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

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

Jlin - one track limit with her stuff, just is way too maddening and jarring - def of acquired taste

that was just a tautology, most music from every year is bad

but

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

yeah same here

vote gabor lazar this year for your "sounds like cd skipping" needs

i like literally dozens of records that came out this year but somehow i still wind up listening to nothing but '70s music all the time

at some point i'll stop pretending but not until i run out of disk space

Wow @ people shitting on Jlin. I thought Black Origami was way more interesting/fun than Dark Energy

my assumption is that they are new to footwork in general and don't really *get it* yet

Loved the final ;_; DJ Rashad album but this has been a bit arid for my tastes. Might return to it

"arid" is a good way to put it

i definitely didn't get it till i saw her live at Day For Night, experiencing it in a physical space really made me engage with the album on physical terms instead of approaching it conceptually like i had been. it's tougher to crack than Rashad for sure, mostly because Rashad consciously aimed to create a "pop"-ish version of footwork and Jlin has absolutely no interest in that from what i can tell.

I mean Rachel WFYE moving on from Nate WFYE to Lenderman might well be a boyfriend upgrade. Definitely isn't a fuckin songwriter upgrade (which is why WFYE stiil exists I guess lol)

Is this the ilm gossip column thread now?

That's common public knowledge ffs

is it?

It was in a published interview I read

I tend to not hear about these things until there's a break-up album or an abuse allegation.

"Posters only love you when they're posting..."

Frederik, I never meant to imply "everything is retro, nothing is original." Only that Wednesday in particular don't sound very "retro" to me. There are other young indie bands that I think do sound retro (Momma comes to mind). Why some artists strike me that way while others don't, is something I'm still figuring out. I also want to be clear that I'm not pooh-poohing the idea of originality.

I do think, to an extent, we are living in a kind of post-retro age. Aesthetics from many different times and places have been rubbing up against each other and synthesizing since at least the 90s, and certainly for my entire time as an engaged music listener. Some styles have already been revived, and re-revived, to a point they no longer read as referential to some original influence, while still legible as part of a lineage of influence, and that's how I hear Wednesday: as a descendant of Swirlies/Uncle Tupelo/Breeders/whoever else you want to name drop, not a band whose M.O. is just "hey, remember 90s alt-rock?"

Again, this may be a product of my particular point of view in time: by the time I started getting into music in the early 2000s, 90s alt-rock was *already* this relic from a recently-vanished past, something to be revived. So I've always kinda experienced it through that rosey lens.

relevant perhaps to this discussion I'm seeing a lot of comments on YMO videos from (presumably) new listeners who are surprised it's from 1981 and not the early 2000s. obviously they were ahead of their time but not by *that* much...I think its more that there was a full on 80s revival going on then and I would imagine younger listeners maybe aren't able to make that distinction

I mean, I was born in 86, so to me anything from say 1968 until then was 'old music', but anything before that was really old music - the stuff my parents listened to vs. the stuff my grandparents listened to, though that was obviously from before the era of recorded music as we know it today - might be confusing to the new generation when their grandparents listened to Talking Heads and their parents listened to stuff that knocked off Talking Heads

we listened to Tom Tom Club, our kids listened to Mariah Carey sampling Tom Tom Club, our grandkids listened to Latto sampling Mariah Carey sampling Tom Tom Club

my favorite podcast plays bits of it every week as part of a regular segment, and they always rep for Tom Tom despite clearly having no idea who they are or their connection to Talking Heads

I mean Rachel WFYE moving on from Nate WFYE to Lenderman might well be a boyfriend upgrade. Definitely isn't a fuckin songwriter upgrade (which is why WFYE stiil exists I guess lol)

― imago, Tuesday, September 23, 2025 11:44 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

well I guess I know who will be attending their Carrboro show tomorrow night.

I keep reading WFYE as some new feminist spelling for Wife

I guess this is where the conversation about the new Wednesday album is? I was listening to it this morning and thinking that I hadn't seen a revive. Not as good as the last one, but there are a few good jams on it.

I dunno, I know for a fact that I gravitate toward certain new artists because they tap into an aesthetic that has been in my veins since adolescence and thus will always appeal to me. But I am also a dilettante who listens to a lot of stuff, so I don't feel like I am getting overly excited about anyone in particular or that it's coming at the expense of appreciating other kinds of music.

their own thread was briefly revived: a thread for the North Carolina twangy indie-rock band Wednesday

definitely very ilm-in-2025 that this thread was the more active one though

WFYE was where I used to buy CDs at the Mall, iirc