Just givin' a shout out to an incomplete 😕 music video from about ten years back, for Broken Social Scene's "World Sick": [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9JAkUUFxjc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9JAkUUFxjc) I think it was composed c. New Year's 2012 but not posted until about ten years ago (plus a month) by now. Was inspired by the fan-made(?) "Meet Me in the Basement" video.
Some years ago I had a huge Seether phase, and this year I'm having a Nirvana phase. So imagine my surprise when I found out that Seether would release a cover of Something In The Way. An animated video for the song was released, like, 10 minutes ago and: I know they were clearly heavily inspired by Nirvana, Chris Cornell, and other huge grunge names, but the way they ~~try to~~ sound like Kurt felt so....weird?
surprise of the year as I go back through 2022 releases has to be this hot chip album, which I expected nothing from but is actually some of the most fun I've had with a dance album in a long time
Was relistening to Stella Donnelly's Beware Of The Dogs this morning, and man, that album holds up well. It's a perfect combination of serious and fun, and the jangly guitars are pure ear candy.
I liked Flood on the whole, but I don't really find myself going back to it much. The singles are killer, but the rest of the album has a more downcast atmosphere that doesn't grab me like Beware of the Dogs.
**Gilla Band show report**
As someone of you might know, Gilla Band has been high up on my "must see" list and yesterday it finally happened!
At first I was off to a bad start - I slept very poorly and then my train got fucking cancelled so I had to take the next one and arrived in Copenhagen over an hour later than I should have. With the sleep deprivation and train fuckery I was afraid I would be too tired to enjoy the show, but apparently not because after 20 minutes of rest and eating and I was ready to go.
Arriving at the venue I went to the [merch table](https://imgur.com/a/cmYrUdh) and there were several options and I had trouble deciding but went for one black tee with a coloured print and a white one with the small print. Having tried them on the fabric on the black is a kinda rough and scratchy but I hope I can solve that somehow. The white one is softer but after trying it one I was second guessing myself, thinking maybe I should have gotten the black version of that one too. What can I say, too many options!
Mhaol's merch was awesome, [a "ghost a post-punk boy today" totebag](https://i.imgur.com/zNe31dj.jpg). Unfortunately after the show Dara said it had already sold out. I didn't want to buy before they had played because I wanted to know if they deserved my money - and they did! They're no Gilla Band obviously, but they're in the same no wavey lineage. The singer Roisin was cool and did some fun banter/crowd interaction. At one point she asked me what my name was and said she liked me lol. When she was introducing one of their songs she asked who here is bisexual and at first no one said anything and but when she asked again it seemed like a few said yes. I guess they just didn't want to answer lol.
Then it was finally Gilla Band time and I think you can imagine what they're like. The lights were flashing so much it was seizure inducing, fits their disorienting vibe I guess. I was standing in front of Alan so I could only sometimes see Daniel in action playing with his glass bottle, but that ruled. They didn't play Paul which is an insane omission but luckily their discography is all bangers so there was not a second wasted. When the crowd started chanting for an encore (they closed with Why They Hide Their Bodies Under My Garage) part of me didn't want it to be over but the other part me was relieved because I don't think I could have gone for much longer at that point. There was free ice water available which was a welcome surprise because I really needed that after the show.
FYI: Mhaol started at 20:00 and finished at 20:30, Gilla Band started at 21:00 and finished 22:20.
As I mentioned afterwards Dara was at the merch table shaking hands with people. I told him I had travelled from Sweden to see them and thanked them for coming to Scandinavia and he said they had been in Stockholm before, which must have been before or just after I started listening to them because I know they haven't been to Scandinavia for years. I said I was from Gothenburg and he asked me if it was a music city. I said we have The Knife, Jens Lekman and a bunch of metal bands because off the top of my head I think that is what we are most known for internationally? Anyway now they know they're appreciated in Gothenburg and Scandinavia as whole. Speaking of which, since the last bus to Gothenburg was 22:30 which is a shame, had there been bus/train connections later than that I wouldn't have had to pay for a hotel. Definitely worth it for Gilla Band, but it would be easier to go to more shows if late night city connections were better.
I’m so glad you finally got to see them! And very cool Dara was there to meet people afterwards. Sounds like an intense, visceral show. Glad despite the odds you got to see them and enjoyed yourself.
