grrrr fuck this 12" extended dub mix of 'no to love' where is the proper song???
― r|t|c, Thursday, 16 August 2012 17:51 (twelve years ago) link
i repeat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqwEPbS71ME
― r|t|c, Thursday, 16 August 2012 17:52 (twelve years ago) link
― r|t|c, Thursday, August 16, 2012 11:51 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Hmm? Are you saying they included the 12" extended dub mix on the actual album?
also yeah still don't like the rap verse
― heiswagger (rennavate), Thursday, 16 August 2012 19:46 (twelve years ago) link
i was inferring that that's what it sounds like it is in comparison to the live renditions
― r|t|c, Thursday, 16 August 2012 20:13 (twelve years ago) link
rtc do you mean the slight over-emphasis in her singing? the way she sort of says "doncing" in 110 per cent annoys me a bit.
This is the usual hazard for posh stage school types trying their hardest not to sound American.
I like this album a lot more than I expected to after the mimsiness of 110%, although serious rolleyes at Tim Jonze's review in the Guardian being all "LOOK, not bland winebar toss, she likes dubstep and Julio Bashmore!" when the best moments are are where the, ahem "UK bass" influence gets out of the way and lets the song breathe a bit.
I've only just heard Finest Moments for the first time. Did they hammer this during victorious video montages during the Olympics because it feels like it's been consciously written for them.
― Matt DC, Friday, 17 August 2012 10:11 (twelve years ago) link
jonze also uses Springsteen as a negative reference point for no discernible reason other than he just wanted to take a shot at Springsteen, bizarre
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 17 August 2012 10:36 (twelve years ago) link
Whether Ware's early experience as a football reporter – even covering matches for the Jewish Chronicle – helped her hone a simple, direct style is impossible to say. What's undeniable, though, is the fact that Ware has the sweetest vocal style yet to emerge from anyone who previously attended the crucial Boreham Wood v Arsenal XI friendly.
He's trying really hard to be Alexis Petridis bless him.
― Matt DC, Friday, 17 August 2012 10:45 (twelve years ago) link
Best New Music on PFM.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 17 August 2012 14:56 (twelve years ago) link
and yet i can't find a copy that isn't the stream yet. sigh
― twinkin' and drinkin' and ready to fly (Alex in Montreal), Friday, 17 August 2012 16:28 (twelve years ago) link
it's out there
― Number None, Friday, 17 August 2012 16:30 (twelve years ago) link
but like, not for purchase?
― twinkin' and drinkin' and ready to fly (Alex in Montreal), Friday, 17 August 2012 16:32 (twelve years ago) link
i think it's officially released on the 20th
― Number None, Friday, 17 August 2012 16:34 (twelve years ago) link
baby in our wildest moomins
― r|t|c, Monday, June 18, 2012 8:36 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lol u fucker, ruined it
― goole, Friday, 17 August 2012 16:49 (twelve years ago) link
No it's out that way too, Alex. Holler at me.
― heiswagger (rennavate), Friday, 17 August 2012 17:08 (twelve years ago) link
no i meant. it's not available for purchase.
― twinkin' and drinkin' and ready to fly (Alex in Montreal), Friday, 17 August 2012 17:10 (twelve years ago) link
i was LOOKING for it on legal purchase type places and it's not out. but it's been reviewed. which confused me.
― twinkin' and drinkin' and ready to fly (Alex in Montreal), Friday, 17 August 2012 17:11 (twelve years ago) link
probably means it'll be out next week? The reviews are in advance of the album.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 17 August 2012 17:11 (twelve years ago) link
hm. yeah. p4k confused me b/c b/c normally p4k reviews come out when albums do and not with advanced lead times. no?
yeah i think p4k wanted to make sure it was ahead of others on this one
― heiswagger (rennavate), Friday, 17 August 2012 17:12 (twelve years ago) link
which is cynical maybe but still
i tracked it down tho
― twinkin' and drinkin' and ready to fly (Alex in Montreal), Friday, 17 August 2012 17:19 (twelve years ago) link
i really love the first & last tracks on this
― a hoy hoy heat (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 19 August 2012 04:39 (twelve years ago) link
Released on the 20th, apparently:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/wwhf
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 19 August 2012 21:06 (twelve years ago) link
wau @ the guitars in "Night Light." It's like an early eighties Stevie Nicks song.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 19 August 2012 21:49 (twelve years ago) link
i'm still trying to digest this. some of this (mostly the tracks already released) are like "greatest shit ever" territory... but some of the album tracks fare better than others. there's a weird loudness to some of them that kinda puts me off. all that said, still easily my #2 album of the year so far.
