uhh doesnt he know ur supposed to put the slam poetry in the last song
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 28 June 2016 16:12 (seven years ago) link
i thought the intro was good! appropriately tone-setting
― if young slothrop don't trust ya i'm gon' rhyme ya (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 28 June 2016 17:35 (seven years ago) link
Get ready for some think pieces
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 29 June 2016 00:51 (seven years ago) link
oh damn "E.V.P." and "Desirée" are sooooo good, definitely feeling this
― the tune was space, Wednesday, 29 June 2016 04:29 (seven years ago) link
ha i just reread this whole thread and its so good
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 29 June 2016 16:01 (seven years ago) link
Jesus, that Caramanica piece. That's what a Harvard education will buy you, I guess. "When friends like Florence Welch have concerts, he goes." Really living the NYC life to the max there.
― Position Position, Wednesday, 29 June 2016 16:16 (seven years ago) link
Man this album is so fine. 'But You' has the most lush chorus Garth Greenside hasn't written in years.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 1 July 2016 11:43 (seven years ago) link
garth greenside
― just sayin, Friday, 1 July 2016 12:14 (seven years ago) link
oh shi..
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 1 July 2016 12:15 (seven years ago) link
#blood
― ejemplo (crüt), Friday, 1 July 2016 12:18 (seven years ago) link
kinda uneven sounding to me.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 1 July 2016 13:47 (seven years ago) link
i dont' like this nearly as much as the last one, on first listen, but it might be a grower. I also haven't listened to it intently, just put it on in the house
― akm, Friday, 1 July 2016 18:12 (seven years ago) link
Don't really get the hype around this one
― yesca, Friday, 1 July 2016 18:17 (seven years ago) link
tricked into listening to some mediocre wispy pop thanks to a Carly Rae Jepsen feature, gutted
― boxedjoy, Saturday, 2 July 2016 08:56 (seven years ago) link
I can't get into this yet. On "Augustine" he sounds even duller than Solange.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 2 July 2016 14:25 (seven years ago) link
i love the single. chorus is very tame impala. though the whole thing could have been released in 1986 apart from the 90s R&B breaks.
― StillAdvance, Wednesday, 6 July 2016 16:55 (seven years ago) link
― boxedjoy, Saturday, July 2, 2016 4:56 AM (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lol adult children of teen pop
― lag∞n, Thursday, 7 July 2016 17:18 (seven years ago) link
This is a lovely-sounding record that could use more actual songs.
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Friday, 8 July 2016 20:14 (seven years ago) link
can goon be tempted out of his poochie-ass lair of irony vibes to offer an opinion on this or is the brand 2 strong
― r|t|c, Friday, 8 July 2016 20:17 (seven years ago) link
feel like i havent gotten deep enough yet will report back, does feel a lil vague tho, def hasnt grabbed me like the last one
― lag∞n, Friday, 8 July 2016 20:27 (seven years ago) link
ur poochie tho
― lag∞n, Friday, 8 July 2016 20:28 (seven years ago) link
sandras smile was so good and this is a whole diff vibe which is interesting
― lag∞n, Friday, 8 July 2016 20:31 (seven years ago) link
i really like this
― marcos, Friday, 12 August 2016 15:31 (seven years ago) link
This album is good. I think the Pitchfork review way back when is pretty OTM slotting it in alongside the D'Angelo and Kendrick. It's not about songs as such but moods and themes. I think.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 23 September 2016 15:00 (seven years ago) link
It's growing on me a bit, but still wish some of the songs tunes were as impressive as the moods, themes and what he seems to be going for.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 27 September 2016 16:43 (seven years ago) link
Saw him last week.I took a friend who went in blind, and at first all the '80s style appropriation turned him off, but by the end he was pretty convinced. It's just delivered as this weird contrast of a really talented, compelling, confident guy playing and singing like he's still insecure and trying to figure things out, as an aesthetic, which comes off a little off-kilter and incomplete. But again, by design.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 27 September 2016 17:51 (seven years ago) link
guess he has some music on the imminent solange album
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 28 September 2016 01:35 (seven years ago) link
i really love this but cupid deluxe might be better
― marcos, Monday, 31 October 2016 20:19 (seven years ago) link
im not sure
I think the Pitchfork review way back when is pretty OTM slotting it in alongside the D'Angelo and Kendrick.
oof i cringed a little when i read that review, seemed like such a cheap and easy critical move to do just bc of some political vocal samples. i love this album but i really don't see it in the same vein as the BM or TBAP, it is very different, honestly i don't even view BM in the same vein as TBAP other than major albums w/ some persona/political themes by black americans?
