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

not derivative, just boring. even more boring than this post

Many xposts but I just want to say Tirzah is boring in a good way.

xpost i'd describe compro as corny

that's maybe the best thing you could have said to get me to listen to tirzah again. would u say the good part of the boringness comes from an 'authentic' 'amateurishness' lol

fgti that post changed my life

xps I really, really don't get "Neutron Dance" - the melody is so obvious and not in a fun good way, the first time I heard it I could feel myself cringe

Otm that piano hook is dire

I can't sleep so I moved the whole poptimism/rockism discussion here: What Is Rockism ?

ariana grande being the new popstar everyone is into in the last year or so. idgi. i didn't totally get it with taylor swift or carly rae jepsen either but i really don't get it with ariana

Autechre is getting kind of same-y sounding, with the big, reverb-y sheen, and hard, strobe-like limiting effects. The 'big reverb sheen' sort of first emerged with Oversteps--everything sounded bigger (more "glacial" (?) nah), somehow, and the polish (on the background elements) of ilanders marked this new, lush (polished) era of Ae. NTS Sessions (along w/the new single) is great and all, it just seems like we're getting more quantity than quality nowadays. FWIW, I believe they sort of peaked with AE_LIVE and Elseq. sinistrail sentinel is cool and all, it just doesn't really touch the quality of irlite (gtf0)

irlite (gtf0)

I love this one!

yes and yes!
i'm off the bus

I was looking forward to antagonizing the ILX hivermind over the Daughters LP based on the enticing reviews. And then I listened to it.

pretty much

Last year was one of the best evah for music for me and for some reason this year it seems like lots of rated stuff I couldn't give a toss about. Maybe I just need to curmudge some to balance out last year's enthuse.

proceed!!

This Beach House album is boring

shocker!

have to say that while I do really like the NTS Sessions, I have the same nagging feeling as Lowell

maybe you don't really like them!!!!!

still absolute dreck, and dreck that's a decade out of date

(nothing to do with 2018 poll)

board description?

apologies to Mordy in advance but

watching ILM come around en masse to the idea of the thoroughly mediocre and uninteresting Harmony Hall being a great song has filled me with enough bile to last us right up until its inevitable and dismal appearance in the top 20 or so of the 2019 traxpoll. see you there

woo it has those george michael/primal scream pianos woo what a fucking novel and au courant production trick

you're all really old

wow imago you've almost convinced me to willingly listen to a vampire weekend song, congrats

ya imago dislike is almost an imprimatur of quality

I wish I had the musicological lexicon to explain why I can't stand this kind of pop R&B-esque singing, which also irks me when I hear The 1975. I love what Copeland are doing beneath the vocals, but these hopeful intimations of positive sensuality or whatever evoke nothing for me other than climactic scenes in American romcoms.

actually there's something about holly herndon's sound design that leaves me almost as unsatisfied as her approach to melody, but it'd take me a lot longer to pinpoint exactly what

ya imago dislike is almost an imprimatur of quality

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I didn’t get on w little simz either ;)

If we were to come up with a list of 'ILM bait' artists, Holly Herndon would definitely be on it. I also think I'd dislike or be indifferent to most names on that list.

Yeah it’s not even that hi fi rite? Also fuck accelerationist art

you mean her videos contain the same thespy quirkstrel vamping as her music

should there be another thread where you explain your subtweets?

that is one monstrous fucking tracklist

i am full of alcohol and good cheer but i am officially announcing my adversarial stance wrt ilx banging on about awful shit band vampire weekend like no other indie exists

I am somewhat surprised to learn how much ppl here seem to like them.

this has been a bumper month for "this might be their best album!! no wait it is their best album!!!" grandstanding huh

the thing is i'm right every time

I haven't heard it yet but my skepticism can be summed up as follows: 64 minutes.

mods pls retitle board I Love The 1980s

Mods pls retitle this thread, Imago's thread to dis hyped releases that he doesn't get/doesn't like/wants to complain about

That was always part of the fine print.

xp

you're allowed to do it too! xp

Caterina Barbieri - are we really that starved of vaguely pretty synths that we need to be praising this boring, inert and basic music? I read she's a modular synth user but it just sounds like a MIDI arpeggiator with a reverb preset being used in unimaginative ways.

Vampire weekend is some weak boring ass shit

wary of a double CD about settling in / domestic family life from Bill Callahan, after Dream River, which was a fucking snoozer

The love for vw makes my head hurt, it would be hard for me to think of a more nails on chalkboard sound than theirs. The smugness honeyed into “knowingness”, the utterly deracinated arrangements and melodies. They’re really a product of the Obama era, reeking of unexamined comfort allayed enough for the pundit class by a milquetoast ‘wry’ or ‘searching’ quality ... if they popped up in 2015 as a bunch of fresh faced Columbia grads marketing their sound as “upper west side Soweto” I wonder if reception would have been different.