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
― Paul Ponzi, Sunday, 21 April 2024 16:34 (five months ago) link
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.
― omar little, Tuesday, 23 April 2024 03:35 (five months ago) link
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/
― rendered nugatory (morrisp), Tuesday, 23 April 2024 04:59 (five months ago) link
(I do find myself wondering what ILM poster imago thinks of it; which may be a sign I need a long sabbatical…)
― rendered nugatory (morrisp), Tuesday, 23 April 2024 05:02 (five months ago) link
I'll check it out right away!!
― imago, Tuesday, 23 April 2024 05:41 (five months ago) link
Initially quite liked it, wearing off now
― imago, Tuesday, 23 April 2024 06:42 (five months ago) link
yeah it's a sort of slow-burn annoyance, creeps up on you and rewires you to its idiosyncrasies lol
― imago, Tuesday, 23 April 2024 07:53 (five months ago) link
my unhealthy provincials aversion to london accents makes its a bit of a struggle
― devvvine, Tuesday, 23 April 2024 08:30 (five months ago) link
fantastic band imo. new one is like tirzah fronting this heat. incredible expressive voice, band kind of reminds me of the dead c's improvised approach to rock, but without the distortion pedals.
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Tuesday, 23 April 2024 10:46 (five months ago) link
lacks the focused intensity of tirzah or the swelling momentum of this heat imo - the brew is compelling but ultimately a bit too static
― imago, Tuesday, 23 April 2024 10:49 (five months ago) link
if anything the best moments are when it seems to fall apart, lose momentum and submit to entropy - i guess that's a vibe that works for a few tracks but over a whole album it gets a little stale
― imago, Tuesday, 23 April 2024 10:50 (five months ago) link
Well that's all part of improvisation, I think they just write the intros and then take it from there. I personally love the sound they have so it's all good to me.
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Tuesday, 23 April 2024 10:59 (five months ago) link
btw imago while you're here, plz go listen to the clarissa connelly album ok? :)
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Tuesday, 23 April 2024 11:00 (five months ago) link
haha okay okay
i am catching up with some recent folk atm in fact! that OXN is pretty good eh
― imago, Tuesday, 23 April 2024 11:02 (five months ago) link
(now onto harry gorski-brown, which is v promising at first contact)
― imago, Tuesday, 23 April 2024 11:04 (five months ago) link
band kind of reminds me of the dead c's improvised approach to rock, but without the distortion pedals.
― rendered nugatory (morrisp), Tuesday, 23 April 2024 14:10 (five months ago) link
oh I'd semi-forgotten about that whole era of bands but that is a good shout
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Tuesday, 23 April 2024 14:38 (five months ago) link
"whole era of splattery noise bands" i meant to type
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Tuesday, 23 April 2024 14:40 (five months ago) link
many xps This Harry Gorski-Brown is great! If our job is to reduce everything, this is like Richard Dawson lobbing a molotov into a Wednesday-night folk club.
― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Tuesday, 23 April 2024 14:45 (five months ago) link
well this exchange has managed to make me want to listen to Still House Plants so well done everyone
― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 23 April 2024 14:48 (five months ago) link
I've not listened to a minute of Still House Plants but the conversation has made me think they sound like Life Without Buildings. I'll make like Colonel Poo and go see.
― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Tuesday, 23 April 2024 14:50 (five months ago) link
really do not get the hype around the cindy lee album because it's never any better than ok? who possibly needed 2 hours of this?
― ufo, Thursday, 25 April 2024 06:26 (five months ago) link
entirely vibes no actual songs
― ufo, Thursday, 25 April 2024 06:29 (five months ago) link
The 2020 album is good
― imago, Thursday, 25 April 2024 08:08 (five months ago) link
Vibes are doing well with Big Listener atm, you know this
― imago, Thursday, 25 April 2024 08:09 (five months ago) link
the vibes are nothing special either though
― ufo, Thursday, 25 April 2024 08:12 (five months ago) link
I mean, I've put that one off indefinitely due to the length (and dark talk of 'no songs')
― imago, Thursday, 25 April 2024 08:17 (five months ago) link
it's just two hours of very alright 'hypnagogic pop'. i guess pleasant enough background music but nothing more
― ufo, Thursday, 25 April 2024 08:19 (five months ago) link
'it's just vibes' critique seems crazy to me, it's a record full of well written pop songs with catchy hooks!
