apologies to Mordy in advance but
― imago, Saturday, 9 February 2019 22:00 (five years ago) link
watching ILM come around en masse to the idea of the thoroughly mediocre and uninteresting Harmony Hall being a great song has filled me with enough bile to last us right up until its inevitable and dismal appearance in the top 20 or so of the 2019 traxpoll. see you there
woo it has those george michael/primal scream pianos woo what a fucking novel and au courant production trick
you're all really old
― imago, Saturday, 9 February 2019 22:01 (five years ago) link
wow imago you've almost convinced me to willingly listen to a vampire weekend song, congrats
― the scientology of mountains (rushomancy), Sunday, 10 February 2019 00:59 (five years ago) link
ya imago dislike is almost an imprimatur of quality
― ||||||||, Sunday, 10 February 2019 01:07 (five years ago) link
I wish I had the musicological lexicon to explain why I can't stand this kind of pop R&B-esque singing, which also irks me when I hear The 1975. I love what Copeland are doing beneath the vocals, but these hopeful intimations of positive sensuality or whatever evoke nothing for me other than climactic scenes in American romcoms.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 12 February 2019 12:37 (five years ago) link
actually there's something about holly herndon's sound design that leaves me almost as unsatisfied as her approach to melody, but it'd take me a lot longer to pinpoint exactly what
― PPL+AI=NS (imago), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 11:06 (five years ago) link
― ||||||||, Sunday, 10 February 2019 01:07 (one month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I didn’t get on w little simz either ;)
― PaulDananVEVO (||||||||), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 11:43 (five years ago) link
If we were to come up with a list of 'ILM bait' artists, Holly Herndon would definitely be on it. I also think I'd dislike or be indifferent to most names on that list.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 12:00 (five years ago) link
Yeah it’s not even that hi fi rite? Also fuck accelerationist art
― Vapor waif (uptown churl), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 14:15 (five years ago) link
you mean her videos contain the same thespy quirkstrel vamping as her music
― imago, Monday, 22 April 2019 14:58 (five years ago) link
should there be another thread where you explain your subtweets?
― person industrial complex (voodoo chili), Monday, 22 April 2019 15:54 (five years ago) link
that is one monstrous fucking tracklist
― imago, Saturday, 27 April 2019 07:52 (five years ago) link
i am full of alcohol and good cheer but i am officially announcing my adversarial stance wrt ilx banging on about awful shit band vampire weekend like no other indie exists
― imago, Friday, 3 May 2019 20:00 (five years ago) link
I am somewhat surprised to learn how much ppl here seem to like them.
― get your hand outta my pocket universe (morrisp), Friday, 3 May 2019 20:39 (five years ago) link
this has been a bumper month for "this might be their best album!! no wait it is their best album!!!" grandstanding huh
― imago, Friday, 17 May 2019 13:37 (five years ago) link
the thing is i'm right every time
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 17 May 2019 13:42 (five years ago) link
I haven't heard it yet but my skepticism can be summed up as follows: 64 minutes.
― pomenitul, Friday, 17 May 2019 13:58 (five years ago) link
mods pls retitle board I Love The 1980s
― imago, Friday, 17 May 2019 17:35 (five years ago) link
Mods pls retitle this thread, Imago's thread to dis hyped releases that he doesn't get/doesn't like/wants to complain about
― kitchen person, Friday, 17 May 2019 17:41 (five years ago) link
That was always part of the fine print.
xp
― pomenitul, Friday, 17 May 2019 17:41 (five years ago) link
you're allowed to do it too! xp
― imago, Friday, 17 May 2019 17:47 (five years ago) link
Caterina Barbieri - are we really that starved of vaguely pretty synths that we need to be praising this boring, inert and basic music? I read she's a modular synth user but it just sounds like a MIDI arpeggiator with a reverb preset being used in unimaginative ways.
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 28 May 2019 09:51 (five years ago) link
Vampire weekend is some weak boring ass shit
― calstars, Tuesday, 28 May 2019 12:00 (five years ago) link
wary of a double CD about settling in / domestic family life from Bill Callahan, after Dream River, which was a fucking snoozer
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Tuesday, 28 May 2019 13:44 (five years ago) link
The love for vw makes my head hurt, it would be hard for me to think of a more nails on chalkboard sound than theirs. The smugness honeyed into “knowingness”, the utterly deracinated arrangements and melodies. They’re really a product of the Obama era, reeking of unexamined comfort allayed enough for the pundit class by a milquetoast ‘wry’ or ‘searching’ quality ... if they popped up in 2015 as a bunch of fresh faced Columbia grads marketing their sound as “upper west side Soweto” I wonder if reception would have been different.