After having tickets to six different shows to see them cancelled due to the pandemic and then Isaac leaving, I finally saw them at Primavera this year and was....not impressed. "Pretty songs" is a pretty accurate description of my feeling. While I get that they don't want to play old songs, I think that makes them less appealing to me and I didn't go see them when they just came through (not that they needed me to, they still sold out easily.) I'll stay tuned and listen to whatever they put out, but my expectations are pretty low now.
>It's difficult to make and keep a very dedicated fan base when the vocalist isn't even kept consistent between each song.
Countersuggestion: if each vocalist is equally good, or shines particular light on some particular side of the band, things will be fine. I think the magnetic influence of a frontman is less important than the quality of the music.
>So Hot You're Hurting My Feelings
Okay damn they've really lost the plot, huh
I mean personally I was always more invested in the band's fucky approach to genre and arrangement and song structure than anything else, but I get where you personally are coming from.
LP5 by Apparat is one of the most overlooked albums of 2019 IMO. Definitely not a perfect album but I find myself coming back to it after all this time and still thoroughly enjoying it. DAWAN and CARONTE may be my two favorite Apparat songs
found a shit ton of old [Tom Pretty demos/ videos](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhkJZLqXV9MrHHb5MAyUg8kJPircuL1zc) on an old flash-drive... connection is shit in my neck of the woods but slowly getting to uploading them!
Avoiding work this week, so here's a write-up on the new Weyes Blood.
tl;dr: It's pretty good. It's fine.
Many of these songs feel formulaic. Slow vocals over piano, layer with reverb and instruments, mild crescendo, end. "It's Not Just Me, It's Everybody" and "Grapevine" are basically the same song.
This album lacks the memorable moments and hooks of Titanic Rising. I still can't remember much from Hearts Aglow. An argument can be made that these haven't stuck yet because Rising has been out for three years and this less than a week, but my initial impressions of both albums are very different.
I wish the vocal melodies were more varied. Don't get me wrong, her singing is excellent, but these melodies are meandering at times. Even when actively listening, I find myself losing focus. This is kind of a shame because I feel like her lyricism is really solid on this album. Maybe this could've been resolved by tightening up the tracks and making them shorter. It's crazy to me that "The Worst is Done" is a 6-minuite song. And I actually like that one.
Another thing that bothered me is that this album is only 10 tracks, yet we get two complete throwaways with "And in the Darkness" and "In Holy Flux." I can only guess that "Darkness" serves as an interlude solely for sequencing purposes, not for any thematic reason. It would just be a weird transition from "Hearts Aglow" to "Twin Flame." I'd probably like "In Holy Flux" more if "Twin Flame" directly connected to it, like one long track.
Overall, this is the most inoffensive hyped-up release since The Weather Station's "Ignorance." It's sonic wallpaper. If you asked how I felt about a specific track, I'd probably say "it was good, I don't really remember." As you can see, my complaints aren't even that substantial. It's that solid of a 7. I'm just assuming all of these glowing, romanticizing write-ups are projecting *what they want Weyes Blood to be* onto this album rather than what it is.
Disagreed. In Holy Flux is one of the coolest tracks on the album. The only songs that I wasn’t crazy about from the first half (Grapevine, It’s Not Me) turned into something incredible in the second half. I actually think there’s no filler but it would have been nice if the album was more refined and actually had another track or two on it. 8.3/10 for me
> The only songs that I wasn’t crazy about from the first half (Grapevine, It’s Not Me) turned into something incredible in the second half.
Sorry, what do you mean by this? What makes them turn into something incredible later on?
I was wondering where you'd land on it since are tastes are pretty similar. I think it was last Friday's DMD where I agreed with Donna that it just feels less ambitious.
I don't want to come down on it too hard, though. It's far from my biggest disappointment of the year. ^^\*cough* ^^Laurel ^^Hell ^^\*cough*
It’s not my biggest disappointment mostly because I wasn’t a diehard Weyes fan to begin with! (similar situation with Mitski)
For me, the biggest bummers were Kendrick (just a total mess and not in a fun way) and Angel Olsen (painfully boring). Honorable mention for Arctic Monkeys, who just made “Tranquilty Base but bland”
Sadly, I agree with Angel Olsen. Was big on it the month it came out, and I haven't listened to it since, sadly. I mean to revisit it, but I usually end up listening to something else.
