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The New Pornographers might be up there. Mass Romantic -> Electric Version -> Twin Cinema. Also Bjork if we stretch the definition of 'indie' a bit (in the UK her records came out on One Little Indian, in the US on Elektra). edit: Wait no, it's Joanna Newsom. Sway Grunt fucked around with this message at 18:38 on Sep 23, 2020 |
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Wire.
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Real Name Grover posted:I mean, the first Fleet Foxes LP is held in pretty high regard and oh hey they just dropped LP #4 out of virtually nowhere All four of their albums are masterpieces. The lyrics to Sunblind are great/sad. https://genius.com/Fleet-foxes-sunblind-lyrics
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# ? Sep 23, 2020 20:04 |
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If someone included LCD Soundsystem I can include The Presets. (give up ep doesn't count) - Beams, Apocalypto, Pacifica, all three masterpieces. Agreed on New Pornographers Would also include The Weakerthans (Fallow, Left and Leaving, Reconstruction Site) as well as Cake (Motorcade of Generosity, Fashion Nugget, Prolonging the Magic)
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# ? Sep 23, 2020 20:24 |
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I saw cake at a festival and they loving sucked and had the worst fratty crowd. Ok that’s my story
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# ? Sep 24, 2020 01:48 |
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My only complaint about Twin Cinema is that The Bleeding Heart Show is not the last track on the album. That's like the song you play at the end of the world.
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exquisite tea posted:My only complaint about Twin Cinema is that The Bleeding Heart Show is not the last track on the album. That's like the song you play at the end of the world. This always bothered me too. Glad I’m not alone.
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exquisite tea posted:My only complaint about Twin Cinema is that The Bleeding Heart Show is not the last track on the album. That's like the song you play at the end of the world. My biggest problem with that it starts fading out before the song just comes to a conclusion anyway. Pick one or the other, New Pornographers! Their last album was really good, and definitely a stronger effort overall than their last few (which weren't bad, but tended to lose steam after a side or so).
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# ? Sep 24, 2020 17:49 |
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New Sufjan and Sylvan Esso tonight https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3ALwKeSEYs
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# ? Sep 24, 2020 20:18 |
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Mercury rev's first three of Yerself Is Steam/boces/see you on the other side were pretty great, SYOTOS being a little lesser imo, but holds a place in my heart for being the album i was listening to during my final dxm sesh, in which i Puked A Lot. Their first singer was way better tho.
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# ? Sep 24, 2020 22:37 |
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The new Fleet Foxes is so good, which isn’t surprising but I think he just keeps getting better and better or at least as I get older and listen to indie music less, I appreciate the style of arrangements he’s been gravitating towards and the like modern classical and art pop influences. The sort of unexpectedly overt Steve Reich style strings on ‘Cradling Mother, Cradling Woman’ are so good and that track also samples an unused Brian Wilson vocal take I guess, but it still sounds very Fleet Foxes. Idk where to post about the new Oneohtrix Point Never, but it’s real good and more ‘indie’ than most of his other stuff, I guess aside from Black Snow, but that was a very poppy single on an album of weird and unpoppy music. https://youtu.be/MYr5MypHAhQ I actually like this track more, but I love all three tracks he put out, one is like 22 seconds long though. But this one is more like R plus 7 or something with the lo fi tape warble that the other track has https://youtu.be/EH0pcBZMfEg
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Imhotep posted:The new Fleet Foxes is so good, which isn’t surprising but I think he just keeps getting better and better or at least as I get older and listen to indie music less, I appreciate the style of arrangements he’s been gravitating towards and the like modern classical and art pop influences. The sort of unexpectedly overt Steve Reich style strings on ‘Cradling Mother, Cradling Woman’ are so good and that track also samples an unused Brian Wilson vocal take I guess, but it still sounds very Fleet Foxes. Oh poo poo. Didn’t know he’s got new stuff out. Replica may be one my favorite albums of all time. Thanks
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# ? Sep 25, 2020 05:17 |
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This new Sufjan is great so far, drat.
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Katana_Warrior posted:Mercury rev's first three of Yerself Is Steam/boces/see you on the other side were pretty great, SYOTOS being a little lesser imo, but holds a place in my heart for being the album i was listening to during my final dxm sesh, in which i Puked A Lot. Their first singer was way better tho. Add Cartwheel back on like it should be and it makes it in easy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6ZErVNm-qI
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Rageaholic posted:This new Sufjan is great so far, drat.
