(at 45rpm you can only fit a couple of songs on each side)
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 23 June 2016 09:27 (seven years ago) link
Most double's are still 33 1/3. But with less tracks you make the grooves wider which allows for a bigger dynamic range.
Single LPs are gash for DJing too.
― Chewshabadoo, Thursday, 23 June 2016 10:33 (seven years ago) link
Isn't the album almost an hour long? So it wouldn't fit on a regular single LP, even if they made grooves narrower and sacrificed the bass.
I don't think it's necessarily intentional, but they way this album has been marketed has been kinda dodgy. When first became available, it was only as a digital pre-order on Bandcamp with no mention of any physical release. So I paid for the pre-order, so I could listen to the couple of preview tracks you got with that. Then, later on, they did add a limited edition CD to Bandcamp, but at that point presumably a lot of people had already paid for the digital pre-order, so if they wanted to pay for the CD, they had to pay twice. Anyway, that limited edition sold out very soon, and there was still no info whether there'd be a regular, non-limited physical release.
Then, long after the digital album was officially released, a regular CD came out, but it was not available on Bandcamp at all. (Normally, when a band releases an album on Bandcamp that also has a physical version, you only have to pay for it once: you get the digital release immediately, and the CD/LP/cassette will arrive in mail later on.) I like physical records, so I paid for the album for the second time. And now there's an LP version coming out... Thankfully I'm not a vinyl fetishist so I won't need it, but presumably there are some folks who have now paid for the album thrice: first for the digital version (because there was no info whether there would be a physical release), then for the CD (because there was no info whether it would ever come out on vinyl), and then for the LP.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 23 June 2016 10:56 (seven years ago) link
It's self-released, right? They might have used the digital money to pay for the CD, then CD money to pay for pressing the vinyl. Just guessing.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 23 June 2016 11:18 (seven years ago) link
I guess that could be the case, but that's not how most self-released CDs are done on Bandcamp. You can pre-order the album, the band gets the money right away, and the CD will arrive to you later on. Of course it's a bit of a financial risk to promise there will a CD release, since you don't know whether it'll sell enough copies to cover the pressing costs, but the other alternative would be to make your fans pay for the album twice, which is kinda shitty too. There wasn't a huge gap between the announcement of the digital album and the CD version, so the band must've known a CD was coming, yet they made the digital version available to buy with no mention that there'll be a physical release.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 23 June 2016 11:27 (seven years ago) link
I don't see that anyone's being 'made' to do anything...
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 23 June 2016 11:47 (seven years ago) link
Dude it's dickish, come on.
― albvivertine, Thursday, 23 June 2016 11:54 (seven years ago) link
first world problems
― oculus lump (contenderizer), Thursday, 23 June 2016 12:04 (seven years ago) link
I've been holding out for a vinyl release as it's my preferred format these days but it's almost $40 including shipping and I can't really justify spending that much more than the cost of the CD. If there was going to be a version on regular vinyl that I could buy in shops for $20, I'd wait for that. At this stage I just want to own my favourite album of the year on some kind of physical format.
― Kitchen Person, Thursday, 23 June 2016 13:20 (seven years ago) link
hey guys maybe there was some sort of backup or bottleneck at the pressing plants and they had a really long turnaround time for the vinyl
― sexy dander (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 24 June 2016 13:50 (seven years ago) link
I was going to say... the stories about indies being squeezed out by majors re-releasing DONE WITH MIRRORS and other "crucial"record store day items are probably instructive here
― maura, Friday, 24 June 2016 14:16 (seven years ago) link
give the $20 to the local animal shelter instead.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, June 23, 2016 3:33 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
ooh we should have a list of small purchases made my ILXORS that should morally be given to animal shelters....
maura....you don't like done w/mirrors? underrated jawn imo
but overall yeah this:
― sexy dander (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, June 24, 2016 8:50 AM (50 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Steve Gunn Mann-Dude (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 24 June 2016 14:43 (seven years ago) link
it's lesser Aerosmith and the market for a deluxe reissue seems... slim
― maura, Friday, 24 June 2016 15:49 (seven years ago) link
hey guys maybe there was some sort of backup or bottleneck at the pressing plants and they had a really long turnaround time for the vinyl― sexy dander (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, June 24, 2016 8:50 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― sexy dander (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, June 24, 2016 8:50 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah i figured it was a pressing-plant-backup issue.
it may also just be a little chaotic precisely b/c they are self-releasing. but of course these days even major-labels are screwing up releases big time, b/c nobody really seems to know how to release an album anymore.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Friday, 24 June 2016 16:14 (seven years ago) link
they made a bandcamp mixtape or something:
http://bandcamp.com/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=BC%20Weekly%207-5&utm_medium=Tweet&show=186
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 7 July 2016 05:15 (seven years ago) link
thanking u is easy cuz u are big hoos
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Thursday, 7 July 2016 05:33 (seven years ago) link
― sexy dander (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, June 24, 2016 6:50 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
iirc this is the case 100% of the time?
