ilm is particularly full of tepid indie bollocks atm imo. nb this is a safe space
― imago, Sunday, 20 May 2018 18:40 (five years ago) link
― imago
Didn't you nominate a song from the Paul Draper album in the end of year tracks list a few months ago?
― kitchen person, Sunday, 20 May 2018 18:56 (five years ago) link
sometimes tepid indie bollocks has its day. also i didn't come close to voting for it
― imago, Sunday, 20 May 2018 19:01 (five years ago) link
can we not talk about how not awesome parquet courts are
― calstars, Monday, 21 May 2018 12:51 (five years ago) link
I don't really keep up with tepid indie bollocks these days but I quite like Beach House
― Colonel Poo, Monday, 21 May 2018 12:59 (five years ago) link
this is the first time beach house have made an album that's not just tepid indie bollocks
― ufo, Monday, 21 May 2018 13:10 (five years ago) link
mb i should have posted in here
― ogmor, Monday, 21 May 2018 13:10 (five years ago) link
lol no i thought it was a fun post
― chant down basildon (NickB), Monday, 21 May 2018 13:21 (five years ago) link
This hasn't been the best year for new albums afaic. Yes yes Autechre, blah blah but it's not the only thing I want to hear. New Ought is tepid indie bollocks but I really like it - a mitigating factor.
― Hire Planes (dog latin), Monday, 21 May 2018 13:31 (five years ago) link
omg that mary lattimore post is heroic
i don't even think my own feelings are quite that strong on the matter
― imago, Monday, 21 May 2018 14:03 (five years ago) link
tbf my anhedonia has rendered me numb to all but the most cartoonishly saccharine opinions but that's ok, there's loads of shouting about the importance of taste still available online
― right brain ringworm (Noodle Vague), Monday, 21 May 2018 14:18 (five years ago) link
it all goes in one hole and comes out the other amirite fellas
― ogmor, Monday, 21 May 2018 14:25 (five years ago) link
This hasn't been the best year for new albums afaic. Yes yes Autechre, blah blah but it's not the only thing I want to hear.
I dunno, it's been the best one in a while for me. Between Andrew W.K., Autechre, Datarock, Janelle Monae, They Might be Giants, and that Daphne & Celeste album, I've got 6 solid favorites already. And I haven't heard the Sea and Cake yet. Plus new albums incoming from Orbital, Koenjihyakkei, The Black Dog (two of em in fact), and some inevitable surprises (new Underworld ????)
― frogbs, Monday, 21 May 2018 14:32 (five years ago) link
you might like that The Armed album, give it a whirl
― imago, Monday, 21 May 2018 14:36 (five years ago) link
it's been a great year for albums
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 21 May 2018 14:37 (five years ago) link
maybe i just don't care much about albums right now. I like the Rae Sremmurd and Sun El Musician albums well enough but they're not consistent.
― Hire Planes (dog latin), Monday, 21 May 2018 14:44 (five years ago) link
it is a great year for albums every year
but also, a terrible one, hence this thread :)
― imago, Monday, 21 May 2018 14:58 (five years ago) link
do people actually enjoy Skee Mask? that new album is like a really bad trip-hop throwback, I was astonished by how much of a slog it was to get through given how much praise it's been getting
― boxedjoy, Sunday, 24 June 2018 21:20 (five years ago) link
I like it! Some of the songs are kinda goes-in-one-ear-and-out-the-other but others (like the last two tracks and 50 Euro) are really stunning. It doesn't really remind me of trip hop? If anything the rhythms on it are more jungle/d&b
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Sunday, 24 June 2018 23:46 (five years ago) link
It's like jungle/dnb but without any sense of thrill or edge, I thought it was just really polite and tasteful and cold. It's not the jungle of hardcore raving, it's just really plodding breakbeats and pads playing emo chords and I dont get the "future of electronic music from a creative genius" narrative certain publications are running with on it
― boxedjoy, Monday, 25 June 2018 05:41 (five years ago) link
"Breakbeats and pads playing emo chords" is probably why people like it but it just seems so timid to me in its execution
My interest was peaked so I'm taking a listen. So far it's really good, if not super original. Definitely draws a lot from the LTJ Bukem school of jazzy dnb, but with modern production standards. The beats are the main attraction, with the chords providing a nice serene base for the rhythms to explore. Really high quality with lots of subtlety that you don't often get with dnb. Not really made to light the dance floor on fire, but it's very nice on headphones.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, 25 June 2018 06:13 (five years ago) link
Might be one too many slow tracks though...
