where is this? this is probably the hardest leak I've faced. so to speak.
― Nourry, Wednesday, 24 February 2016 12:56 (eight years ago) link
this album has been such a rollercoaster and there are still like 5 songs to go. Like what even happened there with about 90 seconds to go in the title track?
― art baengels (monotony), Wednesday, 24 February 2016 12:58 (eight years ago) link
seems like it goes a bit Sheeran for the last few tracks :|
― art baengels (monotony), Wednesday, 24 February 2016 13:16 (eight years ago) link
Please tell me you haven't been sharing that link, Brad …
― Roaming gang of aggressive circlepits (ithappens), Wednesday, 24 February 2016 13:20 (eight years ago) link
i am not!
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Wednesday, 24 February 2016 16:08 (eight years ago) link
btw I get this but they're among the two most devastating tracks on the record subject matter-wise
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Wednesday, 24 February 2016 16:15 (eight years ago) link
God almighty the studio version of "She's American". Absolutely glorious. Everything I hoped for. Had to close the door to my room so my roommate wouldn't see me dancing like a maniac
― Vinnie, Wednesday, 24 February 2016 16:36 (eight years ago) link
My thought process after first listen: "people are being silly, there aren't that many curveballs on this...just the ambient instrumental, and the shoegaze one, and the electro-D'angelo one, and the acoustic stuff...oh, wait."
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Wednesday, 24 February 2016 16:43 (eight years ago) link
If I have a criticism it's that a few more songs could stand to be trimmed down to "Ugh!" / "Ballad of Me and My Brain" length.
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Wednesday, 24 February 2016 16:46 (eight years ago) link
damn, just listened 'if i believe you' and i'm torn apart.
― Nourry, Wednesday, 24 February 2016 17:14 (eight years ago) link
Please tell me you haven't been sharing that link, Brad …― Roaming gang of aggressive circlepits (ithappens), Wednesday, February 24, 2016 1:20 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalinki am not!― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Wednesday, February 24, 2016 4:08 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Roaming gang of aggressive circlepits (ithappens), Wednesday, February 24, 2016 1:20 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Wednesday, February 24, 2016 4:08 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
As far as I can tell, he was testing his ILX webmail and someone thanked him for doing so.
― The Dave Grohl of ILX (Turrican), Wednesday, 24 February 2016 17:35 (eight years ago) link
lol thanks turrican
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Wednesday, 24 February 2016 17:39 (eight years ago) link
i look forward to you hating this record
i have absolutely no idea how to approach this myself
i think if anything i'm expecting to like it quite a bit, which opens up the danger of being disappointed....by the 1975. weird times
― odysseus (imago), Wednesday, 24 February 2016 17:41 (eight years ago) link
it's full of curveballs, i expect you'll appreciate that aspect of it
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Wednesday, 24 February 2016 17:42 (eight years ago) link
i'm excited less by that and more by how intensely-realised everyone says it is
― odysseus (imago), Wednesday, 24 February 2016 17:43 (eight years ago) link
yeah every style they approach is conveyed as a gorgeous mesh polygon and then arranged somehow into a coherent hour-long narrative. lol obviously i haven't really listened to anything else in the past week
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Wednesday, 24 February 2016 17:53 (eight years ago) link
i look forward to you hating this record― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Wednesday, February 24, 2016 5:39 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Wednesday, February 24, 2016 5:39 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
It's often easy to forget right now just how much of a joke the music and fashions of the '80s used to be considered to be. There were some exceptions: The Smiths being one, R.E.M. being another - but on the whole, the '80s was considered to be, at one point, a very naff decade. It was therefore of some delight when some of my favourite synthpop artists from the period found themselves being critically re-appreciated and being listened to, at long last, without prejudice. Finally, the unfairly maligned '80s were being reassessed and about time, people were discovering that it wasn't all bad and they were taking from the best of the decade, and they were leaving the absolute garbage, like yer Level 42's etc., to be forgotten about...
...until I inadvertently heard 'Love Me' and realised The 1975 had managed to synthesise everything that was so wretched and thoroughly shit about 1986-1987 and squeeze it into one three and a half minute long turd. Well, I guess someone had to do it. It's very much a given at this stage that I will never intentionally listen to anything by this thoroughly fucking crap band.
― The Dave Grohl of ILX (Turrican), Wednesday, 24 February 2016 18:13 (eight years ago) link
the absolute garbage, like yer Level 42's etc.
lol everytime you post in this thread it's like a whole new dimension of "wow this isn't for you at all" is opened
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Wednesday, 24 February 2016 18:19 (eight years ago) link
Oh, come on! Level 42 weren't ever good! Fucking ponytail & filofax music.
― The Dave Grohl of ILX (Turrican), Wednesday, 24 February 2016 18:21 (eight years ago) link
So you don't think Mark King is the greatest bass player off all time?
