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75 BRANDON FLOWERS "The Desired Effect" (226 points, 8 votes, 1 first place vote)Pitchfork - DNP / P&J - 150
― ulysses, Monday, 25 January 2016 15:12 (eight years ago) link
today is a write-off huh
― I remember you was vote-splitted (imago), Monday, 25 January 2016 15:12 (eight years ago) link
Lurker revolt.
― astrophagy might not be immediately obvious (Sanpaku), Monday, 25 January 2016 15:14 (eight years ago) link
jesus
― moans and feedback (Dinsdale), Monday, 25 January 2016 15:14 (eight years ago) link
Great album. I didn't know he had it in him.
― Kitchen Person, Monday, 25 January 2016 15:14 (eight years ago) link
No one ever answered my question in the other thread whether this guy is the son of Mike Flowers, but I guess he's not?
― Tuomas, Monday, 25 January 2016 15:14 (eight years ago) link
he's the cousin of Tim Flowers, Tuomas
― I remember you was vote-splitted (imago), Monday, 25 January 2016 15:15 (eight years ago) link
Tuomas Flowerrs??
― how's life, Monday, 25 January 2016 15:16 (eight years ago) link
I dunno who's that?
(Xpost)
― Tuomas, Monday, 25 January 2016 15:17 (eight years ago) link
Tuomas you've single-handedly justified this album's placement.
― Matt DC, Monday, 25 January 2016 15:17 (eight years ago) link
Some good songs on this record, but I didn't think the one that made the tracks poll was one of them.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 25 January 2016 15:18 (eight years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/v/WN2F6WQk8zk&fs=1&hl=en
some sort of metaphor whereby ILM, music, the EOY poll and Kitchen Person are played by Collymore, Flowers, the ball and the divot, but I'm not sure in which order
― I remember you was vote-splitted (imago), Monday, 25 January 2016 15:19 (eight years ago) link
hi Tuomas, Tin Flowers is your mom
― mattresslessness, Monday, 25 January 2016 15:19 (eight years ago) link
no youtubes!
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 25 January 2016 15:19 (eight years ago) link
god why do you care so much if people like cassettes
― hi-nrg candidate (crüt), Monday, January 25, 2016 10:11 AM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I think people are upset that an artist might purposefully fashion the production to sound cassette-ish as a gimmick.
― Evan, Monday, 25 January 2016 15:20 (eight years ago) link
Forks, what time are you planning on starting the proper rollout?
― the chalice with the krallice is the brew that is trv (NickB), Monday, 25 January 2016 15:20 (eight years ago) link
i love this album, surprise
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Monday, 25 January 2016 15:20 (eight years ago) link
sozzles fevesy
― I remember you was vote-splitted (imago), Monday, 25 January 2016 15:20 (eight years ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandon_FlowersEarly lifeBrandon Flowers, the youngest of six children, was born on June 21, 1981, in Henderson, Nevada, to Jean Yvonne (née Barlow) and Terry Austin Flowers.http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/x-files/images/8/86/The_Truth_Is_Out_There_tagline.jpg/revision/latest%3Fcb%3D20070529002506
― ulysses, Monday, 25 January 2016 15:21 (eight years ago) link
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actually, David Bowie said that
― moans and feedback (Dinsdale), Monday, 25 January 2016 15:22 (eight years ago) link
― Evan, Monday, January 25, 2016 10:20 AM (10 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Perhaps. Also, I lived through the cassette era. I owned several hundred of them. It's a terrible format. To see it fetishized is on par with people talking about how fun it is to suck mashed potatoes through a straw.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 25 January 2016 15:22 (eight years ago) link
that project pablo release is available on 12" too and it sounds great.
