I'm loving "Heart Out", though it does make me want to start singing the lyrics of "This Must Be The Place" on top of it.
― MarkoP, Saturday, 31 August 2013 00:34 (ten years ago) link
what's with shipley's silence on these kids?
― k3vin k., Friday, August 30, 2013 4:54 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I've got the Shipley's covered on this one.
― I’m pissed off for greatness (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Saturday, 31 August 2013 03:43 (ten years ago) link
Missing the more ambient, drifting tracks from the EP's.
― MikoMcha, Saturday, 31 August 2013 04:29 (ten years ago) link
Those are cool n all but this album is something special. No complaints at all.
― I’m pissed off for greatness (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Saturday, 31 August 2013 04:42 (ten years ago) link
I think the second half is even better than the first half.
― I’m pissed off for greatness (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Saturday, 31 August 2013 04:43 (ten years ago) link
"menswear" is an excellent hybrid of the ambient drifting stuff and the stuff on the album so it's hard for me to miss that aspect
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Saturday, 31 August 2013 04:55 (ten years ago) link
also "menswear" is literally about going to a wedding in a remote location and not being able to find drugs and therefore getting piss drunk
Oh, I was hoping it was a subtle jab at Scott Schuman.
― Murgatroid, Saturday, 31 August 2013 04:59 (ten years ago) link
I listened to one of their songs on YouTubeSounded like John Mayer
― everything I do is funky like Debussy (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 31 August 2013 05:02 (ten years ago) link
lol
― markers, Saturday, 31 August 2013 05:05 (ten years ago) link
I can hear some (electric) Neon in this actually.
― I’m pissed off for greatness (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Saturday, 31 August 2013 05:08 (ten years ago) link
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Friday, August 30, 2013 9:55 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Ha, Menswear is a jam. I didn't think it was going to go anywhere beyond what it was doing but that abrupt drop is perfect.
― I’m pissed off for greatness (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Saturday, 31 August 2013 05:11 (ten years ago) link
The first few listens didn't do much for me beyond Sex, The City, and Settle Down but after listening to it on my "good" headphones instead of the ones I usually use, ones where the right earpiece falls off the band if I tilt my head too far to the right because I didn't tape it well enough, anyway, I listened to this on decent headphones and I'm suddenly enjoying it a lot more.
― Murgatroid, Saturday, 31 August 2013 05:13 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, the absence of the ambient stuff isn't anything like a deal breaker, since the album is so focussed and most tracks are total pop songs with big hooks.
― MikoMcha, Saturday, 31 August 2013 08:46 (ten years ago) link
"girls" is pure bliss
― uberweiss, Saturday, 31 August 2013 08:50 (ten years ago) link
aoty/d/c/m
Maybe it's that the atmosphere and melodies on the EPs felt a bit more open-ended and exploratory, so there was more space for imagining what kind of style they were putting together. Need to listen to the album a few more times, but it's certainly more snapped together.
― MikoMcha, Saturday, 31 August 2013 08:52 (ten years ago) link
like in "girls" i think the chorus has just finished but no that was just the pre-chorus and the massive hook is still to come. and the extended instrumental outro like omgggggggggggg
― uberweiss, Saturday, 31 August 2013 08:56 (ten years ago) link
I KNOW YOU'RE LOOKING FOR SALVATION IN THE SECULAR AGE BUT GIRL I'M NOT YOUR SAAAAAAVIOR
― prolego, Saturday, 31 August 2013 09:09 (ten years ago) link
So good. While I love the ambient stuff, I don't miss it on the album (plus, it's not hard to have a separate playlist of those tracks - I just hope they do more EPs rather than go entirely in the direction of the album).
― toby, Saturday, 31 August 2013 10:34 (ten years ago) link
I think you mean "Selected Wham!bient Works, 8.5" - 9.2""
― Tim F, Monday, August 12, 2013 11:01 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Just felt like that needed to be reposted.
