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

kraftwerk are gr8 but ppl make absurd claims abt influence which cld not possibly be true of anyone, it's the maverick isolated auteur thing

kraftwerk are really that band tho

ha! yes, was going to say, if anyone is. a radio documentary on kraftwerk's influence on early hip hop was very illuminating on this.

the zeitgeist finds a way

*awakens from rip van winkle sleep* yeah, fuck parquet courts

hahaha otm

kraftwerk are really that band tho

otm

every post about what the music sounds like is so intriguing and yet every post about the lyrics is so cringe :o

sorry, I mean the lyrics themselves are cringe imo not the posts about them!

Is this about the MCMLXXV?

that's ok, calling things "cringe" is way worse than any lyric on the record

given how they've alternated between album i've disliked -> liked -> disliked then we're due a like, here's hoping

I really like “love it if we made it”, was bummed I didn’t hear anything else of theirs that sounded like that.. kinda dirgy 21st century screwed tears for fears

there's a decent chance you'll like this one lj but ofc i've been wrong about this before many times

Their music makes me feel ancient but it doesn't sound like it's from the future.

im p sure I've posted in this thread before so I'm being hypocritical here but i haven't heard the Fiona Apple or Grimes album, and will never have to, and if you don't like Grimes or Fiona Apple you can do likewise

I feel for my beloved sister, who, back in IL, has been hanging out a lot with one of my good friends (her "quarantine buddy) who is an enormous Fiona fan (and Grimes to lesser degree). I warned her that Fiona just released an album. Poor girl.

and then the Blake Mills album hits her when she's down!

I don't often get to / feel like dissing new records of note, but: I used to really love Braids but their new album is repellent to me; the definition of worthy-as-pejorative. it all either sounds like relationship counselling tunelessly set to music (was going to say "couples counselling" but that's probably not Montreal enough) or sub-ILX white liberal struggle session stuff. I'm sure they're lovely people but it's the album equivalent of that bonus season of Steven Universe where they replaced battles with literal scenes of therapy. there's gotta be a better way.

Not sure I get the Montreal reference.

I have no idea who Braids are btw, but that sounds unspeakably awful.

I was going for a polyamory/throuple joke there but it was a little tortured.

Hah, so Montreal has a reputation for polyamory? FWIW the only people I know who are active members of that scene are anglophone and from Toronto. But if that cliché increases our sexiness quotient I’m all for it.

Braids lost me after Native Speaker for precisely those reasons, I remember listening to "Miniskirt" and thinking yeah I would most likely enjoy a song with lyrics attacking this kind of bullshit, if the vocal delivery and melody weren't so fey and musically irritating. I just checked out.

I checked out that Jessie Ware album that folks here are raving about, and... well, I don't "wanna complain" about it (it's not bad), but I def. "don't get" the raves. ILM tends to go for this polite, bloodless dance-pop that doesn't do anything for me - despite my love for, well, other forms of dance-pop.

it might be polite but it's unusually/exceedingly well-arranged and produced imo

I didn't think I'd enjoy it as much as I did but its first three tracks were enough for me. I'd love a whole album of the stuff if it were interspersed with instrumental workouts.

I think the Ware is well-arranged to a fault IMO, everything just so, constantly marking out the producer's tasty placement of sounds. I dread when the strings appear in "Save a Kiss" for example.

The lyrics are totally generic as well, too little to grasp onto, especially by comparison to all of the record's references.

I thought there was a date appended to this thread title for some reason. As it stands, it's atemporally perfect.

finally a safe space to dis kanye

Made it 45s into 'Cardigan', 10s into 'Exile' and 5s into 'Betty'. The way it's being talked about makes you wonder whether the paradigm shift is real. It's not.

does the paradigm shift involve waiting for the vocal to come in before you bail? lol

you should have given cardigan and betty the opposite number of seconds tbf

I skipped forward for a split second to better acquaint myself with the latter two tracks, so I know what I’m talking about.

xp

I made it all the way through "Betty," about halfway through "Cardigan" and less than a minute into "Exile." I'm bummed because I really liked Lover.

I checked out that Jessie Ware album that folks here are raving about, and... well, I don't "wanna complain" about it (it's not bad), but I def. "don't get" the raves. ILM tends to go for this polite, bloodless dance-pop that doesn't do anything for me - despite my love for, well, other forms of dance-pop.

― Pat McGroin (morrisp), Tuesday, June 30, 2020 9:09 PM (three weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

totally agree there's no blood in its veins. and I liked Ware's first two albums

I thought there was a date appended to this thread title for some reason. As it stands, it's atemporally perfect.

― pomenitul

when I originally made it I had "2017" before "releases" but it was changed by mod edit (by my request) after the thread kept going

I guess I just find it sad that these are the only kinds of releases that spur a sustained, urgent discussion on ILM in 2020, but perhaps 'twas always so. There would be no bitterness on my part if our collective enthusiasm wasn't apportioned so unevenly. Canute, tide, etc.

tbf on a broader cultural level i think “thinking things are good” is not really “in” right now

but fuck parquet courts fr

yeah impt to not forget parquet courts on this thread every time it is bumped

tbf on a broader cultural level i think “thinking things are good” is not really “in” right now

So the corrective is to say 'all music is good, especially this one album, which we'll ensure everyone jabbers about for weeks on end at the expense of all others'?

taytay album is like good or w/e but the disproportionate share of the discourse artists like her get on ilm is a sign of a reactionary discourse imo

gonna post the word 'discourse' eight more times now until we are all listening to bonkers electropop and weird metal

thread to discourse hyped releases

this thread is a dis course

That, and a diss curse.

gonna post the word 'discourse' eight more times now until we are all listening to bonkers electropop and weird metal

― imago

PUDDING!

i never thought it would come to this, but can we go back to talking about k*nye, please?

Omg google for "kanye" and find Austin

Is it out yet?

his name is a swear in my house.