― MarkoP, Wednesday, 24 February 2016 18:26 (eight years ago) link
is it so wrong to be human after all
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Wednesday, 24 February 2016 18:28 (eight years ago) link
It's often easy to forget right now just how much of a joke the music and fashions of the '80s used to be considered to be. There were some exceptions: The Smiths being one, R.E.M. being another - but on the whole, the '80s was considered to be, at one point, a very naff decade. It was therefore of some delight when some of my favourite synthpop artists from the period found themselves being critically re-appreciated and being listened to, at long last, without prejudice. Finally, the unfairly maligned '80s were being reassessed and about time, people were discovering that it wasn't all bad and they were taking from the best of the decade, and they were leaving the absolute garbage, like yer Level 42's etc., to be forgotten about...― The Dave Grohl of ILX (Turrican), Wednesday, February 24, 2016 10:13 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― The Dave Grohl of ILX (Turrican), Wednesday, February 24, 2016 10:13 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
nah 80s music is amazing
― j. winters (josh), Wednesday, 24 February 2016 19:40 (eight years ago) link
My god this album.
The title track should be the centrepiece track on any future 'Immer 4'.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 24 February 2016 21:48 (eight years ago) link
god bless this album god bless this band god bless matty healy
― j. winters (josh), Wednesday, 24 February 2016 22:22 (eight years ago) link
ysi
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Wednesday, 24 February 2016 22:31 (eight years ago) link
'if i believe you' is the most beautiful and sensual piece of music i listened since beyoncé's 'rocket'.
― Nourry, Wednesday, 24 February 2016 23:20 (eight years ago) link
pretty stunning album!!
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 24 February 2016 23:30 (eight years ago) link
this reminds me a bit of what bloc party wanted to do with their second album except kele wasn't quite crazy enough... or not crazy enough in the right ways
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 24 February 2016 23:35 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrcvttiQ_wI
"please be naked"
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Wednesday, 24 February 2016 23:49 (eight years ago) link
otm
― Nourry, Wednesday, 24 February 2016 23:57 (eight years ago) link
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson
you must have been fun in geometry class
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 25 February 2016 00:00 (eight years ago) link
the title track is fuckin crazy
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 25 February 2016 00:01 (eight years ago) link
I sucked at geometry, my similes should convey this almost exclusively
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Thursday, 25 February 2016 00:01 (eight years ago) link
Write your next review as a proof!
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 25 February 2016 00:04 (eight years ago) link
the title track is like an ambient interlude that morphs into minimal techno and then blooms into a janet song??
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 25 February 2016 00:07 (eight years ago) link
http://img.sparknotes.com/figures/9/9468de070d794b4c203fe8a51bd73917/sampleproofb.gif
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 25 February 2016 00:09 (eight years ago) link
1975 x (Level) 42 = 82950, 29th August 1950 was the birthdate of one of the 9/11 pilots, matt healy knows everything
― odysseus (imago), Thursday, 25 February 2016 00:11 (eight years ago) link
there's something about you
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 25 February 2016 00:14 (eight years ago) link
is it just me that thinks that when Healy mentioned 'tango in the night' to stereogum he probably was refering to 'paris'? it seems so laidback and innocent and then it's just so sad. but fascinating.
― Nourry, Thursday, 25 February 2016 00:16 (eight years ago) link
Healy's mentioning Tango in the Night the apotheosis of what lots of have said in the last six years about that album as lodestar for a certain cohort.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 25 February 2016 00:24 (eight years ago) link
― The Dave Grohl of ILX (Turrican)
http://nobilliards.blogspot.com/2014/08/various-artists-now-thats-what-i-call.html
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 25 February 2016 00:26 (eight years ago) link
this reminds me a bit of what bloc party wanted to do with their second album except kele wasn't quite crazy enough... or not crazy enough in the right ways― J0rdan S., Wednesday, February 24, 2016 6:35 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, February 24, 2016 6:35 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
look i love this album and the 1975 and Matty an unreasonable amount for someone in their late 20s, but Bloc Party did exactly what they wanted to do on A Weekend in the City and it was fucking excellent. these are very different beasts, songs about cocaine notwithstanding. like, I haven't absorbed this record enough to really entirely sure what the narrative is, but Weekend is an album about being the token black guy in the British indie scene, and about queerness in the midst of bros, and about Kele's attempts to discuss big political issues & personal tragedies simultaneously.
I mean. I get that they both do occasionally ham-fisted lyrics, and are 80s influenced, and are alienated from their audiences or w/e but I just don't hear it.
― twinkin' and drinkin' and ready to fly (Alex in Montreal), Thursday, 25 February 2016 01:47 (eight years ago) link
(but to be positive, THIS ALBUM. THIS. ALBUM. the sparkle and twinkle on The Ballad of Me and My Brain)
― no longer in MTL (Alex in Montreal), Thursday, 25 February 2016 01:51 (eight years ago) link
i liked the first album a lot but man this one is really something huh
― adam, Thursday, 25 February 2016 02:20 (eight years ago) link
the last minute of "change of heart"
― adam, Thursday, 25 February 2016 02:21 (eight years ago) link
this is sort of like a midpoint between A Walk Across the Rooftops and Sign o' the Times
― ufo, Thursday, 25 February 2016 02:39 (eight years ago) link
hahahaha yesssssssss
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Thursday, 25 February 2016 02:45 (eight years ago) link
Yeah I was thinking of Sign.
Also the midpoint of The Velvet Rope and Adore?
― Tim F, Thursday, 25 February 2016 02:54 (eight years ago) link
aka it's my favorite record of all time I guess
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Thursday, 25 February 2016 02:56 (eight years ago) link