I quite liked Rapprocher - my issue with the new stuff is that's its a little too slick - the production feels like its sanded all her personality away. It just flows in one ear and out the other.
To me this is a really good album in a way that the new Class Actress EP isn't - where Movies trades in boring platitudes and cliches Bognanno feels like she has something to say (and sings like it too).
Otherwise I'm most excited about Son Lux (seriously, Lanterns has only gotten better with time) and I really dig the Oscar EP.
I haven't listened to the whole album so I'll have to take your word for it that it's a good one, but Talkin' Body is unbelievably grating so I welcome any chance that this replaces it on the radio
Haaaaaaha wow. This isn't "going off" - he had to sit in a studio, right these lyrics, then decide that this was the story he wanted to share with the world. If you don't see how a public figure in a position of relative power calling any woman a "little dumb ass bitch" over and over is incredibly hateful and threatening towards women in general, and you think that a women "going off" and calling a man an asshole is even remotely similar given the treatment men and women get in popular culture, then you've got a lot more to think about than I do.
Caitlin, how do you feel when you listen to the lyrics
"I don't fuck with you
You little stupid ass bitch, I ain't fuckin' with you
You little dumb ass bitch, I ain't fuckin' with you"
in the "undeniably great song" that is I Don't Fuck With You?
Nah, Apple's big "in" is that they're Apple - the biggest company in the world and one that is so fetishized by people like Justin Vernon that they will unironically claim that, as a corporation, Apple made them believe in people.
How can Apple legally get away with not paying royalties for the first three months of the service? Are they telling labels that their music won't be included/featured in the unlimited/streaming program unless they agree?
If so that seems like a super fucked up and desperate way to strong arm labels and bribe users (with the 3 free months). I'm glad I can finally point to something beyond a vague distaste for Apple's aesthetic and attitude when people ask me why I've never used an iProduct.
"are we okay with"
ok, don't play branded shows then. also fuck people who use rhetorical tricks like starting their posts with "we" for no reason. arca seems insufferable.
pretty disappointed that the first Years & Years song to take off on American radio is that terrible The Magician remix of King (a much better song on its own).
also good god Nate Ruess is an unpleasant looking preson
oops I accidentally downvoted your comment because I can't see up/downvote symbols anyways (this is on windows 8.1 w/ firefox, something that I imagine should be pretty common). oh well
Meh, they're both grimy but I vastly preferred the sparser sound of Yeezus (beginning of New Slaves is my favorite thing in any hip hop ever), El-p's production is good but it's fucking exhausting too, especially on the first half of the album - Early is the first song I really dig.
I'm starting to get so tired of the "respect the craft" argument, because
a) it implies that art is programmable and that intellectual or emotional curiosity are beside the point (even if that's true it's pretty sad to admit so readily)
b) and that music should be analyzed in the same way that the fucking ikea catalog or an ad for a goddamn smartphone can be
Since this album should never have had so many words written about it in the first place, are people looking forward to Nightcrawler at all? I thought it looked silly when I saw the first trailer but then I saw it described as this year's Drive and I'm actually looking forward to it now (also Jake Gyllenhaal, so I guess there's some tertiary relationship between this comment and the article)
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