― toby, Saturday, 31 August 2013 10:35 (ten years ago) link
― prolego, Saturday, 31 August 2013 10:09 (1 hour ago) Bookmark
aight this line sold me, i'm going in
― r|t|c, Saturday, 31 August 2013 10:42 (ten years ago) link
damn son who produced this shit it's stellar
― r|t|c, Saturday, 31 August 2013 10:47 (ten years ago) link
I've not heard a note of this band but this is... not the selection of posters I expected to see repping.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 31 August 2013 11:08 (ten years ago) link
emo-wave is the new ting round here, keep up
the only ting matter of fact :/
― r|t|c, Saturday, 31 August 2013 11:11 (ten years ago) link
anyway tho
i can't quite believe 'm.o.n.e.y' just happened
― r|t|c, Saturday, 31 August 2013 11:12 (ten years ago) link
not least because.. it didn't feel out of place at all
― r|t|c, Saturday, 31 August 2013 11:13 (ten years ago) link
Haha Matt if you come on board with this as well it will be perfect, a giant cosmic reverse-birthday-present for Lex.
― Tim F, Saturday, 31 August 2013 12:33 (ten years ago) link
http://www.elmcitycrossfit.com/storage/legion-doom.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1266189444589
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 31 August 2013 12:34 (ten years ago) link
Top row second from the left is a decent likeness of me actually.
― Tim F, Saturday, 31 August 2013 12:36 (ten years ago) link
as long as I'm Captain Cold!
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 31 August 2013 12:40 (ten years ago) link
Really coming around to the rerecorded "Sex" - the mushy quality is right for the album, and I love the lip-quivering softness of "hhhhow" in the opening "And this is how it starts..."
― Tim F, Saturday, 31 August 2013 12:48 (ten years ago) link
― r|t|c, Saturday, August 31, 2013 11:11 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Yeah what does it say that this and Paramore are likely to be my one-two-punch for 2013??
― Tim F, Saturday, 31 August 2013 12:56 (ten years ago) link
ANKLEBITERS?
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 31 August 2013 12:56 (ten years ago) link
FUCK my uh, preview copy had the first five tracks in wrong order and now i have to forge new memories :(
1.sex 2 the 1975 3 the city 4 chocolate 5 money
worked well fwiw
― r|t|c, Saturday, 31 August 2013 13:34 (ten years ago) link
^^ chapters in my memoir
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 31 August 2013 13:35 (ten years ago) link
LP leaking
― More Than a Century With the Polaris Emblem (calstars), Saturday, 31 August 2013 14:01 (ten years ago) link
oh shit I'm late to the party (embarrassed face)
― More Than a Century With the Polaris Emblem (calstars), Saturday, 31 August 2013 14:03 (ten years ago) link
okay i've come around this is the best album of all time.
― Clyde One DJ Diane “Knoxy” Knox-Campbell (Merdeyeux), Saturday, 31 August 2013 14:13 (ten years ago) link
― Tim F, Saturday, 31 August 2013 13:56 (1 hour ago) Bookmark
it's definitely got nothing to do with a bunch of aged hacks awash with keening saudade that's for sure
― r|t|c, Saturday, 31 August 2013 14:27 (ten years ago) link
T_T
― Tim F, Saturday, 31 August 2013 14:29 (ten years ago) link
haha i was agreeing with you!
― r|t|c, Saturday, 31 August 2013 14:31 (ten years ago) link
I'm crying in recognition.
Is there an emoticon that adds a hint of ruefulness.
― Tim F, Saturday, 31 August 2013 14:34 (ten years ago) link
In fact from now on maybe I will just conduct all conversations about these albums via LINE.
Really coming around to the rerecorded "Sex"
i think i like it better now; it's probably just the way they produced it but it seems brighter and more energetic
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Saturday, 31 August 2013 14:39 (ten years ago) link
way i worded that suggests i should be bizarro in the legion of doom
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Saturday, 31 August 2013 14:40 (ten years ago) link
lol at rtc's order of tracks starting off with "this is how it starts"
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Saturday, 31 August 2013 14:42 (ten years ago) link
thank you prolego for parsing this line, i once was lost but now am etc.
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Saturday, 31 August 2013 14:43 (ten years ago) link
well yes exactly!! xp
the missequencing i'm most butthurt about is 'money' though, shows its clever hand just that bit too soon now
― r|t|c, Saturday, 31 August 2013 14:44 (ten years ago) link
Funny thread!
I think I would end up liking these guys a lot if they were played on the radio all the time
― rooibos in disguise (wins), Saturday, 31 August 2013 14:45 (ten years ago) link