― marcos, Monday, 31 October 2016 20:21 (seven years ago) link
dev hynes is from london town me old china
― harold melvin and the bluetones (jim in vancouver), Monday, 31 October 2016 20:29 (seven years ago) link
i know, i was talking about d'angelo & kendrick
― marcos, Monday, 31 October 2016 20:31 (seven years ago) link
dohhh
― harold melvin and the bluetones (jim in vancouver), Monday, 31 October 2016 20:32 (seven years ago) link
dev hynes had to move to ny to learn how to be cool
― lag∞n, Wednesday, November 25, 2015 5:01 PM (eleven months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― lag∞n, Monday, 31 October 2016 20:52 (seven years ago) link
because of my friend getting a babysitting call she can't refuse, I have come into a free ticket to this guy's performance of his 'score to the easternsports art installation' tonight at the whitney. I know literally nothing about him or his music. IDK sometimes these very random opportunities are great.
― his eye is on despair-o (Jon not Jon), Friday, 3 February 2017 16:35 (seven years ago) link
That was fucking cool. Basically a continuous ~1 hr solo instrumental piece starting on piano then moving to synth then back to piano then to EWI then finishing on piano, with backing tracks but not very many of them. Reminiscences at various times of McCoy Tyner, Reich, Penguin Cafe, and Vangelis (massive sawtooth sound controlled by EWI in a slow ecstatic solo, the high point of the performance)
― his eye is on despair-o (Jon not Jon), Saturday, 4 February 2017 03:03 (seven years ago) link
Are blood orange smoothies any good
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Saturday, 4 February 2017 03:11 (seven years ago) link
bowled over by the new album
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 25 August 2018 04:02 (five years ago) link
*listens*
― 21st savagery fox (m bison), Saturday, 25 August 2018 04:29 (five years ago) link
Kind of amazed there's been so little talk about this so far. Just realized a few minutes that this exists when "Charcoal Baby" showed up on spotify radio with its incredible detuned guitar.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Saturday, 25 August 2018 19:55 (five years ago) link
have begun jamming
― sprout god (lag∞n), Saturday, 25 August 2018 23:26 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVaNFE2bb3U
WOWWW a man after my own heart
― 21st savagery fox (m bison), Saturday, 25 August 2018 23:31 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PTzbz6layI
― 21st savagery fox (m bison), Saturday, 25 August 2018 23:32 (five years ago) link
was just thinking there was some reichy marimbas on the last album so this makes a lot of sense
― 21st savagery fox (m bison), Saturday, 25 August 2018 23:33 (five years ago) link
on first listen the first half is some of his best work ever, especially Orlando, but it falls off by the end.
― ufo, Sunday, 26 August 2018 03:24 (five years ago) link
His albums always take awhile for me to really, really like. Always love what he's trying to do, but the choruses don't immediately stick
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 26 August 2018 03:39 (five years ago) link
i just love the production throughout... i think it's such a warm palette and fits his songwriting better than arrangements w more structure
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 26 August 2018 05:38 (five years ago) link
project pat on this
― sprout god (lag∞n), Sunday, 26 August 2018 06:43 (five years ago) link
production is indeed nice, but i feel like it seriously lacking in hooks compared to the previous two
― marcos, Monday, 27 August 2018 13:31 (five years ago) link
First listen was more vibes than hooks, but obviously I think I need to pay close attention to the lyrics. Not sure I'm down with all the spoken word interview interludes, but there weren't many of them, iirc.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 27 August 2018 13:32 (five years ago) link