― mattresslessness, Monday, 25 January 2016 15:23 (eight years ago) link
there's a song on this record that wholesale samples "smalltown boy" how could i not love it
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Monday, 25 January 2016 15:25 (eight years ago) link
and mp3 so ppl like evan can jizz on it xp
― mattresslessness, Monday, 25 January 2016 15:25 (eight years ago) link
i am actually just getting around to transferring a number of my old cassette mixes to spotify playlists right now (#pvmic); it's a great way to rediscover old songs and evocative sequencing. there's a specific way i like to hear King Pleasure into Eddie Jefferson that brings me back to junior high
― ulysses, Monday, 25 January 2016 15:27 (eight years ago) link
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75 DICK DIVER "Melbourne, Florida" (227 points, 7 votes)Pitchfork - DNP / P&J - 129
― ulysses, Monday, 25 January 2016 15:28 (eight years ago) link
Wait what did I do?
xps
― Evan, Monday, 25 January 2016 15:28 (eight years ago) link
hadn't heard the flowers album before. assumed it would sound a lot like a killers album but it has that gaslight anthem / working class rock sound
― Mordy, Monday, 25 January 2016 15:28 (eight years ago) link
brandon flowers' great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather christopher flowers died in wiltshire in 1622
― ogmor, Monday, 25 January 2016 15:29 (eight years ago) link
I tend to be wary of cassettes, because they often combine two tendencies that I hate in music production: senseless lo-fi aesthetic (how is releasing your music on a format that objectively has worse sound reproduction capability than CD/vinyl/digi a good thing?) and indulgent retro fetishism/obscurantism.
― Tuomas, Monday, 25 January 2016 15:29 (eight years ago) link
I remember being down with the opening track on this Dick Diver album and then not liking any of the rest of it.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 25 January 2016 15:30 (eight years ago) link
project pablo record is fun, track 2 is my favorite
enjoying the lex vs. canada narrative that's developing in these threads
― ciderpress, Monday, 25 January 2016 15:30 (eight years ago) link
poll
― I remember you was vote-splitted (imago), Monday, 25 January 2016 15:30 (eight years ago) link
had "waste the alphabet" on a few playlists but hadn't got round to listening to this one yet
― nxd, Monday, 25 January 2016 15:30 (eight years ago) link
Not nuts about project pablo, but i did enjoy the cfcf and keita sano records on the same label
Made it 4 songs into Kurt vile, he sounds almost as bored as I felt
― the chalice with the krallice is the brew that is trv (NickB), Monday, 25 January 2016 15:30 (eight years ago) link
the brandon flowers album was surprisingly great
― ufo, Monday, 25 January 2016 15:32 (eight years ago) link
― mattresslessness, Monday, January 25, 2016 10:25 AM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
You realize I'm not taking any sort of position right? Was only speculating. Thought I was being pretty careful, too.
― Evan, Monday, 25 January 2016 15:33 (eight years ago) link
get over yourself
― mattresslessness, Monday, 25 January 2016 15:36 (eight years ago) link
project pablo record is fun,
yea i am digging it, idk if i'll listen to it more than once but whatever
― marcos, Monday, 25 January 2016 15:36 (eight years ago) link
uhhh
― Evan, Monday, 25 January 2016 15:36 (eight years ago) link
Dick Diver is 74 presumably? Never heard of this.
― Jeff W, Monday, 25 January 2016 15:38 (eight years ago) link
I'm liking Project Pablo too.
― Evan, Monday, 25 January 2016 15:38 (eight years ago) link
this is some limp, limp fare
― I remember you was vote-splitted (imago), Monday, 25 January 2016 15:39 (eight years ago) link
not saying you should always judge a band on their bandname but
the project pablo stands out to me because out of a lot of stuff cut from similar cloth on 1080p and mood hut, much of which is screamingly white, it is definitely more relentless with the hooks.
― mattresslessness, Monday, 25 January 2016 15:40 (eight years ago) link
ppl who meant to vote for jaonna newsom record did ctrl+f diver and made a mistake imo
― Will v. Maim (Will M.), Monday, 25 January 2016 15:40 (eight years ago) link
project pablo was def growing on me (a little) by the time brandon knocked
― I remember you was vote-splitted (imago), Monday, 25 January 2016 15:41 (eight years ago) link
speaking of white, that dick diver image is doing a good job of making me not want to listen to them ever
― mattresslessness, Monday, 25 January 2016 15:41 (eight years ago) link
You can do interesting things with tape aesthetics. Part of the appeal of early Boards of Canada was the subtle tape flanging sound weaved in that highlighted the sense of nostalgia for childhood. For me at anyrate.
However, choosing to EQ as though you forgot about the high-bias switch? Not so interesting.
― astrophagy might not be immediately obvious (Sanpaku), Monday, 25 January 2016 15:41 (eight years ago) link