I appreciate how QUIET some of this is as opposed to say , Bankrupt.
― calstars, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 16:24 (eleven years ago) link
gorgeous:
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 16:26 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ps6TjI7ws0
I don't know how they operate so I might be mistaken here but to me this is first and foremost incredible work by Batmanglij.
― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 16:37 (eleven years ago) link
Koenig's quiet riff under the organ, the bass = excellent.
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 16:39 (eleven years ago) link
the ballads on this aren't totally my jam but yeah this is pretty fucking good
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 7 May 2013 16:53 (eleven years ago) link
"hudson" kinda dire tho
so is the one that sounds like Animal Collective
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 17:02 (eleven years ago) link
"diane young" is fucking dreadful
― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 17:12 (eleven years ago) link
Annoyed the hell out of me at first.
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 17:17 (eleven years ago) link
Me too, and I love it now.
― Gukbe, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 17:28 (eleven years ago) link
really like the chirping in "ya hey," it's just a neat trebly texture that already yelpy ezra can actually play against
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 17:55 (eleven years ago) link
the mirage-era buckingham comparison has caused me to enjoy this album even more, thanks tim
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 17:58 (eleven years ago) link
think of the first 15 seconds of "Eyes of the World," then play "Unbelievers," Brad.
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 17:59 (eleven years ago) link
"Diane Young" is a dehumanized (a-human?) take on Tusk's "That's Enough For Me" or "The Ledge," except it took the Mac a million bucks to sound that way.
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 18:03 (eleven years ago) link
wow otm
only heard "Diane Young" for the first time today & I love it
― Euler, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 18:21 (eleven years ago) link
There's a Diane in Mirage too
― tarping, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 18:32 (eleven years ago) link
Love the way Diane Young turns into Don't Lie.
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 18:50 (eleven years ago) link
Finger Back is very Lindsey Buck/Tusk sounding.
― Davek (davek_00), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 18:55 (eleven years ago) link
What is it about Koenig's vocals that makes it seem like he sees and understands all yr good parts and bad parts and how they fit together
― Tim F, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 21:10 (eleven years ago) link
Get ready: the first of the "think pieces" is up.
"when his voice cracks in the final verse, as the wilted relationship he's describing craters, it's a sign that Koenig is finally as invested in the emotional lives of his characters as he is in obsessing over their wardrobes and travel itineraries" -- lol oh rlly
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 21:30 (eleven years ago) link
not even gonna click
― Gukbe, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 21:32 (eleven years ago) link
Haha that reads like a more pompous version of my immediately preceding post
― Tim F, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 21:33 (eleven years ago) link
jesus christ he was invested in the emotional lives of his characters, fuck that talk
― bish (bosch), don't kill my vibe (rennavate), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 21:35 (eleven years ago) link
was always*
― bish (bosch), don't kill my vibe (rennavate), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 21:36 (eleven years ago) link
Where once Koenig cared about Louis Vuitton now he cares about love and death
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 21:36 (eleven years ago) link
yeah i think this is all kinds of off the mark
― bish (bosch), don't kill my vibe (rennavate), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 21:38 (eleven years ago) link
the usual overestimation of lyrics, among other things
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 21:39 (eleven years ago) link
Let's face it, he's just the singer of Sublime reincarnated in the body of an upper class New York aesthete.
― Moodles, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 21:43 (eleven years ago) link
it's pretty clearly an album about god
― Mordy, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 21:44 (eleven years ago) link
And immigration, history, New York, love and death.
I like the Grantland review a lot actually. Only goes wrong by underrating the emotional investment of the earlier albums that he clearly wasn't that into. I think he gets this one right.
― Deafening silence (DL), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 21:46 (eleven years ago) link
unbelievers, everlasting arms, finger back, worship you, ya hey, young lion - i count like a dozen or so references to god/divinity/faith/religion
― Mordy, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 21:47 (eleven years ago) link
"only goes wrong by underrating the emotional investment of the earlier albums that he clearly wasn't that into"
and this is a pretty big wrong to make
― bish (bosch), don't kill my vibe (rennavate), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 21:48 (eleven years ago) link
especially if your whole thesis is "it was like this before, now it's like this"
I don't mind that he likes this album best -- I question his assumptions.
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 21:58 (eleven years ago) link
Which ones?
― Deafening silence (DL), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 22:00 (eleven years ago) link
that albums become deeper when lyrics abandon references to brands and clothes
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 22:02 (eleven years ago) link
This grantland think piece is terrible:"Vampire Weekend's latest, Modern Vampires of the City (out May 14), defuses the conversation around the group's first two albums by walking away from it completely."
― tarping, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 22:03 (eleven years ago) link
I agree that sets up too many false oppositions in order to explain why he suddenly likes VW rather than engaging with the first two albums again and realising that this is an evolution rather than a U-turn.
I just think Hyden's a good critic who makes a lot of smart points a, so I feel compelled to defend him from the "god this is terrible" pile-on.
― Deafening silence (DL), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 22:14 (eleven years ago) link
oh he might be a good critic!
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 22:15 (eleven years ago) link
i like Diane Young and Ya Hey better than any of their other songs. I haven't listened to the whole record yet, but these songs are more sonically interesting, I think.
― Treeship, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 22:19 (eleven years ago) link
yeah hyden's just fine i just have a problem with a lot of his arguments on this partic. piece
― bish (bosch), don't kill my vibe (rennavate), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 22:36 (eleven years ago) link
Just heard Diane Young for the first time. My goodness that is a good song.
― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 23:47 (eleven years ago) link
yeah it rules... i would almost go as far to say that nothing in their previous albums prepared me for it. although, i should disclose that i was always weirdly prejudiced against this band because the drummer went to my high school and this like, caused me to see them as super obnoxious and preppy. with time i learned that i don't really care about that stuff though. my high school experience wasn't that bad.
― Treeship, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 23:54 (eleven years ago) link
ftr this might be the most wrong thing i have EVER seen written about this band. TIM....
― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 00:06 (eleven years ago) link
Here's another insufferable piece: The New Yorker asks, like, should I even bother?
― @GracieLoPan #fyi (Display Name (this cannot be changed):), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 00:19 (eleven years ago) link
digital rockabilly is always dope. I kind of wanna sing "Jack U Off" over "Diane Young" tho.
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 00:22 (eleven years ago) link
man i feel 4 that critic. like who has 70 minutes to listen to those first two albums and correct the blind spot when you have to write a piece about how you haven't heard 70 minutes worth of music.
― Gukbe, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 00:25 (eleven years ago) link
― @GracieLoPan #fyi (Display Name (this cannot be changed):),
I'm so sorry I read this.
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 00:35 (eleven years ago) link
i can't wait for sfj tell-all piece about how he's never actually listened to an album all the way through. and then david denby will write one about how he always falls asleep during movies with subtitles... it would be a cool new direction for the New Yorker.
― Treeship, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 00:41 (eleven years ago) link