the 1975

"So Far (It's Alright)" has better lyrics - some of Matt's best probably.

yeah that really makes all the difference

plus laura nyro sample

via j dilla probably

the 1975

lol i was like "i know i found that out via this thread i just can't remember where or who mentioned it"

:)

Loving Someone is my daughter's favourite track.
Also, THAT'S THE ONE WHERE SOMETHING I WROTE ABOUT THEM GOT TURNED INTO A LYRIC!

i want their next album to be entirely written in turrican quotes

Surely that was the video for The Sound?

Ah, incorporating journalistic quotes into your material. Shrewd move.

One thing is for sure, if '80s revivalism winds up becoming a joke I'll be holding these dickheads solely responsible. They're certainly doing more than their bit.

They could retire, give all their money was going to Syrian refugees, spend the rest of the lives working in camps with said refugees, disavow all their music and insist all future royalties were devoted to anonymously boosting education and health spending and you'd still accuse them of cynicism.

Damn lack of edit post function: "give all their money to Syrian refugees"

One thing is for sure, if '80s revivalism winds up becoming a joke I'll be holding these dickheads solely responsible. They're certainly doing more than their bit.

― Turrican, Monday, May 16, 2016 8:01 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you're saying this nearly a decade after 'it was acceptable in teh 80s' helped transform calvin harris into a huge pop-edm force smh

anyone else at the brooklyn show tonight?

all told i'd prob prefer to see them again in a smaller venue but it was a really edifying show. i feel like if they wrote 5 more songs like "the sound" they could be the biggest band in the world but it's cool that they don't and have teenagers grooving to shit like "a change of heart" and d'angelo's trumpet player's flugelhorn solo on some robo-gospel stadium song. they really sold "the sound" actually it was prob my fav moment of the night & obv that's far from my fav song of theirs. the crowd also seemed really into "loving someone". also maybe we're so distanced from "the city" and "chocolate" that it's hard to remember what they actually sound like but it sounded to me like they were playing them w/ more groovy guitar figures a la "girls" which was pretty cool.

I love Change of Heart but live his voice is really thin and whiny on it. On the record it's deep, lush, enveloping. :(

i'd given the 1995 wide berth based soley on their name (despite making substanial room in my life for king gizzard and the lizard wizard), but i like it when you sleep for you are a fiona apple album is pretty okay. they're better at soulful ballads than upbeat 80s dance pop, and i have no use whatsoever for the owl city ambient that bloats the album's midsection, but it boils down to a solid 45 minutes:

Love Me
UGH!
Change of Heart
She's American
If I Believe You
Somebody Else
The Sound
Paris
Nana
She Lays Down

most of those listed tracks are dance pop though

yeah, it felt too mean to cut "love me" and "the sound". with "nana", those'd be the next to go.

favorites are "change of heart", "if i believe you", "paris" and "she lays down".

Least essential takes

noooooooope nope nope nope

lol, they sound to me like a band struggling to disguise themselves, and they do it reasonably well. but it's only when they relax into sap that they really convince me.

They could always disguise themselves as a non-functioning band.

What does that even mean

it means turrican really just can't let go of this one

Just chiming in since I was very late to the party due to their horrible name, but what great songs and sound - both albums are very strong and "This Must Be My Dream" is perfect summer driving music. Love how they use 80s signifiers as a tool rather than pastiche (why I also love Haim).

before you go
turn
the big light off

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bimd2nZirT4

hi, Brad!

holy shit this video

omg

this video is ... much worse than the last video, and worse in a lot of different ways

all their videos are comically dismal, at best

comically dismal prob describes my #aesthetic but idk, I really enjoy how this one starts off as inland empire and ends with matty fucking himself

no yeah i think they're also quite uncompromisingly appropriate in their way

i think the "change of heart" video is legit good

"love me" & "the sound" are ridiculous verging on embarrassing in a way that perfectly nails their appeal

^^ otm, and i think the "somebody else" video folds into the latter category

all of the videos are above and beyond the ones from the last album cycle, excepting maybe "robbers"

"ugh" video was super tasteful so maybe it's the worst one even tho it might be the most objectively "good"

One of the comments on the youtube clip for "Somebody Else" is "I want someone to fuck me like Matty Healy fucks Matty Healy" and it's gotten more than 2000 replies of people saying "OMG same" etc. in about 17 hours.

This video basically narrativises in comi-tragic form the herculean levels of self-absorption signalled by all the previous clips the whole album. As far as I can tell the lyrics on the screen when he is singing karaoke are just "ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME".

"Ugh" probably the most boring clip but it's saved by Matt doing that little "reeling off" face/motion when he sings "Me and my things, my car, my living..."

i have decided to allow the internet (played by: u guys) to append "and that's okay" my earlier adjudication

'somebody else' as internal schizo cartesian love song to self is p cool

As far as I can tell the lyrics on the screen when he is singing karaoke are just "ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME".

my favorite part. also my favorite genre of music video is the karaoke music video

"ugh" video was super tasteful so maybe it's the worst one even tho it might be the most objectively "good"

― J0rdan S., Friday, 8 July 2016 14:48 Bookmark

objectively effective not aesthetic arguably tho? faithfully dramatizes irritably static ennui and its rote glamour (m/l runs with neon box cover art/transparent prison cell/installation claustrophobic motif as in 'the sound')

"Girls" is a good video, it feels like a really pop video

oh yeah i forgot about that one

it sums up their having-their-cake-and-eating-it-too identity crisis better than a dozen thinkpieces

"objectively effective not aesthetic arguably tho? faithfully dramatizes irritably static ennui and its rote glamour"

are these intended to sound like 1975 lyrics

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p047328k