Carly Rae Jepsen • The Loneliest Time

THE LONELIEST TIME 💌 Oct 21. I’m quite fascinated by loneliness. It can be really beautiful when you turn it over and look at it. Just like love, it can cause some extreme human reactions.

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— Carly Rae Jepsen (@carlyraejepsen) August 2, 2022

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QUEEN OF PARENTAL ADVISORIES

Holy shit

personally I think loneliness is really fucking boring but I hope she can change my mind

Bullion + Jepsen is a fantasy come true and I have the highest hopes for this

i'm very excited, personally i love loneliness and i can't think of anyone i'd rather hear sing about it.

I'm also excited to hear what she does with Bullion

Is that some kinda cryptocurrency thing?

here for CRJ's version of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ow8cLdgJ5LE

personally I think loneliness is really fucking boring

If you're not lounging in chiffon with bejeweled fruit, you've been doing loneliness all wrong.

Is that some kinda cryptocurrency thing?

Close... Elon Musk's latest child

I already regret invoking his name on what should have been a celebratory thread

Mods plz dlt user

Oh God I just realized I misspelled her name in the thread title!!!

mod fix plz?

Karl Ray Jetson

Kenley Ray Jepsen

Curly Joe Jackson

Carly Ray Vaughan

well the new single "beach house" is quite the pivot from "western wind". just about stays on the right side of quirky i think. insanely sticky chorus - it's giving aqua

i wish she didn't give the quirkiest lines to some random men, i think she'd sell "i've got a lake house in canada and i'm probably gonna harvest your organs" a lot better!

hmm this is mediocre

Where are y'all located? It's not out in US Eastern yet :(

I thought "Western Wind" was hinting that the album was going in a more chill direction, but now this one... Aqua is a good comparison. Catchy but pretty lightweight

I'll be honest, my expectations were lowered once I saw the album art. Haven't heard Beach House yet, and I'm still unenthused by Western Wind, so I'm holding a wait-and-see position.

Yeah, I'm not sure about this one. Weird to hear her come out with such a weak chorus.

i'd take "good time" over "beach house" really

was expecting a lot worse based on the reaction to it

heh it's actually worse than I was expecting

the more i listen the more i hate it

Three times was my limit. Fortunately I doubt I'm in any danger of ever hearing this in the wild, so I may never hear it again.

Aqua is a good comparison

You have my attention.

Can’t see the Aqua comparison. Sounds like a decent but not great CRJ track.

there's a plastic, uber-catchy, 90s europop vibe to the chorus that reminded me of something like aqua

Oh it def reminds me of them, the europop vibe. Also male/female vocals with quirky lyrics

She comes out with bad songs sometimes. Party for One was a rough introduction to the Dedicated era for me. I was very relieved when it didn't actually end up on the record. I liked Cut to the Feeling at first but it really is just a chorus, isn't it? Let's Be Friends had that stupid dick joke/laugh in the middle. What were you thinking, Ms. Jensen?

Anyway, I don't think this is one of her bad ones! It definitely sounds musically out of character as far as her past few records. It's not like, sophisticated Carly. But I think it's a fun, funny song. If I have a criticism of it, it's that at 2:30 it gets in and out too quickly, much like the 2:41 Want You In My Room from Dedicated. I really think it could have used one more verse about boys number 5 and 8 or something. I really like the guy background singers on the chorus and bridge. So yeah, I'm on Team Beach House.

her worst song is that one christmas song she put out, just the pits

or let’s be friends, which i had completely forgotten about

Thought you meant her cover of "Last Christmas", Brad, until I looked it up. The lyrics of "It's Not Christmas Til Someone Cries" have put me off wanting to hear the song

I'm not even a scrooge about Christmas music, but yeah, It's Not Christmas Til Somebody Cries is a stinker.

all of these terrible songs are on streaming and yet utter jam “me and the boys in the band” still isn’t, it’s a cruel world

love the lyric of the new one but do not enjoy it musically, it made me think of jessie j and typing this sentence has made me depressed

cut to me in october saying “beach house sorta works in context” lol

lol

don't even hate the song as much as some of you but if the song works in context, then i'd be worried about the album

This sounds more like Black Eyed Peas than Aqua and it sucks.

Hope Western Wind is a better indication of what the album sounds like.

xp Well, the next track is about what gets done with those organs

Listening again and it’s worse than Black Eyed Peas. It sounds like a DNCE song.

