I've fallen hard for "In the Meantime," such an incredible bass line and chord progression
― thom yorke state of mind (voodoo chili), Saturday, 13 February 2016 04:17 (eight years ago) link
thing is, that is all of the songs, all of the songs have incredible bass lines and chord progressions
― get a long, little doggy (m bison), Saturday, 13 February 2016 04:19 (eight years ago) link
"Native Land" is definitely my favorite right now
― some dude, Saturday, 13 February 2016 04:27 (eight years ago) link
They're very light touch when it comes to bass, so when they do turn it up you really notice it. The bassline on In The Meantime really purrs.
The chord progression on The Story is incredible and really reminds of something. Like I think it's widescreen techno of some sort but I dunno.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 13 February 2016 12:36 (eight years ago) link
In the Meantime also has that ridiculous chord change on the third line of the verse
― thom yorke state of mind (voodoo chili), Saturday, 13 February 2016 15:15 (eight years ago) link
Saw them last night in Minneapolis. They were really amazing. Hey got the biggest reaction, there were a lot of people singing along to it which was really moving. I was disappointed they didn't do Native Land but that was the only thing I'd change.
― Kitchen Person, Saturday, 13 February 2016 16:10 (eight years ago) link
Interesting about the Cocteaus mention. It occurred to me on first listen that some vocal nuances are Ella filtered through late-period Liz, which seemed an unlikely influence.
― Lurkers of the world, unite! (Sanpaku), Saturday, 13 February 2016 17:11 (eight years ago) link
Great to read through this thread after coming to the conclusion that this is one of my favourite albums ever. And I've been listening for a week! So many astonishing moments, one that thrills me to no end is that middle bit in "Red Eye," when the vocals start to modulate towards something almost unearthly. Their command of harmonic structure and arranging there is unbelievable. Great album to listen to in sequence but I've also enjoyed listening in shuffle with a long crossfade time, leading to ever more mysterious segues and transpositions. What a wonderful obsession this has become!
― Chickie Levitt, Saturday, 13 February 2016 17:12 (eight years ago) link
this album is completely addictive
― alpine static, Wednesday, 17 February 2016 10:26 (eight years ago) link
oh, please!
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 17 February 2016 11:35 (eight years ago) link
i listen to this album ~3 times a day
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 17 February 2016 12:42 (eight years ago) link
wish i could quit my job so i could listen more
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 17 February 2016 12:43 (eight years ago) link
i think it is making me a kinder person, because i'm so blissed out when i listen to it
is KING a cult?
OTM. I had a really shitty, annoying start to the morning the other day and I listened to this album over the course of my commute and my irritation just ~dissolved~.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 17 February 2016 12:47 (eight years ago) link
I listened to it last night when I had to with late and I was really stressed out.
― uptown garfunkel (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 17 February 2016 13:47 (eight years ago) link
I think I’ve listened to this album about 10 times more than any other so far this year.
― Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 17 February 2016 22:56 (eight years ago) link
fuck i missed them last night. how was the oakland show?
― kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, 17 February 2016 23:00 (eight years ago) link
Mpls show was really nice. All about the vocals, with everything else pushed to the back, though Paris got pretty funky on the keys at times.
― Ys Man a.k.a. Have One on G (geoffreyess), Thursday, 18 February 2016 01:59 (eight years ago) link
I have started listening to this yesterday.it sounds great although for now, the album may lack some "hits" but I guess it takes some time before I can really make out and appreciate the songs."Native Land" seems fantastic, though. It has something in common with Blood Orange's sound and it seems they have worked together, so that would make sense.
― AlXTC from Paris, Thursday, 18 February 2016 10:51 (eight years ago) link
They’ve announced they are playing London and Manchester end of March.
― Chewshabadoo, Thursday, 18 February 2016 23:59 (eight years ago) link
paris and amber strother apparently worked with corinne bailey rae on her new single, and it shows
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iibMNsSRCE
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Saturday, 27 February 2016 11:24 (eight years ago) link
I was just wondering where she's been. The Sea is still a fave.
― Hey (Extended Mix), Saturday, 27 February 2016 11:41 (eight years ago) link
Ah, that must be why I like the new Corinne Bailey Rae so much. That was a surprise.
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 1 March 2016 21:09 (eight years ago) link
Her last album was incredible tho!
― Hey (Extended Mix), Tuesday, 1 March 2016 23:51 (eight years ago) link
trippy new video for 'carry on'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YwhEgflFRM
― Nourry, Monday, 7 March 2016 21:22 (eight years ago) link
2001 needed an R&B epilog.
Meanwhile, I think "RedEye" is sufficient justification for a Donald Fagen collaboration.
