gaye byers on acid vs dogs on acid.
I know which side of that minor celeb death match I would side with
― mark e, Tuesday, 18 August 2015 18:12 (nine years ago) link
once again not reaaaalllly emo but emo-adjacent: Geoff Rickly's new band sounds great http://www.stereogum.com/1824769/no-devotion-permanent-sunlight/mp3s/
― the naive cockney chorus (Simon H.), Thursday, 20 August 2015 15:31 (nine years ago) link
oh yeah no devotion is wonderful. can't wait for that record
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Thursday, 20 August 2015 16:02 (nine years ago) link
ok these dudes from nola named donovan wolfington are about to put out a record and it's nuts http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/6670374/donovan-wolfington-how-treat-ones-you-love-premiere-tour
mostly pop-punk/pop-rock but also uh straight up hardcore and doom metal songs that kinda thread in seamlessly?
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Thursday, 20 August 2015 20:23 (nine years ago) link
i gave that a listen last night and was half-paying attn and then all of a sudden shit went crazy
― alpine static, Friday, 21 August 2015 01:15 (nine years ago) link
Another new Wonder Years tune, more trad emo than the others
― the naive cockney chorus (Simon H.), Friday, 21 August 2015 19:40 (nine years ago) link
finally caught up with beach slang and woooooooowwwwwww wow wow. love this shit.
― slothroprhymes, Tuesday, 25 August 2015 20:40 (nine years ago) link
^^ same
they're basically what i wish the Replacements sounded like. (never really could connect w/ the Mats)
― alpine static, Tuesday, 25 August 2015 21:18 (nine years ago) link
the album is wonderful and i have no idea why they sent it to me so early
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 25 August 2015 21:20 (nine years ago) link
you are a lucky man sir
― slothroprhymes, Tuesday, 25 August 2015 21:27 (nine years ago) link
There is a new Modern Baseball song, you probably know what to expect. They're touring w/ Jeff Rosenstock and others later this year which, yes.
the Wonder Years album is quite pleasing, though I'm predictably not super into the song with the Letlive guy
― the naive cockney chorus (Simon H.), Thursday, 3 September 2015 17:34 (nine years ago) link
i haaaate letlive, no idea why they're so popular in the scene
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Thursday, 3 September 2015 17:35 (nine years ago) link
lol that is soooo refreshing to hear, they are basically unlistenable imo, and I really tried!
― the naive cockney chorus (Simon H.), Thursday, 3 September 2015 17:38 (nine years ago) link
i also love a lot of shitty metalcore and screamo and they're still a real hurdle
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Thursday, 3 September 2015 17:39 (nine years ago) link
also thk u thread for alerting me to Beach Slang, I am obsessed with "Dirty Cigarettes." also, first new male vocalist in a while I've been really struck by.
― the naive cockney chorus (Simon H.), Thursday, 3 September 2015 17:42 (nine years ago) link
like I had no idea that what I really wanted in '15 was a perfect synthesis of mid-period Mats and late Jawbreaker
― the naive cockney chorus (Simon H.), Thursday, 3 September 2015 17:49 (nine years ago) link
new wonder years is the first record by them i've liked almost all the way through
"cigarettes and saints" is still so massive
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Friday, 4 September 2015 18:19 (nine years ago) link
i actually don't mind the letlive cameo and i usually hate that dude's voice!
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Friday, 4 September 2015 18:36 (nine years ago) link
After a few more listens I think it could use a trim and resequence ("Saints" comes too early imo and 2-3 songs could be dropped painlessly) but it's def mostly solid. Little stuff like the backing vocals on "Song for Ernest Hemingway" adds a lot of character.
― the naive cockney chorus (Simon H.), Friday, 4 September 2015 18:43 (nine years ago) link
There's a pretty decent emo-pop record hiding somewhere in this fucking neverending Dear Hunter album. "Waves" is a fucking tune!
― the naive cockney chorus (Simon H.), Friday, 4 September 2015 18:46 (nine years ago) link
i listened to the 9 minute dear hunter song a few weeks ago and it was a super frustrating experience. "waves" however is a totally great and efficient answer to the question "what if jimmy eat world recorded with an orchestra"
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Friday, 4 September 2015 18:53 (nine years ago) link
http://www.mtviggy.com/articles/please-explain-what-qualifies-as-pop-punk-and-whats-just-pop
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Monday, 7 September 2015 01:41 (nine years ago) link
not cosigning, just sharing; i'm not much of a fan of THIS IS WHAT X IS articles in general
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Monday, 7 September 2015 01:43 (nine years ago) link
more opinionz 4 u: http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2015/09/pop_punks_compl.html
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 8 September 2015 12:39 (nine years ago) link
dug that brooklyn vegan article. Never really got into the Wonder Years, but I'm gonna listen to this today.
