thread to dis hyped releases that you don't get/don't like/wanna complain about

they've more or less left that mode behind

More or less, but like "Free" still feels pretty Tom Tom Club to me.

Which is to say, their influences are wides and are present to greater or lesser degrees on the different albums, but they're all there.

yes and i love the way they make them coexist with each other naturally, like i can get tom tom club from part of one track and imperial-era quincy jokes from another. particularly thinking of "strong" with that latter description

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

like if this is record collection or year-end list music... i like these record collections better than that of most critics!!!! these people like the rotary connection and jam/lewis

Less hype more dis plz.

lol once again sorry

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Sault is ruining the negative thread by bringing positivity (and being great). Resistance is futile!

(But really, there is almost literally no "hype" around them. No PR, no ads, almost no reviews in major outlets, and limited (but high-ranked, when included at all) End-Of-Year recognition. They're the un-hyped real deal.)

i'm sure this isn't hyped enough to really qualify for this thread at all but thanks to the 77 nominations playlist i have now heard dj sabrina the teenage dj and this happens so infrequently i had to record it here: i hated it so much

i tried to listen to the album and there were a few cool moments before it became completely forgettable so i didnt make it anywhere near close to its 3 hour runtime

hahah I’m into it

I did not object to it when it initially came up in tracks shuffle, but I tired of it quickly

just threw it on now and, I'm guessing this is extreme pomo irony shit? I do like their name

It's post-post-irony iirc.

Fwiw it's so utterly not my thing at all that I couldn't even hate it, it just made me feel old.

mostly it just sounds AI-generated to me

and not in a fun way

it seems sincere but knowingly ridiculous to me. i didn't care for most of the album but the first track "next to me" is quite cool

Yeah, that's a good way of putting it. 3h, 5h, 10h, does it even matter?

xp

it just like decent filter house / future funk ish to me?

sounds like

it sounds decent on first listen but there's no reason this should be three hours long. amazing dj name though

Great track titles, too

Pretty good mix: https://thefandomentals.com/fandomentals-guest-playlist-dj-sabrina-the-teenage-dj/

Totally forgot to vote. Jfc.

Harry Styles - very mediocre music, getting a pass because he wears sequins and winks at the camera when the inference of bisexuality comes up.

I had never heard his stuff… my sister said she loved his new song, I listened to it and was like – “??”

imo muna are extremely corny

definitely not the first person to ever have this take, but: MORE LIKE BEYAWNCÉ AMIRITE?

i'm an old school destiny's child hater tho. always been a firm pass. never had any tunes. ever. can definitely think of songs i know, but given the choice, i'd rather listen to anything else. cheers.

I'd have given her points for calling the album Renaissancé.

never had any tunes. ever

objectively wrong

oh, brad. come on now. it's possible for music to elicit no response from the listener. i'll give credit where it's due, but i never heard a single thing and thought, "yeah, not bad." it was always nothing: "this is a song. i neither like nor dislike it."

so it's always fun when a new record comes along and i giggle that i'm the only one that doesn't get it. oh well.

in the end, i guess it does mean i find her music a total bore.

didn't want to muck up the proper thread with my negativisms, but was also a bit amused by the YAWN-esque responses some were having. "SEE? I been SAYIN" or whatever.

just wondering how long before i can say the same thing about the next jay-z album. at least he had some good material once upon a time.

(yes, that was a preemptive bad review for whatever the next new jay-z music is. you can call me anything but just add "the grouch" on the end of it, thx.)

"O. W. Grouch at your service."

I'd have given her points for calling the album Renaissancé.

― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, June 23, 2022 2:44 PM

objectively missed opportunity.

Cénaissance, I would have thought, but it was already taken - by… John Cena.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9essance

I like that one Beyonce song that goes "You must not know 'bout me" (ie "Irreplaceable", I looked it up)

Austin does not like new song by artist he never ever liked
She's 40, maybe you can give her a break, or not bother to tell us ?

Beyonce is fine and I love some of her jams. The problem is the stans on Twitter who somehow think people are always trying to tear her down, when she probably has the most goodwill of any artist in the world.

