yes
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 5 July 2017 16:33 (six years ago) link
Hmm, noted...
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 5 July 2017 16:36 (six years ago) link
the only new rock band i like really. or listen to. well, maybe savages too. but that is kinda linked to my worship of their singer.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 5 July 2017 16:47 (six years ago) link
although rufus is slowly but surely making me a car seat headrest fan...
― scott seward, Wednesday, 5 July 2017 16:49 (six years ago) link
can't face hearing this in case it's crap.
― piscesx, Wednesday, 5 July 2017 17:04 (six years ago) link
it's good!
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Wednesday, 5 July 2017 17:06 (six years ago) link
this band rules
― Unchanging Window (Ross), Wednesday, 5 July 2017 19:05 (six years ago) link
This band is so all over the map that if you don't like one thing they release, just wait a week and you might like the next one.
(I liked "Yuk Foo," but this is kinda boring imo.)
(And I'm still mad at them for pulling down the original version of "Bros" from all platforms.)
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, 5 July 2017 23:31 (six years ago) link
Yeah they're all over the map for sure, JF otm
I like when they're doing a mash of shoegaze and grunge but when that dude sings, ugh
― Unchanging Window (Ross), Wednesday, 5 July 2017 23:38 (six years ago) link
"swallowtail" rules, dude or no
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Wednesday, 5 July 2017 23:48 (six years ago) link
probably should re-listen, Brad
Silk is my favourite Wolf Alice track, which is kind of an outlier?
― Unchanging Window (Ross), Thursday, 6 July 2017 00:11 (six years ago) link
both this and "Yuk Foo" are pretty good, but the thing is given that every Wolf Alice song I have heard sounds like the work of a different band, I never think to listen to them because I have no internal sense of how they sound.
― sick, fucking funny, and well tasty (katherine), Thursday, 6 July 2017 15:03 (six years ago) link
i mean, i feel like they sorta have three modes: aggressive and sludgy, dreamy and shimmery, and the few songs that occupy the center of that venn diagram ("your loves whore"/"lisbon"?). what surprised me about my love is cool is that it still seemed to maintain an individual sensibility even as it careened between these styles?
lol and even as i'm saying all of this i don't think your impression is wrong katherine
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Thursday, 6 July 2017 15:19 (six years ago) link
OK this is more like it. I did not like the Yuk Foo song. That first album is a stone classic, one of the very best guitar records in years.
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 6 July 2017 15:25 (six years ago) link
it still seemed to maintain an individual sensibility even as it careened between these styles
Yeah, the stylistic shifts were jarring to me at first, especially Swallowtail and Freazy. But I grew to like the whole thing pretty quickly. The variety makes it work well as an album.
― how's life, Thursday, 6 July 2017 15:42 (six years ago) link
i feel like they sorta have three modes: aggressive and sludgy, dreamy and shimmery, and the few songs that occupy the center of that venn diagram ("your loves whore"/"lisbon"?).
Was just going to say something like this, though I hadn't figured out how to describe their modes. I don't think their is such outrageous variety in their work at all. The latest song sounds of a piece with similar tracks on their first album. I like it much better than Yuk Foo, but not sure how much I like it as such.
― Louie Ramirez y Sus Blechos (_Rudipherous_), Thursday, 6 July 2017 17:02 (six years ago) link
at least half of their template for the last album seemed to be "shutterbug" by veruca salt and i think this explains why i like them so much.
― scott seward, Thursday, 6 July 2017 18:25 (six years ago) link
prefer the demo of Your Love's Whore to the album version but I get why they re-calibrated it for the album
― Unchanging Window (Ross), Saturday, 8 July 2017 20:24 (six years ago) link
Lollaalooza 2016 video kicking my ass - not since Queens or Pj has a band rocked my ass off so much
― Unchanging Window (Ross), Sunday, 9 July 2017 05:32 (six years ago) link
I had tickets to see them at Rock and Roll Hotel (a 400 capacity venue) on Friday night and had to sell them at the last minute because something came up. Hopefully they'll come back in 2018 and play 9:30 club or something.
― how's life, Sunday, 9 July 2017 12:13 (six years ago) link
obligatory Zane Lowe interview is up on Beats1 now, which I don't have access to, but usually they repost on youtube within a day or so.
https://www.facebook.com/wolfalicemusic/photos/a.587979837917999.1073741825.156582101057777/1377229045659737/?type=3&theater
― how's life, Wednesday, 2 August 2017 17:21 (six years ago) link
Don't Delete The Kisses rules
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Sunday, 3 September 2017 19:07 (six years ago) link
No, but Beautifully Unconventional rules.
