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thrilla in vanilla posted:Pitchforks Lana del Rey review is out and it’s incredible. Who knew Lana was the most important person In American history? Approaching Kid A review levels of prose madness Uh, yeah, that's an intense review for something they only gave a 7.5 https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/lana-del-rey-chemtrails-over-the-country-club/
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Ratios and Tendency posted:Why would anyone care what pitchfork thinks They used to be a great source for great upcoming indie groups. At some point they got very self conscious about being labeled pretentious hipsters (which who cares), and decided they would go in the opposite direction and try and stan pop music. Now they're pretty unreliable, and they're just as likely to declare the latest Justin Bieber album of the year as they once were to declare the same for Sufjan Stevens.
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Katana_Warrior posted:it totally passed me by, but Tokyo Police Club's Champ turned 10 last year and more than ever I'm feeling too aware of the flows of time Wasn't it these guys where one of the band members used to regularly post here back in the day?
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Mar 23, 2021 03:13
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The Walrus posted:I just.. it's such a bad band name. I really hate it. They're good though. I enjoyed them enough, but at one point last year Spotify decided to only recommend sad girl indie rock to me, and 2020 was not the year to only listen to sad girl indie rock. I started to dread every time Soccer Mommy came up on random shuffle, and I had to hop on Spotify to skip it as fast as possible. I asked this thread last year for new rock recommendations to get out of the glut of sad girl indie rock, and I seem to remember that I mostly got recommendations for punk bands, which isn't really my jam. Might as well ask again. Anyone have any recommendations for fun bands with the energy and sound of Broken Social Scene or New Pornographers? It seems like sad girl indie rock is the only thing that is making waves in the indie rock scene these days, and it's hard to find anything else worth listening to. I did finally jump on the Tame Impala train lately, about a decade late.
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I put Destroyer on one of my favorites list for last year. I'll check out Sunset Rubdown though! Thanks!
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Mar 25, 2021 15:49
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Ok, I just got off a work call and put on Sunset Rubdown. Immediately recognize the lead singer's voice from Wolf Parade.Cloks posted:Parquet Courts, Ezra Furman I remember hearing of Parquet Courts, I think a friend likes them. Haven't heard of Ezra, I'll check them out. Gone Fashing posted:also not really super similar to bss or new pornographers but one of my other favorite mid aughts pitchfork indie rock bands is okkervil river. the stage names is my favorite album Oh yeah, I remember them from like 2008.
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Mar 25, 2021 16:10
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abraham linksys posted:ezra furman's my favorite active rock artist and i'll always take an opportunity to dump a bunch of my favorite vids. didn't love their newest album as much, but day of the dog, perpetual motion people, and transangelic exodus are absolute classics Thanks. I just listened to their latest album and wasn't super into it, but I'll check out the rest. I'm also relieved I didn't accidentally misgender them above.
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Mar 25, 2021 18:50
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abraham linksys posted:they also contributed enough songs to a netflix show that they made a soundtrack album that doubles as a best-of-with-bonus-songs, if that helps at all I saw that. One song came up and it sounded super familiar then I realized it was an LCD Soundsystem cover.
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:Did I miss something? There was a debate a few pages back about how they're supposedly alt-right weirdos who are friends with the founder of the proud boys. Or maybe not. I forgot what the outcome of the conversation was.
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Mar 26, 2021 14:28
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:Oh poo poo, sorry I did not see that I don't remember the exact details, I seem to remember there was some pushback that they have disavowed any connection to the guy. Somebody better informed than me can speak on that. And I think everyone is able to choose for themselves if they are able separate an artist from the art.
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Mar 26, 2021 15:09
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T Bowl posted:The pitchfork review and now this... Hah. I still don't get the appeal of her.
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I don't want to disregard your post, since it was likely inspired by my ambivalence about her. I understand how you feel, I'm the same way about Sufjan, and pretty much everyone in my life scratches their heads at my interest in him. Because of you, I promise I will listen to Honeymoon all the way through tomorrow during work.
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Nihonniboku posted:I don't want to disregard your post, since it was likely inspired by my ambivalence about her. I understand how you feel, I'm the same way about Sufjan, and pretty much everyone in my life scratches their heads at my interest in him. Because of you, I promise I will listen to Honeymoon all the way through tomorrow during work. Okay, I did it, I listened to Honeymoon all the way through. I'm sorry, I just didn't find it appealing in any sense. I guess she's just not for me! BonoMan posted:London Grammar is the better LDR anyway. Listen to them! I'll put them on right now. Need to get through some of these other recommendations people gave me last week.
