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Mr Ice Cream Glove: Apr 22, 2007

https://mobile.twitter.com/nytimes/status/1217433783684730880

https://mobile.twitter.com/RollingStone/status/1217434282509119490

# ¿ Jan 15, 2020 15:30

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# ¿ May 9, 2024 01:14

Mr Ice Cream Glove: Apr 22, 2007

GHOSTS V: TOGETHER

01. LETTING GO WHILE HOLDING ON
02. TOGETHER
03. OUT IN THE OPEN
04. WITH FAITH
05. APART
06. YOUR TOUCH
07. HOPE WE CAN AGAIN
08. STILL RIGHT HERE

GHOSTS VI: LOCUSTS

01. THE CURSED CLOCK
02. AROUND EVERY CORNER
03. THE WORRIMENT WALTZ
04. RUN LIKE HELL
05. WHEN IT HAPPENS (DON'T MIND ME)
06. ANOTHER CRASHED CAR
07. TEMP FIX
08. TRUST FADES
09. A REALLY BAD NIGHT
10. YOUR NEW NORMAL
11. JUST BREATHE
12. RIGHT BEHIND YOU
13. TURN THIS OFF PLEASE
14. SO TIRED
15. ALMOST DAWN

# ¿ Mar 26, 2020 14:15

Mr Ice Cream Glove: Apr 22, 2007

I would love if Trent and Atticus did a Hans Zimmer type tour where they only played stuff from their soundtrack work

# ¿ Mar 29, 2020 06:09

Mr Ice Cream Glove: Apr 22, 2007

Oscar Wild posted:

https://twitter.com/kenjeong/status/1274805576711561217?s=19
Lol

Context: Footage of Trump returning to DC after his disaster of a rally

# ¿ Jun 21, 2020 23:26

Mr Ice Cream Glove: Apr 22, 2007

https://twitter.com/goldenglobes/status/1356968049518149632?s=20

# ¿ Feb 3, 2021 15:50

Mr Ice Cream Glove: Apr 22, 2007

Netflix has a documentary about the school admission scandal called Operation Varsity Blues and it is scored by Atticus Ross

# ¿ Apr 8, 2021 00:32

Mr Ice Cream Glove: Apr 22, 2007

It is criminal we have yet to get the soundtrack for Operation Varsity Blue.

# ¿ May 5, 2021 17:14

Mr Ice Cream Glove: Apr 22, 2007

This is 90s Trent

Holy poo poo

Also definitely listen to Max Payne 3 OST

# ¿ May 6, 2021 18:12

Mr Ice Cream Glove: Apr 22, 2007

Quote-Unquote posted:

I have the 5.1 mixes of TDS and WT plus the fan-made mixes of YZ and TS, and they're all so good.

I guess it's a pretty niche market though.

What fan remixes are these? I need to hear them

# ¿ May 15, 2021 11:22

Mr Ice Cream Glove: Apr 22, 2007

Vince MechMahon posted:

Get the Max Payne 3 score, it's the best thing they've done yet.

This, its also an incredible game too

# ¿ May 16, 2021 19:33

Mr Ice Cream Glove: Apr 22, 2007

The full lineup is crazy

# ¿ Jun 17, 2021 22:21

Mr Ice Cream Glove: Apr 22, 2007

Halsey does do metal well

https://youtu.be/VY2l7D-eR8w

# ¿ Jun 28, 2021 18:57

Mr Ice Cream Glove: Apr 22, 2007

Goddamn this will be a great album

Cover is amazing

:nws:

https://twitter.com/CapitolRecords/status/1412820686553243652?s=20

# ¿ Jul 7, 2021 22:22

Mr Ice Cream Glove: Apr 22, 2007

Sir Lemming posted:

Lol check out the cover on the Target version

https://www.target.com/p/halsey-if-...gt_adv_xasd0002

So is the baby hand going to be a sticker or...

Jesus christ

This is targets cover of new Lorde album

https://www.target.com/p/lorde-solar-power-target-exclusive-vinyl/-/A-83809913#lnk=sametab

# ¿ Jul 7, 2021 23:09

Mr Ice Cream Glove: Apr 22, 2007

Oh gently caress yes

https://twitter.com/HalseyUpdates/status/1418637056545275905?s=20

# ¿ Jul 24, 2021 02:35

Mr Ice Cream Glove: Apr 22, 2007

I am still upset we do not have a score for Operation Varsity Blues. It's such an amazing score.

