I agree. Wonder if the next decade'll be as kind to them as this one has been.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Thursday, 21 February 2019 08:17 (five years ago) link
oh my god that performance is wonderful
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Friday, 22 February 2019 01:20 (five years ago) link
the 1975 - a brief inquiry into online relationships poll
― k3vin k., Monday, 18 March 2019 21:17 (five years ago) link
having one of those nights where their amniotic ambient stuff sounds like the best music ever... menswear, me, head.cars.bending, haunt/bed, so far it's alright, fallingforyou... jesus h
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, July 24, 2018 1:00 AM (eight months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― k3vin k., Saturday, 30 March 2019 05:21 (five years ago) link
Yeah, throw 'Lostmyhead' onto that pile too, which is one of my favourite ever tracks of theirs.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Saturday, 30 March 2019 22:31 (five years ago) link
I just love this band so much
― k3vin k., Saturday, 30 March 2019 23:38 (five years ago) link
I saw them last weekend in Buenos Aires. It was really, really good. A very trimmed down setlist, no instrumentals, just a non-stop barrage of hits. Matt looked way better than the last time, much more engaged with the audience than in 2017. The projections are amazing, they've really upped the ante with the production values this time. The final performance is "Sex" and it's in-fucking-credible.
There's a recording of the performance here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSqH_95uAVI&t=1748s. You guys over the equator are in for a treat with this tour.
― cpl593H, Thursday, 4 April 2019 13:04 (five years ago) link
Notes On A Conditional Form pic.twitter.com/0HBcT8D3Ud— matty (@Truman_Black) April 14, 2019
looks like the build up to Notes is starting
― ufo, Monday, 15 April 2019 06:16 (five years ago) link
worth noting over here, i guess, that their Coachella performance was absolutely 10/10
― alpine static, Monday, 15 April 2019 06:35 (five years ago) link
I didn't catch the Coachella performance as it would have been silly o'clock in the morning in the UK when it was broadcasted, I'll wait until someone inevitably whacks the set up on Youtube.
Fingers crossed that there's no elevator muzak pseudo cocktail jazz on the new record, and it's all '80s style bangers, shoegazy goodness and IDM freakouts.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Monday, 15 April 2019 14:09 (five years ago) link
this is the last time i'll say anything about it but if anything your enjoyment of this band is worse than your previous disdain
― american bradass (BradNelson), Monday, 15 April 2019 15:11 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwvBGy1A6Wo
they sound amazing. even matty's singing is 3000x better than usual
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 18 April 2019 17:32 (five years ago) link
*click!*
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Thursday, 18 April 2019 17:37 (five years ago) link
They are one of the most mysteriously great sounding live acts since Phoenix. I mean, just literally, how good they sound, for four or five dudes and what they're doing. I assume there must be some sort of audio magic at work, but it's subtle, if it's even happening.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 18 April 2019 17:43 (five years ago) link
BTW, I heard from a source the the title of their next album will indeed be " I assume there must be some sort of audio magic at work, but it's subtle, if it's even happening."
"i like america" live is a motherfucker
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 18 April 2019 17:54 (five years ago) link
also lmao at the very small but loud group of people shouting "antichrist! antichrist! antichrist!"
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 18 April 2019 18:02 (five years ago) link
Ha! One day they'll just randomly play it and all hell will break loose.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Thursday, 18 April 2019 19:27 (five years ago) link
The production design for their show is super good.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Thursday, 18 April 2019 20:08 (five years ago) link
They are one of the most mysteriously great sounding live acts since Phoenix. I mean, just literally, how good they sound, for four or five dudes and what they're doing. I assume there must be some sort of audio magic at work, but it's subtle, if it's even happening.― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, April 18, 2019 5:43 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, April 18, 2019 5:43 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Four band members plus two auxilliary musicians plus two dancers that also sing backing vocals plus backing tracks covering the rest of the parts.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Thursday, 18 April 2019 20:13 (five years ago) link
*auxiliary.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Thursday, 18 April 2019 20:15 (five years ago) link
Oh, I know *how* they do it, it just sounds very, very good. Clean, solid, locked together air-tight. I feel that way whenever I see, say, a mainstream country act or something like Panic at the Disco, where there is a lot of movement and showmanship and playing but it sounds almost identical to the record (which is already pretty slick to begin with). It's just so impeccably ... *produced*, but live.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 18 April 2019 20:41 (five years ago) link
what was the YoutuBe video Brad posted? it seems to have disappeared (or the wifi in this taco shop sucks)
also:
"i like america" live is a motherfucker― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, April 18, 2019 10:54 AM (three hours ago)
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, April 18, 2019 10:54 AM (three hours ago)
this, this, this. was absolutely a highlight of Coachella set. maybe THE highlight.
