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angrygodofjebus posted:The new National album is good. Really dig the female vocals, makes a lot of it seem kind of fresh. Oblivions is a new top-10 National track. Good album. I know it’s been influenced by the film (and vise-versa), but this really is if The National wrote a musical and brought in a rotating cast of women for Berninger to have conversations with.
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Where is Her Head is the standout for me so far e: the moment i first heard that stabbing violin in the opening thirty seconds i knew i was in for a fuckin ride further thoughts: they sort of botched "rylan." changing the chorus' lyrics to eliminate the phrasal repetition and cutting the third chorus out entirely ruins the song's flow to a degree that not even the enhanced percussion can save. the title track is quite nice especially in the last minute, "dust swirls in strange light" is pleasantly strange though i'm not sure how well it'll hold up to repeat listens, "oblivions" is great as mentioned. the two long tracks i'm going to have to settle into and "hey rosey" and "roman holiday" just feel like generic mid-tempo dirges right now, though i like the keyboards on the latter Oxxidation fucked around with this message at 18:02 on May 17, 2019 |
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Light Years and Where Is Her Head are my favorites after a couple listens. Really loving most of this though. Maybe a touch long but whatever.
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The Mountain Goats put on an incredible show in Minneapolis last night. Had a brief interlude of Solidarity Forever and There Is Power in a Union with the audience singing along. 
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Cugel the Clever posted:The Mountain Goats put on an incredible show in Minneapolis last night. Had a brief interlude of Solidarity Forever and There Is Power in a Union with the audience singing along. With a promise that when he comes back next, he will do all the verses. I was pretty drunk at the time but I'm pretty sure there were three encores? I went outside to smoke after the second one because setlists were all showing two encores and I heard No Children start and bolted back inside
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thecluckmeme posted:With a promise that when he comes back next, he will do all the verses.
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I went to a Peaches show last night and most of the show was extremely NWS but one of my friends did manage to get a few nice work-safe pics.   If Peaches comes to your town, go.
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I was extremely bored by the last National album but loved the ones before it. Will I like the new one?
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Epi Lepi posted:I was extremely bored by the last National album but loved the ones before it. Will I like the new one? Most likely not. I loved the last one but it is decidedly low key and this one even more so. It's not my favorite and it's taken longer to grow on me than previous albums but it's still good if you give it time!
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Trig Discipline posted:I went to a Peaches show last night and most of the show was extremely NWS but one of my friends did manage to get a few nice work-safe pics. I was too far back when I saw her to realize she got inside the dick zeppelin. I also highly recommend going to see her.
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BonoMan posted:Most likely not. I loved the last one but it is decidedly low key and this one even more so. It's not my favorite and it's taken longer to grow on me than previous albums but it's still good if you give it time! So pitchfork compared the use of female vocalists to something Leonard Cohen would do, having them act as response to his lyrics-as-conversation. I nodded when I read it, but loving seriously? the gulf between Cohen as songwriter and Berninger is kind of wide. Berninger's stuff worked for me because it's a very "self-absorbed dude talking to himself in the shower about what he should have said" style, with which i deeply identify. He's completely overshadowed by the guest vocals, which are across the board pretty good performances from excellent lady singers. But if I wanted to hear them I wouldn't put on a National album for it, sheesh. My wife walked in midway through the album and straight up did not believe me when I said it was the new National album fwiw
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May 21, 2019 19:09
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Jenny Lewis was so much better live than I could have possibly imagined. Her albums are good for a Sunday nap, but holy poo poo she really knows how to channel Dolly Parton on stage.
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resident posted:Jenny Lewis was so much better live than I could have possibly imagined. Her albums are good for a Sunday nap, but holy poo poo she really knows how to channel Dolly Parton on stage. e: I'm biased because this is one of the worst songs I've ever heard in my life https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ytDShWdLUA
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May 22, 2019 08:04
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King Gizzard just teased a new (~thrash?) album for next week on their twitter lmao.
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Ratios and Tendency posted:King Gizzard just teased a new (~thrash?) album for next week on their twitter lmao. Fishing for Fishies is so good, but that band is a two-headed ogre and they're gonna do what they do
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNqXhfUfwgc FKA Twigs, yowza 
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNqXhfUfwgc Dang that's good.
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FactsAreUseless posted:She's a decent actress, although I've never cared for Rilo Kiley. I wish she'd stayed in movies, but I get why she didn't. I'm not surprised she's good on stage. I met the guy who played the kid from the Wizard he said he wound up drunk at a party at her place once and neither knew who the other was lol
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May 24, 2019 09:54
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Portions for Foxes was one kickass song but I prefer Jenny Lewis' solo stuff.
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I binged Rilo Kiley albums at a really vulnerable time of my life so I will always have a soft spot for them.
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Amyl and the Sniffers debut album is a banger if you enjoy dirty punk rock. I've seen them once before and can attest to them keeping old punk spirit alive. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-X8QkqrDeY
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Plastic Mermaids debut album, Suddenly Everyone Explodes, is amazing. My album of the year so far.
