There's Postcard in Girls, too.
― Wantaway Striker (ithappens), Tuesday, 3 September 2013 16:23 (ten years ago) link
Like if Scritti Politti and U2 had been on the same side.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 3 September 2013 16:39 (ten years ago) link
oh fuck EXACTLY
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 3 September 2013 16:43 (ten years ago) link
yeah that or this mountain dew kid cudi commericial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jJGKnlIWVc
― My Little Pono (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 3 September 2013 16:51 (ten years ago) link
approachin the hill (approachin the hill (approachin the hill))
― markers, Tuesday, 3 September 2013 17:23 (ten years ago) link
^^ 'robbers' kinda leaves scritti politti out of the equation.
― rusty_allen, Tuesday, 3 September 2013 23:38 (ten years ago) link
Add The Big Pink to that list imo
― monotony, Wednesday, 4 September 2013 01:06 (ten years ago) link
Foals and Snow Patrol also
Oh wait, somebody beat me to the snow patrol ref.
anyway looking at that list this seems like it would be the grossest album ever but it's really not? hooks piled on to infinity. these guys were not on my radar at all, so thanks ilx!
― monotony, Wednesday, 4 September 2013 01:09 (ten years ago) link
One band that also came to my mind was the earlier stuff by The Devlins. Particularly songs like Alone in the Dark and Someone to Talk To.
― MarkoP, Wednesday, 4 September 2013 01:58 (ten years ago) link
genuinely no idea if adding foals and snow patrol is 4 real or designed to make me even more allergic to them
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 4 September 2013 09:26 (ten years ago) link
HOW you can all put up with his voice i have no idea
reminds me of the Artful Dodger in Oliver!
― iMacaroon dragoons (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 09:43 (ten years ago) link
His voice is fairly anonymous and not actively offensive but I really don't get his intonation at all, there's a bit where he sings "throw ipp on yr shizz" and I genuinely have no idea what accent he's going for.
The first Bloc Party album is a good call actually because the 80s Big Music aspect of that record is often overlooked in favour of the post-punk revivalism.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 4 September 2013 11:23 (ten years ago) link
I suspect if this had come out in 2006 it would have elicited a monumental mass eyeroll.
Not sure about the production and mixing on this though, I wish there was a bit more space - what's the point of having massive 80s drums if there's no space for them to echo round?
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 4 September 2013 11:25 (ten years ago) link
It's the stupid accent and the WHINE
Like fucking placebo or something
Lyrics are dumb and overwrought btw
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 4 September 2013 11:26 (ten years ago) link
Calling this out for being too whiny is like calling Sade out for being too tasteful or something.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 4 September 2013 11:31 (ten years ago) link
this kind of mid-Atlantic meets mid-Thames non-denominational whine/mumble is an improvement on the lumpen fake-localisms of a lot of UK indie from the last 10 years so i think you have to look at as a way for a band to escape that trap rather than be sad cos the guy doesn't have some great soul voice
having said that it wd be weird hearing a band making these kinda musical moves and having a singer with a great soul voice
― iMacaroon dragoons (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 11:45 (ten years ago) link
but you might end up with what Tony Hadley sounds like in his own head and that doesn't seem like a win
― iMacaroon dragoons (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 11:46 (ten years ago) link
i think id connect with the band about 50 percent less if the guy didnt sound like a mash of every whiney 2nd wave emo singer
― max, Wednesday, 4 September 2013 12:21 (ten years ago) link
It's true, though: if Hayley Williams sung these tunes the album would be A+.
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 14:07 (ten years ago) link
god i have tried sooooo hard to get into that paramore album and i don't respond AT ALL to it, there's nothing wrong with how it sounds but i don't hear the hooks or any way in at all
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 4 September 2013 14:14 (ten years ago) link
which i think is actually BECAUSE of her voice which is just...there
the 1975 covered a 1D song today on Radio 1
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 14:15 (ten years ago) link
time-honoured indie gimmick :\
― iMacaroon dragoons (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 14:18 (ten years ago) link
My AltPress.com review.
― 誤訳侮辱, Wednesday, 4 September 2013 14:23 (ten years ago) link
― lex pretend, Wednesday, September 4, 2013 10:14 AM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark
same
― 乒乓, Wednesday, 4 September 2013 14:26 (ten years ago) link
wow i really do not get this album at all. like i don't have the proper context to like it, is it a britpop thing or something?
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 14:36 (ten years ago) link
acts referenced so far itt:
("prime-time") 3rd Eye BlindJames Blake ("expiring")("next gen") Matchbox TwentyMy VitriolKitchens of DistinctionPooleRobbie WilliamsA Mountain of One ("if they'd gone more pop and less pachouli")The House of LovePlaceboParamore("a slightly funkier") Blue Nile("gauzy fake") U2GlasvegasWham!("bience")Snow PatrolWang ChungFun Boy ThreeGeneral PublicJohn MayerVampire WeekendMy Chemical RomanceThe StreetsSavage GardenThe OutfieldM83Phoenix ("but without Phoenix's essential shitiness")Bloc Party ("but all dreamy and inward instead of spiky and panicked")Hot Hot Heat
― max, Tuesday, September 3, 2013 7:49 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i only like about 2 of these bands so maybe that's the problem
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 14:38 (ten years ago) link
which 2
― 乒乓, Wednesday, 4 September 2013 14:39 (ten years ago) link
lol at anyone referencing poole (though "car" is probably the second-best indie rock song called "car" ever)
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 14:39 (ten years ago) link
vampire weekend and wham!, obviously
lol at anyone referencing poole
Fine, be that way.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 4 September 2013 14:41 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEVXmzHY1lU
― MarkoP, Wednesday, 4 September 2013 14:53 (ten years ago) link
that's lovely
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 15:01 (ten years ago) link
way to make a one direction song kinda sound like a stripped down "angel of mine"
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 15:11 (ten years ago) link
studio vibes unreasonably suited toward this song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaT1dWMnCCY
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 17:10 (ten years ago) link
i don't really want to hear or think about these guys in the sphere of remix culture at all tbh
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 4 September 2013 18:43 (ten years ago) link
otm noodle posts today
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 4 September 2013 18:45 (ten years ago) link
their other remixes are hot garbage so you might never have to
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 18:50 (ten years ago) link
Lex not liking this is not shocking. Him not hearing the hooks in the Paramore album is a bit befuddling. It's got hooks for days.
― Greer, Wednesday, 4 September 2013 20:55 (ten years ago) link
I have tried so many times with that album but to no avail, every time I start wondering when it'll end about halfway through and I can never remember any of it when it ends. It's like if ashlee simpson made a really samey, really long, really one-note and personality-free album
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 4 September 2013 22:14 (ten years ago) link
Like I can hear exactly how it should hit the spot for me but the songs are just not there
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 4 September 2013 22:16 (ten years ago) link
p tenuous posturing even for u tbh
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 4 September 2013 22:27 (ten years ago) link
they sound like guster
― Andrew Sandwich, Friday, 6 September 2013 02:45 (ten years ago) link
and dispatch
― Andrew Sandwich, Friday, 6 September 2013 02:46 (ten years ago) link
man those bands suck
― Andrew Sandwich, Friday, 6 September 2013 02:53 (ten years ago) link
PRITCHFOKR SPAEKS
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/18467-the-1975-the-1975/
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 12 September 2013 14:42 (ten years ago) link
Damn. Fucking lack of middle 8's. A rookie mistake.
― MikoMcha, Thursday, 12 September 2013 20:25 (ten years ago) link
it's like he's butthurt they kept changing their name
― prolego, Thursday, 12 September 2013 20:36 (ten years ago) link