Enjoying the new Tame Impala album more after giving it “one more hour.” Not nearly as good as Currents IMO, but I feel grateful that an indie band from the late 2000s/early 2010s is still around and thinking about how to deliver a creative, full-length album experience/executing that on a high level.
Not really sure how the Bond franchise differs significantly from Eilish's assessment of rap music, but go off I guess:
https://twitter.com/xxl/status/1224754226586361864?lang=en
Would've really liked to like that new Tame Impala album, but something just feels uninspired/"off" about the whole thing. IMO it really could've used a more legible emotional throughline like the one that made Currents such a revelation.
I don't disagree! That one bar where Kanye compares the U.S. making peace with North Korea to himself making peace with Wiz Khalifa always makes me laugh when I remember it - one of his more enjoyable instances of insane hubris in recent memory. Also think that the Wyoming albums look a whooooole lot better in the wake of Jesus is King.
This is good! Not necessarily expecting something on the level of the band proper, but looking forward to hearing a record that includes "Treefingers" sound-alikes, old man Jon Hopkins songs and songs that sound like chunkier In Rainbows cuts.
There was also some live footage of this post being assembled that came out, not sure why they didn't include it:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EPxNI-eX4AImV3T?format=jpg
Most excited to hear the new Against All Logic comp out on Friday, that last one might be my favorite thing Jaar's released yet (and there's steep competition there!).
Also looking forward to hearing the new Shopping album, the singles they've released so far sound like what the last Priests album should've been [ducks].
Unpopular opinion probably, but: the ever-speeding Billie Eilish hype train feels like yet another instance in arts discourse of the cart being put before the horse w/r/t an artist being a "talent to watch" and having delivered an album-length release that fully delivers on said talent. Like, When We All Go to Sleep... has undeniable bangers and rewarding deep cuts, but IMO is also bogged down by too many moist ballads in the back half (and that conceptually obnoxious, U.S. Office-sampling misfire) to be something I can fully assign greatness too. Wonder if people would be beating their chests about the album to this degree if it had been less popular.
Not sure if anyone else here read it, but I thought today's Pitchfork piece about the new Yasiin Bey (fka Mos Def) album that's a Brooklyn Museum exclusive was really interesting/insightful. Definitely feels like, especially in 2020, there should be less of an impetus than ever to pander one's rap music to respectability/"high art" crowds for credibility.
Also, having been on a Mos Def kick lately, it's pretty disorienting to hear him rapping about late-90s life in Bed-Stuy/Crown Heights on Black on Both Sides juxtaposed with his new album being released in a museum in the same neighborhood.
Fair point, such a waste of talent across the board (Daniel Craig, Lea Seydoux, Christoph Waltz, Roger Deakins, Sam Mendes, Andrew Scott, Ralph Fiennes, Dave Bautista etc. etc.)
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