thread to dis hyped releases that you don't get/don't like/wanna complain about

I tried listening to the War on Drugs album once and I had to check the album wasn't starting over at some point. Still can't remember any of the songs in there.

@Moka, same here. It's drab.

Lorde is the new Carly Rae Jepsen - "pop" music that non-professionals spit out after a single taste, but which critics will continue to ride for forever.

Xp that is sort of the point with WoD - it's aural valium for the inhibited and the terminally nostalgic.

Me included.

Sounds like WoD do The Caretaker better than The Caretaker does!

I can't really diss it because I don't hate it at all but Yaeji seems overrated as hell to me. There's just not much going on musically and lyrically... every song seems she runs out of ideas and she just resorts to repeating words in the same monotonic voice.

Again, I don't hate it but I don't see what's so special about it either or why she's making it into so many EOY best songs lists.

Ok I'm done taking those out of my chest... I think... those are the ones frustrating me about their roaring approval.

Well, those an Bodak Yellow heh

i rate the yaeji EPs (2 isn't as good imo) but found it pretty easy to get burned out on her stuff. Not much replay value as there's not a whole lot of depth, ya

laurel halo album was a disappointment for me, way too esoteric and weird for weird sake

Xxp Kirby has a concept, though. Granduciel is walking in socks over cold coals.

I still don't really get what everyone liked so much about Black Beatles. I don't hate it, just does nothing much for me.

I think this is the first Laurel Halo album I like mainly on the strength of Moontalk alone but yes... it's way too dependent on its own quirks and weirdness.

moontalk is an amazing song! yeah

moka check out the king felix stuff if you haven't heard it, "spring" by king felix and her halo album "king felix"

I did not know about that project. Listening to spring now and it sounds amazing! Thanks for the recommendation.

:) sweet

the Fever Ray album was really disappointing to me

why? show your work :)

Sleaford Mods - this guy used to sound angry, now he just sounds bored (I do like most of the previous records)

Fever Ray was also so-so for me. I like the knife and the first fever ray album a lot, so I thought for sure this would be one of my favorite albums of the year but alas it ended being one of the most dissapointing ones for me. It’s just so hard to sit through... even harder than ‘shaking the habitual’ and that’s saying something.

I can get past the hamfisted lyrics (either way lyrics has never been her strong point), but the textures and production are sort of uninteresting too, the middle of the album is specially boring or annoying and contains some of her worst songs ever (“this country” really wtf is up with that).

I don’t know... I guess it’s just alright in small doses but I don’t want ‘just alright’ from her.

Ok maybe the production isn’t uninteresting... but it’s too harsh and irritating more often than not. I get that maybe that was her intent with this particular album but I’m not a masochist, sorry.

Yeah, my love for the first Fever Ray album is immense, this one is not bAd exactly, just very disappointing

yeah I agree with all of that Moka

the production mostly feels like lesser retreads of Silent Shout and the Fever Ray s/t, and the songwriting lacks the memorable melodies. the lyrics are a step down too - Silent Shout especially could be quite evocative but they're more hamfisted here and the BDSM subject matter of some of it is completely uninteresting to me

Sleaford Mods - this guy used to sound angry, now he just sounds bored (I do like most of the previous records)

heh this = lack of money > money

King Krule was the overrated hype of the year for me. Could barely get through that mess 3 times.

So I will probably dig his next record :P

Fever ray album is fucking great, just took time to grow on me. I mean it's not that different texturally from
The debut it's just more hyper kinetic arrangement wise. Give it some time, mustn't hurry

Lyrics aren't her strong point?? When I grow up and seven would put that theory to the test, memorable imo

heh this = lack of money > money

think dude had a pretty decent office job for a fair while before the band blew up so I'm not sure this is a big factor. latest album hasn't really landed for me like the previous ones though, could be a law of diminishing returns thing but I had (have) no issue with their complete lack of progression so idk

You’re right I take it back, heartbeats alone is one of the few sweet songs they have and it has some beautiful lines in there. The debut also has some stunning imagery... I’m just way too frustrated with this album.

moka, all good bud :)

i found the album hard to parse for quite a while tbh

This thread is tonic

Charly bliss - musical equivalent of doing lines of pixie stix

(Sandy) Alex g - i guess at a certain point all music / art will become a sort of lightly branded tabula rasa content for us to project upon

'Reclaims the avant-garde' is probably a worse line than anything in that 'overpraise' thread. It's nearly time for my hitpiece

Oh yea, the avant-garde has been reclaimed by some Berklee kid with an expensive synth set-up, a cloying lyrical sensibility and no songwriting skill to speak of! But it all sounds so burbly. Oo goo this be thee musick of thee spheres!

I could and will go on

man, fuck you

TBH I fully encourage him to keep all this annoying shit in here this year.

