oy!! "HEAVY METAL AND REFLECTIVE" LEAKED! It's okay because y'all need that new new anyway! Go find it
on her own soundcloud, wonder if she'll ever get to the bottom of who leaked this
― boney tassel (sic), Monday, 28 July 2014 06:10 (ten years ago) link
"Wallace" is rumoured to be a banger but I'll believe it when I hear it.
For now...I guess she's making more interesting music than Angel Haze these days?
― uxorious gazumping (monotony), Monday, 28 July 2014 07:10 (ten years ago) link
uhhh sounds unfinished but it's not horrible?
― dyl, Monday, 28 July 2014 14:03 (ten years ago) link
I'm chalking this up to Stopped Clock Syndrome but this is the first thing I've ever heard from her that I've really liked
― Star Gentle Uterus (DJP), Monday, 28 July 2014 14:20 (ten years ago) link
not bad, but more of a track one intro
― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 28 July 2014 14:43 (ten years ago) link
I'm the first to laugh at Azealia but this is the first track of hers I've liked in ~years~ https://soundcloud.com/azealiabanksweb/azealia-banks-chasing-time
― Herbie Handcock (Murgatroid), Monday, 22 September 2014 21:20 (ten years ago) link
first track you've liked since 2112
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Monday, 22 September 2014 21:24 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, that's pretty fire imo.
― Greer, Monday, 22 September 2014 21:24 (ten years ago) link
yeah, this is great; i will happily eat crow if she can put out a solid basement jaxxin' album
― the other song about butts in the top 5 (forksclovetofu), Monday, 22 September 2014 22:13 (ten years ago) link
I will eat crow if she puts out an album.
― Herbie Handcock (Murgatroid), Monday, 22 September 2014 22:27 (ten years ago) link
her not putting out an album for so long seemed to be more about her label shelving her than an inability to record songs, w/o the label i'd imagine she'll put an album out pretty quickly now
― some dude, Monday, 22 September 2014 22:46 (ten years ago) link
"yung rapunxel" was pretty good as was "count contessa", the first single from her second album (lol) http://pitchfork.com/news/52301-listen-azealia-banks-count-contessa/
tbh i kinda think the new joint is whatever and is benefitting from being separated from the stink of her label mess
― snrub goin up on a tuesday (J0rdan S.), Monday, 22 September 2014 23:15 (ten years ago) link
yeah I don't think this is much better than "Yung Rapunxel," as both were solid
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 22 September 2014 23:17 (ten years ago) link
Chasing Time was written to appease record label execs who complained there was no radio-friendly hits on the album, so she told the crowd at her gig the other night. i liked that one best from the new tracks she played. it was the quietest i've ever seen Manchester Academy in 20something years. whoever booked her for a 2,500 capacity venue up here wants their head examining, couldn't have been more than 400 kids in there.
― piscesx, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 03:49 (ten years ago) link
haven't heard new one but "heavy metal and reflective" was actually not bad at all
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 11:02 (ten years ago) link
this is the first track of hers I've liked in ~years~
This is the exact same copy Slate is using in a post about this song, and when I saw it I was like, she hasn't been around for that long, has she? YEARS.
Also, I learned about an Azealia Banks song from a tweet by Slate. #2014
― jaymc, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 12:54 (ten years ago) link
Well, the 1991 EP (the last thing she put out that was not trash IMO, other than the new song) came out more than two years ago
― Herbie Handcock (Murgatroid), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 14:36 (ten years ago) link
i really liked "esta noche" from that otherwise mediocre mixtape
this would be good if the chorus were much better
― dyl, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 15:43 (ten years ago) link
I still don't get people who liked 1991 but not Fantasea.
― ban raccoon tanuki (The Reverend), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 19:27 (ten years ago) link
^that.
― Greer, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 19:30 (ten years ago) link
i didn't even like most of 1991 tbh lol
― dyl, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 19:33 (ten years ago) link
fair enough
― ban raccoon tanuki (The Reverend), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 19:35 (ten years ago) link
― lex pretend, Tuesday, September 23, 2014 7:02 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark
"heavy metal and reflective" had pretty dope lyrics but didn't work as a whole for me
also not a bad track though
― snrub goin up on a tuesday (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 19:56 (ten years ago) link
Who could possibly hate 1991 the track?
― tsrobodo, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 21:21 (ten years ago) link
She makes a bunch of decent-to-great instrumentals worse all over that EP
― 💪😈⚠️ (DJP), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 21:28 (ten years ago) link
having said that, "Chasing Time" is the second song of hers that I've liked, which I am finding distressing
― 💪😈⚠️ (DJP), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 21:35 (ten years ago) link
IS she really that hateable as an artist?
