This reminds me, weren't you all considering some sort of subscription service thing that would allow users to look at the site ad free, or did I just make that up? I would deffo pay a little bit of coin to support y'all and be rid of the ads.
Oh no, sorry for your omnichord loss! I became a proud owner earlier this year (after finding out about them from a Bat For Lashes livestream), and there are still a good number of them on eBay. Though, from what I understand the prices in general have gone up a fair amount over the past year, I think largely due to a TikTok that got some traction.
Yeah, agreed about the rollout... these arrangements seem more like an odyssey than a typical pop song arrangement. Reminds me of what they were doing on "Marin's Dreams" in that way.
Also, "eclipse pop!" Love that.
Oooooooooh, there is some prominent omnichord here. Cherry on top of the Beach House sundae.
"Pink Funeral" may be the standout here for me, tho maybe also that title track tho.
Robyn's Body Talk and Róisín Murphy's first solo album are the ones that come to mind for me, though I didn't really listen to either of them in EP format, so can't really speak to how that compared to listening to the full album.
Also, apparently the CD version of this release has two discs, so that means we are looking at over an hour and 20 minutes of new Beach House!
My ranking:
1. Teen Dream
2. Devotion
3. Bloom
4. 7
5. Beach House
6. Depression Cherry
7. Thank Your Lucky Stars
(Though ranking Bloom and 7 is tough for me, since I like Bloom more when I listen to it piecemeal than as a whole album, and I am feverishly in love with like 3-4 songs on 7, but most of the rest of it doesn't land with me all that much.)
I did feel like the first half of the album version felt a bit Franz Ferdinand-by-the-numbers, but I don't remember if the original version was like that, I haven't listened to it in so long (and didn't listen to it that much at the time). Ha, I really need to go back and check it out now...
Huh, my knee jerk reaction to seeing this band name is to assume that it is a reference to the much-beloved mid-90s X-Men alternate reality crossover... though if we're talking about metal (or hardcore, or whatever), it seems entirely feasible that they just arrived at this name on their own.
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Not sure why this post has such a high percentage of negative comments, but these songs are (unsurprisingly) fantastic. Look at Arca here, coming to fuck up your year end lists.
Hm, the fact that this is sequenced chronologically makes me think the version of "Lucid Dreams" on there is not the version on Tonight: Franz Ferdinand, which is a shame, since IIRC the earlier version does not have the bizarre synth/electro freakout at the end, and I LOVE that part. Like, it was seriously one of my favorite musical moments of 2009, which I still think about every time I hear it.
Also, speaking of Tonight, the lack of "Can't Stop Feeling" is a glaring omission.
That is a fine version of "Sally's Song," but it really just makes me want to listen to Fiona Apple's cover.
...though, to be fair, any version of that song that is not Fiona's really just makes me want to listen to her version.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXtSFKTvbHU
Great idea! I am down for trying to propagate that in this community.
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(I am also curious what our non-cisgendered commentariat compatriots think. Though this post is probably not the most jumpin jumpin place for that by this point.)
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/ze
I was going to say, as immortalized in the classic SOPHIE banger "Ponyboy," though the internet seems to think the lyric is "He is just a pony/She is just a pony/They is just a pony/Pony, Ponyboy." Really could have sworn there was a ze in there though.
Also, I think there are a couple other ones aside from ze, though AFAIK that is the non-they/them/theirs option with the most adoption. (But I am hardly an expert.)
"Domino" and "Dreamcatching" really stood out to me on first listen, as far as the songs we hadn't heard yet... love that they give us a little flavor we hadn't quite heard from Mag Bay before.
So I normally scroll (...and scroll... and scroll...) through the TNOC comments that wind up in SUD, but I will make time for "Groove is in the Heart," and that was fun.
(Granted, maybe the answer to my question is "the artists on the Italians Do It Better label," considering the kind of surprising (IMHO) number of covers of MDNA songs on that Madonna tribute comp.)
I mean... is it? I agree that Madame X is the best, and possibly least cringe-inducing, of her 2010s work (not that there aren't still some cringe-inducing moments... and "God Control" is a hot mess... but it is on the whole much more inspired).
I'm just wondering who the heck ranks MDNA and Rebel Heart higher.
I am down with this and happy to have her back, but was a little worried at first that this was all just a tie-in for something in her food line. Glad that that doesn't seem to be the case...!
...and if you want to keep adding to it, I've got a few more, now more autumnal things are coming to mind. (Last week I mainly kept thinking of more winter-y type music, which I blame on my cumulative years in Florida blurring the boundaries between the two in my head. Though, if you're in Texas, you understand.)
Goldfrapp - "Annabel," "Stranger," "Jo," "Deep Honey"
Anna Calvi - "Sing To Me"
Chelsea Wolfe - "Gold," "The Way We Used To"
I would have guessed bootleg album cover created for the leak, and I hope to God Chris is mistaken and this is not the official cover art.
I mean, if they're going to stick to that horrifying/terrible picture (which... dear God why), at least use some typography that took longer than 2 seconds in MS Paint to do.
Apparently Johnny Jewel/Italians Do It Better did this with Kill For Love, and I would imagine this has happened for other Chromatics songs or releases as well. If nothing else, IIRC, the version of "Hands in the Dark" on Cherry (deluxe) on streaming is different than the one on the CD I got from them a year or two back.
Oh damn...! Kind of crazy to think of a time where we couldn't all just come here and shoot the shit about whatever, though, I guess this also means this column has been around for almost 10 years now, which is also kind of crazy...
Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man's underrated Out of Season is just about the most autumnal album I can think of. If you're looking for just one song, "Sand River" is spellbinding, and finds Beth literally singing about autumn leaves and the beauty of the season.
Must be following the proper rules of band name irony.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm getting a little verklempt. Talk amongst yourselves. Here, I'll give you a topic: Brazilian Girls are neither Brazilian, and only one member is a girl. Discuss.
Yeah, as someone with flat feet, my legs would be pretty unhappy with me standing for that long, and consequently I'm sure I would be pretty grumpy too. Not sure I would have stuck around. Hopefully the people who did really enjoyed those 7 songs...
Oh man, both songs are such great reminders of how much sheer gorgeousness Wolfe is capable of, even with just her voice and one instrument. I guess I forget that sometimes amongst all the doom and doom folk.
But really, that "Woodstock" cover though.
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