the 1975

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

They just remind me of Phoenix really but without Phoenix's essential shitiness.

i get a Bloc Party first album vibe off this too but all dreamy and inward instead of spiky and panicked

Yeah that too.

that might hit the closest as to why i love this

fuck i was gonna mention bloc party

i'm gonna throw this out instead: hot hot heat

gareth from los camp tweeted at me that this band's lead singer's mom is on the UK version of "the view" ??

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denise_Welch

flagging that post, dayo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhsIgnOi7hQ

fyi btw bloc party dude is probably going #1 with this soon

jesus fucking christ the lack of shame itt

the comparison points you guys are throwing out, the actual worst music ever

i was hoping the bloc party thing would break lex's silence

i stan for bloc party's first two albums but i can't for the life of me understand why dance producers use him as a vocalist

the big instrumental moments on this sub focus track are pretty effective though

http://i.imgur.com/Wtm1Cfn.jpg

Original video for 'Robbers' seems really 90s indie alternative vibe. I think they recorded it as The Big Sleep, or Talk House?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlSgRz53bIM

i stan for bloc party's first two albums

as i said, the lack of shame is astounding

no one should stan for anything about bloc party

anyway this 1975 guy's voice is the fucking worst, actually unlistenable. would rather hear his mother singing

acts referenced so far itt:

("prime-time") 3rd Eye Blind
James Blake ("expiring")
("next gen") Matchbox Twenty
My Vitriol
Kitchens of Distinction
Poole
Robbie Williams
A Mountain of One ("if they'd gone more pop and less pachouli")
The House of Love
Placebo
Paramore
("a slightly funkier") Blue Nile
("gauzy fake") U2
Glasvegas
Wham!("bience")
Snow Patrol
Wang Chung
Fun Boy Three
General Public
John Mayer
Vampire Weekend
My Chemical Romance
The Streets
Savage Garden
The Outfield
M83
Phoenix ("but without Phoenix's essential shitiness")
Bloc Party ("but all dreamy and inward instead of spiky and panicked")
Hot Hot Heat

in case no-one was aware, the limited edition includes all the eps on the second disc.

i agree with most of that and would add Jimmy Eat World

that list somehow looks even worse all in one place. the actual worst music ever

Yeah, not really the hippest set of influences there.

The cover of Chris Malinchak is also a weird move.

Someone also mentioned John Waite and Prefab Sprout.

max's list is making me wish i unleashed the sizable amount of r&b this record recalls for me but maybe that's more obvious/actually embedded in their pr

(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)

for instance i'd say this is otm but to jlc i'd add basically any new romantic 12" and any jam/lewis 12"

the expansiveness of a 12" mix drawn back into four minutes

There's Postcard in Girls, too.

Like if Scritti Politti and U2 had been on the same side.

oh fuck EXACTLY

yeah that or this mountain dew kid cudi commericial

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jJGKnlIWVc