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, 25 June 2018 06:24 (five years ago) link
albums are inconsistent but he's good
― brimstead, Monday, 25 June 2018 22:11 (five years ago) link
It's like jungle/dnb but without any sense of thrill or edge, I thought it was just really polite and tasteful and cold. It's not the jungle of hardcore raving, it's just really plodding breakbeats and pads playing emo chords and I dont get the "future of electronic music from a creative genius" narrative certain publications are running with on it― boxedjoy, Monday, June 25, 2018 6:41 AM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― boxedjoy, Monday, June 25, 2018 6:41 AM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
This is my problem with like 90% of post-2000 drum'n'bass tbf.
― My name is the Pope and in the 90s I smoked a lot of dope (dog latin), Wednesday, 27 June 2018 14:21 (five years ago) link
I'm listening to the first track now and I quite like it so far. Nice sound design. Maybe it's a matter of hype = false expectations with these things
― My name is the Pope and in the 90s I smoked a lot of dope (dog latin), Wednesday, 27 June 2018 14:28 (five years ago) link
Felt pretty much the same way on my first listen (and never really liked his last record which had similar levels of praise.)
After a couple more listens it clicked for me, though ... love it now!
― Steve Reich In The Afternoon (Against The 80s), Wednesday, 27 June 2018 14:55 (five years ago) link
I don't like it, don't understand the hype. I mean, it's fine, but not what I'm looking for and nothing special imo.
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 27 June 2018 17:16 (five years ago) link
I'm listening to the new Martyn album and it is stunning, likewise the new Beta Librae album also makes a lot of similar moves, but neither of them are getting anything like the acclaim this is
― boxedjoy, Wednesday, 27 June 2018 19:33 (five years ago) link
ski mask with nardwuar made me think he's a chill dude.
― stoker (Ross), Wednesday, 27 June 2018 19:37 (five years ago) link
i really like this, don't care what anyone thinks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bo9KXM60l4U
― brimstead, Wednesday, 27 June 2018 19:54 (five years ago) link
i'm more into andrea & stenny when it comes to Ilian Tape stuff
different dude (unless that's the joke in which case the joke is on me)
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 27 June 2018 20:25 (five years ago) link
ilx has such a shit taste in indie. not sorry
― imago, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 16:23 (five years ago) link
ok fine let's give Rolling Search Engine Optimisation Fever another go
― imago, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 16:31 (five years ago) link
this opening track is 10000 minutes of the same boring riff
― imago, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 16:36 (five years ago) link
I don't really get it either, but I'm trying to assume something like "it's not you, it's me"...
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 17:31 (five years ago) link
it's definitely imago
― supreme court justice samuel lance-ito (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 17:37 (five years ago) link
i'm also not feeling Let's Bore G'ma
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 17:44 (five years ago) link
...bore huh
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 17:45 (five years ago) link
mood: strategising an ogmor-on-Mary-Lattimore on Parquet Courts
― imago, Friday, 13 July 2018 13:58 (five years ago) link
m8 I successfully navigate life and art without giving one second's thought to most shit du jour, try it! It's liberating!
― more like Toss, Ow amirite? (Noodle Vague), Friday, 13 July 2018 14:19 (five years ago) link
Like why are you even engaging if it's dross. I assume it's dross. So I don't check it out.
― more like Toss, Ow amirite? (Noodle Vague), Friday, 13 July 2018 14:20 (five years ago) link
i guess 'the discourse' is an overrated thing. i shall hereby tidy the house instead
― imago, Friday, 13 July 2018 14:21 (five years ago) link
Let a billion discourses bloom
― more like Toss, Ow amirite? (Noodle Vague), Friday, 13 July 2018 14:22 (five years ago) link
listening to the beths. not bad! it's like...decent, formulaic indie with fair-to-good hooks we've all heard before. so it puzzles me why ilxors good and true are hyping it to the skies, feels like they're almost patronising it, forcing it to be their 'album of the year' as it's a cool look or w/e. i mean sure like it and write about it but there's massive cognitive dissonance between the album you're all talking about and the album i'm hearing
tldr: listen to the trust fund album as well pls
― imago, Thursday, 6 September 2018 16:53 (five years ago) link
forcing it to be their 'album of the year' as it's a cool look or w/e
lj, i hate it when you do this, please stop
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Thursday, 6 September 2018 16:55 (five years ago) link
like i haven't heard the beths record but what if it were my album of the year? personally i'd say fuck you!
btw listen to the new low album
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Thursday, 6 September 2018 17:00 (five years ago) link
and you'd be right to! but given what else has come out this year i flatly refuse to believe this would be even close to your aoty. but i've been wrong before. i just don't understand the greatness of this album. i'm listening and i can't hear it
and yeah ok haha
― imago, Thursday, 6 September 2018 17:00 (five years ago) link