cupid deluxe is pretty good but the way he always uses completely static drum loops is frustrating
― ufo, Saturday, 25 June 2016 21:38 (eight years ago) link
i fn love cupid deluxe
― lag∞n, Saturday, 25 June 2016 21:47 (eight years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/26/arts/music/dev-hynes-blood-orange-freetown-sound.html
NY Times writer Jon Caramanica hangs out with Hynes at various NY locations--studios, parks, the ballet, uptown, east village,
― curmudgeon, Monday, 27 June 2016 15:58 (eight years ago) link
i tried to read that but it was too much "new york is a mysterious mistress"
― lag∞n, Monday, 27 June 2016 16:10 (eight years ago) link
although
lag∞nPosted: November 25, 2015 at 3:01:20 PMdev hynes had to move to ny to learn how to be cool
― lag∞n, Monday, 27 June 2016 16:12 (eight years ago) link
It Is What It Is
― Treeship, Monday, 27 June 2016 16:35 (eight years ago) link
tru
― lag∞n, Monday, 27 June 2016 17:08 (eight years ago) link
damn... That caramanica profile a brutal hit by the cringe-mafia
imo to like this guy's music is to have a crush on him but reading someone so in thrall to a flâneur-type is weird cuz they paint the most banal activities as some rarefied shit, like 'he sits in parks... plays sports... walks the streets... pays for tickets to the ballet... and he has Unlocked The Secret To The City Of New York"
also lol at this
That sort of engagement feels almost antiquated, a product of an older time when place was something close to destiny. That’s no longer the case. It is less essential than ever, in this time of easy mobility of ideas and internet-driven transnational fame, for an artist to identify with one spot in the world. To be, in essence, local.
being immediately followed by 'oh and his snapchat is the bomb'
― de l'asshole (flopson), Monday, 27 June 2016 20:26 (eight years ago) link
dev just ~surprise-dropped~ the new album, it's available across all platforms
― j. winters (josh), Tuesday, 28 June 2016 04:46 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/I2gIuks.jpg
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 28 June 2016 05:20 (eight years ago) link
uhh doesnt he know ur supposed to put the slam poetry in the last song
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 28 June 2016 16:12 (eight years ago) link
i thought the intro was good! appropriately tone-setting
― if young slothrop don't trust ya i'm gon' rhyme ya (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 28 June 2016 17:35 (eight years ago) link
Get ready for some think pieces
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 29 June 2016 00:51 (eight years ago) link
oh damn "E.V.P." and "Desirée" are sooooo good, definitely feeling this
― the tune was space, Wednesday, 29 June 2016 04:29 (eight years ago) link
ha i just reread this whole thread and its so good
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 29 June 2016 16:01 (eight years ago) link
Jesus, that Caramanica piece. That's what a Harvard education will buy you, I guess. "When friends like Florence Welch have concerts, he goes." Really living the NYC life to the max there.
― Position Position, Wednesday, 29 June 2016 16:16 (eight years ago) link
Man this album is so fine. 'But You' has the most lush chorus Garth Greenside hasn't written in years.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 1 July 2016 11:43 (eight years ago) link
garth greenside
― just sayin, Friday, 1 July 2016 12:14 (eight years ago) link
oh shi..
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 1 July 2016 12:15 (eight years ago) link
#blood
― ejemplo (crüt), Friday, 1 July 2016 12:18 (eight years ago) link
kinda uneven sounding to me.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 1 July 2016 13:47 (eight years ago) link
i dont' like this nearly as much as the last one, on first listen, but it might be a grower. I also haven't listened to it intently, just put it on in the house
― akm, Friday, 1 July 2016 18:12 (eight years ago) link
Don't really get the hype around this one
― yesca, Friday, 1 July 2016 18:17 (eight years ago) link
tricked into listening to some mediocre wispy pop thanks to a Carly Rae Jepsen feature, gutted
― boxedjoy, Saturday, 2 July 2016 08:56 (eight years ago) link
I can't get into this yet. On "Augustine" he sounds even duller than Solange.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 2 July 2016 14:25 (eight years ago) link
i love the single. chorus is very tame impala. though the whole thing could have been released in 1986 apart from the 90s R&B breaks.
― StillAdvance, Wednesday, 6 July 2016 16:55 (eight years ago) link
― boxedjoy, Saturday, July 2, 2016 4:56 AM (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lol adult children of teen pop
― lag∞n, Thursday, 7 July 2016 17:18 (eight years ago) link
This is a lovely-sounding record that could use more actual songs.