― Vapor waif (uptown churl), Tuesday, 28 May 2019 14:20 (five years ago) link
the lyrical content of the first two vampire weekend records is pretty much all examined comfort
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 28 May 2019 14:22 (five years ago) link
i like that as a band they’ve changed significantly between records and yet the lazy dismissals of them use the same old reference points
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 28 May 2019 14:25 (five years ago) link
It’s ok to dislike a band for purely aesthetic reasons, you don’t have to go blaming Obama(!)
― get your hand outta my pocket universe (morrisp), Tuesday, 28 May 2019 14:41 (five years ago) link
Lol fair points what I was trying (evidently unsuccessfully)to say is that the examine but not enough in a way that preempts an interesting examination and just is another point scoring thing imo. I don’t care about them really personally, I’m sure we have the same politics, it’s more the universe they created. I feel like there’s a bit of having it both ways and a sort of highly focus grouped vibe that’s off putting. And they really haven’t changed that much? I guess that’s my thing, feels like they’re graded on a curve
But anyways y’all can go post in vw love thread, haters only here
― Vapor waif (uptown churl), Tuesday, 28 May 2019 18:36 (five years ago) link
^
― calstars, Tuesday, 28 May 2019 18:41 (five years ago) link
thanks, Obama!
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 28 May 2019 18:44 (five years ago) link
Moreover it’s I think a mistake to separate aesthetics from politics. That stance leaves one open to cringe analyses such as why do indie rockers never want to bass but it doesnt follow that the two spheres are hermetically sealed off from each other
― Vapor waif (uptown churl), Tuesday, 28 May 2019 19:00 (five years ago) link
haters only here
― Vapor waif (uptown churl), Tuesday, May 28, 2019 11:36 AM (thirty-seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i guess you'd rather post wrong things in a vacuum, who can blame you
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 28 May 2019 19:16 (five years ago) link
I've never heard a VW song, i don't think, and am pretty okay with that.
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Tuesday, 28 May 2019 19:19 (five years ago) link
cosign
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 28 May 2019 19:21 (five years ago) link
they have a ska song in the soundtrack to the movie stepbrothers but if you're not a cineaste like i you may have missed that film
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 28 May 2019 19:22 (five years ago) link
brad, this thread is specifically to complain so we don’t muck up the main thread
― Vapor waif (uptown churl), Tuesday, 28 May 2019 19:53 (five years ago) link
“Wrong” things lol
― calstars, Tuesday, 28 May 2019 20:11 (five years ago) link
okay, i listened to a few minutes of a few of their songs to try to understand and yeah, Vampire Weekend fucking suck and are everything i hate about music lol
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Tuesday, 28 May 2019 20:16 (five years ago) link
I heard most of one once. And I saw Step Brothers, but I don't remember anything about it except that it was maddeningly unfunny, never mind the soundtrack.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Tuesday, 28 May 2019 20:19 (five years ago) link
I don't think it's hyped, but the new Sun Kil Moon? AWFUL. To the point where I'm genuinely curious about his motivations. Lyrics continue on the same stream-of-consciousness / diary path as previous albums, production is muffled, vocals are croaked, plus a 22+ minute track is relegated to 2nd cd. It's almost Andy Kaufmann-esque, as if he's daring his audience to stay with him.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Tuesday, 28 May 2019 20:39 (five years ago) link
https://media2.giphy.com/media/SJb0vHduIW8wM/giphy.gif?cid=790b76115ced9ede35496c344da9c143&rid=giphy.gif
― Emperor Tonetta Ketchup (sleeve), Tuesday, 28 May 2019 20:50 (five years ago) link
oh FFS
― Emperor Tonetta Ketchup (sleeve), Tuesday, 28 May 2019 20:51 (five years ago) link
I can't recall the last time I've actively hated an album as much as I Am Easy to Find.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 30 May 2019 22:05 (five years ago) link
All these intermittently intriguing signifiers for compositional sophistication wasted on utterly meaningless melodies sung over and over with the smug conviction that they are worthy of our attention. A vanity musical, all of it.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 30 May 2019 22:07 (five years ago) link
And the requisite major-key arpeggios meant to intimate a new, wiser, less egotistical 'me' post-midlife crisis, augmented by charmless guest vocalists so as to remind us that this is the sound of trve adulthood (only grownups will understand), of hope won through – well, what, exactly? There is no pushback, no counterpart, just the sound of a band honing their ability to deceive themselves and, I assume, their listeners.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 30 May 2019 22:19 (five years ago) link
(I still hold Alligator and Boxer in high regard, so this isn't me dismissing The National outright.)
― pomenitul, Thursday, 30 May 2019 22:20 (five years ago) link