# ¿ Jul 25, 2021 10:09

Mr Ice Cream Glove: Apr 22, 2007

hughesta posted:

I dont know why I thought that abbreviation stood for WITh Teeth

Same thought

# ¿ Aug 13, 2021 03:38

Mr Ice Cream Glove: Apr 22, 2007

https://twitter.com/HalseyUpdates/status/1426259513938698242?s=19

IICHLIWP Track Lengths

The Tradition (3:46)

Bells in Santa Fe 🅴 (3:38)

Easier than Lying (3:26)

Lilith 🅴 (2:47)

Girl is a Gun (2:27)

You asked for this 🅴 (4:26)

Darling (3:02)

1121 (2:43)

honey 🅴 (2:54)

Whispers 🅴 (3:12)

I am not a woman, I’m a god (2:56)

The Lighthouse (4:33)

Ya’aburnee (3:08)

Nightmare (reprise) no info yet

Unknown bonus track

Mr Ice Cream Glove fucked around with this message at 04:49 on Aug 15, 2021

# ¿ Aug 14, 2021 13:47

Mr Ice Cream Glove: Apr 22, 2007

Did not realize it was this soon but Halsey album drops next friday

# ¿ Aug 19, 2021 11:35

Mr Ice Cream Glove: Apr 22, 2007

Out now and its loving amazing to hear Original soundtrack

https://twitter.com/pcgamer/status/1428417518180438033?s=20

# ¿ Aug 20, 2021 04:51

Mr Ice Cream Glove: Apr 22, 2007

Can't loving wait for this

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/halsey-if-i-cant-have-love-i-want-power/

quote:

On the surface, Halsey’s latest album, If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power, fits this tradition of grand gestures. The singer, who uses she/they pronouns, is releasing the record alongside an IMAX film of the same name; there have been no singles, only increasingly gory, fantastical trailers and a theatrical unveiling of the album art at the Met. But the record itself has a tight, internal focus: It’s about walking the line between self-preservation and self-destruction, control and compulsion, the thrill and terror of getting what you want. Instead of sieving these themes through an elaborate architecture, Halsey lets horror—of the body, of the mind, of mortality—radiate outward. The result is alluring and spectral. It’s their best work yet.

Largely that’s because they sound so good: clear and cool and lilting. Nine Inch Nails members and film score mainstays Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross produced the record, and the pair seem eager to announce their unlikely place in pop music. On the opening tracks, they create a psychedelic Gothic fairytale—wisps of wind, icy piano, panoramic synth blur, a churning undercurrent listed in the credits as a “menacing beat”—while Halsey sings about loneliness and crowns and Judas (“Jesus needed a three-day weekend/To sort out all his bullshit”), but mostly about a pervasive sense of doom. “Don’t wait for me,” they cry over the chaos, “it’s not a happy ending.” Reznor and Ross spend most of the album experimenting, careening through genres and hinting at a danger that’s never fully realized. They cram songs with texture, reverberating screams and screeching sirens; the busyness can feel like a distraction.

The sound is sometimes abrasive, but rarely shocking. The rollicking “honey” oscillates between frenetic drums and guitar, with Dave Grohl behind the kit and a cyborg inflection that leaks in from hyperpop. “I’ve been corrupted,” Halsey sings on “Lilith,” and a spasm of glitch submerges the last note.If there’s an organizing framework to the album, it’s dissonance. Halsey wrote the album as they fell in love and navigated pregnancy; the writing zigzags between stability and self-sabotage. Every bit of sweetness is anchored in devastation. “Only you have shown me how to love being alive,” they hum on “Darling.” On “Ya’aburnee,” the delicate closing song and the conclusion to all this examination, they can only express commitment in the direst terms: “You will bury me before I bury you.”

With no features, the atmosphere of the album becomes unsettlingly claustrophobic. The effect is intoxicating on “Whispers,” where Halsey actualizes and criticizes their innermost thoughts. The premise might be hokey or campy from a lesser writer, but Halsey is so good at parsing their competing impulses, so brutal in their self-assessment: “This is the glimmer of light that you’re keeping alive when you tell yourself, ‘I bet I could gently caress him,’” they murmur. It’s a line that feels ripped from their first album, a further reiteration of what Halsey has been telling us since the beginning; though its sound is varied and its production heady, If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power rarely offers a new dimension. But for a pop star who has tried to write sweeping anthems about being young in today’s America, this is the song, and the album, that seems most likely to resonate: scrolling through a screen at night and surveying the wreckage, looking for a way to slow your own sacrifice.