― devvvine, Thursday, 25 April 2024 08:39 (five months ago) link
I do feel the complaint that the Cindy Lee album is “just vibes” but uhhh isn’t that all feted hypnogogic stuff
― Tim F, Thursday, 25 April 2024 09:15 (five months ago) link
Lil Ugly Mane - Volcanic Bird Enemy And The Voiced Concern begs to differ!
― imago, Thursday, 25 April 2024 09:25 (five months ago) link
RYM also informs me that Blanche Blanche Blanche are 'Hypnagogic Pop' which I'm not completely sure about but they could write a song too yeah
― imago, Thursday, 25 April 2024 09:27 (five months ago) link
also that one Surface To Air Missive side-project Dream Love. okay we're out of the realm of 'feted' at this stage
― imago, Thursday, 25 April 2024 09:29 (five months ago) link
i mean ariel pink as much as i loathe to talk about him did write some very solid tunes back in his cassette days
― ufo, Thursday, 25 April 2024 10:28 (five months ago) link
that does remind me that the cindy lee album falls into a kinda uncanny valley with its retro reverb sound, there's this cold digital sound to it too
― ufo, Thursday, 25 April 2024 10:32 (five months ago) link
if Cindy Lee is not your thing, that's fine, but to say there's no actual songs there is actually insane
― Murgatroid, Thursday, 25 April 2024 12:31 (five months ago) link
the “problem” with the cindy lee album is that the second half is miles better than the first, and it takes an hour to get there!
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Thursday, 25 April 2024 13:22 (five months ago) link
listening to the cindy lee now and enjoying it but the impeccable vibes are somewhat disrupted by listening on youtube and having tom brady pop up every 10 minutes to shill for hertz
― na (NA), Thursday, 25 April 2024 14:11 (five months ago) link
the official youtube upload is ad free, no?
― devvvine, Thursday, 25 April 2024 14:17 (five months ago) link
I was getting ads so now I'm downloading it
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Thursday, 25 April 2024 14:24 (five months ago) link
i'm listening to the one linked by pitchfork and getting adsanyways this is very good
― na (NA), Thursday, 25 April 2024 14:25 (five months ago) link
"this is too vibey" is the new "sounds dated"
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Thursday, 25 April 2024 15:32 (five months ago) link
what are the good songs on the cindy lee album? i listened to the whole thing twice and nothing really stood out at all
― ufo, Thursday, 25 April 2024 21:48 (five months ago) link
for a start: all i want is you, government cheque, wild one, stone faces, always dreaming, kingdom come
― devvvine, Thursday, 25 April 2024 22:08 (five months ago) link
"stone faces," "dracula," "government cheque," "if you hear me crying," "crime of passion"
tho none are as good as last year's "in a moment divine" with freak heat waves.
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Thursday, 25 April 2024 22:23 (five months ago) link
sorry, confused "crime of passion" (tho i do like that one) with "durham city limit"
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Thursday, 25 April 2024 22:31 (five months ago) link
absolutely love government cheque. real stand out to me
― husked, tonal wails (irrational), Friday, 26 April 2024 14:01 (five months ago) link
Sometimes it takes me a while to get around to a band, and I get that "Why did I wait so long?" feeling. Today I finally got around to listening to Knocked Loose and instead I thought, "Ugh, really?" The riffs are just reheated Emmure, and the vocalist suuuuucks.
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Sunday, 28 April 2024 17:13 (four months ago) link
Whatever one might think of "Diamond Jubilee", it's pretty awesome that we still have a cultural landscape where even though we're in a year with multiple releases by massive artists (Future, Beyonce, Taylor Swift, Kali Uchis), a relatively-unknown musician can find their way into the ranks of the 'hyped', to where friends of mine with very little interest in trad indie rock have asked me about the record.
― Front-loaded albums are musical gerrymandering (Prefecture), Sunday, 28 April 2024 21:42 (four months ago) link
I love the Still House Plants. I was patient and let the album rewire me.
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 29 April 2024 09:17 (four months ago) link