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Post by Kapitan on Mar 15, 2019 16:36:56 GMT
I'm trying to remember whether I ever gave that a full listen. I might have just skimmed it after being turned off by Pure Comedy. I'll have to try it out with more open ears.
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Post by Kapitan on Mar 15, 2019 16:37:13 GMT
Hey look, our first two-page thread.
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Post by Kapitan on Mar 15, 2019 22:20:27 GMT
Jenny Lewis released a third tune from her upcoming album. I've got mixed opinions on her overall, but this one is OK. Pleasant, even.
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Post by Kapitan on Mar 19, 2019 12:46:19 GMT
A third pre-album release track, “Movies,” is out from Weyes Blood. Haven’t seen it on YouTube so no link, but it’s a long, slow atmospheric number with vocal harmony.
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Post by Kapitan on Mar 19, 2019 14:45:38 GMT
Video released:
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Post by Kapitan on Mar 19, 2019 23:42:09 GMT
Basically whatever is in the hot 100. There hasn't been a ton of stuff released this year that I've really liked, but Bad Idea by Ariana Grande is something that stands out to me. The end drags on a bit to long, but the way the orchestral parts of the song is mixed in with the trap beat is pretty cool. The guitar used in the intro and throughout the song very pleasing to my ears as well. Speaking of Ms. Grande, funny little fact about her "7 Rings" per NYT via Pitchfork: 90% of the royalties go to the estates of Rodgers and Hammerstein because of its obvious debt to "My Favorite Things." You can't really argue that...
(I like Jeremy Messersmith!)
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Post by Kapitan on Mar 22, 2019 13:44:10 GMT
New release day: no albums jumped out at me, though I'll give Jenny Lewis at least one good listen. I did download "Wasted Youth," a single linked above.
Also got this song, "UFOF," by Big Thief. Singer Adrianne Lenker sounds to me like the late Jeff Hanson, which is a compliment.
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Post by sebevedomy on Mar 22, 2019 16:49:22 GMT
New Panda Bear is....ok.
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Post by Kapitan on Mar 22, 2019 17:00:40 GMT
That's about as high as I ever get on Panda Bear anyway.
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Post by Kapitan on Mar 29, 2019 12:50:35 GMT
Another weak week for new releases, though I pre-ordered the Iron & Wine + Calexico album and thus got the nice little single "Father Mountain" right now.
Also--and this is for KDS--are you aware of / familiar with Devin Townsend? I came to know him back in the early '90s when he was the singer for Steve Vai in his one-album band Vai. (Clever band name, eh?) He was ... weird. (My main memory of him is co-hosting Headbanger's Ball with Vai one week, and as they returned from a commercial break, he had turned his t-shirt into pants or something and was hopping around like a crab. I'm going to seek out that clip, actually...)
I saw he has a new album out, Empath, and from a quick sampling, it is ... weird. Metal, fusion, with some classical overtones here and there.
Edit - found it. Ta-da!
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Post by kds on Mar 29, 2019 12:53:34 GMT
Another weak week for new releases, though I pre-ordered the Iron & Wine + Calexico album and thus got the nice little single "Father Mountain" right now.
Also--and this is for KDS--are you aware of / familiar with Devin Townsend? I came to know him back in the early '90s when he was the singer for Steve Vai in his one-album band Vai. (Clever band name, eh?) He was ... weird. (My main memory of him is co-hosting Headbanger's Ball with Vai one week, and as they returned from a commercial break, he had turned his t-shirt into pants or something and was hopping around like a crab. I'm going to seek out that clip, actually...)
I saw he has a new album out, Empath, and from a quick sampling, it is ... weird. Metal, fusion, with some classical overtones here and there.
I became aware of Devin Townsend when I first heard his band (at the time) Strapping Young Lad in the early 00s when MTV2 rebooted Headbangers Ball. I think they has some stuff that was decent musically, but the vocals didn't do it for me.
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Post by Kapitan on Mar 29, 2019 12:58:52 GMT
I think we're on the same page, then. My brother is a huge fan and has played me snippets and songs over the years, but it never really connects with me.
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Post by kds on Mar 29, 2019 13:04:44 GMT
I think we're on the same page, then. My brother is a huge fan and has played me snippets and songs over the years, but it never really connects with me. There were a lot of bands that came out in the early 00s, which was briefly dubbed the New Wave of American Heavy Metal, like Shadows Fall and and Killswitch Engage among others who pretty much completely lost me as soon as the vocals kicked in. I remember going to Ozzfest in 2005. Iron Maiden were on the bill, and Bruce Dickinson took a bit of a jab at the vocal style of many of the newer bands on the bill that day, saying something to the effect of "singing, what a concept." Looking back, that was kind of a d**k thing to say, but I also happen to agree with it.
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Post by Kapitan on Apr 4, 2019 23:16:57 GMT
Two more Vampire Weekend songs from their upcoming Father of the Bride album were released today, and I'm enjoying them. "This Life" and "Unbearably White" are both nice, as are all four of the previously released songs. I've never been much of a fan--always hit and miss--so to like six out of six is unprecedented.
They lost one of their members, Rostam Batmanglij, in the years since their last album. I know he was a multi-instrumentalist and producer, and honestly when he put out a solo album I wasn't impressed at all. Now I'm wondering if his influence on the group was what I didn't like in the first place.
Here's their "This Life." It's fun.
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Post by Kapitan on Apr 12, 2019 13:00:17 GMT
After a few slow weeks, I really enjoyed a few new releases this morning and picked up several (of different styles, too).
Anderson .Paak, RnB/funk, has a new album, Ventura, only a few months after his Oxnard. I wasn't a fan of the latter, but this one is much poppier, really enjoyable. There is even a Smokey Robinson collaboration.
Jens Lekman and Annika Norlin released a joint album (or two connected joint EPs?) called CORRESPONDENCE. It's soft, melodic, catchy indie pop.
Courtney Barnett, an indie rocker, put out a single a week or so ago, "Everybody Here Hates You."
John Paul White put out a polished country album, kind of a countrypolitan thing, The Hurting Kind.
And Mark Ronson Lykki Li put out a dance tune, "Late Night Feelings," from Ronson's upcoming album. (In late '18, he put out the single "Nothing Breaks Like a Heart" with Miley Cyrus from it, which was a kind of country-disco tune.) This one has a great groove. While not a disco or any kind of dance fan, really, Ronson has a great gift for bringing in really cool sounds and hooks. I look forward to the album, scheduled for June.
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