This is giving me deja vu to the time Taylor Swift released ME! as the lead single for Lover
(Beach House is better than that, but I was hoping for more of a Warm Blood vibe for this album)

That was disappointing. It doesn't flow - the chorus grinds to a halt with "I'm probably going to hurt your feelings" and then the song seems to start again. It's just irritatingly stop-start. The middle eight doesn't work. It has surprisingly little Carly Rae Jepsen in it.

I enjoyed "I Want You In My Room" because it flowed well, it had some clever chords, and the production was retro without being overpowering. The chorus was like a one-two punch - it came in two parts, with the second part acting like a bonus chorus, a pleasant surprise. In contrast "Beach House" has a weak single-part chorus that just brings the song to a halt.

It has nothing to do with Aqua. It's not in the same league as Aqua. Aqua was genius. You, "Beach House", are no Aqua. If anything this song reminded me of how well-written "Happy Boys and Girls" was. To this day I still can't tell if the melancholic undercurrent running through that song was deliberate was real or exists only inside my head.

I still have faith in Carly Rae Jepsen but I fear she has been led astray. I'm not suggesting she should be kidnapped and forced to work with Mark Ronson. Kidnapped is such a loaded word. Enticed, with cheese.

brad otm about it sounding like jessie j lol

New article.

https://crackmagazine.net/article/profiles/carly-rae-jepsen-new-album-the-loneliest-time-western-wind-beach-house-cover-story/

Despite the more maudlin theme, The Loneliest Time is wide-ranging. While her 2015 hit album Emotion was embedded in 80s synth-pop and its polished follow-up Dedicated mainly took its influence from sultry 70s disco, lately Jepsen has been less conscious of the decades she’s been moving between. “I had the playground of all the eras to jump from, and this was more just writing from the heart, in whatever direction the songs wanted to go,” she explains of the new album. She was also more intentional about the lyrical content not just being about a boy or nursing a crush. Instead, she became more self-reflective and analytical of her own behaviours. “It excited me to have those moments of flirtation on the new album, but also broaden the spectrum of what the subject of a pop song was allowed to be,” she declares.

The Loneliest Time sees the pop star breaking the mould again. Jepsen’s insatiable curiosity is what’s helped her remain a creative force, and on this record, that meant mixing the wistful 80s pop of Belinda Carlisle with horn-flanked funk numbers and victorious disco jaunts. But it was also important for her to not be seen as one-dimensional. For instance, recent single Beach House is the antithesis of the soothing ambience of Western Wind. One of the singer’s most playful tracks, it’s a campy pop anthem that finds Jepsen and her bandmates larping as boys going on bad dates. “This is a song for the girls!” she asserts with a wide grin. It also features some of her most absurd lyrics. “It was the shortest straw-pull for who had to sing, ‘I’ve got a lake house in Canada, I’m going to come harvest your organs,’” she snickers about the song’s lyrics. But while the track veers toward being lighthearted, there are harsh realities within it. “I wanted to highlight that feeling when you’re disenchanted after being on a dating app for a hot minute to be like, ‘That guy’s just going to… he’s going to wreck me.’”

The video has sold the song to me a bit more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLvVbazi0B4

Listening to it again I often wonder what it was like for OG Gary Numan fans circa 1982 or so. I wasn't turned on to Gary Numan's vibe until the late 1990s, just when he finally got his mojo back, but from essentially 1981 until the one-two punch of Sacrifice in 1994 and Exile in 1997 he was a nobody. I have the impression that by the late 1980s his OG fans had moved on, but there was a period post-Telekon when he was in theory a major pop star, albeit only in the UK, but with an increasingly limited mainstream appeal.

And yet his fans stuck with him, because they could remember the first time they saw "Are Friends Electric" on the Old Grey Whistle Test or whatever. They could remember how it made them feel and they wanted to recapture that. Just like the first time I had a Dragonflight and a click frenzy in Cookie Clicker. I will never recapture that feeling, but I remember that I had it. I remember what it was like. I eventually found out I could maximise my clicks by sacrificing grandmas, but it didn't feel the same.

I came to the Carly Rae Jepsen music machine much later in life, but I clearly remember the point in time when it dawned on me that "Call Me Maybe" was one of the greatest pop songs of the early twenty-first century, alongside Death Grips' "I've Seen Footage". I remember exactly where I was. The surroundings. The thing is that while Gary Numan had some good tracks on I, Assassin and even Warriors he then settled into a rut where each album had one good single, one good b-side, and lots of filler, and that's the feeling I have with this new song. It's like "I Still Remember" or "My World Storm" or something.