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 4 September 2017 03:05 (six years ago) link
The beginning keeps reminding me of whatever sample "1 Thing" is built around.
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 4 September 2017 03:07 (six years ago) link
Why doesn't Don't Delete Your Kisses rule? yeah just hearing beautifully unconventional, man this band is so classic. 1 Thing is The Meters sample yeah
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Monday, 4 September 2017 04:31 (six years ago) link
I'm just not into the spoken word part that's woven through it. I don't have any organized argument about it (and if I did it would probably be bullshit like most such arguments about aesthetic likes and dislikes are, however cleverly spun).
― _Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 5 September 2017 01:26 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etn4P80K5WU
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Wednesday, 13 September 2017 04:55 (six years ago) link
"don't delete the kisses" makes me feel like i can sprint to the ends of the earth and back
― joshywinty (josh), Wednesday, 13 September 2017 05:50 (six years ago) link
love how every time the chorus hits in "don't delete the kisses" the arrangement ups it a notch, making it gradually more powerful. It's a great song of tension and release
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Wednesday, 13 September 2017 06:03 (six years ago) link
the don't delete kisses live version on 101.9 Kink turns the song into a slow burner, check that out if you haven't :)
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Wednesday, 13 September 2017 06:06 (six years ago) link
holy shithttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNX7M9owRWQ
― joshywinty (josh), Monday, 18 September 2017 21:54 (six years ago) link
fuck this is such a classic band
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Tuesday, 19 September 2017 01:52 (six years ago) link
Awesome! So excited about this album.
― how's life, Tuesday, 19 September 2017 09:52 (six years ago) link
New album is great. It's definitely an evolution from their first
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Thursday, 28 September 2017 14:36 (six years ago) link
Apparently their U.S. distributor fucked up the vinyl pre-orders, in case you are a USian who did that. Can't wait to listen to this first thing in the morning on Spotify, in any case.
― how's life, Thursday, 28 September 2017 21:19 (six years ago) link
album of the month in Mojo which raised an eyebrow.
― piscesx, Thursday, 28 September 2017 21:34 (six years ago) link
Maybe not so surprising. I haven't heard the whole album yet but to my ears "Beautifully Unconventional" sounds pretty classic rock, without even stretching the term.
― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 29 September 2017 05:49 (six years ago) link
yeah not surprised on Mojo nod - this is about as good as rock records get. The new one is less superficially heavy than the first album, but they've found new ways to incorporate barbed riffs into mellower songs and seemed to find more of a consistent middle ground between heavy/sublime here. This record flows great
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Friday, 29 September 2017 12:56 (six years ago) link
I'm loving this on first listen. Nobody in the US seems to know who they are, but it's their loss. I'm glad to see they avoided the sophomore jinx.
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 29 September 2017 15:15 (six years ago) link
album is sick, meldal-johnson killed it
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Friday, 29 September 2017 15:35 (six years ago) link
Haven't had time to fully digest it but I love it. A couple of the songs are heavier than the heaviest moments on the last album, which I was not expecting at all but is a cool surprise.
― how's life, Friday, 29 September 2017 16:03 (six years ago) link
Nobody in the US seems to know who they are
Well, you know, there's the language barrier.
― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 29 September 2017 18:17 (six years ago) link
Love their accents! Was thinking today it makes me like them more
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Friday, 29 September 2017 19:17 (six years ago) link
this is SO GOOD
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Friday, 29 September 2017 22:59 (six years ago) link
This album puts some solid gold up front but crucially the second half is so vital and heavy, lifting you back up. Really an ace lesson in how to structure a consistently good album
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Friday, 29 September 2017 23:16 (six years ago) link
It never really hits a lull tbh
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Friday, 29 September 2017 23:18 (six years ago) link
this is sounding very very good right now
― dynamicinterface, Saturday, 30 September 2017 07:34 (six years ago) link
i loooooooooooooove “space and time”
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Saturday, 30 September 2017 21:19 (six years ago) link
^ reminds me of Eno! "Needles in the Camel's Eye". Could mash well together on a playlist
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Saturday, 30 September 2017 23:36 (six years ago) link
I hate to say it but I'm once again ambivalent about the album as a whole. I still need to gives it some more listens. There best work is getting better, however. Planet Hunter is probably my favorite Wolf Alice song so far. I'd rather see them combining their modes, like that, rather than working very dreamy some of the time and very screamy the other part of the time. Not too thrilled with the mostly spoken sections either. Once again, Ellie is a solid enough vocalist that she should be singing rather than speech-singing, and preferably without a ton of effects.
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 30 September 2017 23:49 (six years ago) link