the best song on this album features production from paul epworth which is surprising considering the roster
― uxorious gazumping (monotony), Tuesday, 12 August 2014 13:57 (nine years ago) link
a natural rhythm
― StillAdvance, Tuesday, 12 August 2014 14:17 (nine years ago) link
just glancing through the beginning of this thread and lolled at this:
<3 twigs, but let's not lie to ourselves, Arca is the real draw.
haha, but the collision of the vocals with out there/stark/daring beats is still the thing...turns out she can make better beats for herself than Arca, so great!
btw anyone have production credits for this?
― festival culture (Jordan), Tuesday, 12 August 2014 14:21 (nine years ago) link
this is really interesting
― ruffalo soldier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 12 August 2014 14:25 (nine years ago) link
so this is like totally an ilx album of the year right?
― ruffalo soldier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 12 August 2014 14:29 (nine years ago) link
I feel like if this was the exact same album but had Karin Dreijer Andersson on the cover, it would unambiguously be ILX's album of the year
― Star Gentle Uterus (DJP), Tuesday, 12 August 2014 15:26 (nine years ago) link
*googles*
ah good ol' melty face mask from the knife
― ruffalo soldier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 12 August 2014 15:41 (nine years ago) link
So far I'm not into this the way I expected to be. Two Weeks/Pendulum/Kicks are great but the others kind of float by ime.
― dem bow dem bow need calcium (seandalai), Tuesday, 12 August 2014 15:54 (nine years ago) link
i feel like this relates the new shabazz palaces in some way, floatiness-wise
― ruffalo soldier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 12 August 2014 15:56 (nine years ago) link
^^^ yup, I get the same feeling
― Star Gentle Uterus (DJP), Tuesday, 12 August 2014 16:26 (nine years ago) link
Liking the vibe but find the vocals a bit too precious. Gets better after each listen in any case
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 12 August 2014 16:56 (nine years ago) link
same but replace "kicks" with "video girl" even though i hate songs that slow down for no reason
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 12 August 2014 17:50 (nine years ago) link
wish this album was poppier
― cerealbar, Tuesday, 12 August 2014 19:11 (nine years ago) link
So far I'm not into this the way I expected to be.
yup. I'm trying though
― Number None, Tuesday, 12 August 2014 19:15 (nine years ago) link
I listened to it yesterday and it felt a bit samey and didn't grab me really tbh. I'll give it another go tho.
― everyday sheeple (Michael B), Tuesday, 12 August 2014 19:18 (nine years ago) link
Perfect album! Straight prog, reminds me of David Sylvian of all things.
― faghetti (fgti), Tuesday, 12 August 2014 20:46 (nine years ago) link
i think those wanting something poppier would be into this Shaprece EP: https://soundcloud.com/shaprece/sets/molting-ep-1
― festival culture (Jordan), Tuesday, 12 August 2014 20:49 (nine years ago) link
http://i.minus.com/ibx32hgaBcCgjg.gif
― ╲╱\/╲/\╱╲╱\/\ (gr8080), Tuesday, 12 August 2014 20:50 (nine years ago) link
O_O
i could watch that all day
― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 12 August 2014 20:51 (nine years ago) link
haven't heard the full album yet, but i think "water me" is my favorite single track so far. "two weeks" is close.