I've had a bad day, so fuck you

1. The Gorgeous
2. Sixth Album
3. From California
4. Landscapist Kaitlyn
5. Aurelia
6. Smith Reclaims The Avant-Garde
7. From Noiseniks
8. Dronesters, Moaners, Skronkers, Mathletes
9. And Art-Punks
10. Challenging
11. But Beautiful
12. Pastoral
13. But Hyperactive

this is a thread for slagging off and venting. slag off anything. slag off Richard Dawson. I won't care. but I'm not holding back here

you're engaging with both a record and with a fellow ilxor's writing in a totally disingenuous, obnoxious, shitty way just to tell your "truths" or whatever so like, fuck you, still

matt otm though

there are ways to slag off and vent without being a total shithead imo

i love music, the board for people who love music

as requested: sacred paws is just insipid tropical good-vibesy nothingcore imo, but it's no big deal really. if absolutely everyone loved it then I'd be more vituperative but they're a minor concern just doing what they're doing and that can remain someone else's business

imago otm

LOL @ hurt butts itt

Jlin - if I wanted to hear a quantized sample of a CD skipping, I'd listen to an Oval CD from 1999

what if you wanted to hear CDs skipping with heavy 808 bass beneath? oval has non 808 bass

also: king krule rools, u all drool

I know this is going to make me unpopular but I'm just gonna say it, I don't think Yes needed to release another live album in 2017

oh no u

just don't say it at late at night in the U.S.

i'll just get this out of the way: most of the 2017 music is bad

― brimstead, Friday, December 15, 2017 3:58 PM (three weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i feel this way too? idk. there is little that i feel excited about or drawn to when i go through most 2017 lists

i totally agree w/r/t almost everything that isn't a house 12" or a reissue of some sort

but i think that's down to the age of the listener (toll of 24 years of active music hipsterism) rather than the quality of the music

just don't say it at late at night in the U.S.

I don't really feel that way late at night for whatever reason

How does Ryan Gosling fit into all this

he's married to the australian singer gosling

Was table hacked?

there is apparently also a belgian dance-punk band called goose

I bought their first album and saw them live around 20 years ago! They were good in a bloghouse fake Cut Copy way

Jam band Goose's song Butter Rum is legendary amongst a few of my music pals for being one of the worst things they've ever heard. It is really, really fuckin bad tbf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRklRZPi3eI

that's definitely not good but i've heard worse as far as 'original material from a jam band' goes. lyrics are truly dreadful though

Was table hacked?

if goose posts number nine, table is fine
if goose posts number ten, table's hacked my friend

I haven't listened to it, but surely it's no 'jamflowman'.

it's absolutely no "jamflowman"

bring it on by the belgian goose crew is an absolute belter of an album.

Everybody’s talking bout the Goose Crew funny
But you’re still telling lies to me

Was table hacked?

― octobeard, Sunday, April 26, 2026 8:04 AM (fifteen hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

This technique of posting will hereafter be known as a "honk and run"

Ducks Ltd. are okay at best imo

The law locks up the man or woman
Who steals the goose from off the common
But leaves the greater villain loose
Who steals the Cameron from off the Geese

this deserved more upvotes

I tried listening to some live Goose a few years back, and I didn't go for it. I think I assessed that they were capable jammers, but didn't have strong songs. "No songs, no dice," has always been my motto when engaging with jambands. There is definitely a segment of the jamband audience for whom that is not the case, and are more interested in getting launched into space through the improv.

In other anatidaen news though, I think I might be close to coming around on Geese, whose popularity has been befuddling me for the past 6 months or so.

To close things out, here's Garganornis ballmanni, an extinct flightless goose that stood 1.5 meters tall.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garganornis#/media/File:Garganornis_ballmanni_(reconstruction_by_Stefano_Maugeri).jpg

God, hotlinking ain't what it used to be.

https://i.postimg.cc/j5g0QNVG/Garganornis-ballmanni-(reconstruction-by-Stefano-Maugeri).jpg

scary

Swans are an entirely different thing though.

I had a goose attack me when I was a kid, maybe that's my Geese problem.

I know some jam band people, one of whom just went to Florida to see Goose, and the whole thing is pretty simple: jam band people need to have a jam band. They need to have a band to follow and take a week or two off of work to go see in the summer. it's a lifestyle thing.

in the same way that Phish's rise to being the pre-eminent jam band really took off after Jerry Garcia died, now Phish had been on hiatus a few times, and certainly not as active as they once were, Goose is rising because they are younger and more active.

That tracks. In college I had a friend group that was jammy. I was the holdout and they would bitch when I would put on Daft Punk.

They liked anything within the jam band universe. Tgis would extend to roots music or americana because that’s what Jerry or whoever liked. They had a surface appreciation for the bands that Phish covered on their halloween shows but the Phish versions were always better.

Anecdotal, small sample, not all jam aficionados, etc

wow that goose track was far worse than i expected, and i was really bracing myself. pushing context, tropes, the genre completely out of my mind, i decided to focus on what it actually 'sounds' like, its complete tripe

that first 30 seconds (all i listened to) is background music for the main menu of a zoo management sim

lol

I tried listening to some live Goose a few years back, and I didn't go for it. I think I assessed that they were capable jammers, but didn't have strong songs. "No songs, no dice," has always been my motto when engaging with jambands.

otm

this is enough to be a good covers band but their original material seems very dull

I was not hacked. Goose are fucking terrible, but I have a notoriously low tolerance for "jam" bands in that particular model/style. All the people that I know who follow them are rich kids living out of blinged out vans, stopping at crags around the country to do some climbing while following their favorite band. Sounds fun, too bad the music is fucking awful.