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Mar 29, 2021 16:42
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gently caress, I haven't listened to My Bloody Valentine in ages. That's on my schedule for tomorrow. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fH0NQzXlzyQ
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Mar 30, 2021 03:43
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Menneskekollektivet by Lost Girls is an insane experience. I haven't enjoyed an album by a new artist on a first listen as much as I have just now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ah7o9sxpHk
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Mar 30, 2021 16:34
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Sufjan Stevens has announced his latest album, Convocations, out May 6th. A 2.5 hour long, 49 track, instrumental album, a reflection on a year of anxiety, uncertainty, isolation, and loss. 5 vinyl records. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_GeokTnTkk Given that we just got an album out of him in September, I figured this would be a bonkers side project (although his label is insisting it's not a side project). Turns out I was right.
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Apr 6, 2021 15:53
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Franchescanado posted:His weakest releases for me have been Sisyphus or Planetarium, which were both okay. All of his solo career stuff just needs some time to grow on me. I loved Ascension. I actually secretly love Sisyphus. I just love that Sufjan is in a rap group where they sing songs about the Octomom. Katana_Warrior posted:I will never listen to a 2.5 hour long album, not even for Sufjan. Sorry If it helps, each disc is apparently thematically differently and being released separately. But yeah, this will probably be more like Aporia or Planetarium where I listen to it a few times and don't return to it. The only instrumental Sufjan album that I like all the way through is The BQE, which is thrilling.
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Apr 6, 2021 19:47
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Kramdar posted:I got the bandcamp announcement for the Sufjan album, but just deleted it. After hearing it's 49 tracks, I clicked over to the page and they only let you preview one 2-minute track! Is this his NIN Ghosts phase? It looks like over the next month they are having listening parties once a week for each disc, and release a single a week. Then with the full reveal on May 6th. They're really making this an event.
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Apr 6, 2021 20:57
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Chamberk posted:studio Majesty Snowbird when Seriously. It's one of the best songs he's ever done. What's his hang up with it? I know he wrote it when he was suffering pretty bad from an autoimmune disease, but he released Tonya Harding after having worked on it off and on since he was a teenager.
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DC Murderverse posted:Lol everyone pretending that lyricism didn’t peak with “my pussy takes like Pepsi cola” all of the above
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Apr 8, 2021 20:25
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ivpq4VDFC1I The first part of five of Sufjan's new album is livestreaming on youtube. It's also available on Spotify. It's definitely ambient music. I won't be putting it on during parties, but maybe if I'm looking to relax or something.
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Apr 8, 2021 22:53
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abraham linksys posted:as opposed to all those Sufjan Stevens albums There are definitely some more upbeat songs that I would play at a party. Impossible Soul, I Want to Be Well, Too Much, Djohariah, the live version of Fourth of July
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Apr 8, 2021 23:17
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Venomous posted:isn't Impossible Soul 26 minutes long? Not sure why anyone would put that on at a party It would be the best party.
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Apr 9, 2021 03:07
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Godzilla07 posted:I wasn't really feeling the new St. Vincent songs until I heard them live. They sound so much better with the over-production and excessively warm sound signature stripped out. Hopefully she does a tour for this album. Her last tour was terrible. She decided to tour without a band, and she performed on stage to backing tracks. It was incredibly awkward and I was extremely disappointed, despite being a huge fan. I can't believe she didn't nix the whole thing after the first couple of shows.
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Apr 12, 2021 01:33
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Huh I thought I was the only one who only liked some Radiohead albums. OK Computer, Kid A and In Rainbows are fantastic. King of Limbs and A Moon Shaped Pool are atrocious. The rest are just okay.
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The new St Vincent is out today. I'm generally a big fan, even if her last tour absolutely sucked for playing to a backing track and not touring with a band, and barely moving on stage. The new album is just okay so far. None of the singles released really blew me away, and listening to them now in the context of the whole album, they all sound a little too alike. It's like she found one song from the early 70s that she wanted to find inspiration from, and said, yes, I want the entire album to sound like this specific song, no variety. Also, still a little weirded out by how she's marketing the album as a celebration of her father coming home from prison for doing white collar crime. It'd be one thing if it was just her being happy that he's home, but given that she is actually marketing it about that, she is surprisingly defensive when asked about it in interviews so far, and seems like she thinks the fact that he was sent to prison for so long was silly.
