I agree with you there, especially on Thursday. That doesn't make it bad music though. Myself and many others I've talked to bring up the fact that Bon Iver's cd this year felt like that; it's great, but you can't really differ the songs besides maybe Perth and Holocene. I think this is the middle mixtape quality-wise, but to expect an artist to put out one terrific and two good ep's in one year is a lot. The Weeknd did it.
Never have had one of a moment where I react as strongly as I did to realizing that Kesha is doing my favorite Dylan song...not even trying to be an obnoxious fanboy.
I like him as an artist and more so as a guy, Drake just seems damn chill and real. Also, probs to you Corban for reaching that out of him. Even though Drake is a cool guy, I doubt he opens up to any doopy interviewer, and while reading this, it was real close and intimate feeling. (To stereogum overall, good job on keeping the answers free flow, right out of his mouth.)
People know them only because the Dirty Projectors gave them a break, which is a promising start for a band, but somehow they have sadly become the new Freelance Whales
If you guys would know the back story and stop being ignorant for a second....one of the running jokes of the fake Emmanuel twitter account was posting something relating to asking Jeff Tweedy to cover a Black Eyed Peas song at a rally.
It would be a lot better if it was James Blake having a part in a Bon Iver song, not Bon Iver having a part in an instrumentally and aesthetically James Blake song.
So Corban is Brandon's replacement? We should have a "Introducing" thread so that I can guess what the next stereogum spin off will be...I hope Corban is a Motown fan so we get "Haunting the bedroom"
That comment was explicitly hipster. Were all hipsters here, but to say that one popular artist's 30 seconds ruin a good piece of music is obnoxious and overly cliche.
I'm waiting for Frank Ocean's meteoric "blow up" now. I know Novacane has already found a way on a lot of top 40 stations, but I remember when Kid Cudi was still unknown to most except for rap bloggers, then was featured heavily on "808s and Heartbreak" and now you can't go anywhere in youth culture without references or inspiration from him. But anyways....I think the album is good, albeit disappointing, because Jay-Z is slowly becoming extremely cliche and washed up and Kanye's beats are in no way spectacular on any of the tracks.
These songs are so much more like "Lost" or "Lovers in Japan" then anything else they have ever made. So you saying you love their last album and hating this is just pretentious. You'll like them in 2 weeks.
That girl's dcfc post was soooo obnoxious. I think I've just read enough stories about how bad they are now, and how awesome the photo album was when I bought it at age 16.
I really dug that Charlie Brown guitar riff. Even though it seems like Coldplay won't be ending their habit of writing songs with no meaning, I'll still listen to this album.
I actually really liked this. Sounds like a more enthusiastic, young Gibbard. I've never actually heard the original so I can't be like, "Ah fuck this, it shames Ride."
Am I the only one who finds Fucked Up's album overrated? I mean it is bold and it is fresh, but an 8.? from P4k and a top ten here? The spot should have gone to Burst Apart....
I hate everything mumford and sons is but...I kinda enjoyed this. The song has always been my favorite from high violet, anda fresh take on it is cool.
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