link
wantingneedingwaitingfor grimesto justify the funk
― gabba cadaver (NickB), Thursday, 12 November 2015 22:18 (eight years ago) link
Didn't he say "2000s pop"? I guess Achtung Baby came out in 2001 after all.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 12 November 2015 22:21 (eight years ago) link
a propos of nothing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryOMCA8J30o
― avant-garde, sissy bounce, zombie rave, aquacrunk, warlock, oceangrunge, (imago), Thursday, 12 November 2015 22:33 (eight years ago) link
srsly there's nothing worse than Bible stories given the fifth-rate Andrew Dice Clay paraphrasing nursery rhymes routine.― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, November 12, 2015 12:08 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, November 12, 2015 12:08 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
It reads like he's watched some Drunk History and is picturing Will Forte as Elijah, making the paraphrasing funny.
― the grimes of claire boucher ('90s on) (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 12 November 2015 22:34 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjw3WWGmTQU
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Thursday, 12 November 2015 22:43 (eight years ago) link
listened to this on a walk tonight. it was damn nice.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 12 November 2015 22:59 (eight years ago) link