too early sample sounds nice
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 15 May 2013 00:43 (eleven years ago) link
haven't listened to samples yet but have not dug anything off this except "slow it down" (a nice throwback to los' cotton-candy) and "IV play" (terius indulging in maximalism)...
― drew holidaze (livethedream), Wednesday, 15 May 2013 00:45 (eleven years ago) link
^like this guy
― 'scuse me while i make the sky cum (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 15 May 2013 00:47 (eleven years ago) link
lots of these snippets are v v promising imo, schlumps a h8r
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 15 May 2013 00:49 (eleven years ago) link
lol 'outro' is basically a weeknd diss
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 15 May 2013 00:54 (eleven years ago) link
rly hopin theres a sweet transition in "lovin you / crazy"
― drew holidaze (livethedream), Wednesday, 15 May 2013 00:56 (eleven years ago) link
ha I am really not a hater, i am an opteriusist, it's just everything sounds post-l.o.s thin, autotuned to the point of obscuring t's voice & just sorta weirdly aimless/slight/slightly misguided like high art so far imo. I am still googling DREAM THE-DREAM FOURPLAY VINYL everyday I am just sorta suspecting/accepting that this is not the lush love king sequel I am desiring. I have spent a long while recently bugged by the easy, consequence free cynicism of low pop culture expectations ('oh this is going to be a trainwreck') so I seriously have no pleasure hating on it, just I listened through today & it all sounded p blank.
― daft on the causes of punk (schlump), Wednesday, 15 May 2013 01:57 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, totally agree with schlump. snippets sound p dire
― Jacques_Lamure, Wednesday, 15 May 2013 03:37 (eleven years ago) link
sorry equesTRAIN might've been a typo...
i am a bit worried that the Beyonce and Kelly Rowland features will be nowhere as good as the tracks that Terius has done for each of their upcoming albums... or i guess i shouldn't be worried, and come to terms with the fact that since Love King i've more often enjoyed his productions for other artists than the stuff he does for himself...
― mingalaba, Wednesday, 15 May 2013 04:12 (eleven years ago) link
Finishing up my first listen of this, and it sounds really good. Nice rebound from 1977. Nothing as grand and grabbing as his first two records, of course, but he's testing enough new ideas that it doesn't feel like a lesser redux of them, either—I'm struck but how many of these tracks don't song immediately identifiable as Dream songs.
― Evan R, Wednesday, 15 May 2013 19:15 (eleven years ago) link
You have the album?
― longneck, Wednesday, 15 May 2013 19:18 (eleven years ago) link
A stream, yeah
― Evan R, Wednesday, 15 May 2013 19:21 (eleven years ago) link
ohhhhhhhhh - just glad to know it exists at this point
― longneck, Wednesday, 15 May 2013 19:23 (eleven years ago) link
Ha, I have a system I use for gauging whether rap/R&B albums are real when I pitch reviews or plan coverage. It's a scale, beginning with "hmmm, this might not really exist" and ending with "huh, I'll be damned":
Release dateCover artTracklist announcementSnippetsLeak
― Evan R, Wednesday, 15 May 2013 19:33 (eleven years ago) link
lol
― society is a lol, it makes me j/k to my friends (some dude), Wednesday, 15 May 2013 20:27 (eleven years ago) link
So I don't know if it was lowered expectations or what, but I'm liking this a lot. I'm enjoying the guests, the energy, the pacing, all of it really.
― Evan R, Thursday, 16 May 2013 17:13 (eleven years ago) link
Is this at least on par with Love King? I'll be happy if it is.
― The Reverend, Thursday, 16 May 2013 22:04 (eleven years ago) link
Yes and no. It doesn't hit woozy highs like Love King, but I don't think it misfires as badly, or repeats itself as much. I'd much rather listen to this than Love King right now.
― Evan R, Thursday, 16 May 2013 22:18 (eleven years ago) link
i wasn't a huge fan of Love King but i'd be pretty shocked if this had anything as good as "Yamaha" or "F.I.L.A."
― trick paddy pollars (some dude), Thursday, 16 May 2013 22:42 (eleven years ago) link
yeah.
― utilizing my famously feline agility to seek managerial succor (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 16 May 2013 22:52 (eleven years ago) link
I'd be surprised if any lyric is as good as "so she let me do her"
― P is for Poo Poo Doo Doo (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 16 May 2013 22:52 (eleven years ago) link
"where have you been" -> "too early" -> "michael" is the one great stretch on this album i think
― J0rdan S., Monday, 20 May 2013 15:09 (eleven years ago) link
is this out there?
