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with CYMANDE?!!???

HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Thursday, 21 April 2016 04:09 (eight years ago) link

right?

ulysses, Thursday, 21 April 2016 04:18 (eight years ago) link

whoa

J0rdan S., Thursday, 21 April 2016 05:08 (eight years ago) link

they seemed to be having a lot of fun when I saw them who could ever begrudge

ogmor, Thursday, 21 April 2016 12:48 (eight years ago) link

one month passes...

Finally bought this. So great.

Austin, Sunday, 29 May 2016 07:35 (seven years ago) link

Mixing soul with traditional R&B gives accolades to the selection of music that has been influential across all genres.

this appears to have been written by the same guy who writes the subject headers for the spam in my inbox.

wizzz! (amateurist), Monday, 30 May 2016 09:07 (seven years ago) link

Realize the grand importance of creative expression, as KING shows and proves that their art speaks for itself and while not against the artist but develops with them as artists.

yeah, i'm not sure this is english.

wizzz! (amateurist), Monday, 30 May 2016 09:08 (seven years ago) link

i just remembered what the bridge of "the right one' reminds me of! it's "mountains"!

who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Friday, 3 June 2016 14:07 (seven years ago) link

or rather it's like if "mountains" melted

who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Friday, 3 June 2016 14:08 (seven years ago) link

which "mountains"?

sexy dander (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 3 June 2016 14:16 (seven years ago) link

prince

who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Friday, 3 June 2016 14:26 (seven years ago) link

two weeks pass...

vinyl

illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 23 June 2016 08:06 (seven years ago) link

Damn, means I'll have bought it twice. Ah well.

Chewshabadoo, Thursday, 23 June 2016 08:23 (seven years ago) link

why on earth would you buy the vinyl when you already own the CD?

give the $20 to the local animal shelter instead.

wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 23 June 2016 08:33 (seven years ago) link

i don't own the CD.

illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 23 June 2016 08:33 (seven years ago) link

ah missed chewsh's post

i'll answer tho: cause it's an awesome object? on gold vinyl? some people really like playing records? etc.

illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 23 June 2016 08:39 (seven years ago) link

I bought the digital download.

I also DJ, and prefer to use vinyl.

Strange comment though, why are you bringing up animal shelters?

Chewshabadoo, Thursday, 23 June 2016 08:40 (seven years ago) link

Why would you buy a CD, when the digital download is more convenient anyway? Why didn't you give that etc.

Chewshabadoo, Thursday, 23 June 2016 08:42 (seven years ago) link

sorry, i'm ignorant on this topic but is there some technical reason they had to do this as double vinyl? if not, i wish they'd done a single LP.

alpine static, Thursday, 23 June 2016 09:19 (seven years ago) link

i'm guessing it's at 45rpm, for sound quality

illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 23 June 2016 09:26 (seven years ago) link

(at 45rpm you can only fit a couple of songs on each side)

illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 23 June 2016 09:27 (seven years ago) link

Most double's are still 33 1/3. But with less tracks you make the grooves wider which allows for a bigger dynamic range.

Single LPs are gash for DJing too.

Chewshabadoo, Thursday, 23 June 2016 10:33 (seven years ago) link

Isn't the album almost an hour long? So it wouldn't fit on a regular single LP, even if they made grooves narrower and sacrificed the bass.

I don't think it's necessarily intentional, but they way this album has been marketed has been kinda dodgy. When first became available, it was only as a digital pre-order on Bandcamp with no mention of any physical release. So I paid for the pre-order, so I could listen to the couple of preview tracks you got with that. Then, later on, they did add a limited edition CD to Bandcamp, but at that point presumably a lot of people had already paid for the digital pre-order, so if they wanted to pay for the CD, they had to pay twice. Anyway, that limited edition sold out very soon, and there was still no info whether there'd be a regular, non-limited physical release.

Then, long after the digital album was officially released, a regular CD came out, but it was not available on Bandcamp at all. (Normally, when a band releases an album on Bandcamp that also has a physical version, you only have to pay for it once: you get the digital release immediately, and the CD/LP/cassette will arrive in mail later on.) I like physical records, so I paid for the album for the second time. And now there's an LP version coming out... Thankfully I'm not a vinyl fetishist so I won't need it, but presumably there are some folks who have now paid for the album thrice: first for the digital version (because there was no info whether there would be a physical release), then for the CD (because there was no info whether it would ever come out on vinyl), and then for the LP.

Tuomas, Thursday, 23 June 2016 10:56 (seven years ago) link

It's self-released, right? They might have used the digital money to pay for the CD, then CD money to pay for pressing the vinyl. Just guessing.

illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 23 June 2016 11:18 (seven years ago) link

I guess that could be the case, but that's not how most self-released CDs are done on Bandcamp. You can pre-order the album, the band gets the money right away, and the CD will arrive to you later on. Of course it's a bit of a financial risk to promise there will a CD release, since you don't know whether it'll sell enough copies to cover the pressing costs, but the other alternative would be to make your fans pay for the album twice, which is kinda shitty too. There wasn't a huge gap between the announcement of the digital album and the CD version, so the band must've known a CD was coming, yet they made the digital version available to buy with no mention that there'll be a physical release.