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Sufjan Stevens has officially announced a new album, A Beginner's Mind, a collaboration with Angelo De Augustine. I've never heard of Angelo, but apparently he's a folk artist on Sufjan's label, Asthmatic Kitty Records. The album is out September 24th, with preorders up now. The first two tracks are gorgeous, and seem more in line with the kind of stuff we got with Seven Swans and Carrie & Lowell, just not as depressing (although I haven't really listened to the lyrics yet, so maybe they're still about death). This will mark Sufjan's 4th release in just 18 months. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltH3rI-G4n8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9ymTg1V40A
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I tried listening to that Spelling album. Holy poo poo that bad, her voice is incredibly grating. I couldn't get more than 3 songs in before I had to turn it off.
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Gone Fashing posted:after the first song her voice seems fine. you ever listen to joanna newsom Haha, I do. Fair point.
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T Bowl posted:This one for some reason made me think of Menomena too, apparently they are still a band but have done nothing in nearly a decade.... I miss Menomena. If I remember correctly, I seem to remember reading that the three guys in the band, Brent, Justin, and Danny apparently never really fully got on all too well, and wrote each of their songs completely independently of each other, and only came together to record and perform them. Brent left the band in 2011, and in 2012 Justin and Danny released the band's last album, Moms. All 3 are busy with other projects. I tried listening to their other bands, including Ramona Falls, but none of them were nearly as good as Menomena.
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Well, apparently Ed Droste left Grizzly Bear last year. That's devastating. Yellow House is getting a new pressing on vinyl later this year. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJpC9JqSnJk
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T Bowl posted:When I dug a little deeper too apparently when he was interviewed when they were touring Europe he was saying that the money returns just weren't good enough and they were almost breaking even with their tour to Europe with all the costs involved. Which is crazy to me because when I saw them at the 930 Club, I'm pretty sure it was two sold out nights, and then when I saw them at The Anthem, an even bigger venue, I'm pretty sure it was sold out there as well. T Bowl posted:So now the band is essentially defunct but there has never been any public announcement and the three other guys are all working on solo stuff. Yeah, I saw that Chris Bear is finishing up a solo project.
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Thom and the Heads posted:Scored some tickets to the Phoebe Bridgers tour in September! Ticketmaster sucks! Yeah, I haven't been to a concert in a couple of reasons for obvious reasons, and I picked up tickets for Japanese Breakfast. I normally see shows at venues that don't use ticketmaster, so it's been a while. It's amazing how a $35 ticket will suddenly cost $60 for no reason at all. At least they have an option now to see what the price will be with all their extra fees before you go to checkout. They were still trying to get me to buy extra things. $10 for coat check. $20 for early entry to the venue. $30 for access to a special lounge. Not VIP or backstage, just "special." Wanting to help out a struggling business during a pandemic like ticketmaster, of course I paid for all of them.
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Twin Cinema posted:Can you believe that I bought tickets to see one of the two shows the New Pornographers are playing with their full band? The few times I've seen them live it was always with Neko, but I'm not sure who else might have been missing.
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bows1 posted:New Sufjan is really good, and more straightforward song structure that really works. Yeah, I'm an absolutely huge Sufjan fan, but when they announced his next project would be a folk album collaboration with a folk artist I've never heard of, I wasn't exactly excited. After The Ascension, I was hoping to see Sufjan go in an edgier tone again, and Sufjan is a perfect baby angel who doesn't need anyone's help writing music. But I've been very happy with everything they've shown off so far.
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DasNeonLicht posted:I want to say this combination is unhinged? Thanks, that was an absolute delight. The song didn't exactly hook me, but I'm a huge fan of But I'm a Cheerleader, and I recognized several people in the video from twitter.
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It's a national holiday, Sufjan has dropped his latest record, A Beginner's Mind
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Henchman of Santa posted:I bought Mannequin Pussy tickets a few months ago for what would be my first show back as the pandemic waned. While that turned out to be a bad guess, it’s a vaccination only venue and we have a mask mandate here, so it still felt like a pretty safe choice, and I was excited to go tonight. Except it turns out the show was 10 days ago and I am stupid. I saw them open for Japanese Breakfast, and my friends and I afterwards had to ask, was the show REALLY good, or was the audience just super hyped about being at a concert for the first time in two years.
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Age of Adz by Sufjan Stevens came out 11 years ago today. I know most people prefer his folkier albums like Illinois or Carrie and Lowell, but I think its his magnum opus. I can't think of a single other musician who moves in and out of different genres of music so freely and easily, and does it (mostly) so well.
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