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Friday, 8 July 2016 20:14 (eight years ago) link
can goon be tempted out of his poochie-ass lair of irony vibes to offer an opinion on this or is the brand 2 strong
― r|t|c, Friday, 8 July 2016 20:17 (eight years ago) link
feel like i havent gotten deep enough yet will report back, does feel a lil vague tho, def hasnt grabbed me like the last one
― lag∞n, Friday, 8 July 2016 20:27 (eight years ago) link
ur poochie tho
― lag∞n, Friday, 8 July 2016 20:28 (eight years ago) link
sandras smile was so good and this is a whole diff vibe which is interesting
― lag∞n, Friday, 8 July 2016 20:31 (eight years ago) link
i really like this
― marcos, Friday, 12 August 2016 15:31 (eight years ago) link
This album is good. I think the Pitchfork review way back when is pretty OTM slotting it in alongside the D'Angelo and Kendrick. It's not about songs as such but moods and themes. I think.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 23 September 2016 15:00 (eight years ago) link
It's growing on me a bit, but still wish some of the songs tunes were as impressive as the moods, themes and what he seems to be going for.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 27 September 2016 16:43 (eight years ago) link
Saw him last week.I took a friend who went in blind, and at first all the '80s style appropriation turned him off, but by the end he was pretty convinced. It's just delivered as this weird contrast of a really talented, compelling, confident guy playing and singing like he's still insecure and trying to figure things out, as an aesthetic, which comes off a little off-kilter and incomplete. But again, by design.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 27 September 2016 17:51 (eight years ago) link
guess he has some music on the imminent solange album
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 28 September 2016 01:35 (eight years ago) link
i really love this but cupid deluxe might be better
― marcos, Monday, 31 October 2016 20:19 (seven years ago) link
im not sure
I think the Pitchfork review way back when is pretty OTM slotting it in alongside the D'Angelo and Kendrick.
oof i cringed a little when i read that review, seemed like such a cheap and easy critical move to do just bc of some political vocal samples. i love this album but i really don't see it in the same vein as the BM or TBAP, it is very different, honestly i don't even view BM in the same vein as TBAP other than major albums w/ some persona/political themes by black americans?
― marcos, Monday, 31 October 2016 20:21 (seven years ago) link
dev hynes is from london town me old china
― harold melvin and the bluetones (jim in vancouver), Monday, 31 October 2016 20:29 (seven years ago) link
i know, i was talking about d'angelo & kendrick
― marcos, Monday, 31 October 2016 20:31 (seven years ago) link
dohhh
― harold melvin and the bluetones (jim in vancouver), Monday, 31 October 2016 20:32 (seven years ago) link
dev hynes had to move to ny to learn how to be cool
― lag∞n, Wednesday, November 25, 2015 5:01 PM (eleven months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― lag∞n, Monday, 31 October 2016 20:52 (seven years ago) link
because of my friend getting a babysitting call she can't refuse, I have come into a free ticket to this guy's performance of his 'score to the easternsports art installation' tonight at the whitney. I know literally nothing about him or his music. IDK sometimes these very random opportunities are great.
― his eye is on despair-o (Jon not Jon), Friday, 3 February 2017 16:35 (seven years ago) link
That was fucking cool. Basically a continuous ~1 hr solo instrumental piece starting on piano then moving to synth then back to piano then to EWI then finishing on piano, with backing tracks but not very many of them. Reminiscences at various times of McCoy Tyner, Reich, Penguin Cafe, and Vangelis (massive sawtooth sound controlled by EWI in a slow ecstatic solo, the high point of the performance)
― his eye is on despair-o (Jon not Jon), Saturday, 4 February 2017 03:03 (seven years ago) link
Are blood orange smoothies any good
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Saturday, 4 February 2017 03:11 (seven years ago) link
bowled over by the new album
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 25 August 2018 04:02 (six years ago) link
*listens*
― 21st savagery fox (m bison), Saturday, 25 August 2018 04:29 (six years ago) link
Kind of amazed there's been so little talk about this so far. Just realized a few minutes that this exists when "Charcoal Baby" showed up on spotify radio with its incredible detuned guitar.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Saturday, 25 August 2018 19:55 (six years ago) link