Tuomas, Thursday, 23 June 2016 11:27 (seven years ago) link

I don't see that anyone's being 'made' to do anything...

illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 23 June 2016 11:47 (seven years ago) link

Dude it's dickish, come on.

albvivertine, Thursday, 23 June 2016 11:54 (seven years ago) link

first world problems

oculus lump (contenderizer), Thursday, 23 June 2016 12:04 (seven years ago) link

I've been holding out for a vinyl release as it's my preferred format these days but it's almost $40 including shipping and I can't really justify spending that much more than the cost of the CD. If there was going to be a version on regular vinyl that I could buy in shops for $20, I'd wait for that. At this stage I just want to own my favourite album of the year on some kind of physical format.

Kitchen Person, Thursday, 23 June 2016 13:20 (seven years ago) link

hey guys maybe there was some sort of backup or bottleneck at the pressing plants and they had a really long turnaround time for the vinyl

sexy dander (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 24 June 2016 13:50 (seven years ago) link

I was going to say... the stories about indies being squeezed out by majors re-releasing DONE WITH MIRRORS and other "crucial"record store day items are probably instructive here

maura, Friday, 24 June 2016 14:16 (seven years ago) link

give the $20 to the local animal shelter instead.

― wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, June 23, 2016 3:33 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ooh we should have a list of small purchases made my ILXORS that should morally be given to animal shelters....

maura....you don't like done w/mirrors? underrated jawn imo

but overall yeah this:

hey guys maybe there was some sort of backup or bottleneck at the pressing plants and they had a really long turnaround time for the vinyl

― sexy dander (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, June 24, 2016 8:50 AM (50 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Steve Gunn Mann-Dude (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 24 June 2016 14:43 (seven years ago) link

it's lesser Aerosmith and the market for a deluxe reissue seems... slim

maura, Friday, 24 June 2016 15:49 (seven years ago) link

hey guys maybe there was some sort of backup or bottleneck at the pressing plants and they had a really long turnaround time for the vinyl

― sexy dander (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, June 24, 2016 8:50 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah i figured it was a pressing-plant-backup issue.

it may also just be a little chaotic precisely b/c they are self-releasing. but of course these days even major-labels are screwing up releases big time, b/c nobody really seems to know how to release an album anymore.

wizzz! (amateurist), Friday, 24 June 2016 16:14 (seven years ago) link

they made a bandcamp mixtape or something:

http://bandcamp.com/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=BC%20Weekly%207-5&utm_medium=Tweet&show=186

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 7 July 2016 05:15 (seven years ago) link

thanking u
is easy cuz u are big hoos

Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Thursday, 7 July 2016 05:33 (seven years ago) link

hey guys maybe there was some sort of backup or bottleneck at the pressing plants and they had a really long turnaround time for the vinyl

― sexy dander (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, June 24, 2016 6:50 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

iirc this is the case 100% of the time?

Get Me Bodied (Extended Mix), Thursday, 7 July 2016 08:59 (seven years ago) link

ya I was being facetious but idk if it came thru v well, bcz to me it is totally obvious that this is the case 100% of the time and it's absurd for anyone to complain abt vinyl taking a long time to come out

sexy dander (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 9 July 2016 15:45 (seven years ago) link

hot damn that jennah bell song

the event dynamics of power asynchrony (rushomancy), Saturday, 9 July 2016 23:58 (seven years ago) link

Chewshabadoo OTM! I have the album now and it's 33 1/3. Sound GREAT. Though my ears are easy to impress.

illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 21 July 2016 00:06 (seven years ago) link

three weeks pass...

four song Spotify Sessions!

man they can really do it live...dang

https://open.spotify.com/album/73cbJQKaZAp6vedt7fsUh9

Pull your head on out your hippy haze (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 12 August 2016 14:53 (seven years ago) link

two weeks pass...

ilm sound forever

ciderpress, Monday, 29 August 2016 04:23 (seven years ago) link

they are playing at the dakota jazz club in mpls coming up, place is usually pretty spendy but it's a really nice intimate venue for a group like this

Pull your head on out your hippy haze (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 29 August 2016 14:23 (seven years ago) link

one month passes...

saw them last night at a tiny intimate little venue and it was SO. GOODL. AAAAHHHHHHH

laraaji p. henson (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 20 October 2016 13:24 (seven years ago) link

booked tickets for their london show, at a medium-sized venue but we'll see how popular they prove. all of london ilx ought to be there

imago, Thursday, 20 October 2016 16:51 (seven years ago) link

bristolians, glaswegians and mancunians will be receiving the delightful presence of KING as well if they'd care to attend

imago, Thursday, 20 October 2016 16:52 (seven years ago) link

i listen to that spotify sessions more than the album tbh. debarge flip so swoonsome

r|t|c, Thursday, 20 October 2016 17:06 (seven years ago) link

Wait when are they playing? (I'm guessing it's the Jazz Café or similar?)

Listened to this album after a stressful and shitty day and it just melted everything away.

Matt DC, Thursday, 20 October 2016 18:09 (seven years ago) link


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