Stereogum review

quote:

If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power is decidedly not a pop album, though it’s certainly a catchy one. If you know anything about the project, you know all 13 tracks were produced and co-written by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross — two-time Oscar-winning composers and the current core membership of Nine Inch Nails. The duo has turned loose their talents for aggression and foreboding on an exhilarating range of experiments, assisted by an array of noteworthy contributors who tease the sound of the album in wildly disparate directions. Halsey’s knack for melody ensures that these tracks are accessible even at their noisiest, and their shared vision with Reznor and Ross keeps the project centered even as it veers from idea to idea. Halsey stepped fully into the “alternative” identity they have always claimed, and the results are spectacularInstead, it marries its creators’ perspectives seamlessly and dynamically. Reznor’s presence comes through from the very beginning, when an extremely “Hurt”-esque piano part introduces “The Tradition.” Within seconds, Halsey brings their own signature flourishes to the mix — those sweet but biting, alternately forceful and fluttery vocals that have characterized their work since “Ghost,” those lyrics that serve up intense melodrama without flinching. “Oh the loneliest girl in town/ Is bought for pennies a price/ We dress her up in lovely gowns/ She’s easy on the eyes,” Halsey sings. “Her soul is black, and it’s a fact/ That her sneer will eat you alive/ The buyer always brings her back/ Because all she does is cry.”

Halsey wrote and recorded If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power while pregnant with their first child, a boy named Ender Ridley Aydin born last month. They have called it “a concept album about the joys and horrors of pregnancy and childbirth,” a reassertion of their own autonomy exploring “the dichotomy of the Madonna and the Whore. The idea that me as a sexual being and my body as a vessel and gift to my child are two concepts that can co-exist peacefully and powerfully.” As such, there are lines that could be directly sung to her baby and lines that could be about the life-altering experience of carrying a child, but also lyrics about romantic discord and sensual pursuits and general emotional tumult. It’s a dense text about complicated feelings, littered with hooky phrases to shout along with but leaving lots of room for interpretation. There’s room here for doting parental reflections like “Foolish men have tried, but only you have shown me how to love being alive” and for more carnal turns like “This is the glimmer of light that you’re keeping alive when you tell yourself, ‘I bet I could gently caress him.'”

Appropriately, the range of musical moods, tempos, and textures here is head-spinning. The Bug’s Kevin Martin laces “Bells In Santa Fe” with a tensely flickering pulse, like LCD Soundsystem’s “All My Friends” turned inside out. The breathlessly intense and cathartically angry “Easier Than Lying” is the kind of scorched-earth assault Reznor has always specialized in. “Lilith” recruits D’Angelo’s rhythm section, the veteran drummer Karriem Riggins and bassist Pino Palladino, for a spacious, swinging hip-hop groove shot through with blustery noise. (Bravo to the glitchy distortion applied to Halsey’s voice when they say “corrupted.”) On the stunning “Girl Is A Gun,” hyperactive programming by Meat Beat Manifesto’s Jack Dangers becomes a hall of mirrors for Halsey’s laser-beam vocals — think “Blue Monday” gone drum ‘n’ bass. A tidal wave of guitar distortion from TV On The Radio’s Dave Sitek carries the sarcastic lament “You Asked For This,” while just about everything but Lindsey Buckingham’s acoustic finger-picking disappears from the frame on the tender “My Darling.”

These songs all appear in a row in that order, and what a ride they amount to. The second half of the album is not quite so consistently surprising, but Halsey’s chemistry with Reznor and Ross continues to be potent. Plaintive piano, ominous synths, and aggro overdriven bass abound, assembled into configurations that keep the songs engaging even after the shock of the Halsey/NIN experiment has worn off. Dave Grohl shows up to drum on “Honey,” characteristically fervent but rather inconspicuous compared to, say, his work on Songs For The Deaf; it’s the closest thing to a pop-punk song here, but one that replaces the guitars with a wash of ethereal keyboard sounds. The self-consciously anthemic “I’m Not A Woman, I’m A God” comes closest to the sub-Purity Ring pastiche I had feared but ends up closer to “Closer” (the Nine Inch Nails “Closer,” I should specify, and not the Chainsmokers “Closer”). As the track rolls on, my wariness gives way to the symphony of flickering synths Reznor and Ross build around Halsey’s eminently quotable refrain.