― Get Me Bodied (Extended Mix), Thursday, 7 July 2016 08:59 (seven years ago) link
ya I was being facetious but idk if it came thru v well, bcz to me it is totally obvious that this is the case 100% of the time and it's absurd for anyone to complain abt vinyl taking a long time to come out
― sexy dander (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 9 July 2016 15:45 (seven years ago) link
hot damn that jennah bell song
― the event dynamics of power asynchrony (rushomancy), Saturday, 9 July 2016 23:58 (seven years ago) link
Chewshabadoo OTM! I have the album now and it's 33 1/3. Sound GREAT. Though my ears are easy to impress.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 21 July 2016 00:06 (seven years ago) link
four song Spotify Sessions!
man they can really do it live...dang
https://open.spotify.com/album/73cbJQKaZAp6vedt7fsUh9
― Pull your head on out your hippy haze (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 12 August 2016 14:53 (seven years ago) link
ilm sound forever
― ciderpress, Monday, 29 August 2016 04:23 (seven years ago) link
they are playing at the dakota jazz club in mpls coming up, place is usually pretty spendy but it's a really nice intimate venue for a group like this
― Pull your head on out your hippy haze (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 29 August 2016 14:23 (seven years ago) link
saw them last night at a tiny intimate little venue and it was SO. GOODL. AAAAHHHHHHH
― laraaji p. henson (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 20 October 2016 13:24 (seven years ago) link
booked tickets for their london show, at a medium-sized venue but we'll see how popular they prove. all of london ilx ought to be there
― imago, Thursday, 20 October 2016 16:51 (seven years ago) link
bristolians, glaswegians and mancunians will be receiving the delightful presence of KING as well if they'd care to attend
― imago, Thursday, 20 October 2016 16:52 (seven years ago) link
i listen to that spotify sessions more than the album tbh. debarge flip so swoonsome
― r|t|c, Thursday, 20 October 2016 17:06 (seven years ago) link
Wait when are they playing? (I'm guessing it's the Jazz Café or similar?)
Listened to this album after a stressful and shitty day and it just melted everything away.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 20 October 2016 18:09 (seven years ago) link
nov 7th, village underground
― imago, Thursday, 20 October 2016 18:17 (seven years ago) link
In W. DC tonight
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 20 October 2016 18:31 (seven years ago) link
five shows in Germany but none in France :(
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 20 October 2016 19:59 (seven years ago) link
this album is gonna get super-overlooked on the year-end lists, don't y'all think?
― alpine static, Thursday, 20 October 2016 23:37 (seven years ago) link
probably. nobody outside ilx seems to care. :(
― fat fingered algorithm (rushomancy), Thursday, 20 October 2016 23:50 (seven years ago) link
I'll do my best.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 20 October 2016 23:53 (seven years ago) link
It's my number one, but I'm a non voting felon
― 6 god none the richer (m bison), Friday, 21 October 2016 01:42 (seven years ago) link
I could picture pitchfork sneaking it in near the bottom of their list, like what they did with Blackheart last year. It seems like the kind of album they'd like.
― carly reagan jepsen (2011nostalgia), Friday, 21 October 2016 06:43 (seven years ago) link
They were great at Bush Hall earlier this year, but funds are a little tight right now so probably can't make the trip up this time.
― Chewshabadoo, Friday, 21 October 2016 13:07 (seven years ago) link
Craig and I resisted the urge to shout out 'Love and Pride' between tracks remarkably well I felt.
― Chewshabadoo, Friday, 21 October 2016 13:08 (seven years ago) link
nobody outside ilx seems to care
is this true? I don't really have my ear to the ground at all but they got v favorable notices from NPR, Pitchfork, Ratliff in the Times, Spin...feels like a really enduring album to me
― though she denies it to the press, (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Saturday, 5 November 2016 00:36 (seven years ago) link
whoa i'm listening to this album and "supernatural" O_O
― k3vin k., Saturday, 5 November 2016 02:42 (seven years ago) link
hi, k3vin!
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 5 November 2016 02:43 (seven years ago) link
welcome to h3avin
― 6 god none the richer (m bison), Saturday, 5 November 2016 03:18 (seven years ago) link
i don't think nobody outside ilm cares. it definitely got love 'round release date. i guess i just felt like that was months ago and it's an understated record and so ppl would forget. but i just searched my email and found this from their publicist in August:
KING's critically acclaimed #1 independent album We Are KING has been honored with coveted spots on the "Best Of 2016 (So Far)" lists by TIME Magazine, Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, Complex, NPR, Stereogum, Noisey, Newsday and The Quietus.
so maybe i'm wrong. i hope so!
― alpine static, Saturday, 5 November 2016 03:29 (seven years ago) link
its my #1 this year
― 6 god none the richer (m bison), Saturday, 5 November 2016 03:44 (seven years ago) link
think i heard one of these tracks on a recent episode of "insecure"
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 5 November 2016 06:46 (seven years ago) link
A track def plays in an ep of high maintenance
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Saturday, 5 November 2016 07:13 (seven years ago) link
It's definitely got some love in the more daddish sections of the UK music press - that's not surprising given it'll appeal to the sort of people who wish R&B had stopped evomvingy at some point shortly after Innervisions.
It's not like something like Blackheart, which really did seem to get completely ignored outside of ILM, Fact and The Quietus.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 5 November 2016 10:20 (seven years ago) link
ILM, Fact and The QuietusILM, Fact and The QuietusILM, Fact and The QuietusILM, Fact and The QuietusILM, Fact and The QuietusILM, Fact and The QuietusILM, Fact and The Quietus
― r|t|c, Saturday, 5 November 2016 10:35 (seven years ago) link
https://vine.co/v/eOZpvu01PQt
― r|t|c, Saturday, 5 November 2016 10:36 (seven years ago) link
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Saturday, November 5, 2016 3:13 AM (nine hours ago) Bookmark
oh yeah that's what it was
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 5 November 2016 16:39 (seven years ago) link