― you are not a better writer than f. scott fitzgerald. you are not a b (k3vin k.), Monday, 20 May 2013 15:15 (eleven years ago) link
not that i know of
― J0rdan S., Monday, 20 May 2013 15:25 (eleven years ago) link
I think the whole album is one great stretch, tbh, but "Too Early" is particularly incredible
― Evan R, Monday, 20 May 2013 15:29 (eleven years ago) link
idk i think there's a handful of tracks on this that are kinda worthless
― J0rdan S., Monday, 20 May 2013 15:31 (eleven years ago) link
There's some fluff in the final third, but it's mostly likable fluff, so I don't mind
― Evan R, Monday, 20 May 2013 15:37 (eleven years ago) link
his albums always start off kinda slow but "high art", "pussy" and "turnt" are 360 dunked into the recycle bin
― J0rdan S., Monday, 20 May 2013 15:42 (eleven years ago) link
http://hasitleaked.com/2013/the-dream-iv-play/
― klaus dingeldore's rhinelander monkey keeper father (forksclovetofu), Monday, 20 May 2013 15:43 (eleven years ago) link
big chunk of the record uploaded a couple hours ago, enjoy: http://www.youtube.com/user/TheDreamVEVO
― tundra, Tuesday, 21 May 2013 09:16 (eleven years ago) link
KAT as first venue for webrip leak says a lot about Terius fan base...Can't wait til I can get 320. Is there even a place where I can officially buy IVPlay in 320? Only online option iTunes?
― mingalaba, Tuesday, 21 May 2013 10:14 (eleven years ago) link
Dipping in and out of album cut on YouTube, waiting to be wowed
― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 21 May 2013 10:38 (eleven years ago) link
Ok "Turnt Up" has its charms
― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 21 May 2013 10:42 (eleven years ago) link
Lol at "Michael"! Perfect, the Dream is....back? A+
― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 21 May 2013 10:47 (eleven years ago) link
This is like the perfect start to my day - it the Lonely Island tracks I'm about to spin are dope I should buy a lotto ticket
― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 21 May 2013 10:48 (eleven years ago) link
front third of this is sort of a mess
― you are not a better writer than f. scott fitzgerald. you are not a b (k3vin k.), Tuesday, May 21, 2013 9:43 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
does anyone who had already heard this have the production credits?
― you are not a better writer than f. scott fitzgerald. you are not a b (k3vin k.), Tuesday, May 21, 2013 9:44 AM (2 minutes ago)
― you are not a better writer than f. scott fitzgerald. you are not a b (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 21 May 2013 13:47 (eleven years ago) link
All Nash everything except:
Equestrian (Nash/McKinney)Where Have You Been (Nash/Da Internz/Miykal Snoddy)Self-Conscious (Nash/McKinney)Holy Love (Nash/McKinney)
― Andy K, Tuesday, 21 May 2013 13:57 (eleven years ago) link
3 los tracks! somebody grab k3vin a towel.
― yeeznuts (some dude), Tuesday, 21 May 2013 14:04 (eleven years ago) link
andy k, thumbs up, thumbs down?
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Tuesday, 21 May 2013 14:05 (eleven years ago) link
way too much of the stuff i hated about "love king" here -- aimless half-sung ballads, lower-register mumblecore -- and too little of the bright, hooky stuff that makes him good.
i don't know how anyone could end the album with "slow it down" and not think it's the most enjoyable thing here
― you are not a better writer than f. scott fitzgerald. you are not a b (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 21 May 2013 14:14 (eleven years ago) link
Either neither or down.
Certainly not up.
xpost
― Andy K, Tuesday, 21 May 2013 14:15 (eleven years ago) link
It's true that there's not a lot of the bright, hooky stuff, but I think the storyline here is that he's getting better at the other sounds. He's trying a lot of new things on this record, and a lot of them work really well. I like that he's trying to advance his sound instead of just relive past glories.
― Evan R, Tuesday, 21 May 2013 14:22 (eleven years ago) link
the song with kelly sounded good on the tonight show last night. or at least she sounded good.
― yeeznuts (some dude), Tuesday, 21 May 2013 14:24 (eleven years ago) link
Who is McKinney?
Not... CYNTHIA McKinney?!? Lol
― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 21 May 2013 15:02 (eleven years ago) link
kevin's being a bit fatalistic
there's some stuff on here that's not very good but "IV play"/"equestrian"/"where have you been"/"too early"/"michael" stand up with mostly anything off his three other albums
i need to listen more to everything else after michael tho
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 21 May 2013 15:19 (eleven years ago) link
mckinney is los da mystro, one of dream's longtime co-producers
― you are not a better writer than f. scott fitzgerald. you are not a b (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 21 May 2013 15:20 (eleven years ago) link
"mostly everything!" who are you?!
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 21 May 2013 15:21 (eleven years ago) link
also again it really sucks that the original beyonce track got cut from this, it would be like pulling "fancy" off love vs money or something
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 21 May 2013 15:22 (eleven years ago) link
― you are not a better writer than f. scott fitzgerald. you are not a b (k3vin k.), Tuesday, May 21, 2013 11:20 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
those songs are great and could be dropped into any of the other three albums and no one would bat an eye