The video is delightful. I didn't think much of the song as a song, but as a comedy sketch it's great.

Sorry but I don’t think Carly has it in her to make as many godawful album covers as Numan, which if you ask me was half the experience

Ok, music video is great. Almost makes me like the song.

I didn't think much of the song as a song, but as a comedy sketch it's great.

The Lonely Island Effect!

New song “Talking To Yourself” sounds like something from Kiss? It’s good but I’m starting to think “Western Wind” was a giant red herring.

it's so much better than the other two, very kiss yeah

oh my GOD

all of the interviews i've read with crj around this record suggest she didn't drift toward any one sound with this record, there's apparently a real range, of which "beach house" and "western wind" represent the poles

"talking to yourself" has plunged me in a perfectly-synesthetically-recreated sense memory of 2012 when i was depressed and listening to crj's kiss daily, this should be horrible but for whatever reason i am really enjoying timecrushed "th1s k1ss 2.0" complete with wormhole-dilated crj vocal fx

FINALLY a good song

i sure hope "western wind" and "beach house" are both outliers

New song “Talking To Yourself” sounds like something from Kiss?

Doesn't sound much like Kiss to me. Maybe a little like their disco phase?

This new song is amazing, can't wait for the album

I can't tell if Keyes is joking or not.

i sure hope "western wind" and "beach house" are both outliers

same here, not feeling these singles at all sadly..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwZjjiD8eoE

lol i really do not like the way their voices go together, but the track is fine otherwise

v classy like "julien," love it

the coda ("and in the morning...") is fucking amazing basically

"bends" ;_;

Good song, this album is going to be great.

this is very solid, i like the generally chill vibe. the only thing i don't like is "beach house". "western wind" was an odd single but works better in context of the album's vibe. "bends" and "bad thing twice" are especially great

"keep away"!!!!!

this album settles into such a gorgeous, relaxed groove from "bends" onwards

big fan of this record even though it is obv her most varied offering yet. simultaneously it's also the one that hits the most yacht rock/sophistipop notes in a row tho

yeah the sophisti- vibes on this are wonderful

Where/how is this album already available?

it leaked so soulseek or wherever else

wtf I love "Beach House" now

It really fits as part of that opening run of sub-3-minute songs

it kind of fits with the vibe but not really, easily the worst thing on here

last time I tried to find an early leak of one of her albums I downloaded a false-labelled hour of a man shouting "I am Carly Rae Jepsen I like to sing the songs" so the bar for me trying to find this is quite low

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I LIKE THE MOON AND THE MAGIC OF THIS
OH I OH I I I I

last time I tried to find an early leak of one of her albums I downloaded a false-labelled hour of a man shouting "I am Carly Rae Jepsen I like to sing the songs" so the bar for me trying to find this is quite low

― boxedjoy,

I would pay for this.

"shooting star" has me completely delirious

there are so many amazing outros on this album

"bad thing twice" => "shooting star" => "go find yourself or whatever" => "the loneliest time" is cinema

Was alerted to this by sample of video with Rufus Wainwright that will appear in full tomorrow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sy0A0pQmGPM

wonderful video imo

and in the morning
sun hits the water
is this nirvana?

wonderful video imo

and in the morning
sun hits the water
is this nirvana?

Is this some kind of sly tribute to Rufus and Carla Thomas?

The early singles work really well in the context of the album. Loving the sophisti-pop vibes on a few of these tracks. On my second run through now and it's hitting the spot.

Far Away is great. Love the Scritti Politti-esque synth bassline in the chorus.

Ok so Beach House still misses. But Western Wind does work much better in the album context. Still not a great single, but it adds some nice mid-album atmosphere.

The last two singles (Talking to Yourself, Three Loneliest Time) both slay on the record.

Lol the*

Are y'all too busy listening to Taylor?

This album is really good, much better than Dedicated. Much more variety.

It's late in America, tomorrow is going to be a fun day. Can't wait to hear this.

it leaked like two weeks ago so there's a million other things to hear today. i think it's a little worse than dedicated just for "beach house" but still pretty good overall

Fair enough. And yeah Beach House isn't great...

Far Away being good seconded!

Jesus, I somehow hadn't heard Western Wind until now

Works so well in context!

I think the only track which hasn't really convinced me yet is the opener, weirdly, cos people seem to love that one

WW rules i don't know what the naysayers are on about

Beach House though, that had me worried

Look forward to sitting down with the whole thing

this record is just so fucking great

world stops and the autumn leaves freeze in time mid-fall for the entirety of "western wind" every time i play it

sheesh maybe this is her best album

I like this album. Also I like "Beach House," it's her most convincing disco track.

