i generally like angel and ill check this out but them saying this makes me really uncomfortable “Last night I was super, super suicidal,”
obv its healthy to really express ones tru feelings but that strikes me as trivializing & idk if angel was really in that mindstate then get sum help immed dont do interviews to promote your mixtape
― johnny crunch, Friday, 18 September 2015 01:16 (eight years ago) link
Obviously I haven't experienced the massive traumas that Angel Haze has, but having lived a life of feeling suicidal most days and repressing, repressing, always repressing my feelings, from childhood to adulthood, it is fucking refreshing to reach a state where you are able to say stuff like that out loud. Where you no longer give a shit if you are making people uncomfortable by expressing the bad shit in your brain. It's always there. They have said in interviews that they have sought and received help in the past, but help doesn't completely remove your mental health issues. If you didn't do "normal" stuff when in that mindset you wouldn't ever be able to do anything for the rest of your life.
― emil.y, Friday, 18 September 2015 01:42 (eight years ago) link
emil.y the only time I had ever heard about angel haze was from professor Jack (nee Judith) Halberstam talking about her and jayZ/kanye and queer identity (with relation mostly to anarchy and otherness) - I know this video is very long but you may find it interesting. Or even VERY interesting, as I do. I'd start the video at around 6:30 if you want to get to the meat but the whole thing is a mindfuck par excellence.
https://witchesunionhall.wordpress.com/2014/08/19/no-church-in-the-wild-queer-anarchy-and-gaga-feminism-by-jack-halberstam/
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Friday, 18 September 2015 02:05 (eight years ago) link
Possibly too drunk to be watching this but doing it anyway - I like it so far, have heard of Jack Halberstam but never read his books.
― emil.y, Friday, 18 September 2015 02:26 (eight years ago) link
J. Halberstam is amazing. I tried to start a conversation on the book Female Masculinity elsewhere (Gaga Feminism is interesting, but a bit of a mess) but it didn't go anywhere.
One of the things I really admire about Jack is Jack's refusal to police (or be policed by) pronouns.
The battle (which I've experienced) over what people call you isn't (in my experience) about the names or the titles; it's about respect. Obviously, refusing to call you by what you've asked is a deliberate move of disrespect. But people who are determined to disrespect you will find (again, in my experience) ways of turning that self-definition into just another way of disrespecting you. I really admire Jack's stance of attempting to remove the power. What matters is how one is treated; the pronoun is a tool, but it's not the thing itself.
Anyway this is off topic so I'm going to go and look for the mixtape. Soundcloud, yeah?
― Dröhn Rock (Branwell with an N), Friday, 18 September 2015 08:05 (eight years ago) link
It's on Spotify if that's a thing you do.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 18 September 2015 08:20 (eight years ago) link
Cheers, that's v v useful thanks
― Dröhn Rock (Branwell with an N), Friday, 18 September 2015 08:31 (eight years ago) link
jack halberstam is the worst
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Friday, 18 September 2015 12:03 (eight years ago) link
moonrise kingdom is terrific
― johnny crunch, Friday, 18 September 2015 13:37 (eight years ago) link
getting a bit obsessed with this album. i love when the beats buckle and distort, i love how she turns pain into power both in her metaphors and her narratives, i love that she's so convincing that she even gets away with actually howling like a wolf
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 22 September 2015 13:41 (eight years ago) link
I've been playing it non-stop since Thursday, "D-Day," "Exposed," "The Wolves" especially.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 22 September 2015 14:10 (eight years ago) link
despite deep deep reservations due to how much I disliked the previous album, I finally played this
holy shit
― I Am Curious (Dolezal) (DJP), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 19:21 (eight years ago) link
This is an incredibly strong contender for my album of the year.
― emil.y, Thursday, 24 September 2015 00:18 (eight years ago) link
same
i was initially drawn to the hard-ass ones where she rips your face off, but wow, the melodies on this thing as well. seems like the one she took from her unfortunate major label experience was how to write better ~emotional hooks than sia. and the way she switches between rapping and singing works so well every time.
love the recurrent wolves and moons, so many lyrics that stop you in your tracks. "i know n*ggas ignore / that the blood in a queen runs the same in a whore", "my brain is a cage, it's the place where the beasts that i'm battling lay, man it's a wrap, i relax in my rage like a bat or a rat in a trap or a cave", "if suffering makes a god then let me know more of it"...those are just from "on fire". "detox" is fucking epic, "exposed" is just so raw
― lex pretend, Thursday, 24 September 2015 17:23 (eight years ago) link
sorry, they, wasn't thinking
i wasn't really put off by dirty gold bc it's always seemed inevitable they'd make better music outside the major label system
― lex pretend, Thursday, 24 September 2015 17:24 (eight years ago) link
i saw angel live a month or so ago and was somewhat put off by her playing new songs for the first 3/4 of the set and jumping into the audience for the second half of the set, making it impossible to actually see her in a crowd of some 6kshe was okay live but it's a single person hip hop show in a huge crowd, unless you're amazing it's hard for that to be the best possible concertanyway, i really need to listen to the new one.