― Adding ease. Adding wonder. Adding (contenderizer), Tuesday, 12 August 2014 20:52 (nine years ago) link
Amazing gif Grady
― ambient yacht god (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 12 August 2014 20:56 (nine years ago) link
hat tip to goon tie
― ╲╱\/╲/\╱╲╱\/\ (gr8080), Tuesday, 12 August 2014 20:57 (nine years ago) link
really feeling dumb for skipping her pitchfork set but she was playing at the same time as st. vincent
― ╲╱\/╲/\╱╲╱\/\ (gr8080), Tuesday, 12 August 2014 21:00 (nine years ago) link
She'll be in the US for a month:
November 6th 930 Club, Washington, D.C.November 7th Union Transfer, Philadelphia, PANovember 8th Terminal 5, New York, NYNovember 11th Brighton Music Hall, Boston, MANovember 13th Metro, Chicago, ILNovember 14th Fine Line, Minneapolis, MNNovember 17th Commodore, Vancouver, CanadaNovember 18th Showbox, Seattle, WANovember 20th Regency, San Francisco, CANovember 21st Regent, Los Angeles, CANovember 26th Parish, Austin, TXNovember 28th Trees, Dallas, TXNovember 29th Republic, New Orleans, LADecember 1st Mercy Lounge, Nashville, TNDecember 2nd Terminal West, Atlanta, GADecember 3rd The Social, Orlando, FL
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 12 August 2014 21:01 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/ySPZcO9.gif
Happy that cybergoth is finally influencing others
― 龜, Tuesday, 12 August 2014 21:04 (nine years ago) link
nice clip above of FKA twigs (not the lol-goths) is pretty much a catalogue of moves taken directly from voguing/the ball scene
she's doing handwork, spinning into a death drop, and then ends with some duckwalking
and doing it very well, obviously
― the tune was space, Tuesday, 12 August 2014 21:15 (nine years ago) link
yeah when i saw her at pitchfork she said she was learning how to vogue
― 1staethyr, Tuesday, 12 August 2014 21:16 (nine years ago) link
― Star Gentle Uterus (DJP), Tuesday, August 12, 2014 10:26 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i was gonna talk about how i don't like this as much as the grimes album but now i feel lke a racist
― een, Wednesday, 13 August 2014 00:47 (nine years ago) link
See this is the album I wanted Visions to be. Not of knock on Visions at all, just that LP1 is more my cup of tea.
― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 13 August 2014 00:51 (nine years ago) link
I love Grimes but 'Two Weeks' is objectively better than Grimes' entire catalog
― 龜, Wednesday, 13 August 2014 01:13 (nine years ago) link
crazy talk
― dem bow dem bow need calcium (seandalai), Wednesday, 13 August 2014 01:35 (nine years ago) link
like this a million times more than grimes
― Mordy, Wednesday, 13 August 2014 01:46 (nine years ago) link
maybe i'm not at the right point in my life for this unrelenting crystalline dourness. i wish there were anger like a Knife album or joy like a Grimes album, but after a few listens i'm finding this stifling rather than cathartic. i think "kicks" does this album's thing best though
― een, Wednesday, 13 August 2014 01:47 (nine years ago) link
i dunno about the knife so much as like watery bjork, which is to say modern bjork
― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 13 August 2014 02:09 (nine years ago) link
― 龜, Tuesday, August 12, 2014 6:13 PM (1 hour ago)
yeah no. both good, quite different. objectively bullshit.
― Adding ease. Adding wonder. Adding (contenderizer), Wednesday, 13 August 2014 03:15 (nine years ago) link
objecterizer
― 龜, Wednesday, 13 August 2014 03:16 (nine years ago) link
i wish there were anger like a Knife album or joy like a Grimes album, but after a few listens i'm finding this stifling rather than cathartic.
Think "stifling" is the point.
― You are exactly why people root for the apes (Eric H.), Wednesday, 13 August 2014 03:37 (nine years ago) link
― 龜, Tuesday, August 12, 2014 2:04 PM Bookmark
uh
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 13 August 2014 04:24 (nine years ago) link
really feeling dumb for skipping her pitchfork set but she was playing at the same time as st. vincent― ╲╱\/╲/\╱╲╱\/\ (gr8080), Tuesday, August 12, 2014 4:00 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― ╲╱\/╲/\╱╲╱\/\ (gr8080), Tuesday, August 12, 2014 4:00 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Let's go see her @ Metro.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 13 August 2014 05:21 (nine years ago) link
Her live show looks amazing - the dancing O_O
― uxorious gazumping (monotony), Wednesday, 13 August 2014 06:28 (nine years ago) link
― festival culture (Jordan), Wednesday, August 13, 2014 12:21 AM (16 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I've read this on another board but not sure of its source:
Preface produced by FKA twigsLights On produced by ArcaTwo Weeks produced by Emile Haynie and FKA twigsHours produced by Emile Hayie, Dev Hynes, Class Casino and ArcaPendulum produced by Paul Epworth and FKA twigsVideo Girl produced by Emile HaynieNumbers produced by FKA twigs and SamphaCloser produced by FKA twigs, Cy An and Tic.Give Up produced by Emile Haynie and ArcaKicks produced by FKA twigs and Cy AnOne Time produced by inc. And FKA twigs
― uxorious gazumping (monotony), Wednesday, 13 August 2014 06:36 (nine years ago) link
Guess if someone actually owns the album they should be able to verify. I've ordered the deluxe vinyl, despite the groans of my hip pocket.