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I went to the final Bled Fest over the weekend and it was incredible. Here is a bunch of stuff I saw and loved: The End of the Ocean https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xOF8DsdFEk Camp Cope https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2Xpar0PEiI Pool Kids https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMB4yNiozPI Iron Chic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sQIRHxogF0 Rivals https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shyqDjbg32s Dogleg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7unLHsBUFE Kississippi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJE1GZi4LrA Bad Bad Hats https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EonlJJqj0m8
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Slandible posted:I went to the final Bled Fest over the weekend and it was incredible. Here is a bunch of stuff I saw and loved: Haven’t been able to make it since I left home but lots of good memories at Bled Fest. I think my favorite was seeing TWIABP in that front entranceway stage like a week after their debut album had leaked. Just a ton of people crowding that stage at 3 in the afternoon. RIP
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i've never liked jenny lewis's solo or rilo kiley stuff much at all, but i really liked the nice as gently caress band/album. it was like a lil 3 piece post punk (drums/bass/singing + I think keys on a couple songs?) thing that had extremely on the nose writing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3vzCTkGQg8 i saw them live and they did one of my fav live gimmicks, which is when you play in the center of the crowd. it may be absolutely awful for sightlines but i think it's really cool and engaging!
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oh, my literal favorite current artist, ezra furman, is back, and i'm very excited https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLecVxlnZG8 given the single and the press release, seems like it's a revert back towards their more punk-y stuff, which i'm excited by! i eventually came to like the last record but it really took seeing it live to appreciate it ezra's on tour and they're basically the single best live performer in the whole world and their backing band is amazing, would highly recommend catching a show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqmALmuvoUw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4onnCBcuJ0
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Henchman of Santa posted:Haven’t been able to make it since I left home but lots of good memories at Bled Fest. I think my favorite was seeing TWIABP in that front entranceway stage like a week after their debut album had leaked. Just a ton of people crowding that stage at 3 in the afternoon. RIP It was my first time and I loved it. I am super bummed it was the last one, I want to keep going back to it.  So one band caused a fire in the middle of the day. Nothing serious, but totally smoked up a classroom and caused the entire fire alarm system to go off. Most bands played like 2-3 songs through blaring alarms before they made everyone leave the building. RIP
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UnknownMercenary posted:I binged Rilo Kiley albums at a really vulnerable time of my life so I will always have a soft spot for them. Same. Them and Yeah Yeah Yeahs were a gateway out of like, ska, and poo poo into better music.
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Getting real St Vincent vibes from this picture. The URL just seems to redirect to their official site unless I am missing something but I am only on mobile. Maybe Unlovable is the name of the new album? E: they have different text but the inlining cuts it off https://twitter.com/Sleater_Kinney/status/1133296965666660352?s=19 https://twitter.com/Sleater_Kinney/status/1133372460521480192?s=19 UnknownMercenary fucked around with this message at 15:49 on May 28, 2019 |
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Street Vincent is the EP of the album I think I saw
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UnknownMercenary posted:Getting real St Vincent vibes from this picture.  Last week, a bio page for the band was prematurely posted to the Mom + Pop website and mentioned that the name of the album was The Center Won't Hold. I'm assuming the unfuckable, unlistenable, unlovable stuff relates to lyrics for the first single "Hurry on Home" EDIT: Cached bio page here: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:bJVTDawKqqIJ:www.momandpopmusic.com/sleater-kinney+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us interpunct fucked around with this message at 18:04 on May 28, 2019 |
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May 28, 2019 17:45
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fuckkkk yeahhhhh S-K
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weekly font posted:Same. Them and Yeah Yeah Yeahs were a gateway out of like, ska, and poo poo into better music. i graduated high school in 2009 and started listening to a wider variety of music around that time so all of the albums that really got me into Indie are all turning 10 this year and everyone is writing little remembrances, its kinda funny but also makes me feel very old. The one album that i will always remember/treasure above all the others from that year is Girls' debut.
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Thom and the Heads posted:fuckkkk yeahhhhh S-K new single out: https://open.spotify.com/album/61GNdZs5b8TW7ijspkTEnM?si=zenH_9y7R9yiDx3goaSuAQ owns owns owns
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Join my Hold Steady meme group. Anyone want to work on a podcast about them? I know one existed, These Miracles Work, but it was only 5 episodes. Craig Finn our Ezra Furman on a playlist and I can’t stop listening to Transangelic Exodus. It’s probably one of my favourite albums in years! Saw The Screaming Females for free, rad show, they were super nice, covered The Angels twice, did tell me Brian Fallon and Patrick Stickles were hard to deal with, gave me a free record. Anyone know small Melbourne bands, I just moved here because of the indie scene. Every gig I go to we have an earnest conversation about Wil Wagner, him being evil still hurts. Looking for bands like him/Courtney Barnett/general indie punk vibes. Twee pop like early Architecture in Helsinki too. Small local bands I can afford. Already saw Hanny J, Mesa Cosa (who I know pretty well).
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Cugel the Clever posted:The Mountain Goats put on an incredible show in Minneapolis last night. Had a brief interlude of Solidarity Forever and There Is Power in a Union with the audience singing along. Minneapolis? Any Hold Steady refs? My crush hooked up with a guy who looked like John Darnielle. Still love him so much, he was just on the Turned Out A Punk podcast. Tho he promotes D&D instead of some of the great indie RPGs he plays.
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Thom and the Heads posted:new single out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5uAH0vNn2s Yeah, it's pretty fuckin' good. I'm really excited to hear what else they have up their sleeves.
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I'm not a hardcore SK fan by any stretch but sort of weird that Carrie and St Vincent's stunt rear end are the center piece of the marketing here.
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^burtle posted:I'm not a hardcore SK fan by any stretch but sort of weird that Carrie and St Vincent's stunt rear end are the center piece of the marketing here. I think you mean amazing.
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