War on Drugs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aCIarBvhDw#t=37

was bummed they didn't play this at the show the other night

Haha. '80s AOR G.D. OTM!

someone on my FB wall a couple days ago predicted they'd cover "Touch of Grey." Need to send him a kewpie doll.

Man, is there any other ILM thread that is this jam-packed with simply naming every last influence and/or reference point?

The 1975?

video is from 2011 xp

So you're saying he was really ahead of his time?

My mother likes it.

At long last: music that we both love..

this record is deceptive. like when you first got rubiks cube and you were all like "aw hell, no way am I touching something inspired by hungarian physicists

but then over breakfat,the potatoes warmed themselves and you were all like "ah hell this record is so good, he is revealing the soul, like jung in the red book.

disappearing is like the masculin/feminin response to HAIM's forever

a meditation on the soul, in both its provisional and eternal aspects. what apprehends is forever, the other stuff is ornament. as was, there was a lot of detriment in my blood and that of others, but in listening to this record i realized that I had hugely erred and manufactured a sense of self that is in fact incapable of preventing love's revelation, no matter the assumptive arguments. If you want something from the place then it will come unto you but be careful what you wish for.

A connecting principle
Linked to the invisible
Almost imperceptible
Something inexpressible
Science insusceptible
Logic so inflexible
Causally connectable
Yet nothing is invincible

If we share this nightmare
Then we can dream
Spiritus mundi

If you act as you think
The missing link
Synchronicity

That reads like Sesame St

holla back jung'n

Why the Police lyrics idgi

Ask the butterfly that just died in Scotland.

*stares into the distance*

well the comedown here is easy/like the arrival of a new day

this man is a poet, and not in the Reader's Digest sense. He is talking to the Soul, which is presently down in the workshop, coated in sawdust and the sweat of lacquer

if way quieter some of the best hypno-grooves since the most recent wooden shjips

the intro of "burning" REALLY has a lot of "young turks" in it.

if nothing else this has to be the greatest driving record of the last 10 years.

i only heard slave ambient because of LITD, and i don't see how anyone could prefer the latter over the former.

both are kind of samey, but there is an overall tension and vibrance that drives slave ambient along. LITD seems listless.

gah can you tell i'm not a music critic.

i love how burning is all rod stewart, bruce springsteen, dire straights, and tom petty-ish within the first minute.

it's really weird that this band has engaged me so much, i feel like it's on some pressure point of my aesthetics, like i somehow have to wrestle out some kind of justifiable opinion about it. relistening to LITD track by track now, i need to recalibrate from comments above. anyway, under the pressure and red eyes are def not listless...

Hunt3r I am right on the same page with you - both your first comment and the last one too. Definitely find Slave Ambient to be superior but feel some kind of urge to break LITD to its elements--find the trees in the forest.

"eyes to the wind" sounds a lot like a latter-day jayhawks jam, one of the ones not sung by gary louris, like say "bottomless cup"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGs9BQzJvds

agreed with you guys xp i'm listening to this a lot more than i planned in the name of figuring it out

it's hard to figure it all out

life just keeps movin on

Hearing "Red Eyes" a lot on WXRT locally, which means it's only a matter of time before WoD is as big as DMB.

I didn't care at all about this band when they were new but yesterday a dude who was into them back then told me to really give the new one a chance and wow. Like this record a lot, and I generally don't listen to, you know, indie rock

yeah this is my favorite record in quite a while

Like this record a lot, and I generally don't listen to, you know, indie rock

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"never get high off your own supply"

I'm still trying to reconcile it, but there's def. some overlap with this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5eP95OsxqM&feature=youtu.be

It's that mix of epicness and grandeur and vagueness and exultant release.

actually sometimes his delivery reminds me of chris bailey in the 80s a little madness to be free/all fools day period. the music, not much.

didn't care at all about this band when they were new but yesterday a dude who was into them back then told me to really give the new one a chance and wow. Like this record a lot, and I generally don't listen to, you know, indie rock

― Now I Am Become Dracula (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned),

I feel like I lost a member of the family.

we accept you we accept you one of us

listening to under the pressure really does have a lot of that pagan place big music vibe

I don't know what to tell you Alfred this is good music. it's not as good as Ava Inferi but most people don't really give a shit about Ava Inferi, what can you do

Don't worry Steven, Alfred has been pretty intent on being a total drag in this thread from the get go

Am I wrong to wish they'd drop the synths and go full roots rock? Don't answer that, I know what you will all say. But I want more Taking The Farm and Arms Like Boulders, and less emoting over soundscapes for 10 minutes at a time.

Am I wrong to wish they'd drop the synths and go full roots rock?

No, you're right. I want them to go full Dire Straits.

Have you seen them live? I have not, but I wonder if they get closer to rock on stage.

Going straight roots rock would rob them of the thing that makes them interesting and unique, it's all about the combination of earthiness and floatiness.

otm

Don't feel like they're that good at either of them but only get by on being sorta interesting

synth vs. no synth is a red herring, i think some of you want them to write tighter songs which three albums in they're pretty clearly not going to do

more like war on interesting music

Listened to this based on seeing it in SNA constantly and it is not bad but it really lacks any tunes or hooks, just feels like lots of atmospherics and mood without any great dynamics. I really like the textures and I think that trying to hang them on "big songs" would be missing the point but as it sounds just now it feels a bit anaemic. But it is the kind of album that's interesting enough to make me want to persevere and listen a few times again to see if it opens up, and I think it's going to sound better in the summer for some reason.

Can't imagine listening to this band anywhere else than in a car on a highway

i just sit in my chair but i do pretend i'm in a car

i roll the windows down too

No, you're right. I want them to go full Dire Straits.

This record sounds more like Calling Elvis than Tunnel Of Love.