should please Halsey fans and Nine Inch Nails fans alike, one that has me eager to see the NIN braintrust take on more projects like this. (I say this as someone who likes Jack Antonoff just fine: Imagine if Trent Reznor became the new Jack Antonoff.) When Reznor’s voice finally emerges in the distance at the end of “The Lighthouse,” it elicits a thrilling jolt of recognition. It might send you flashing back to any number of meditative NIN tracks across the span of decades, and it works as a nice bit of punctuation for this partnership. Yet Halsey so thoroughly commands the album’s sonic landscape that Reznor’s brief appearance is almost jarring, too, as if he’s breaking the fourth wall. Halsey made a point of not having any featured vocalists on this record, and they’ve made the most of that spotlight. I’d call If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power one of those statement albums that change the course of an artist’s career, except according to Halsey, this is where they’ve always been headed.

Mr Ice Cream Glove fucked around with this message at 12:43 on Aug 26, 2021

# ¿ Aug 26, 2021 05:04

Mr Ice Cream Glove: Apr 22, 2007

Nvm

Mr Ice Cream Glove fucked around with this message at 02:13 on Aug 28, 2021

# ¿ Aug 28, 2021 01:39

Mr Ice Cream Glove: Apr 22, 2007

NonzeroCircle posted:

I'm still waiting for a Halsey/Poppy collaboration

Poppy is one of best artists releasing music now

Such an incredible discography

# ¿ Oct 11, 2021 02:10

Mr Ice Cream Glove: Apr 22, 2007

Poppy and Health song is out

https://youtu.be/tlkdkQR2gUs

# ¿ Oct 21, 2021 08:32

Mr Ice Cream Glove: Apr 22, 2007

Nam Taf posted:

What a track holy heck

You should definitely listen to her albums

Flux
I Disagree
Music to Scream too

Her discography is flawless

# ¿ Oct 24, 2021 00:33

Mr Ice Cream Glove: Apr 22, 2007

So there is an incredible show on Netflix called Arcane and they had a great song from a band called Bones UK that reminds me of Health and turns out they did cover I'm Afraid of Americans

https://youtu.be/WjK6G-QrgNQ

Also this is song that got me hooked

https://youtu.be/w88d-uKh_Uw

# ¿ Dec 6, 2021 07:27

Mr Ice Cream Glove: Apr 22, 2007

Goooodamn

# ¿ Mar 9, 2022 18:24

Mr Ice Cream Glove: Apr 22, 2007

https://twitter.com/RollingStone/status/1511741326232068101?s=20&t=PcS0TFY6ISZGRzIlcWRxjw

# ¿ Apr 6, 2022 21:09

Mr Ice Cream Glove: Apr 22, 2007

New demo of I'm Afraid of Americans

https://www.davidbowienews.com/2022...ptvTrVveP5CSy08

# ¿ Apr 27, 2022 21:54

Mr Ice Cream Glove: Apr 22, 2007

Today is big day!

The last concert they did was December 15 2018

Edit: fixed date

Mr Ice Cream Glove fucked around with this message at 15:11 on Apr 28, 2022

# ¿ Apr 28, 2022 14:34

Mr Ice Cream Glove: Apr 22, 2007

NuclearPotato posted:

The last concert NIN did was 2018, actually: https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/nine-inch-nails/2018/hollywood-palladium-los-angeles-ca-339494cd.html

Regardless, excited to see what they're planning to pull out tonight, setlist-wise.

Oops fixed!

# ¿ Apr 28, 2022 15:11

Mr Ice Cream Glove: Apr 22, 2007

So on discord they uploaded 2 snippet vids from rehearsal/sound check

Every Day Is Exactly The Same
And All That Could have been

Concert has started!

Opening song:
Somewhat Damaged

Spoilers thread

https://twitter.com/tricil/status/1519784550070726657?t=jM7WUTWkqiZ-JM904Gh8sA&s=19

Mr Ice Cream Glove fucked around with this message at 01:43 on Apr 29, 2022

# ¿ Apr 29, 2022 01:20