might as well start this thread
I stumbled across "Sail" on the radio the other day. I completely fell in love with it, despite (or, more honestly, because of) the witch-house-meets-LCD-Soundsystem melange it presented. I dug it enough to look up the album on Spotify and fell even harder for it (everything is kind of "LCD Soundsystem pastiche meets this genre").
Anyone else digging this or, as I suspect, does everyone totally hate this?
― now I have to imagine your penis (DJP), Friday, 26 August 2011 13:10 (fourteen years ago)
just listened to "sail". too enya, but i like the vocal.
― zvookster, Friday, 26 August 2011 13:21 (fourteen years ago)
yeah this is definitely one of the few faux-indie hits of the Foster The People wave on alt rock radio this year that i dig (although the first time i heard it i thought maybe it was that Danger Mouse f/ Jack White thing)
when i saw this thread on new answers i thought "oh is this gonna be an ironic enthusiasm/hate thread" and then i saw who started it and knew it wasn't
― some dude, Friday, 26 August 2011 13:29 (fourteen years ago)
ha yeah, I keep thinking I should hate stuff like this when I see it described, but when I hear it done well it's my favorite thing ever
― now I have to imagine your penis (DJP), Friday, 26 August 2011 14:06 (fourteen years ago)
lol apparently this guy was in a 'post-grunge' band called Hometown Hero, and unsurprisingly i like their big single too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PzYc8erviw&feature=related
― some dude, Friday, 26 August 2011 15:13 (fourteen years ago)
i saw this band play a free show a few months ago. it was terrible.
― teledyldonix, Friday, 2 September 2011 19:16 (fourteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyN_jD58qCI
"guilty filthy soul" is my favorite song right now. I love how sloppily this seams to have been put together.
― nicky lo-fi, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 11:53 (fourteen years ago)
i listen to this record a lot <3
― you live your life on the floor (sleepingbag), Thursday, 27 June 2013 17:49 (twelve years ago)
"Sail" is now 3x platinum, with 2 mil of that just in the past year
― some dude, Thursday, 27 June 2013 17:54 (twelve years ago)
I had totally ignored these guys but was just prodded to watch two videos by my 14-year-old nephew, and they're pretty good. Or those two songs are, anyway. He informed me, with all the self-awareness that a 14-year-old can muster, that "this is what the kids like these days."
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Monday, 29 July 2013 03:02 (twelve years ago)
did he show you the band's video of "Sail" or the viral one made by the 2 girls?
― "no, you can't be just some dude anymore." (some dude), Monday, 29 July 2013 04:07 (twelve years ago)
2.5 years after this thread was started, "sail" is climbing the charts in the UK, up from 31 to 17
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 12 January 2014 17:37 (twelve years ago)
'not your fault' still bangs
― maura, Friday, 22 May 2015 16:04 (ten years ago)
haven't listened to the new one tho
"Not Your Fault" is still my 4th favorite of their singles but they're all pretty great. new album's solid, but it's not the debut.
― some dude, Friday, 22 May 2015 16:11 (ten years ago)
still love this band too..but, their music videos really are so, so terrible
― Nobody ever knows anything. (sleepingbag), Friday, 22 May 2015 16:15 (ten years ago)
yeah i wish i had never seen the "Hollow Moon" video but the song jams
― some dude, Friday, 22 May 2015 16:21 (ten years ago)