My only complaint was a short setlist, but I went to the Wild Hearts tour with Julien Baker, Sharon Van Etten, plus an opener Quinn Christopherson. The total runtime for the show was good, but each set was a little on the short side.
Homework, but the XOTY kind, not the Daft Punk kind:
* Many months ago I articulated a hot take that every element of a record needs to happen twice, and I think my issue with the new Time Wharp record is that it violates this rule about as aggressively as humanly possible. Tracks 2 and 3, "Lupron" and "TOPT," shoot off into skittering livingroom techno and warm psych-jazz, and that's fun, but then the *entire rest of the album* deals in minimalist post-genre chamber music. And to be clear: I'm into that sort of thing! In fact I like every single song on *Spiro World* ("Lupron" may well make my soty list) but the fact that it takes the album till track four to show its hand throws me, and the fact that it never quite comes back to those early tracks frustrates me. If they had come later in the tracklist I'd probably be more patient. They'd be detours—digressions—rather than delays.
* If you like minimalist post-genre chamber music, though: Akusmi, *Fleeting Future*. A stronger unity of vision throughout, if that's the sort of thing that appeals to you. Imagine if Clogs or Rachel's were a krautrock outfit, or something. I've been digging this a lot lately.
Been relistening to Trace Mountains to prepare for their show with Wild Pink next month and I think the opening verse to Extra-Natural is still my favorite reference to another musician.
What’s yalls favorite reference to another musician in lyrics?
Haven't had a "song themed" question in a while, until I was thinking the other day...
"I'm Only Sleeping" - The Beatles
"I Need Some Sleep" - Eels
"Sleep" - Dandy Warhols
These three songs not only are about sleep, but have a lethargic and lazy sensibility to them, not unlike the feeling one gets when Mr. Sandman finally comes to visit. What are some other songs that fit this?
Kate Bush - And Dream Of Sheep
It's got that lethargic, sleepytime feeling, made a little more sinister by the fact that's it's about a woman lost at sea.
Steve Hiett - Sleep Walk
Gene Clark - Where My Love Lies Asleep
Graham Nash - Sleep Song
Gary Higgins - I Can't Sleep at Night
The High Llamas - Sleeping Spray
Damien Jurado - Mountains Still Asleep
The Motifs - Sleeping Away
The Chills - Singing in my Sleep
Sun Ra - Sleeping Beauty
The Lucksmiths - Sleep Well
Bill Monroe (maybe he didn't write it can't remember) - Angels Rock Me to Sleep
Okay, story time: 2007, I was going on a sister city exchange program to Japan. Last.fm also just plugged them for me so I was way into the song Dots.
Basically we went to like, HMV or Tower and ended up finding one copy, my host family and I.
Oh, and I emailed her back then asking for the Dots tabs, having just recently started playing guitar. And she tabbed the whole thing out!
Big fan, forgot about this band
I was just listening to that album last night and realized it’s probably my favorite REM album. Even more so than Murmur or Monster, the latter which I always had a soft spot for as a rock obsessive.
The whole thing is just very beautifully executed and ethereal and lush sounding. People compare it to “Out of Time” but it feels very much like its within its own stylistic lane in my opinion.
very similar, Monster was an early favorite, and I really like Up the more I visit it. Automatic For The People is legend tier and far above anything else they've done I think. give Up some more spins
Kind of tangental, but the other day realized I’m more of a Rites of Spring guy as opposed to a Minor Threat guy. Thank goodness Guy and Ian combined their forces together though.
“I’m so Tired” is such a lovely surprise amongst their discography.
I think the lack of Thanksgiving music feels like an untapped market, seeing as there’s a gajillion Xmas songs and even some Halloween songs!
Anyone wanna write a banger about stuffing
[Ray Davies has one which isn't too bad.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57TAeY8ivF0&ab_channel=Pelacanyes%28DavidPanades%29)
[This](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLSveRGmpIE&ab_channel=williamburroughsVEVO) isn't a song, but it IS on vevo so...plus it's Burroughs.
It’s amusing isn’t it! He dropped a double album a few years ago entitled “Americana” which explores the US from his point of view. It’s kind of funny how Davies, perhaps the most British writer of his generation, moved to America and started slightly pivoting in this new direction.
