the 1975

Sort of enjoying this. Sounds like a cross between Prefab Sprout and John Waite in both sound and vision.

Don't know anything about this mob but, somewhat bizarrely, they were on this yesterday

Haha Matt if you come on board with this as well it will be perfect, a giant cosmic reverse-birthday-present for Lex.

I vomited on his living room floor instead. Which I think on balance would have been the preferred option of the two.

Tabs with unlimited 0's
New clothes
Bloody nose
Powders and walking back home
Has he got enough weed?
No
Broken phone
Retching on the floor alone
I can't believe that we're talking about him

What's up with this dude's accent by the way? I can't work out what's going on with his vowels at all, if someone hadn't told me they were from Manchester I would never have guessed. They've got an inherent Aussieness to them that I can't put my finger on.

perhaps its an unfortunate consequence of the dude's oral fixation

and i've been thinking lots about your mouth

mouth in every song it seemed to me

True, ergh... cannot un-hear.

lol, always happy to help

as per upthred it's really kinda amazing how many names you'd be within your rights to throw at this lot

my uncultured mind added vampire weekend, my chemical romance, the streets, savage garden...

lol @ savage garden

yeah, like, a "related acts" matrix for this band would be crazy/divisive/hilarious

arctic monkeys for poptimists

aw hell let's toss The Outfield into this stew too.

haha tbf i do have a totally romanticised and probably totally baseless mental image of savage garden

Still a funny thread!

http://i.imgur.com/OUDys8x.jpg

mm yeah i'd been trying to put his parentage to the back of my mind

i spose a crit could put it to shitty use wrt the kid's thespy fluidity and observational indulgences

OK fine I downloaded Savage Garden's "I Want You."

I get reminded of stuff from M83's last album at points, though that may have been more from some of the EP material.

Looks like there's a 2CD deluxe edition with all the EPs on the second disc.

Def m83 vibes xp

This album is the fucking best, my high expectations are surpassed. No ~deep thoughts~ yet, just letting it wash over me... Wow.

And Tim F leaving a trail of otm's all over this thread <3

my uncultured mind added vampire weekend, my chemical romance, the streets, savage garden...

― r|t|c, Monday, September 2, 2013 5:55 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

These are all correct. esp last the two.

i keep confusing this band with vampire weekend :/ sorry dudes. my indie pop muscles have atrophied.

Xpost actually quite a few of the new songs here are really really really The Streets' "It's Too Late" multiplied by Savage Garden's "The Animal Song".

After loading those tracks up on YouTube, just... no.

jesus christ what is this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5FMeAPpc8A

cover

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVcG9lpZV24

Actually, Savage Garden is totally accurate, but why the Streets? Is it the accent?

More when he starts talking really fast about weed and sex and killing yourself and how you hardly ever went to school.

ambient geezer dramedy of 'menswear' run the bell loudest

I'm sitting with a girl
Fortunate placing
Preceding railing racket off a porcelain basin

also whichever song it is where some girl's "throwing bensons" (in his mouth) (obviously)

Well, who's this? Going for the kiss,
I'm probably gonna yosh in your mouth.
Because it's 5 past 3, I can hardly see and I'm on the verge of passing out.

ambient geezer dramedy of 'menswear' run the bell loudest

― r|t|c, Monday, September 2, 2013 11:11 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Also "So Far (It's Alright)" on the IV ep.

As noted above I see those two and "M.O.N.E.Y." as forming something of a trilogy

yeah i need to do the eps

beyond the geezaesthetic moments he also often does a kind of skinnerish in-the-moment but out-of-body lucid narration idk

dont know vampire weekend quite well enough to say for sure but i feel koenig's eye is in there a little bit too, not just how 'talk!' sounds

I like your face despite your nose

i guess maybe that sort of line's kind of a generic britlad kicker tho

mike skinner remix of "m.o.n.e.y." is p terrible unfortunately/expectedly (?) (idk i've barely listened to the streets)

lissvik remix of "settle down" is a blast tho

holy shit this is so good

2nd serve of "way out" 4 life

wait, i meant "heart out"

"she way out" is the only one that isn't blowing me away rn

Adding to the laundry list of comparisons in this thread, it's as if the Jacques Lu Cont remix of the Killers "Mr Brightside" had spawned a bunch've NME bands rather than frankendance/bloghouse hybrids (or, IDK, these songs are the 7" originals of JLCs extended 80s 12" expansions rather than the sow's ears they more often than not were).

Would like some explication of the accent. Anything off this likely to chart in the UK?

oh i guess via setlist.fm that cute jam/lewis/blue nile song is called "heart out"

― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, June 27, 2013 1:52 PM (2 months ago)

"Robbers" has got a bit of a "Downtown Lights" vibe to it, tbh.

I think "Chocolate" already charted pretty high?

IMO "She Way Out" is the first and only tune that feels a bit too generically in line with a lot of other stuff on the album, or at least it's in the dead center of whatever constellation is traced by "Chocolate", "Talk!", "Heart Out", "Settle Down" and "Girls" without having any of the distinctive features that each of those tunes has.

Funny thing is that "Chocolate" aside they'd not really done anything remotely in that vein before the album itself.

I'll be interested to see what people who get into them via the album think when they go back to tunes like "Undo", "You", "Me", "Fallingforyou", "Haunt // Bed"... none of which really sound like anything here.

hah the synth washes on the first track gave me a killers vibe xxp

wait i guess that's the second track