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It seems Phrazes For The Young might have enough “classical synth” juxtapositions to keep it interesting. Despite all the hate, I’m still looking forward to it.
Exactly! Sondre Lerche is so great, even Cynical Scenesters, Tragic Hipsters, and Random Internet commenters are united in kind words for his music.
Exactly– it’s as if the prerequisite’s for Allen’s video was to rip off Rise Up With Fists!!, only make it colder, less clever and appealing.
It’s Blitz! remains at the top of my “Must Buy” list.
The YYYs refuse to be typecast yet retain their signature sound (simple phrases and juxtapositions over clever repetitive hooks). For example, Show Your Bones was less extemporaneous and “noise rock sounding” than Fever to Tell– different sure, but both are still brilliant in their own regard.
Don’t hate it if you don’t get it.
As a fan of motion design, those transitions are spectacular. Plus there’s bonus “meta” points in using a pixelation style for a web-viewing medium.
I can see that bias, (but don’t worry about me, the other day I compared the new Sufjan Stevens to Paul Brill over Thom Yorke’s sound) though I say it’s more deficiency of terms to describe audio qualities without resorting to crude onomatopoeia.
Though McG (second post) came the closest with describing those cool drums though.
Don’t say Alanis Morisette… that’s too pejorative, though I do agree with the Kate Bush-esque similarity.
Though I’d say it’s more Homogenic-era Björk mixed with Scarlet’s Walk-period Tori Amos & as brandon posted, slightly Cranberries.
No matter how ineptly I articulate it, I love this, it’s a wonderful elaboration from Fur & Gold.
Just wait, once the Walkmen are used for a feature film’s soundtrack or a popular commercial, the general population will actually come to acknowledge them. That’s the ‘indie’ gold standard isn’t it?
(I agree with your sentiment with the exceptions of any video directed by Patrick Daughters, Shynola, or Spike Jones)
This cannot be new material for Spoon… even Series of Sneaks (1998) had more melody, construction, lyric quality– more everything. This blows!
I see what you did there… but it’s more Paul Brill than Thom Yorke.
Best cover thus far. (Though I miss the soaring pace Bowie had, over the techno-refashioning & constructed layering of this version). I do like the variety with this approach though, Bowie’s version is somewhat uniform with “samey” sounding verses and familiar chorus returns that doesn’t arc until the ending.
Hey, remember when the Wallflowers did a cover of Heroes for the Godzilla soundtrack? What was that about?
This is just a symptom of 1980′s “Glam Poison” that has claimed so many artists. To my recollection, Bowie is the only survivor– though at high cost, sadly Ziggy Stardust contracted a terminal amount.
Seriously though, I think it fits the song and it had me grinning– all that flamboyant showcase and fanfare over a thin veneer of vanitas, there’s more to this than peculiar costumes.
I had my doubts, but it really is good. The Clash made the right choice.
Eh, it’s more like The Go! Team than Santogold… but I can hear the reasoning.
Anyway, Albarn & Hewlett can do no wrong– hell, I even bought and thoroughly enjoyed the Journey to the West opera soundtrack.
I wonder if they’ll ever make that Gorillaz feature film…
Nah man, he doesn’t suck live– it’s just doesn’t have the same effect– the layered richness accustomed to the studio production.
Like Bjork or Interpol are better in studio while acts like The Secret Machines or Broken Social Scene have more lasting live performances. It depends on the genre I guess.
M. Ward’s best yet!
It’s almost too mesmerizing when taken in through headphones (I got distracted from work lost in thought)– essentially the album is a vast echo chamber of goodness. His studio performances always beat the live versions by wide margins.
Good for the The Gaslight Anthem, (though they’re somewhat a Springsteen/Tom Petty derivative, they’re great at what they set out to do) they deserve more attention.
Anyway, I like lists. It’s an easy format to track down stuff I might have missed.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I’ve got to go categorize and label everything in my apartment according to value.
Hey it’s not really that bad!
No Karma, Fall in Step, and Ignorant Swan work out pretty well. The rest are a bit too uneven for a match.
I particularly like how most the tracks use the poignant Jay Z tracks with more substance (i.e. the past demons, hustling guilt, and justifying morality) than the frivolous and indulgent lifestyle pieces (like tracks about clubs, booze, and respect amongst the rapper community).
As for future mashing:
Jay Z and Fleet Foxes or
Jay Z and She & Him
might be impossible though. Possible to mix, but deplorable for doing so.
Video had a “Meh” quality, but the song was awesome– there’s a lot more layers to Ward’s usual song composition, more orchestral strings and faint warbled synths (and distant tolling bells too?) Gotta love that rich resonant echoing.
A Fant TND describes it best.
Yeah, beats the hell out of other systems, like Boing Boing for example. You have a dissenting opinion and then some skimming moderator or a loitering regular arranges for your post to be “disemvoweled,” rendering it meaningless.
I like Stereogum’s system. Everyone knows the score, both figuratively and literally.
Here, you sort of play to the expected audience while minding the random unregistered users out to crawl up your nose for hating Chris Martin’s practiced flamboyancy.
Anyway from the positive list,
“08. monster at 12/16/08 4:53 PM”
Monster deserves to be canonized.
Nooo!
Don’t ?follow into the dark? that chubby lout!
Shh… the Pitchfork staff will totally knock you down the next time they see you in the hallway, as in, that accidental elbow shove– they’ll say sorry but not really mean it.
One would think a “Top 50″ list would have some semblance of criteria originating from it’s own publication.
Awesome, very cool.
Well, except for #44 Hercules And Love Affair– I just cannot comprehend why anyone likes them. Good thing this track for the most part is mostly instrumental.
I’ll echo moonmaster’s sentiment, without stereogum, I probably wouldn’t have bought as much music as I did this year since frequenting the site. Cheers.
Hey, how do I get my iTunes visualizer to do that?!