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Rageaholic posted:This new Sufjan is great so far, drat. hughesta posted:I quite liked it, I think some of the tracks on the first half of the record could feel a little too standard at times for what I was looking for from this record but the second half is nonstop excellent It's definitely a dense album that is going to take a few listens to really fully digest, but I felt the same way about Age of Adz which is my favorite album. There are definitely some absolutely stellar standout tracks like "Make Me an Offer I Can't Refuse," "Ativan," and "The Ascension." It's interesting that the singles he released leading up to the album aren't even the best on the album, but I guess that's one way not to let people don't. I will say though that limiting the number of instruments to just a synth and drum machine has resulted in some of the songs sounding kind of same-y. Edit: Adding "I wanna die happy" to the list of standout tracks Edit: And "Landslide". Or, "LAAAAAAAAAAAANDSLIIIIIIIIIIIIIDE" Nihonniboku fucked around with this message at 14:15 on Sep 25, 2020 |
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It's going to be hard for me to really let go of Big Orchestral Sufjan. I loved the balance he struck on Adz. He's obviously no stranger to minimalism, as some of his best songs are simple banjo-plucking things, but for a whole album it can be a little frustrating. Except Carrie & Lowell which obviously merited that approach because of the subject matter. In truth there are actually tons of layers here, but since they're almost all synth, it's a little hard to pick them out. It's still early. We'll see.
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Sir Lemming posted:It's going to be hard for me to really let go of Big Orchestral Sufjan. I loved the balance he struck on Adz. He's obviously no stranger to minimalism, as some of his best songs are simple banjo-plucking things, but for a whole album it can be a little frustrating. Except Carrie & Lowell which obviously merited that approach because of the subject matter. In truth there are actually tons of layers here, but since they're almost all synth, it's a little hard to pick them out. I'm still praying that someday we'll see a studio recording of "Majesty Snowbird," probably his greatest unreleased track.
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Imhotep posted:The new Fleet Foxes is so good, which isn’t surprising but I think he just keeps getting better and better or at least as I get older and listen to indie music less, I appreciate the style of arrangements he’s been gravitating towards and the like modern classical and art pop influences. The sort of unexpectedly overt Steve Reich style strings on ‘Cradling Mother, Cradling Woman’ are so good and that track also samples an unused Brian Wilson vocal take I guess, but it still sounds very Fleet Foxes. it's really funny how opn's garden of delete and the fake "hyper grunge" genre he made to promote it basically predicted 100gecs new opn is really good, the concept of the album sounds like his take on james ferraro's "on air", which gets me pumped up.
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# ? Sep 25, 2020 14:06 |
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The new IDLES is out today, fools. Probably sounds a lot like the new Fleet Foxes
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# ? Sep 25, 2020 18:07 |
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Feeling pretty meh on the new Sufjan. Very much enjoying the new Fleet Foxes though - it might be my favorite album of theirs.
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foutre posted:
i need to listen to their older stuff, bc stardew is a Perfect Song. i could listen to it one hundred times
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I like to lurk in here, and I love listening to everyone's favs, but I never see enough love for my fav, Andrew Bird He's pretty low-key indie, I guess, sometimes leaning more folk, sometimes a little funkier. But if the Fleet Foxes are indie then Andrew Bird is, too. I'm a sucker for strings in my music, and he's got a pretty unique style: lots of strumming or plucking the violin strings, looping effects (these are super cool live—he uses a series of foot peddles to operate), and his (possibly annoying?) whistling. He probably edges out Sufjan as my favorite artist, even post- Carrie and Lowell. Here are a few of my favorites of his: 'Pulaski at Night' https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oecHq2neweA 'Darkmatter' https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o60rztkLBjQ 'Manifest' https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Pv68Kivrl5g 'Fitz and the Dizzyspells' https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4vv2EyQnqG4 'Scythian Empire' https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JSBLSfhVSR0 'Bloodless' https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zrTZF3J6YNk 'Orpheo Looks Back' https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cbk3skrVOto ETA: For Fiona Apple 'Left-handed Kisses' https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RZwtWExDmoI Thank you for listening to my talk about Andrew Bird. newts fucked around with this message at 18:15 on Sep 26, 2020 |
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Andrew Bird is great. Not music-related, but I am stoked for Fargo season 4, featuring Andrew Bird (and Chris Rock and Jason Schwarzman). New Fleet Foxes is amazing. I can't get enough of it. Perfect start of fall album. Music - Frances Quinlan (lead singer of Hop Along) was the last act I saw live before the pandemic. One of my faves: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuMxLSV253A
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I’m a big fan of Andrew Bird’s Armchair Aprocrypha and The Mysterious Production of Eggs, kind of bummed he abandoned that style and basically never plays his old songs live. seeing St. Vincent join him for Lusitania in 2012 was cool though.
