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

It ended up clicking for me in the right setting (ie. not while taking a walk). I still prefer Nourished by Time though.

After trying with his solo album last year and this new Geese album, I have concluded that Cameron Winter is just not for me. I can see what people dig, or I think I can — the emotional and musical range, undeniable creativity and energy — but it doesn't connect for me.

what on earth is this geese crap?

It’s all over the grass

I'm not sold yet on the new album but try 3D Country before completely dismissing Geese. It's a lot more fun and less raggedy

joanne robertson, geese… hard pass sorry

same

why is the geese guy singing like that

Seasonal allergies

not really feeling lucrecia dalt sorry :| generically artsy pj harvey flavor of the month. nb i could flip on this if someone wants to share a convincing deep cut.

XXXXXP ok so i tried "3d country" and i am more disgusted than before. which surprises me, i kinda pretty much always dig your playlist picks, dog latin.
not sure what it is. are they the indie imagine dragons? so many "emotive" retro signifiers which somehow sound obviously empty, which as a concept might be fertile ground for exploration in other hands here sounds a lazy and pointless coattails pastiche. hermeneutically suspect, sure, whatever. different strokes.

Bongos. Too many bongos

(I made it 1 track before I had to turn them off)

I liked Malibu's Palaces of Pity (though I can't remember exactly why), and I've really enjoyed her mixtapes and her blown-out takes on pop hits as bgirl, but this new album may be my personal tipping point for barely there, diaphanous, post-Cocteaus ambient underachieving. Like, is this all it takes?

"3D Country" sounds like Ween.

i still do not understand why anyone listens to Big Theif

I feel like everyone is “ambient” these days cause it’s easy to do (hard to get right). I blame the normalization of New Age music.

I hear so much new music where I’m like “why did you choose to sing like that?”

Do you mean the pick-a-note style of singing? Cause I'm with you on that thought.

it's all about the notes you don't pick

I wish there were more notes they didn't pick

LOL

I absolutely get why Geese might rub people wrong, but I like them.

That said, I cannot understand the appeal of Cameron Winter's solo album in the least. I've given it three tries now and it's like subtracting all of the things that make Geese interesting to me.

since we don't appear to have a Rolling Techno thread for 2025, I'll put this here--

what am I missing with the Carrier love? As a fan of Andy Stott, Basic Channel and Pan Sonic, not to mention an appreciator of Brewer's previous work as Shifted, I'm more or less the key demographic for this, but this record sounds to me like immaculate sound design with no real musical innovation or ideas. I've listened to it twice (loud, good speakers), and I just don't see why this is in any way exceptional?

For comparison, I listened to it back to back with the new Mike Parker record, which is my idea of an exceptional techno record

Thanks for reminding me to listen to this. I agree that I was expecting...more? I love space and dubbiness and every sound is on point (listened to an interview with him recently and was quite inspired by some of his processes), and I love his love for Photek. But I wish the rhythms were a little bit more propulsive, and that there was more in the way of interlocking drums. It sounds like Photek if you muted everything except the kick, pads, and one cymbal or rimclick layer.

that is exactly it, thank you for nailing it, especially about wishing the rhythms were more propulsive. There just isn't much to hang onto