Turnstile is hot garbage.

maybe you can give her a break, or not bother to tell us ?

[checks notes] This is the "thread to dis hyped releases that you don't get/don't like/wanna complain about", right?

Aldous Harding's songs are boring and her phony voices are irritating. Don't understand the critical love.

^massive agree

in my head she is Weyes Bloodless

"say my name" is literally fucking nested with tunes, you're just being obtuse on purpose

I just heard the 1975, someone threadban me before this gets ugly

this is a safe space

Well (bites tongue hard) it felt super weird to realize halfway through that this is not a song from the 1980s

It's the uncanny valley phenomenon of mistaking something dead for something alive. I used to think this kind of stuff was just necrophilia but it's creeping me out that we can't tell if there's a pulse or not.

Wet Leg.

This isn't a Bad Bunny situation. This isn't a bunch of genres I'm unfamiliar with and I'm not having to make a hairpin reappraisal. This is what I grew up on. I'd say I'm well-placed to be the critic.

Opening track is slight enough to escape much censure even as it rides a bunch of irritating vocal mannerisms over a basic melody.

Second track is my least favourite EOY track winner except maybe Girl Unit and at least that was a Weird, very then-ILM choice. I said it at the time: extremely standard indie with slightly elevated presentation. Nuts and bolts bassline, a wisp of a riff, preppy spoken vox, ooh-naughty lyrics. Stinks of 2007. You people are a disgrace

Third track is actually quite good, even if I've definitely heard this riff or variants of it a zillion times over. They're singing without so many annoying affectations for a start (although the coy yelping does return at points, and the main singer's voice is always just a little bit Newsom iykwim), and there's a nice shoegazey texture to it all. Me and maximalism eh

Fourth track jacks The Man Who Sold The World for fuck's sake. Like, not even disguised. Voice less annoying in this one and there's a semblance of trying to use more than two chords. Minor chords even!

The next track is far too pleased with itself, to the extent where it repeats lines it's particularly proud of. A slick single that honestly doesn't have anything going for it that a myriad - a MYRIAD - of British indie from the last 20 years doesn't

I'll say this, though - they're wily enough to keep it all short.

Track 6 is, what have I got written here. 'Dull'. I don't think they're very good at songwriting tbh. Their talent lies in an instinct for, idk, slogans? Bright, clean, crisp production? That's not their work though. Slogans it is

Track 7 has the best lyrics ever, as discussed. What's a girl to do indeed?? They've run out of melodic juice too btw

Track 8 LITERALLY REUSES THAT ANGELICA RIFF! It's like they panicked about having to actually do an album and didn't realise they were just repeating ideas! There's one almost-okay guitar melody and one welcome gesture towards metal at least.

Track 9 is borderline unforgivable. If you want to hear this kind of thing done not only forgivably but well, I recommend the band Audiobooks, and not for the first time either

Track 10 is like, soooo relatable yeah! Oh, *I* fucked it up this time, oh my god, such introspection. Cogs turning...let's have a slower, sadder one here...bet the next one's really peppy and all

Yeah, here are Those Three Chords that mean Happiness. Chorus has a Joyous Affectation. Honestly, this is all so cynically put together. Even has those 00s backing vocals. Ohhh-ehhh-whoooa. Oh keep in that studio laugh, it sounds so natural!!

Final track, yeah let's have a slower one to end on, epic yeah. You know it's the slower epic one because she's singing one syllable at a time, really slowly! That bassline, let's call it the King Of Carrot Flowers Part 1 Bassline, has probably appeared what...five times on this album so far? There are NO IDEAS. Ooh, a post-rocky bit of course, I could have told you it was going to sound like this. It's a facsimile of a facsimile, a record almost entirely devoid of inspiration. It is cheap slogans over BILGE. And it ends with a whimper.

Tracks 3 and 4 were okay. Tracks 2 and 5, the singles, were slick (I don't like them though). The rest is just not even there. Shame on you all tbh. If this makes the EOY top ten we're truly lost