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Throw in some Jackson Browne and a dash of Dylan.
Anyone else follow Ed on instagram? Aunt Freckle is constantly doing THE MOOOOOOOOST and I can't handle it. Like she never stops performing and it's exhausting.
Shit that's probably my favorite lineup I've seen all year.
Between this and new My Bloody Valentine, it's gonna be a winter for anyone who did a lot of brooding in the late 80s.
I like having a physical version of my favorite albums. They're fun to look through, look cool on my shelf, the cover art is blown up and more fun to look at. I suppose all of that might just add up to commodity fetish but if that's the case then there isn't necessarily anything wrong with commodity fetish. But, you're right, if it was recorded digitally from the start then I don't think there's an actual sound difference between a high quality digital file and the vinyl record. Except that the digital file won't wear down over time.
At first I was like, damn there's gonna be some pissed of Beyonce fans out there. Then I realized those mispressed LPs are gonna be collectors' items worth BANK pretty soon.
Fuuuuuuck this is good. Kaputt is one of my top ten from this decade so far but I couldn't quite get into Poison Season. If the whole album is anywhere near as good as these first two singles it's gonna be phenomenal!
See her live. That's what did it for me.
Holy shit dude. Stereogum: Where the articles are treatises and the comments are articles.
SAME! I mean Bloodbuzz Ohio... come on! Lemonworld, Terrible Love, Conversation 17... They're all fucking gems.
Yeah... I don't think the video is meant to be an accurate representation of NYC. The color palette and style are meant to contrast with the subject matter of the song.
Yeah, but that's Clickhole's whole schtick. It's supposed to be incredibly dry but completely ridiculous. If he'd read it like he thought it was funny it wouldn't have been.
Came here to say exactly this. This is JUST what I imagined/hoped it would sound like!
"Let's just get high enough to see our problems..." god damn every now and then they just slay you with a simple turn of phrase, delivered impeccably.
Their drummer is lowkey incredible. Never too showy but always doing something incredibly interesting while simultaneously anchoring the whole song.
Yep. Disliking all 4 of those bands reeks of contrarianism. "This is what all the indie blogs tell me I'm supposed to like, therefore it all sucks automatically!"
Yeah and it's also really easy for a guy who was among the last generation of musicians to benefit from the record industry boom of the CD era to get on a high horse about not "selling out". It's a lot easier to turn down a quick, easy, big payday when you've got regular money coming in from record sales. It bums me out when I hear Grizzly Bear in a VW commercial too, I totally feel him on that. I don't want to thing about cars when I listen to my favorite music either. But it seems like Trent is unfairly holding that against Grizzly Bear. They make great music, they deserve a payday, and that payday isn't gonna come from record sales anymore so they do what they have to do.
The worst is when you get two thick onion segments that never separated inside one ring.
Switch The Suburbs and Neon Bible and then we'll talk.
That's a really good point. Literally every song anyone has every liked has been shown to them in one way or another, by a friend, a radio station, a blog, pandora or some other services... and whoever showed it to them said some version of "here, like this! this is a thing you should like!"
Seeing this on SUD is gonna make me so happy.
Sgt. Pepper's is totally a legit choice. IMO (and probably the opinion of most people who slightly dismiss Sgt. Peppers) it's their most influential album, the one that caused the biggest sea change in how albums were made and thought of, but not their "best."
Revolver. But these guys also just published a Linkin Park top 10 so IDK what to think anymore.
Also: "People genuinely liked the music without having to be told that they should like the music." Is that a low-key burn on your entire readership? You're gonna post a Linkin Park top 10 without a hint of irony and then imply that the reason literally no one who regularly reads your articles likes them is because they only like what they're told to like? At first I just thought this was kinda laughable and dismissed it as a lark. After actually reading it, I'm a little insulted. Not like REALLY insulted. But just a little. Sorta.
Good god WHY?????
This is pretty much the opposite of true.
Boxer is their best album but High Violet has the best songs. I was gonna list the best ones but then I looked at the track list and realized I would just end up writing them all down. But I will say that Bloodbuzz Ohio gives me goosebumps like no song ever has.
I'm the last person who should be saying who's allowed to get offended by this but I kinda don't see why there's any outcry. Seems to me like they're making a very clear point that sexism in the festival business is bad.
In the context of the album though Backseat Freestyle is supposed to be a bunch of kids rapping in the back of the car. It's not supposed to be a nuanced perspective on gender. See Sing About Me/I'm Dying of Thirst for that. At least that one verse on it...
Yeah, also that didn't look violent to me at all. Just urgent. But LOL at the second guy to run on stage who tries to "help" by grabbing on to the first guy!
They probably just aren't your thing then. I got bought in by the funk and danceability and stayed for the emotionally fraught lyrics.
This is the best intro to LCD for sure. One of the best opening tracks of all time and so fucking infectious!
I was only able to listen to the teaser snippet but holy fuck it sounds like grizzly bear does king of limbs in the best possible way
They really stuck the landing with R2 screaming at the end.
A lot of it's corny but it has its moments of brilliance. Alec Baldwin doing Trump, Melissa McCarthy as Sean Spicer, Weekend Update is usually good for 2-3 belly laughs.
For real. She's brilliant, but she's not right for a festival. I saw Joanna Newsom at a festival once. She's one of my all time favorite artists but it was terrible. There were like 50 of us crammed in the front standing trying desperately to hear over the 3,000 people who took the opportunity to camp out for the next act and were just drinking and talking loudly through the whole thing.
If he lets Bono take a big-old-self-important shit all over XXX I'll never forgive him