this song was so obviously good from the live recording, basically im just happy they didn't fuck up the mixing or something, like it's more or less how i imagined it would sound
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Tuesday, 16 February 2016 21:05 (eight years ago) link
there's a real danger in listening to the live version 1st & falling for it!
^^^ this happened with me and "the sound" but "somebody else" translated perfectly
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Tuesday, 16 February 2016 21:06 (eight years ago) link
if anything it sounds more absorbing
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Tuesday, 16 February 2016 21:07 (eight years ago) link
"“Somebody Else,” the album’s latest pre-release single, is their attempt at chillwave"
looking forward to the criticism this record will generate in a "michael jackson popcorn gif" sorta way
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Tuesday, 16 February 2016 21:11 (eight years ago) link
i'm reminded that i should be GETTING OVER IT
― uberweiss, Tuesday, 16 February 2016 21:16 (eight years ago) link
Ahhhhh this is a reversion to type not them branching out - and I mean that in the best possible way.
It's like "fallingforyou" crowed with Eric Carmen's "Hungry Eyes".
― Tim F, Tuesday, 16 February 2016 21:20 (eight years ago) link
Crossed, even.
Also the new best song ever written
― Tim F, Tuesday, 16 February 2016 21:22 (eight years ago) link
"somebody else" is the only song i've listened to in the past 36 hours and i don't see an end in sight anytime soon
― j. winters (josh), Wednesday, 17 February 2016 04:30 (eight years ago) link
lmao @ this official merch
http://i.imgur.com/w8RvWwW.jpg
― gr8080, Wednesday, 17 February 2016 15:10 (eight years ago) link
so uh i have this now, and i started crying at the intro lol
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Wednesday, 17 February 2016 18:48 (eight years ago) link
the envy... i can't really describe it
― Nourry, Wednesday, 17 February 2016 18:54 (eight years ago) link
recorded version of "a change of heart" completely justifies me comparing it to "say hello wave goodbye" upthread
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Wednesday, 17 February 2016 18:56 (eight years ago) link
hm i wonder if this thread also features me freaking out when i got the stream of lp1
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Wednesday, 17 February 2016 18:57 (eight years ago) link
aaaaah i can't wait until y'all hear "settle down" aaaaah
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Monday, July 29, 2013 9:09 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yep
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Wednesday, 17 February 2016 18:59 (eight years ago) link
if "she's american" is "settle down pt. 2" the production goes harder
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Wednesday, 17 February 2016 19:02 (eight years ago) link
it's more dynamic, more of a nervous rush
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Wednesday, 17 February 2016 19:03 (eight years ago) link
omg i hate you brad
― j. winters (josh), Wednesday, 17 February 2016 19:08 (eight years ago) link
lol
i might stop there bc like every element of this record is a huge surprise and i'd like y'all to be as surprised as i am
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Wednesday, 17 February 2016 19:10 (eight years ago) link
meanwhile this album is ruining my life
this is ruining my life. i can't wait.
― Nourry, Wednesday, 17 February 2016 19:12 (eight years ago) link
ok one thing i know blue nile and scritti politti were thrown around as referents from the beginning of this thread but they are REALLY embodied here, "please be naked" is like a lost hats instrumental
ok that's it i'm shutting up now
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Wednesday, 17 February 2016 19:15 (eight years ago) link
Braaaaaaaaaad.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 17 February 2016 19:23 (eight years ago) link
you're welcome
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Wednesday, 17 February 2016 19:24 (eight years ago) link
i mean i don't want to overhype this or anything but this is above and beyond the debut in every considerable way, and it properly absorbs the eps into its texture
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Wednesday, 17 February 2016 19:27 (eight years ago) link
fucking fuck
― uberweiss, Wednesday, 17 February 2016 19:29 (eight years ago) link
that is a dream coming true
― Nourry, Wednesday, 17 February 2016 19:42 (eight years ago) link
I recall a year ago, they said something about possibly sampling D'Angelo on the album. Is there any traces of that?
― MarkoP, Wednesday, 17 February 2016 19:42 (eight years ago) link
<spoiler> i mean "if i believe you" SOUNDS like d'angelo (w/ gospel choir) </spoiler>
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Wednesday, 17 February 2016 19:44 (eight years ago) link
Wow.
― Creames Fartpoop, Wednesday, 17 February 2016 19:45 (eight years ago) link
wow this is really good
― maura, Wednesday, 17 February 2016 19:51 (eight years ago) link
^^^^^
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Wednesday, 17 February 2016 19:53 (eight years ago) link
i'm losing my mind
― uberweiss, Wednesday, 17 February 2016 19:55 (eight years ago) link
fucking hell
― j. winters (josh), Wednesday, 17 February 2016 20:29 (eight years ago) link
i typed all that stuff before i got to the title track, which
let me tell you this record is very special
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Wednesday, 17 February 2016 20:31 (eight years ago) link
it is also very very very very very very long
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Wednesday, 17 February 2016 20:35 (eight years ago) link
― Tim F, Wednesday, 17 February 2016 19:23 (1 hour ago)
^^
― etc, Wednesday, 17 February 2016 20:36 (eight years ago) link
just finished the album!
djlkakdkjflkj,malkjflkja;lj *sputters and dies*
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Wednesday, 17 February 2016 20:54 (eight years ago) link
it's an hour long, right? i expect that is worth it
― Nourry, Wednesday, 17 February 2016 21:01 (eight years ago) link
This album is going to cause mass fatalities on ILX I fear.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 17 February 2016 21:07 (eight years ago) link
"she's american" is basically the only song that resembles the debut, other than the few moments i'm reminded of "menswear"
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Wednesday, 17 February 2016 21:32 (eight years ago) link
other than the few moments i'm reminded of "menswear"
*promptly digs own grave and lies down in it*
― Tim F, Wednesday, 17 February 2016 22:39 (eight years ago) link
that's been my emotional state all day
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Wednesday, 17 February 2016 22:41 (eight years ago) link
there was a party that you had to missbecause your friend kept cutting her wristshyperpoliticized sexual trysts"oh i think my boyfriend is a nihilist"
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Wednesday, 17 February 2016 22:57 (eight years ago) link
stop, Brad. stop ;_;
― Vinnie, Thursday, 18 February 2016 04:18 (eight years ago) link
:D
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Thursday, 18 February 2016 04:32 (eight years ago) link
i mean cool if they go all gooey but i hope there some songs with big, prominent drums on this album as that was one of my favourite features of the first one (see: "the city", "talk", "heart out")
― art baengels (monotony), Thursday, 18 February 2016 04:47 (eight years ago) link
it is way less of a thing on this record (in fact you've prob heard most of the songs with enormous drums) but they're there on "she's american" and "the ballad of me & my brain"
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Thursday, 18 February 2016 14:37 (eight years ago) link
Tango In The Night is a really big record for us as well, by Fleetwood Mac. That really inspired this record. Yeah, Scritti Polliti. Alexander O’Neal, funnily enough, was a big part of this record; we love that album Hearsay. Michael and Janet Jackson too.
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Friday, 19 February 2016 01:13 (eight years ago) link