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I thought "My Finest Work Yet" was a bit hyperbolically titled, but possibly my favorite since Armchair Apocrypha. Most of his mid 2010s-era stuff is good, but I don't quite recall it all. Eggs and Armchair stand out to me because they're what I got into 15-ish years ago.
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Paperback Writer posted:I’m a big fan of Andrew Bird’s Armchair Aprocrypha and The Mysterious Production of Eggs, kind of bummed he abandoned that style and basically never plays his old songs live. Yeah, it's a little bit of a bummer that he reinvents himself each album. Armchair Apocrypha is probably my personal favorite. Still, I can find something to like on each one so far. I've seen him play live five times, and I don't think he's ever played something that was older than two years. I totally forgot he was going to be on Fargo!
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# ? Sep 26, 2020 22:07 |
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Fav band out of Kansas City Shy Boys disappeared to Portland to make really striking record and it dropped yesterday, Talk Loud. Shy boys - Trash https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOP6qC-S5Vc
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# ? Sep 26, 2020 22:18 |
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I last saw Andrew Bird perform in 2012 or so, around the same time he was touring for Break It Yourself. The man plays the violin like it was an extension of his own body. I remembered feeling awestruck and at the same time tremendously sad that so much talent was bound up a single person.
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captainOrbital posted:The new IDLES is out today, fools. lol, definitely checking out ultra mono.
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Chamberk posted:I thought "My Finest Work Yet" was a bit hyperbolically titled, but possibly my favorite since Armchair Apocrypha. Most of his mid 2010s-era stuff is good, but I don't quite recall it all. Eggs and Armchair stand out to me because they're what I got into 15-ish years ago. It's absolutely a contender for album of the year. It's so loving good. Especially "Fallorun" My favorite Andrew Bird story is also about Ken Ishibashi (aka Kishi Bashi). Ken was in music school studying the violin when Andrew Bird came for a visit, and Ken feeling like a cocky 20 year old or whatever proceeded to challenge Andrew to a violin-off or whatever. Needless to say, Andrew destroyed him.
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# ? Sep 27, 2020 18:15 |
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I have respect for anyone who can play the violin well. It's an instrument that takes like 10 years of practice simply to not suck.
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Paperback Writer posted:I’m a big fan of Andrew Bird’s Armchair Aprocrypha and The Mysterious Production of Eggs, kind of bummed he abandoned that style and basically never plays his old songs live. Funny you should mention that: https://www.brooklynvegan.com/andrew-bird-performing-the-mysterious-production-of-eggs-on-livestream/
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Real Name Grover posted:Funny you should mention that:
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exquisite tea posted:I last saw Andrew Bird perform in 2012 or so, around the same time he was touring for Break It Yourself. The man plays the violin like it was an extension of his own body. I remembered feeling awestruck and at the same time tremendously sad that so much talent was bound up a single person. Yeah I saw him around then, or I guess before 2010 because I was like 16, at Radio City Music Hall and it’s really mind blowing. Like, not only can he play well as a solo violinist, but with a loop pedal he can be as lush as a symphony while also playing beautiful pizzicato stuff and on top of all that, he’s also a whistling virtuoso. I mean I’m serious, I’ve never heard anyone whistle as well as he does, and he does it while he plays violin. exquisite tea posted:I have respect for anyone who can play the violin well. It's an instrument that takes like 10 years of practice simply to not suck. This is also true, I took cello lessons briefly in high school before I realized that you need to be pretty rich to play any stringed instrument like that, but even though I was able to play very basic stuff, when I tried to play a single note on a violin it felt like it was impossible not to make horrible screeching noises. imhotep fucked around with this message at 00:14 on Sep 30, 2020 |
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This is his greatest song tbh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HmkLu24w2o Actually heard him do a few verses from this during an encore in maybe '07.
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That new Osees album is extremely good.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCp1781hrdY Also if we're talking builds - Antony and The Johnsons then including ANOHNI
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really loving the new Cults album, might even say top 3 of the year personally
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Agreed—new Cults is extremely good
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