― alpine static, Thursday, 18 April 2019 21:06 (five years ago) link
It was the Coachella set. It seems to have pulled from Youtube for the usual, obvious reasons.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Thursday, 18 April 2019 21:10 (five years ago) link
I’m sure it’ll be officially uploaded shortly
― k3vin k., Friday, 19 April 2019 03:12 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGrtzzpNpi0
here's a new song played acoustic that'll likely be on Notes in some form
― ufo, Friday, 19 April 2019 03:30 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRBg31w0ANs
― alpine static, Friday, 19 April 2019 15:39 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dclYNe2z9YI
― alpine static, Friday, 19 April 2019 15:45 (five years ago) link
those video screens are pretty fuckin cool. that is not what coachella looked like when i went.
― alpine static, Friday, 19 April 2019 15:50 (five years ago) link
It's funny, because everything I've read about the new album suggests that it's going to be their kind of version of a "going back to our roots" album, but I'll bet it isn't.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Friday, 19 April 2019 16:43 (five years ago) link
"We think it'll sound like Burial" suggests "going back to our roots" for you?Admittedly that was just one of several things they've said about the album, but it was also, like, the first
― You can't see it but I had an epiphany (Champiness), Friday, 19 April 2019 20:48 (five years ago) link
Okay, almost everything. I tend not to pay attention to what an artist thinks their record is going to sound like before they've started make it.
Remember, they were going to put out an album under the name of Drive Like I Do before that plan was scrapped, and since then Healy has spoken about wanting to return to the feel of being a small emo band rather than go down a more arena rock route. Also, lyrically, the ideas so far suggest the territory of the first album rather than anything since.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Friday, 19 April 2019 20:57 (five years ago) link
I would die for another record like the first one, it’s the one I play most often now
― k3vin k., Friday, 19 April 2019 22:31 (five years ago) link
yeah its the best one
― but I can't let Trae do it I got Huerter on my mind (Spottie), Friday, 19 April 2019 22:39 (five years ago) link
god, i love this band
― alpine static, Thursday, 25 April 2019 06:08 (five years ago) link
is getting STDs ever a vibe, regardless of one's age?
― J. Sam, Saturday, 27 April 2019 18:01 (five years ago) link
Growing a beard's not hard at all, either. In fact, it's too fucking easy for my liking.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Saturday, 27 April 2019 19:57 (five years ago) link
Anyway, had I like it when you sleep... on full blast today, I'd forgotten how much I really, really like 'UGH!' ...
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Saturday, 27 April 2019 20:05 (five years ago) link
pic.twitter.com/7pijsRGXiJ— matty (@Truman_Black) May 7, 2019
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Tuesday, 7 May 2019 18:53 (five years ago) link
The band was, of course, great tonight. A couple of funny things. First, I had hoped to take my daughter, but she is for whatever reason totally averse to the band, which ... I don't know why. I was talking with the friend I took in her stead and we thought that maybe she's just too young by a few years, that this is music for 20-somethings, not teens, as much as our teens would like to think they're mature and worldly. Who knows? But second was my friend himself, who I took as a sort of experiment. He's older than me (in his low '50s) and had never even heard of the band before I invited, so I was curious what he'd think. He came straight from work, and go figure, he liked it a lot. (Which was not surprising, because what's not to like, right?). And last - and this is even goofier - I wore what I had been wearing all day, a commemorative "Fort Reno Washington, DC" t-shirt (Fort Reno being the public park where a lot of Dischord bands would play). As I watched the show I thought, jeez, the 1975 is sort of the anti-Dischord, isn't it? And then about halfway through the set Matty took off his jacket and ... he was wearing a Minor Threat shirt!
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 9 May 2019 04:06 (five years ago) link
i hope i'll see them live again in july. unfortunately it's in a music festival.
btw, did anyone hear the new no rome's ep?i'm enjoying it quite a lot, specially the first two emo tunes, although i would like them to be a little bit longer, i guess.
― Nourry, Thursday, 9 May 2019 12:12 (five years ago) link
https://www.instagram.com/p/BxQBeV5AdcU/
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 9 May 2019 19:08 (five years ago) link
I hope that's actually the cover. It looks great.
― Simon H., Thursday, 9 May 2019 19:09 (five years ago) link
A charming interviewee, I must say.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_agjB2bECxA
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 9 May 2019 19:11 (five years ago) link
yes i have always agreed!
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 9 May 2019 19:15 (five years ago) link
He looks a lot like Johnny Marr in that interview.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 9 May 2019 19:20 (five years ago) link
Their visual design is impeccable. Ugh.
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Thursday, 9 May 2019 20:12 (five years ago) link
that interview was terrific
that guy asked good unconventional questions! and good on those other folks for not interrupting the long story.
― alpine static, Thursday, 9 May 2019 23:20 (five years ago) link
no doubt i was kuleshoving him but i enjoyed what seemed to me the progression in stages of the silent older guy's expression from "who is this vapid twerp" to "wow life"
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 9 May 2019 23:38 (five years ago) link
silent older guy looks like Classic British Host, i.e. alky three Pimms + lemonades in his cups
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 9 May 2019 23:41 (five years ago) link