I LOVE this. This is the sound I like these days: far out, out there, up high. Or something. I found Wye Oak the best in what they used to do, but what they used to do in general wasn't my favorite "genre", so to speak. This one is, and they seem to be doing it right! It feels so modern to me! Can't wait for the album!
Fully agreed. This video is a sum-up of her 1990-1995 videos. I can "see" Vogue in there, I can see "Human Nature" in there too. It's like she's playing it safe (although the editing was modern). Either that, or she can't innovate anymore at 53 years of age.
That BigBang video was indeed ridiculous, but it probably fits the music anyway, so overall makes it "appropriate". I believe people who like this sort of music, will like this sort of video too. So each to its own.
Please allow me to introduce you to another video released this week, which in my opinion is superior from any in this list. http://vimeo.com/38318118 While this video is unofficial (so far), it's *original work*.
Terrible. I mean, where are the revolutionary videos shot when with White Stripes? This is like going 30 years back in time in terms of video art. And the song is not that great either.
I think that's a good direction for CFCF. For years, I was loving his remixes, but not so much his original music. It was good, but not as good as his remixes. This direction suits him better. If I'm to give one advice, it would be to add a few surprising twists in the pieces, maybe by suddenly introducing different sounds, or going a bit off key momentarily etc. Just let the listener wait the unexpected.
I can't stand her. Not because the songs are bad (they have good hooks actually), but because she sings in 95% of the duration of each of her songs. There is no actual music in there to speak of, it's just background noise to Florence's voice -- a voice which doesn't leave anything to imagination.
I don't like it either, I don't hear any catchiness or epicness into their music. This is like the indie rock version of some really bad commercial hip-hop.
This music sounds like hipster-ifying cruiseship music. It has no punch, it sounds lame. I'm sure the band can write more interesting music than that, it's not the actual song that it's problematic, but I'd say, probably the production.
I don't see why a performance has to be only about live music. Why a performance couldn't be a view into the inner demons of the artist, which could in fact help explain the record? What if playing live some instruments is simply entertainment, but having theatrics involved gives more meaning into it? I guess some fans would want to have 45 minutes of "musical fun", and others would want to connect, and learn. I'm one of the latter ones.
Fully agreed. I was shocked as well. I have this feeling that Pitchfork was punishing him for speaking his mind about stuff on interviews (e.g. against the media juggernaut that includes Pitchfork, record stores, the fact that he made fun of them when they asked him about what his ringtone was, etc). They tried to punish him IMHO for not taking Pitchfork and media seriously. This pissed me off immensely.
I never liked or understood Newsom's music. I don't get it at all, I can't find any hook, no atmosphere that I like either. The video was rather uninteresting to me too, it had a '90s idea, but with CGI. I'm happy that she has many fans, it's just not my cup of tea.
I'd give it a 5/10 or 6/10 as maximum, definitely not as good as their first single from their previous album. Sounds like something that was born without inspiration.
I love Washed Out's first cassette and EP, but this full album was underwhelming for me. Less dreamy somehow, songs didn't really go anywhere. Still, better than most music out there, so I can't complain much.
This album is a joke. Metallica needs to give up and just stay with their families and live a simple family life if that's all the kind of music they can write now in their 50s. I'm sure they have enough money to retire, so retire already. There's no point releasing bad music and make an a$$ of yourself to your fans.
The whole "Borderline" video looks like Rihanna's "new" look overal, but check particularly on 0:53 of Madonna's music video. When I saw the Rihanna picture, that's exactly what came to mind.
I'd say it's more like 1984. Check Madonna's "Borderline" music video on youtube. In the scenes where she wears the jeans, she looks and feels the same as Rihanna does above.
I liked that song better than any other in her two previous albums btw.
I heard that bit last night, and I almost fell off my chair. "Awkward" doesn't even fully describe it. Honestly, I don't know what Metallica is thinking... Out of ideas much? Or a contract signed while drunk in Vegas? I don't know what else to think...
Their 2007 album, and their 2008 "Furr" album was amazing, because it was taking old style music and giving it a facelift. It was taking predictable sounds and making them unpredictable and interesting. Both their 2010 album though, and from what it seems their new one, is just old style, period.
I used to be a big Blitzen Trapper fan (met two of the band members too in one of their live shows, very nice guys), and I used to frequent their forums too, but I'm sad to say that I'm not a fan of this music.
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It's a good list for what it is, but I find the list one-sided. It mostly lists old-style narrative videos, and not impressionistic modern videos, like this one http://vimeo.com/20374855 or this one http://vimeo.com/21513145 or even this one http://vimeo.com/22679618
I've met one of the band members 1,5 years ago, and he was a real nice person and not some kind of a bandwagon jumper. They just made the music they wanted to make (which is fun music), and a major got word, signed them, and that's about it.
From his new style, only "A Dedication" rang "good" to me btw. The rest are ok, just a bit "meh". Overall, a good album, better than most out there, just not as amazing as I wanted it to be. It's colder somehow.
"You and I" is my favorite song on the album, which is a song he recorded over a year ago, and it's from "his old style". I personally prefer his old style. It's more melodic, more carrying-away than his new style. The new album is good, just not as good as his first EP. The "taking you away to another place/another time" kind of melodies are missing.
For me, both Amazon's, Google's, and Apple's cloud offerings are completely and utterly useless:
1. I have a gazillion songs, all legal, some bought, but some released through either Bandcamp, or as free promo mp3s (from Stereogum, pitchfork and many other trustworthy places regarding the legality of their mp3s). These songs would never "match" via iTunes Match, because Apple can't know of their legality (even if I have edited each and every download's "comments" tag with the download URL). So basically, I'm left with either uploading GBs of music (and Comcast won't like that with their bandwidth limits), or have these songs "non-matched".
2. What works for me is an unlimited subscription service, a'la Netflix. For $10 per month, I want to be able to stream (and download offline), every song available via distributors. That's why I prefer the RDIO and MOG services over these new cloud services. I don';t want to be able to stream "my" music, I want to be able to stream everything in THEIR library, for a modest fee. As for the rest of my music that doesn't exist in these RDIO/MOG libraries, I can always sync it via the old fashioned method, USB and internal storage. With the RDIO/MOG method the amount of Bandcamp songs I have to manually sync are much fewer than using iTunes Match (since RDIO/MOG would also include many of my free promo songs).
So option #2 is much better for me.
I love the whole Austra album, and especially "lose it", but this remix removes all atmosphere and ethereal quality of the song -- which is what made the song anyway. Not a good remix.
Agreed. "Life of Leisure" is amazing. Read the iTunes comments on the album too, the majority has a common compass: the album takes them away, to another place, another time. You might have to be a bit of synesthete to "get" that kind of music though.
Ugh, terrible music. Maybe I'm in the minority, but I find nothing enticing on this song. It's just some random cookie-cutter rock song, it "takes" me nowhere, it feels sterile. There are some good songs in the "adult alternative rock" genre, but this ain't one of them.
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