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Song of the summer, fall, winter, spring, summer, fall, winter, spring, summer, fall, winter, spring, summer, fall, winter, spring, summer, fall, winter, spring...
I feel like there were a lot of undeveloped moments on this album; time spent chugging away on simple riffs of just one or two notes. I feel like Lateralus did a better job of introducing novel melodic ideas. Just look at Justin Chancellor's playing throughout, it's very static. I'm enjoying it, but the best of Tool's songs don't sacrifice melodic interest for the sake of anticipation, which I feel like they do too much here.
I think Jon Batiste will be doing the more standard jazz stuff, otherwise you'd be right that Trent is a bad pick if he was supposed to be writing the jazz stuff. It at least seems like they care about being authentic (also plenty of black cast).
Not my tempo, huh? *Immediately goes home and writes "March of the Pigs" with a BPM of 269 and in 29/8 time*
Thank you, I thought it was some weird technicality thing or something.
How are there songs that have held for longer than 16 weeks but none that have held 15?
Pretty sure the band doesn't appear in this video.
Sounds like a faster, angrier Chameleons and I love it.
As also a Jewish person, I resent the connection being drawn between criticizing an apartheid state and being anti-Semitic.
I agree Wild Beasts were great, but Boy King was a decent album that was mostly received that way? It has a solid 79 on Metacritic. I'm not sure it deserves nearly the praise of Present Tense.
I am only one year older than Claire Boucher and this list makes me feel old. Well, back to my thirty and forty year-old records for comfort I guess.
"...people don’t have a grasp on what we’ve [...] acquired..." This makes me picture The Killers as some kind of upstart corporation. "Just in the third quarter of our last fiscal year, we acquired some pretty big firms, including Dave Matthews LLC and Mumford & Sons, Inc."
Mumford and Sons would like you to believe they are this vista onto the beautiful cityscape at night. Who knows what nocturnal adventures are happening down there in the twilight hours? But they are actually the bench: I mean, it does what it's supposed to do, but nobody remembers that one time they sat on a bench.
No one finds it strange that Black seems to believe that a lady bassist is needed to fill that role? I mean at this point it's not a coincidence and a little weird.
The problem here is one that's come up for just about every 'ism' under the sun, and that is "who gets to decide what a vegan is?" Some literal minded people would point to a dictionary, but a dictionary doesn't define words, speakers do - the dictionary serves to report those findings. The question has no answer, people will always expand and alter the definitions of political, religious or philosophical movements. Can a pacifist defend himself or his family with physical force? In truth, every meal is a separate action with separate moral choices. I commend her for making a tough decision almost every time she eats. It's not easy. And I also get that DIIV guy thinks it's unethical to ever consumer animal products. All labels aside, I imagine Grimes and DIIV would find way more in common in their ideals than not. And DIIV can condemn the action without having to bring in the slippery issue of who is a vegan. What they both aspire to is the same end, and perhaps they should both remember that.
I can't believe Gabe is leaving. I hope he continues to have success outside that site. Is really like imagining The Daily Show without Jon Stewart: Gabe is the voice and the ancient, haggard face of Videogum. We will miss you.
Mike representing the bloc party deep cuts.
No kidding, I never would have predicted this kind of versatility. I have become a huge fan all on the basis of his ''crimewave'' remix.
Does this mean CFCF is making another dance album? I love his minimal stuff but I've really been hoping for more dance music from him.
It's about more than just not raping people; almost every man in history has not raped a single person. And yet sexism continues to exist because we allow a culture where misogyny thrives. Everyone who believes in equality should be combating that culture, not merely sitting complacent as it continues to oppress people.