― husked, tonal wails (irrational), Tuesday, 8 September 2015 15:05 (nine years ago) link
guys the new world is song is kind of AWESOME which is completely unprecedented
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-wjAYRKW2c
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Wednesday, 9 September 2015 01:59 (nine years ago) link
this song is NUTS
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Wednesday, 9 September 2015 02:15 (nine years ago) link
mixing/mastering on the wonder years record makes it uh... very difficult to listen to
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Wednesday, 9 September 2015 02:35 (nine years ago) link
that new World Is... track doesn't do anything for me at all tbh
really wish that Wonder Years article hadn't mentioned Brand New, are they actually working on that followup or just taunting us
― the naive cockney chorus (Simon H.), Wednesday, 9 September 2015 03:16 (nine years ago) link
ok here's a record coming out tomorrow that i'm very enthusiastic about: milk by better off
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NAuasc_B-Y
combination jimmy eat world/brand new vibes
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Thursday, 10 September 2015 21:20 (nine years ago) link
thats sounds great.
― Spottie, Friday, 11 September 2015 15:54 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/9l6FOnO.jpg
― 龜, Saturday, 12 September 2015 13:09 (nine years ago) link
hell ya
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 13 September 2015 16:03 (nine years ago) link
on a real op ivy kick today for some reason
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 13 September 2015 16:05 (nine years ago) link
http://www.israbox.com/uploads/posts/2014-09/1411492668_44.jpg
here's an album from last year! it's 100 percent amazing and had i heard it last year it would've been my favorite emo record of the year!
https://microwavetheband.bandcamp.com/album/stovall
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 15 September 2015 20:38 (nine years ago) link
getting a kind of a sense memory from posting that image so if anyone linked that record last year and i failed to check it out i am SORRY i was WRONG
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 15 September 2015 20:44 (nine years ago) link
vocalist sounds hella like the Manchester Orchestra guy, must be an Atlanta thing
― the naive cockney chorus (Simon H.), Tuesday, 15 September 2015 22:16 (nine years ago) link
the new front bottoms album is 1) great 2) their first great record
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Friday, 18 September 2015 17:29 (nine years ago) link
the new the world is a beautiful place & i am no longer afraid to die record is 1) great 2) the first thing they've done that's remotely interesting
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Monday, 21 September 2015 03:12 (nine years ago) link
i am pretty disposed to like it with these guitar tones and male/female dual vocals
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Monday, 21 September 2015 03:14 (nine years ago) link
re: Microwave, am I an unfeeling monster if I kinda hate the last verse of "Something Right"
― the naive cockney chorus (Simon H.), Monday, 21 September 2015 03:27 (nine years ago) link
lyrically? nah i think it's a little weird myself
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Monday, 21 September 2015 03:28 (nine years ago) link
mostly because I know people who seem to have wallpapered over their problems with ~babies~ and shit is hella irksome, so whenever I get to that bit my enjoyment kinda screeches to a halt
it also makes me doubly appreciate all the weird, sad lyrics about kids that pepper Daniel Romano's albums but I'll take that to the ersatz country thread, if that's a thing
― the naive cockney chorus (Simon H.), Monday, 21 September 2015 03:34 (nine years ago) link
well i think the song is maybe intended to represent how shitty that perspective is lol
also maybe not
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Monday, 21 September 2015 03:43 (nine years ago) link
the more i listen to the new world is record the more i like it, which is the opposite effect of their last album, which got blurrier as i got closer to it
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 17:33 (nine years ago) link
so hilarious that the hedge fund asshole who raised the price of that AIDS drug is a Brand New fan
― Ma$e-en-scène (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 17:39 (nine years ago) link
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― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 17:56 (nine years ago) link
the hedge fund asshole also invested in collect records, geoff rickly's label. they're breaking ties rn
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 17:58 (nine years ago) link
finally got the whole beach slang album
it did not disappoint AT ALL
― slothroprhymes, Tuesday, 29 September 2015 21:17 (eight years ago) link
second time listening to it in a row. the songs on the EPs had a big sound but imo this feels /massive/ w/o that equating to overproduced
― slothroprhymes, Tuesday, 29 September 2015 21:20 (eight years ago) link