This album is fun

Beach House isn't great, I find it cringey, both lyrically and musically.

The title track is a way better disco bop, after she yells: "I'm coming back for you!" Iconic moment. Then those disco strings!

Talking to Yourself is def the best single from the bunch imo.

"beach house" feels like its knowingly cringey, which makes it...camp?

Technically I think it's knowingly camp, which makes it ironic. I don't know, it's a goofy song, hard to hate. She's kind of goofy! That's what charmed me about her live show, she's got kind of a shtick going.

And I agree, the title track is her best disco. But Beach House is fun too.

Bends is driving me crazy because I'm certain the melody of the verse is basically the same as a Momus song, but I can't figure out which one. I think I might be thinking of Voyager, but I'm not really sure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqKDUXp2gDk

Almost certainly a coincidence, just too weird to imagine Jepsen listening to Momus of all people.

Anyway, this album rules, can't stop listening to it.

This album is good, not great. I think it may be a grower. Beach House does kinda suck and take you out of it, I do wish it wasn’t there. Nothing really sticks out, which is a shame, she has had some great star making moments and this seems to lack a “Too much” or “Boy Problems”. It’s a nice pop star “growing up” record though, like Taylor has been doing for a while.

On a first listen I love this album. The back half I think really nails that convalescent feeling of coming out of a long isolation, the emotional neediness of it, that mix of joy and gratitude and fragility and a sense that the good things may not last. "Bends" into "Western Wind" is perfect.

Can't wait to listen to this in full. She was amazing last night in Berkeley

Did she play songs from the album? I've been wondering about her setlists, since she started touring before the album was out.

she's playing a bunch of the new album on this tour yes

ooh bullion co-produced/wrote "bends" and "far away"

After one listen, I definitely like The Loneliest Time more than Dedicated, which never really hooked me apart from a couple songs. we'll see how it compares to EMOTION after a few more listens. "Beach House" still sounds out of left field tho, not sure I'll ever really like that song

"shooting star" reminds me of the last kylie album, i really like it but wish it rode out the coda more

just like with EMOTION, the bonus tracks are amazing. "Anxious" might be better than anything on the album

I didn’t realise that was a bonus track, seems odd not to be part of the album to me.

I guess thinking back it’s a classic CRJ move, see “Drive”

Heh, I similarly wasn't aware the EMOTION bonus tracks were bonus tracks when I first heard it. I just thought it was a very long, very good album

I wish the whole album was co-written by Bullion. Far-away and Bends are great. I want more of that.

Bends to Western Wind is indeed a perfect combo.

Xxxpost: maybe CRJ doesn’t know Momus but Bullion might.

i don't think "bends" is ripping "voyager" at least

lol at some point it came out that haim co-wrote "making the most of the night" under a pseudonym and i never knew until now?

I finally listened to the song "The Loneliest Time." It sounds like it's going for an Olivia Newton John vibe.

Not hearing Momus per se but it does sounds like german electropop from early 00’s - backing track at least - something like Barbara Morgenstern, Lali Puna, isan… stuff like that.

"the loneliest time" is excellent. that and "western wind" outclass everything else on here.

the rest is fine, but those are just excellent!

lol at some point it came out that haim co-wrote "making the most of the night" under a pseudonym and i never knew until now?

Huh I never knew that either. When I heard Sia's version of it, it made perfect sense that she co-wrote - it's a very Sia melody. I'm not sure what part Haim wrote, but the chorus has the quick pace of some of their songs

Add my name to the list of ilxors who love "Western Wind". Suggests an alternate universe where she collaborated on an album with Benoit and Sergio.

Don't get the hate for "Beach House"! If No Doubt got back together and released it I'd love it. And I love it this way too

'western wind' definitely one of my songs of the year.

Might be just the pop duet thing but Loneliest Time is giving me vibes of Annie/Jake Shears on Neon Lights

Okay, late to hearing this, but it really is terrific, especially the back half. Damn. Cut "Beach House" and it comes within swinging distance of flawless, imho. Absolutely love "Western Wind", "Go Find" and "The Loneliest Time" in particular.

another beach house hater wtf

and he's probably gonna hurt your feelings

It’s not that it’s terrible, it sticks out too much.

