^ BANDZ, lol
To the extent the album works, it does so because it's so entirely dominated by its vocalists. Since nearly every moment is dominated and defined by a different singer or rapper, Future Brown has a lot of moment-to-moment textural appeal. And while the backing tracks aren't all that immediately exciting taken on their own, at their best they at least tend to serve and flatter the vocals. Some, like "MVP" and "Asbestos", fall distinctly flat, and several more seem more like lazy pastiche than the product of a distinct sensibility, but the run from "Bandz" through "Dangerzone" is pretty solid. If, yeah, uninspired.
― describing a scene in which the Hulk gets a boner (contenderizer), Tuesday, 3 March 2015 04:24 (nine years ago) link
i think part of the problem here is that criticizing the art can easily slip into criticizing the critics who like that art if you're not careful
OTM. That way lies Armond White.
― Minaj moron (Re-Make/Re-Model), Tuesday, 3 March 2015 09:43 (nine years ago) link
TTM:006 MA NGUZU
https://soundcloud.com/tobago-tracks/ttm006-ma-nguzu
Enjoying this genre-hopping mix of stuff, Meaghan Garvey mentioned it in her Pitchfork review and have only followed it up this week.
― MikoMcha, Thursday, 30 April 2015 05:55 (nine years ago) link
Annoying Fade to Mind producer quote from article "L.A. record label Fade to Mind looks to expand its cultural reach"
http://touch.latimes.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-83234482/
We may have missed some opportunities because we want to control everything,” Rubin said. “Our brand’s really complicated, it’s not just a bunch of boys in hats playing trap music. But we’ve always been influenced by pop music, and if someone came to us to do a Britney record, of course we would try it.”
― curmudgeon, Monday, 4 May 2015 19:11 (eight years ago) link
Elysia Crampton's American Drift is really scratching the itch for me that the Future Brown album failed to.
― boring alt-reality reverend (The Reverend), Tuesday, 22 December 2015 09:37 (eight years ago) link
lol I forgot about lex vs FAQ high-quality stuff
― boring alt-reality reverend (The Reverend), Tuesday, 22 December 2015 10:11 (eight years ago) link
lol yah prime filet mignon for those w/ long memories
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 22 December 2015 12:38 (eight years ago) link
i regret nothing except not doing it to pc music as well due to lack of time/unwillingness to endure their output
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Wednesday, 23 December 2015 09:09 (eight years ago) link
all things considered i think future brown is happily on course to be the turkey of the decade
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 23 December 2015 09:44 (eight years ago) link
yeah that's why i think pc music might have been more worthwhile to go in on
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Wednesday, 23 December 2015 11:25 (eight years ago) link
did anyone write anything on ilm about the fatima al qadiri album, brute? finally listening to it now
― mh, Monday, 15 August 2016 21:27 (seven years ago) link
as far as I can tell it's just completely normal faq instrumental music content with little news clip samples occasionally at the beginnings of tracks, for uh, conceptual reasons?
― mh, Monday, 15 August 2016 21:31 (seven years ago) link
asiatisch was much better
― ANU (sisilafami), Monday, 15 August 2016 22:42 (seven years ago) link
*hits a gong*
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 27 February 2015 18:20 (two years ago) Permalink
classic thread! also, good interview in pitchfork
― the late great, Tuesday, 17 October 2017 05:17 (six years ago) link
critic Isabelia Herrera twweeted her fave 2023 albums on Spotify so far and included Fatima Al Qadiri's Gumar ep
― curmudgeon, Monday, 19 June 2023 14:45 (ten months ago) link
What I heard of Medieval Femme sounded great tho maybe more to admire than something I'd go to repeatedly.Someone did a video edit of the strikingly eerie 'Malaak' over clips from the Dune remake and it did work all too well.
― nashwan, Monday, 19 June 2023 15:46 (ten months ago) link