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 24 September 2015 17:58 (eight years ago) link
So good. In my top 5 for the year to date, for sure. "The Wolves" is :o and don't overlook "Bruises" near the end - a great bit of pop on top of everything else we've been offered up to that point.
― Jeff W, Sunday, 27 September 2015 12:10 (eight years ago) link
in moonrise kingdom its something v obvious but what does the 'you gotta run / or theyll catch us and stop us from growing' sound like? partic how the second half is phrased
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 27 September 2015 21:53 (eight years ago) link
http://sobs.com/2015/6177/angel-haze-back-to-the-woods-tourAngel at SOBs in NYC on November 23 at 8pmGood option for those of you doing the solo Tday thing in the city; except for her penchant for literally taking herself off the stage and general pontification, she puts on a show
― a llove spat over a llama-keeper (forksclovetofu), Monday, 26 October 2015 18:15 (eight years ago) link
a bunch of November US dates
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 15 November 2015 02:24 (eight years ago) link
I like how on “Dark Places,” Haze alternates between rapid, snarled patter and mournful sung verses over nicely programmed instrumentation from Tk Kayembe.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 20 November 2015 20:22 (eight years ago) link
this is a good interview
http://www.standard.co.uk/goingout/music/angel-haze-interview-at-home-i-m-dead-but-on-stage-i-m-god-a3157611.html
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Saturday, 16 January 2016 13:37 (eight years ago) link
(i'm seeing her tonight, hyped)
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Saturday, 16 January 2016 13:38 (eight years ago) link
Reservation has been snuck onto Spotify, in case that might interest you.
― Jeff W, Sunday, 21 February 2016 19:08 (eight years ago) link
Daaaaaaaamn!
http://thefader-res.cloudinary.com/images/w_760,c_limit/AngelHaze_NFrancis_Resurrection_3mb_yjp6xf/angel-haze-resurrection-single.png
http://www.thefader.com/2016/11/22/angel-haze-resurrection-single
― Jeff W, Friday, 25 November 2016 19:03 (seven years ago) link
She's the best.
― Ross, Friday, 25 November 2016 19:15 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0E6KYHxvEGg
classic
― In a slipshod style (Ross), Tuesday, 21 November 2017 05:37 (six years ago) link
love angel haze
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rN_nvLgR2_U
― kolakube (Ross), Saturday, 30 December 2017 23:15 (six years ago) link
back to the woods is a great slept-on record. Fraught with more paranoia and psychosis than the debut but wonderful all the same
― Eris (Ross), Friday, 6 April 2018 15:10 (six years ago) link
Don't know if it was mentioned on here anywhere, but Angel Haze is now called Roes
https://www.gaystarnews.com/article/pansexual-rapper-angel-haze-officially-changed-name/
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 6 April 2018 23:24 (six years ago) link
Classic classic classic
― dig me out requiem (Ross), Tuesday, 11 September 2018 22:01 (five years ago) link
stronghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOycRO6mabo
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 20 April 2021 14:47 (two years ago) link
I have been jamming out to that for most of 2021
― 80's hair metal , and good praise music ! (DJP), Tuesday, 20 April 2021 15:06 (two years ago) link
hell yeah
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 20 April 2021 15:24 (two years ago) link
very nice
― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Tuesday, 20 April 2021 15:52 (two years ago) link
that's great, nice to see she's back, had she sort of dropped out for a while?
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 20 April 2021 16:28 (two years ago) link
i think she poisoned the water a while back by dropping her album online without coordinating with her label.https://www.mtv.com/news/1719290/angel-haze-dirty-gold-album-leak/
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 20 April 2021 16:58 (two years ago) link
also that album was kind of bad
― 80's hair metal , and good praise music ! (DJP), Tuesday, 20 April 2021 17:18 (two years ago) link