I don't hate it, it's just not great and sticks out like a sore thumb, ruining the flow.

i can sense your hate, don't lie

"Beach House" was a real crowd-pleaser live by the way, a fun moment in the show

Being a good live-show tune is definitely what I feel the intention behind Beach House is.

I genuinely don't hate it, I would like it more as a standalone single that works great live and shows up on her inevitably killer singles comp. It just takes me out of the album's otherwise great vibe.

It’s not that it’s terrible, it sticks out too much.

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, November 16, 2022 8:28 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

When I stick out, then I stick out too much.

The sequencing on this album is a thing of beauty. I mentioned Bends into Western Wind, but also love Go Find Yourself or Whatever into The Loneliest Time. Bc The Loneliest Time, on its own, is poised on this knife-edge between genuine hope and false hope: it could be a love story, or it could just be the kind of self-deluding fantasy you spin when you're lonely and starting to think it's a good idea to call up your ex. But Go Find Yourself or Whatever is so clearly about being able to hold reality and false hope in your mind at the same time: "Tell me that we'll meet up someday/I'll tell you that I'm no good at tellin' lies," but also, simultaneously, "and I'll wait for you." So that when The Loneliest Time starts after that final "I'll wait for you," the balance tips just slightly in the direction of fantasy: this vision of reuniting, loneliness ended, everything back the way it was and the sun on the water in the morning, it's beautiful but it isn't real.

that's so sweet

came by just to say it's clear to me now this is her best work yet. It mightn't even be close.

"bends" is really so good i hope she does a full album with bullion next

Ohh that's Bullion producing? Maybe I knew and forgot. The song is great, yes. Doesn't seem her style to do a whole album with one producer, but I do hope they work together again

"keep away" really should have been on the album instead of beach house

New song! So, so good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9SchUO-Qr8

Full Glastonbury show will be shown live on the BBC coverage tonight.

Correction, today at 15.45 BST apparently

Great single ^ When it got to the interpolation of Midas Touch my mind exploded.

Love it when the artist looks like they're having an absolute blast, which she clearly is

I mean, how is she not an absolutely massive pop star?

US chart preview (sales only) - debut: @carlyraejepsen 12-15k.

― james brooks, Saturday, August 22, 2015 6:55 PM (seven years ago) bookmarkflaglink

oh man, that's not good.

― how's life, Saturday, August 22, 2015 7:36 PM (seven years ago) bookmarkflaglink

wow

― johnny crunch, Saturday, August 22, 2015 7:38 PM (seven years ago) bookmarkflaglink

lol who is surprised by those numbers

― mods = chickenshit idiots (D-40), Saturday, August 22, 2015 8:00 PM (seven years ago) bookmarkflaglink

l-r me, D-40
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this is better than anything on Loneliest Time

no it’s not

I’m not sure I would say better, but it is definitely more immediate. Hope it does well.

it's decent but quite a different vibe for her. definitely not better than anything on the last album but there's tracks i would take it over, sure. presumably some sort of loneliest time side b is on its way?

I like it a lot and - presumably because it's produced by James Ford - I can totally imagine Jessie Ware singing it.

My understanding is that there won't be a full-length side B this time but just an EP of about 5 tracks in length.

And yes she's established herself as a pretty reliably excellent live experience. I saw her again a few months ago and it was just relentless joy and ebullience from beginning to end.

this is better than anything on Loneliest Time

― Murgatroid, Monday, June 26, 2023 12:59 PM (eight hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

I agree with you. I didn't really talk much about Loneliest Time after it came out, but I listened to it about 3 times and then shelved it. This is something I could spin over and over again.

^ this

she's announced the loneliest time outtakes project the loveliest time is out early august, no details on whether it's an album or ep, but rumours are that it's an ep

12 track album, let's go

The Loveliest Time. July 28th.
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— Carly Rae Jepsen (@carlyraejepsen) July 12, 2023

oooooooooooooo!

Lovely.

the first track on this is kinda reminiscent of "1 thing" but chiller? jazzier? she's never made anything that sounded at all like this before

wow "after last night" !

this is very much an outtakes collection in that there is some wild stylistic variation and quality is a bit inconsistent but the highs are excellent and it's nice to hear her go relatively out there

did this leak or something

yes

did not expect from "shy boy" that this would contain some of the most daring music of her career

"shadow" ;_;

"put it to rest" is going to be my favorite crj song of all time for a while. thinking of it as an indirect sequel to "warm blood," where that took place on the inside this one's on the outside, cool air rushing across bare skin

I can't listen to it yet, so i'm stuck revisiting The Loneliest Time.
And i'm realizing i was wrong about "Beach House". It's glorious.

i'm not entirely convinced by the song of "put it to rest" but the textures are absolutely gorgeous

Enjoying the variety and new avenues on this.

