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

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

y'all are making this record-i-will-never-hear sound like the rym-beloved record "the salmon of doubt" by coin locker kid, which is one of those rym-beloved records i really wish i could hate

yeah, the microphones are extremely overhyped. there's not a single catchy melody to be found on any of the dude's records.

random thought for a thursday: fuck bruce springsteen.

what's your plan?

to never willingly listen to the microphones or springsteen ever again.

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

the secret of fishmans is that while long season is kinda inexplicably overrated (i mean the length does make it rym bait and it's good but it's not thaaat good), uchuu nippon setagaya is absolutely a masterpiece

The new Liturgy sounds like a hipper flavour of crossover classical if the two advance Bandcamp tracks are anything to go by. I didn’t much care for their previous LP once I got past the immediate ‘at least they’re trying something different’ factor and I’m afraid the new one’s boundlessly earnest, overwrought ambition is even less convincing to my ears because there’s nothing substantial to underpin it, just an awkward collision of clichés drawn from different genres on top of the classical base, distilled into a single Molotov cocktail of self-aggrandizement (Gesamtkunstwerk? lol). So yeah, this is Still Not For Me – Ehnahre’s The Marrow gave us a much better sense of how It should be done. (Sorry, lj & others.)

counterpoint: ehnahre are well boring

AND NOW WE FIGHT!

tbh it's refreshing that Liturgy have been sufficiently critically rehabilitated that they could legitimately appear itt. popping up here means you've made it

rong

Glimpses into an existential vacuum > vacuous maximalism.

They’ve made it on ILM, that’s for sure.

when i want to gaze into the void, i want to be kicking ass while i do it

dril tweet or metal motto, you decide

I’m cool with either butt kicking or not butt kicking as I contemplate nihil but Liturgy fails on both counts. An eloquent illustration of faux metal as the nigh worst of several worlds.

contemplate nihil? Liturgy's entire philosophy/life/music is geared around the idea that there is no void, that there is meaning and divine presence and substance. it is all terribly optimistic and i can see why its jubilant promises of God might lie at odds with a voidgazer's perspective

me, i vacillate between the positions of void and divine, so i require both sorts of metal, innit

when i spoke of kicking ass while gazing into the void I was thinking more Darkspace or our darling Ruins Of Beverast lol

Ah, that makes more sense.

I have no bone to pick with the irruption of the theological into black metal, as long as it’s conceived as kenosis.

there he is with his deathspell omega

That’s not where I picked it up (had to google the connection just now) and as far as I’m concerned Paracletus is the only album of theirs I fully endorse.

Liturgy's entire philosophy/life/music is geared around the idea that there is no void, that there is meaning and divine presence and substance.

he's just some dude

'he'? check yr receipts dude

or are you referring to god the divine, lol

sorry

boognish

Theos is both masculine and feminine in Ancient Greek iirc.