― a hoy hoy heat (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 19 August 2012 21:56 (twelve years ago) link
I don't like the title track as much as you -- it's all overtones.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 19 August 2012 21:57 (twelve years ago) link
what's your #1 J0rdan?
― Number None, Sunday, 19 August 2012 21:59 (twelve years ago) link
i think it's a good opener... "taking in water" is probably the one i fuck w/ the least, and "no to love" is a bit on the nose
― a hoy hoy heat (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 19 August 2012 21:59 (twelve years ago) link
xp frank ocean, pretty easily. new miguel & new xx albums are the only ones on the horizon that i can see unseating it
holy shit @ at the cello in "Something Inside."
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 19 August 2012 22:00 (twelve years ago) link
dawn richard??
xp
― lex pretend, Sunday, 19 August 2012 22:02 (twelve years ago) link
dawn album is more in the 8-12 range for me probably
― a hoy hoy heat (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 19 August 2012 22:03 (twelve years ago) link
sometimes i really don't understand your taste
― lex pretend, Sunday, 19 August 2012 22:10 (twelve years ago) link
me either
― a hoy hoy heat (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 19 August 2012 22:15 (twelve years ago) link
dope song
― lag∞n, Sunday, 19 August 2012 22:30 (twelve years ago) link
in "Wildest Moments" does she sing "do wrongs no rights" or "two wrongs"?
The latter, I hope. It's what I've sung to myself for three weeks.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 19 August 2012 22:54 (twelve years ago) link
it's definitely the latter
― Number None, Sunday, 19 August 2012 22:57 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqVNfE_GhDQ
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― Number None, Sunday, 19 August 2012 23:00 (twelve years ago) link
cool venue
― lag∞n, Sunday, 19 August 2012 23:03 (twelve years ago) link
I really want to like this, but I can't stop laughing at the Yacht-Rock guitar solos.
― my god it's full of straw (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 10:14 (twelve years ago) link
nah, those are awesome
― Number None, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 10:16 (twelve years ago) link
They are awesome, yes, but so absolutely inexplicable in the midst of all those "been around the world ay-yai-yai" orchestral stabs that they are also hilarious.
― my god it's full of straw (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 10:17 (twelve years ago) link
gonna pop in and see her at rough trade east tonight
― Crackle Box, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 10:27 (twelve years ago) link
'Night Light' is the killer here, sounds like it could have sat in the middle section of the last Beyonce album.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 10:29 (twelve years ago) link
It sounded like Laura Brannigan to me. Not a complaint, BTW, it's just odd how sounds get recycled and reshaped. I'm just old enough to have heard those sounds move from cool to naff to cool again through varying cycles.
― my god it's full of straw (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 10:42 (twelve years ago) link
some good songs on this, but ultimately it sounds too much like adele/florence with vocals way too high in the mix.
"night light" was the tipping point for me, and i like beyoncé, it's the british 00s pop vibe of this that bothers me.
― Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 21:24 (twelve years ago) link
I often have a knee-jerk aversion to a lot of British pop/soul—there's something about the sterility of the production, the overloud-ness of the vocals and the general air of politeness that just totally puts me off—so I'm really relieved by how much I've liked everything I've heard from this album. Enjoying how tasteful and restrained most of it is (though the title track is maybe too cute by half).
No American release, though? I can't even find a stream of it anymore. Kinda odd that the American press is tripping over themselves to praise an album that most of its readers can't hear and might not be able to hear for some time.
― Evan R, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 21:36 (twelve years ago) link
it's on spotify
― Mordy, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 21:38 (twelve years ago) link
Not in American, sadly (or at least not on my account)
― Evan R, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 21:42 (twelve years ago) link
i've got it and i'm def in america! maybe look again?
― Mordy, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 21:42 (twelve years ago) link