Psychedelic Switch is almost a Perfume track but with the dial tuned a bit more back towards Daft Punk.

This whole album is fantastic, but woah at Put It To Rest. Unbelievable song. Kind of goes a bit Heaven by Emeli Sande towards the end.

I love "Kamikaze"

what is the style of "Put It To Rest" call? that sorta intersection of the stuttering beat and floaty piano ... it's beautiful. i figure it sounds like some style of dance music i'm not familiar with.

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One of Obama's picks I guess

what is the style of "Put It To Rest" call? that sorta intersection of the stuttering beat and floaty piano ... it's beautiful. i figure it sounds like some style of dance music i'm not familiar with.

― alpine static

Float house?

I think I've made peace with the fact that the only time CRJ and I were really vibing on the same plane was in 2015. Ah well.

After Last Night, Kollage, Psychedelic Switch and Put It To Rest are up there with my favourite things she's done. I was not expecting to love this album as much as I do.

^^ I'd add "So Right" to those picks. I wasn't crazy about "Shy Boy" so I'm also surprised how much I like this album - her first side-B that rivals the parent album imo

It's the first one I've liked more than the parent album. It might be my favourite since Emotion.

idk Dedicated Side B was pretty great. And Emotion Side B was "only" an EP. So it's not like this has happened so much.

i think it's easily better and more interesting than dedicated side b, but i prefer the loneliest time as an album to this which is much more eclectic for better & worse

It took me a long time to come around to Dedicated and Dedicated Side B. Now I really love them in addition to (and as a continuation of) Emotion. Maybe that will happen to me again with Loneliest/Loveliest, but so far I haven't warmed up to either of them.

Oops got the names mixed up. "Shadow" was the one I'd call a highlight, not "So Right". "So Right" has a nice pre-chorus though

no I'm relistening now and "So Right" is a highlight too. Goddamn it everything is a highlight

“shadow” is really great…

it's so great, she and rostam have really got something

i hesitate to call it one of her best songs about having a crush (so i guess just one of her best songs) but "the architecture of this connection is your reflection / it's always following me" is an amazing pop chorus lyric

this album fucking owns

I am very much in love with 'After Last Night'.

I am very much in love with 'After Last Night' - feels like a drum and bass Joe Hisaishi theme for a Ghibli movie.

Same about « After Last Night ». I hadn’t noticed it was a Rostam co-written/produced track. It doesn’t have his usual style.

yeah also surprised it was his track. "Shadow" too. both great songs atypical of his prior productions (that I've heard)

crj and rostam:

warm blood
western wind
go find yourself or whatever
after last night
shadow

they should make a whole album together

Whoa, this album's great! Way better than the last one for me

peace, man at 9:31 31 Jul 23

It took me a long time to come around to Dedicated and Dedicated Side B. Now I really love them in addition to (and as a continuation of) Emotion. Maybe that will happen to me again with Loneliest/Loveliest, but so far I haven't warmed up to either of them.

https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/carly-rae-jepsen/2023/the-rooftop-at-pier-17-new-york-ny-73a45a39.html

can’t believe i just saw this. best crj show i’ve ever been to. pure joy

pic.twitter.com/FtLWhE8Y6K

— gabriel (@gabrielkdt) August 6, 2023

Love that.

I managed to see her twice in 8 days just recently (opening for Boygenius and then at Osheaga) and she was delightful as always.

This album is so sick

of everybody tellin' me what to do

"after last night" and "anything to be with you" are immediately my favorite ever carly rae songs.

when that bari sax comes squonking in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XnifCyL5aU

Kollage on Good Morning America. Amazing performance, although it's just a late night song that it seems a little weird in front of the bright "summer concert series" backdrop.

Kollage has become my favourite on the album. That's a great performance of it.

does after last night give anyone else super mario 3 vibes?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwk9mrE-cFA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho8NDNapmd4

listening through the ILM albums of 2023 and Kollage popped up, genuinely surprised that Men I Trust weren't involved with that track, it sounds just like them

Revisiting this today and think I absolutely underrated it. Never noticed this before but "So Nice" seems to recall Daft Punk's "Something About Us" (specifically the bass but also the la-las remind me of the electric guitar (?) that enters at about 1 min. in).

so this new thing with bullion...