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

There’s not even an active Swift thread… your obsession w/her is bizarre, IMO (I don’t know the album’s release date by heart, and I’m looking forward to it)

i knewwwww i shd have scrubbed that bit from my post. please pretend i didn't write that bit

i mean the suppression of swiftalk is at least partly bc no songs are out and no one knows what the album sounds like

btw i am enjoying reading the 1975 analysis, i just wish more artists got the deluxe treatment!

or does only matty deserve it -_-

imago i promise to post in a billy woods thread if you start one

haven't listened to the new one yet, n.b.

Okay well I actually need to listen to his albums first too lol, it was an exaaaample

Let's start now tho

Pop music should not be “interesting” it should make your blood fizz like champagne or give you what feels like a mild electric shock

That sounds totally unpleasant, perhaps that’s why I think most pop music is absolute shit these days

I just meant it’s supposed to be visceral not intellectual or whatever

happy to talk about billy woods

more like billy goods

Have no idea who Billy Woods is, but if u start a thread I might read it

the thread where ilxors find out who billy woods is

you really don't all need to pretend the new jessie ware single (which i've unfortunately just listened to) is good

have some standards for your pop

I don't really know Jessie Ware all that well, but the first thing I noticed about Pearls is that the bass line is very similar to This Is What They Say by Carly Rae Jepsen (off of Dedicated Side B), and that's definitely a better song.

no shade but "Jessie Ware song sounds a lot like X" is basically the first step of listening to any of her tracks

ldr sux

I've never been able to get into an Angel Bat Dawid record.

same, despite my affection for almost everything on that label. To be fair, I almost always have hang-ups with vocals on any jazz record made after 1955

I think it's that the execution doesn't measure up to the high concepts for me

more like boregenius

(am I doing this right??)

I've never been able to get into an Angel Bat Dawid record.

this record wouldn’t be hyped by any of the sensible posters on ilm but god sleep token fucking sucks

at least something occasionally happens in a coldplay song. oooooh! punked u all etc

(have already more than said my bit about this album on RYM but being mentioned in the thread is too much to resist lol)

i was afraid you were going to dis my dick ... what a relief

i listened to a few tracks and put on Juliana Hatfield instead

Did you make it to track 5 at least(??)

I’ll give it another shot

okay but what album is this

well it’s sort of fun to not say, part of the charm of this thread, but … it’s guts. there’s something extremely instagram about that record in its protools cyborg try-hard optimized vocal tic thing. I only wish I caught 90s vibes. defiantly non slacker energy

that was obvious lol, now front up and say it on the thread, I'm lonely

oh this ariana grande got some teeth, don't it.

(beats aren't even good?!)

Please join the two (2) of us in the main thread, we could use the company!!

i... (big sigh)... don't wanna be the asshole in there. i'm sorry. i don't have any real thoughts anyway; it's sza-lite. no thanks.

(but ty for the invite!)

SZA-lite is an interesting take, IMO!

not heard it yet but why is vampire weekend still such ilmcore, why must everyone agonise and theorise and give it so much energy, there is so much other music

it's like they're the rory gilmore of music or something. a+ comparison lj well done

it's an interesting album because it is full of great ideas but ends up being pretty bad in spite of that, they forgot to write actual songs

your consistent defence of interesting songwriting is always cheering, but by the same token, how great is a great idea if the execution is lame

ffs i'm going to have to listen myself and become part of the problem lol

Everyone I know is over the moon aboit the Cindy Lee album, and I am just like “huh? we went through this in the mid 2000s!”

that was 20 years ago tho

I saw someone on twitter call this album a "non-problematic Ariel Pink," and while I acknowledge that this is a reductive criticism, it is now all I can hear

to engage w/the discourse i got about three hours into the new Taylor Swift album and tapped out, i think i was only on track nine.

BNM for an album I find almost impressively irritating:

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/still-house-plants-if-i-dont-make-it-i-love-u/

(I do find myself wondering what ILM poster imago thinks of it; which may be a sign I need a long sabbatical…)

I'll check it out right away!!