KING

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Dude it's dickish, come on.

first world problems

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

they made a bandcamp mixtape or something:

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

thanking u
is easy cuz u are big hoos

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?

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

hot damn that jennah bell song

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

four song Spotify Sessions!

man they can really do it live...dang

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

ilm sound forever

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

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

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

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

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

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.

nov 7th, village underground

In W. DC tonight

five shows in Germany but none in France :(

this album is gonna get super-overlooked on the year-end lists, don't y'all think?

probably. nobody outside ilx seems to care. :(

I'll do my best.

It's my number one, but I'm a non voting felon

I could picture pitchfork sneaking it in near the bottom of their list, like what they did with Blackheart last year. It seems like the kind of album they'd like.

They were great at Bush Hall earlier this year, but funds are a little tight right now so probably can't make the trip up this time.

Craig and I resisted the urge to shout out 'Love and Pride' between tracks remarkably well I felt.

nobody outside ilx seems to care

is this true? I don't really have my ear to the ground at all but they got v favorable notices from NPR, Pitchfork, Ratliff in the Times, Spin...feels like a really enduring album to me

whoa i'm listening to this album and "supernatural" O_O

hi, k3vin!

welcome to h3avin

is this true? I don't really have my ear to the ground at all but they got v favorable notices from NPR, Pitchfork, Ratliff in the Times, Spin...feels like a really enduring album to me

i don't think nobody outside ilm cares. it definitely got love 'round release date. i guess i just felt like that was months ago and it's an understated record and so ppl would forget. but i just searched my email and found this from their publicist in August:

KING's critically acclaimed #1 independent album We Are KING has been honored with coveted spots on the "Best Of 2016 (So Far)" lists by TIME Magazine, Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, Complex, NPR, Stereogum, Noisey, Newsday and The Quietus.

so maybe i'm wrong. i hope so!

its my #1 this year

think i heard one of these tracks on a recent episode of "insecure"

A track def plays in an ep of high maintenance

It's definitely got some love in the more daddish sections of the UK music press - that's not surprising given it'll appeal to the sort of people who wish R&B had stopped evomvingy at some point shortly after Innervisions.

It's not like something like Blackheart, which really did seem to get completely ignored outside of ILM, Fact and The Quietus.