― Assault Mime (Sanpaku), Monday, 7 March 2016 22:48 (eight years ago) link
i wanna see a video with them in it at some point
― art baengels (monotony), Monday, 7 March 2016 23:41 (eight years ago) link
This never fails to chill me out
― robbie ca$hflo (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 8 March 2016 13:43 (eight years ago) link
Hmmm interesting
― i;m the worst poster e9er (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 8 March 2016 17:21 (eight years ago) link
hi
― robbie ca$hflo (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 8 March 2016 17:30 (eight years ago) link
wow @ this album. this is my sound.
― lute bro (brimstead), Tuesday, 8 March 2016 20:36 (eight years ago) link
i hope they get massive
Lol Im still stuck in '15, but I've been super stressed at work. Thinking maybe I should listen to this album at breaks.
― i;m the worst poster e9er (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 8 March 2016 23:35 (eight years ago) link
It's a nice audio world to inhabit
― robbie ca$hflo (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 8 March 2016 23:56 (eight years ago) link
On a Miles Davis tribute album.
http://pitchfork.com/news/64049-erykah-badu-stevie-wonder-bilal-king-featured-on-miles-davis-tribute-album/
― Chewshabadoo, Thursday, 10 March 2016 12:28 (eight years ago) link
What's the point of doing a tribute for the most popular jazz trumpeter of all time with people who are not jazz musicians? It's not like his tunes are crying for a pop/R&B treatment, and I doubt most of these people, as great as they are, can do them justice.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 10 March 2016 12:52 (eight years ago) link
What's the point in anything
― lilcraigyboi (Craigo Boingo), Thursday, 10 March 2016 15:37 (eight years ago) link
true
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Thursday, 10 March 2016 15:57 (eight years ago) link
I think that's the most infuriating Tuomas post I've ever read. The point is that Miles Davis has/had influence beyond jazz, and that King are musicians, and that voices are instruments, and that their enthusiasm is more important than your doubt.
― WilliamC, Thursday, 10 March 2016 16:32 (eight years ago) link
Sorry if that sounded too negative, I didn't mean to criticise KING specifically, but the whole project. I just don't get doing tributes that do not even honor what the tributee was about. Miles Davis always wanted to push things forward, I'm sure getting some contemporary, underappreciated jazz players to do hypermodern *jazz* versions of his tunes would much more in his spirit than this kind of non-jazz pop star get-together.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 10 March 2016 17:02 (eight years ago) link
so miles can do jazz versions of pop songs and even classical pieces, but pop performers can't do version of jazz numbers?
― François Pitchforkian (NickB), Thursday, 10 March 2016 17:08 (eight years ago) link
It's a Robert Glasper album featuring all these guest vocalists. Robert Glasper is a jazz musician (who admittedly has been making boring r&b/pop albums featuring guest vocalists recently).
Also I don't think Miles Davis was especially enamored of 'jazz' after a point.
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Thursday, 10 March 2016 17:27 (eight years ago) link
Actually it sounds like a weird blend of things (overdubbing on/sampling Miles recordings?), so who knows:
Everything’s Beautiful brings Miles Davis’ sound into the 21st century, blending a diverse group of master takes and outtakes from across Miles’ incredible tenure with Columbia Records (1955-1985) with original reinterpretations. Robert Glasper produced the collaboration.
But there have been enough jazz albums that pay tribute to (or recreate the style of) almost every phase of his career, so y'know, whatever they want to do.
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Thursday, 10 March 2016 17:38 (eight years ago) link
Glasper's Black Radio albums are spectacular; dude is a genius so I'm totally happy to see his remix culture take on miles
― ulysses, Thursday, 10 March 2016 20:26 (eight years ago) link
reminds me of this project (which had its moments, actually): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panthalassa:_The_Music_of_Miles_Davis_1969%E2%80%931974
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Thursday, 10 March 2016 20:30 (eight years ago) link
why is glasper a genius
― r|t|c, Friday, 11 March 2016 01:28 (eight years ago) link
Well, musically he's a demon both as a composer and a performer; probably seen him play a dozen shows live and he has never been anything less than enthralling.
As a cultural figure, in the direct face of the wyntonesque old guard, he has long argued in principle and action that the way forward for jazz as a popular art form is to embrace contemporary hip hop and r&b. He has been doing that from the aughties when peeps dismissed that as corny hip bop revivalism but hey lo and behold it begets thundercat and kendrick and many of the the boldest and most meaningful voices in both jazz and hip hop. He has been a force for musicianship in rap and vitality in jazz and theres a limited number of people doing that.
― i believe that (s)he is sincere (forksclovetofu), Friday, 11 March 2016 04:52 (eight years ago) link
lo where behold what beget how
― r|t|c, Friday, 11 March 2016 10:52 (eight years ago) link
http://weigelbroadcasting.com/assets/contest/206/contestimage/980x420_TooHotToHandel.png
― Matt DC, Friday, 11 March 2016 10:59 (eight years ago) link