― uxorious gazumping (monotony), Wednesday, 13 August 2014 06:37 (nine years ago) link
Grimes sounds (deliberately) cheap as hell while this is lush and expansive and perfectly produced. I don't understand why anyone is comparing them.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 13 August 2014 08:35 (nine years ago) link
have you heard "go"?
― markers, Wednesday, 13 August 2014 11:51 (nine years ago) link
Her first Ep, which i only heard for the first time a few weeks ago, definitely had an early Tricky vibe
― ornamental cabbage (James Morrison), Thursday, 14 August 2014 03:26 (nine years ago) link
OK, so a few weeks ago, I was wandering around Dawson's Heights (massive Mayan Temple-inspired Brutalist housing estate that hangs over South London like a battleship) sketching, and there was this song blasting out of someone's window, echoing off the concrete, which was the perfect soundtrack, all ghostly echoing Liz Fraser vocals with booming hollow trip-hop beats underneath. And I was asking around on Twitter, what the hell was this song I heard?
Bought the album and turns out it was indeed this.
But guys. C'mon. R&B? This is straight-up 4AD!
Seriously, on the first track, (and also on stuff like Closer) those vocal harmonies, I almost started giggling because it reminded me so much (in a good way) of medieval chant-based goth like Dead Can Dance / Miranda Sex Garden! (I have no idea if she's ~influenced~ by those artists, but to me, it sounds like she is mining the seams of early Baroque, the place where plainsong turns into polyphony, very early classical and "churchy" music.) Those kind of vocal swoops and "oh-oh!"s in an echo chamber totally remind me of early Cocteau Twins, This Mortal Coil, His Name Is Alive, that kind of thing. But with South London beats bolted on underneath, in a really compelling and alien fusion that still totally works.
The other artist I can think of making this kind of music is Julianna Barwick. That kind of huge, cavernous, churchy polyphony with lots of airy, floaty space. Like, if you're approaching this thinking "R&B" you are going to be hugely disappointed and come out fuming like The Lex. That is not the slightest bit what this is. But if you come into this thinking "Julianna Barwick" or "Cocteau Twins with Night Bus beats" that's a heck of a lot closer to what's going on.
"The Knife"?!?! (No. Fever Ray maybe, with the more gothy side) "Grimes"? (again, 4AD) Bjork? What, coz she wears *princess leia braids*? You guys are just grabbing at straws with the ~ladyproducers~ here.
― are we shoegaze or are we dancer? (Branwell with an N), Friday, 15 August 2014 10:57 (nine years ago) link
A bit of Julia Holter about her voice too. Anyway, LP1 is fucking amazing. Wasn't into the track that charted in the '13 poll but this album is something else.
― ewar woowar (or something), Friday, 15 August 2014 11:14 (nine years ago) link
is lex is the fucking slender man now or something
― r|t|c, Friday, 15 August 2014 11:18 (nine years ago) link
'Cocteau Twins with night bus beats' is a pretty good description but ~night bus beats~ are all about mopey solipsism whereas this is all about intense intimacy.
I think you're going too far the other way though, there is loads of R&B in the mix here, I don't know how you can listen to 'Two Weeks' without thinking of Ciara for example. But it's a part of the mix along with loads of other elements.
― Matt DC, Friday, 15 August 2014 11:22 (nine years ago) link
correct
good album
― r|t|c, Friday, 15 August 2014 11:23 (nine years ago) link