― tsrobodo, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 22:05 (ten years ago) link
She isn't if you keep away from Twitter.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 22:13 (ten years ago) link
she's not likeable on twitter but the only reason that "she's so awful as a person" has taken off as a media narrative is bc she didn't play the industry game
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 22:52 (ten years ago) link
tbf the only person i know who actively hates her is dan
― the other song about butts in the top 5 (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 22:57 (ten years ago) link
not as good as "heavy metal and reflective" (which was slow-burning fire imo), i think the singing (and whatever hook) sort of halts the momentum she builds up in the verses
― lex pretend, Friday, 26 September 2014 16:31 (ten years ago) link
So her album is on iTunes now!https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/broke-with-expensive-taste/id935819478
― Belami Young (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 6 November 2014 20:01 (nine years ago) link
at least she's getting on with it
― dyl, Thursday, 6 November 2014 20:06 (nine years ago) link
this year's beyoncé
― lex pretend, Thursday, 6 November 2014 20:11 (nine years ago) link
will happily retract if there's a spontaneous album in the next two months but i dunno.― Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Saturday, July 12, 2014
― Steve 'n' Seagulls and Flock of Van Dammes (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 6 November 2014 20:13 (nine years ago) link
i can't listen to it tonight (if it was actual beyoncé i'd've cancelled everything obv) but i'm totally looking forward to it, "heavy metal and reflective" has low-key become one of my singles of the year
― lex pretend, Thursday, 6 November 2014 20:20 (nine years ago) link
If this was even last year, this thread would be blowing up right now
― Tay-Tay Brooklynpants (Murgatroid), Thursday, 6 November 2014 20:50 (nine years ago) link
well she was PROMOTING the album a year agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpcy2RQ8-Xk
― Steve 'n' Seagulls and Flock of Van Dammes (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 6 November 2014 20:57 (nine years ago) link
this is gonna be fucking horrible and i will prob be listening along with many others if it actually surfaces
― a dude eating another dude's leg in front of that dude (slothroprhymes), Thursday, 6 November 2014 21:00 (nine years ago) link
oh walk that back its there! chrome effed up loading the page the first time
― a dude eating another dude's leg in front of that dude (slothroprhymes), Thursday, 6 November 2014 21:02 (nine years ago) link
yikes! talk about missing your moment.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Thursday, 6 November 2014 22:01 (nine years ago) link
shrug and whoops. it most certainly is BAD though, sorry to disappoint.
i can see where other people might dig, but i don't care for the UK-garage/house/wutever beat styles in the ways they're deployed here by her producers, and her voice/rhymes are pretty meh
add the noxious online persona to that (I mean, saying homophobic shit when a notable portion of your fanbase comes from that demographic seems real ill-advised, no???) and it all adds up to NOPE
― a dude eating another dude's leg in front of that dude (slothroprhymes), Thursday, 6 November 2014 22:08 (nine years ago) link
LENA DUN-
― Cousin Slappy, Thursday, 6 November 2014 22:10 (nine years ago) link
um wut
― a dude eating another dude's leg in front of that dude (slothroprhymes), Thursday, 6 November 2014 22:13 (nine years ago) link
lol what is this Peter Rosenberg cameo on "Desperado", fuck that guy
― Tay-Tay Brooklynpants (Murgatroid), Thursday, 6 November 2014 22:31 (nine years ago) link
odd for his real-hip-hop-head traditionalist ass to show up on her joint but hey, AB needs cosigns
― ichabron crames (slothroprhymes), Thursday, 6 November 2014 22:59 (nine years ago) link
The last third of this album is fire.
― Tay-Tay Brooklynpants (Murgatroid), Thursday, 6 November 2014 23:14 (nine years ago) link
So no mention of the fact that there's a cover of a song from Ariel Pink's Pom Pom on this?
― MarkoP, Friday, 7 November 2014 03:27 (nine years ago) link
It's very sixties that both of them are releasing their respective versions of "Nude Beach a Go-Go" in the same month. This kind of thing should happen more often.
― J. Sam, Friday, 7 November 2014 04:32 (nine years ago) link
this is basically a mixtape - bit of a mess, a few fire moments, shows lots of "promise"
she is SO much better at rapping than singing (well she can sing decently enough but she can't write a vocal hook to save her life)
― lex pretend, Friday, 7 November 2014 09:29 (nine years ago) link