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

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.

and i'm outta quarters and i already owe the swear jar like ten bucks, so i gotta cool it on that shit.

is this where it is ok to say that t*yl*r needs to not write about new york because each time is more thought catalog than the last

it's okay to say anything in here.

except k*nye. that's still a swear.

I checked themicrophones@hotmail(dot)com like once a week

I tapped out as soon as he delivered this line. It was also a relief to stop pretending that the underlying chord progression was worth my or anyone's time or that I wasn't in fact witnessing the gruelling rebirth of Totally-Not-Narcissus.

i liked it because it threw in loads of lovely lo-fi fuzz textures but i can appreciate not wanting to wait for those to really kick in

Shorten the intro and make it 100% instrumental and my ears might perk up.

I agree that his lyricism is overly revered

(nor is it terrible though)

The non-'confessional' (i.e. autobiographical ad absurdum) bits are solid. I wish he'd ditch the Tao Lin-isms.

well, admitting you're inspired by a certain other songwriter suddenly got much less cool after today. being inspired by him at all hopefully as well

I only found out after my attempt at weathering those 44:44 mins but it certainly doesn't help!

Anyway, I have no idea how this is a 4.13/5.00 based on 3,655 RYM ratings.

neurotic shut-ins love music made by neurotic world traveler

*ahem*

(it's a good album and I have nothing against phil but it shouldn't surprise anyone that the combo of who made it, the fact that it's a 44-minute track and the release timing makes this very obvious RYM bait)

obviously that fishmans thing is the dictionary definition of an rym-hyped release that i would like to dis