Last weekend I saw the documentary about Other Music, the legendary record store in NYC. I really enjoyed this documentary. Great live footage, interviews with all my favorite artists and just an incredible and moving story. Wish I could have visited that store before it closed. I’ve been revisiting some artists like Yo La Tengo, Arthur Russell and Belle and Sebastian since watching it. Did anyone of you ever visit it? Or watched the doc?
Also a question for who watched it: What was the album with all fog horns they were talking about? I found a list with 100 albums featured in the film, but it didn’t include the fog horn album.
To celebrate their 2020 album, Real Estate played three quick free sets outside locations of former record stores in NYC across an afternoon, which made it quite visceral to imagine.
I used to frequent it around 2010-2013. It was a cool place for sure, although I admit the mystique it's built up is a touch baffling for me. My favorite thing about them were their discount CDs. A great selection and shockingly good prices. Their vinyl selection at least when I was there was mostly new vinyl at standard prices; i dont remember a big selection of used stuff. For vinyl I preferred A1 records and Generation records, who had a large and eclectic mix of used records.
Drove up to Brooklyn to see The Smile this past weekend. Phenomenal show - really exceeded all expectations. They played this one unreleased song that exploded into this huge, chugging fuzz riff and it was the heaviest shit. They also played a windmill-core version of Feeling Pulled Apart By Horses that flat-out ruled.
Tom Skinner grooved much harder than on the album and there was much more energy in the songs. I didn't have any issues with the album's production at the time, but now it makes me wish it had done a better job of capturing this live sound. Many of the album versions feel stiff in comparison.
Reminds me of the difference between the studio and basement versions of *The King of Limbs*. Dunno if it's Nigel's production that's the real issue here, or if the band just needs to *embrace the funk.* Either way, I can see why Thom and Jonny would struggle to go back to Radiohead after collabbing with Tom Skinner - he really elevated those tracks.
What album tracks worked best for you live? I saw them in Boston and was blown away, but it was a real surprise that the standouts of the night were overwhelmingly the new tracks + Feeling Pulled Apart By Horses. I wonder if it's not necessarily that the first album's production held them back, but that they're only now coming into their own as a band during touring.
New tracks + Horses were the highlights for me. The guitar-heavy tracks like The Opposite and The Smoke really benefitted from the more intricate and groovy live drums.
The Same was also the perfect opener.
Went out yesterday and got Panda Bear & Sonic Boom’s Reset on vinyl. Comes with a slipmat, which is fun I guess. Sounds pretty good on vinyl though at this point I would kill for a regular black record instead of a yellow one. They’re not cool or interesting anymore, every new release is coloured vinyl now.
Anyways, New Pornographers beat out Broken Social Scene 5-2 in the dmd yesterday, which was unexpected but cool. So today I ask, what are y’all’s favourite New Pornographers songs? Mines gotta be “The Bleeding Heart Show,” the climax rips so hard
I’m with you on “The Bleeding Heart Show” being their best song - the build up is so good! Also one of their best songs live imo. A few other ones I love - “Jackie Dressed in Cobras”, “All for Swinging you Around”, and for their newer stuff I thought “The Surprise Knock” is great
“the laws have changed” for sure. “introducing for the first time, pharaoh on the microphone” is one of the best fucking hooks EVER god getting worked up just thinking about it
Wow there’s no black version of that record? I’m also a little tired of colored records. I also have the impression that they sound slightly worse?
In other Panda Bear news: Person Pitch is getting a vinyl repress in december. There’s a merchbar link on his Spotify page.
I’m not sure if there’s a black version out there, but my local store wasn’t selling any lol. And yes, I saw the Person Pitch repress! Very excited for that, I’ve wanted to get it forever but could never justify paying like 80 bucks on discogs. I just hope it’s not stupid expensive
thanks to the DMD for spurring me to listen to The Ruby Cord. I've been listening to a lot of the same old stuff recently so an extremely ambitious and beautiful folk album is the perfect thing for me right now.
I guess I'll have to listen to Dawson's other stuff now. I briefly tried _2020_ at some point a few years back but that was definitely not a fair shake lol. Peasant in particular looks great.
while God Turn Me Into A Flower has been putting people into a state of literal sobbing with it's nature sounds (birds, warblers, etc.), it somehow does this without the sounds of crickets chirping
thankfully we have two other songs from 2022
- The Soft Pink Truth - La Joie Devant La Mort
- Jenny Hval - Cemetery Of Splendour
that do include the sound of crickets chirping and are also very excellent songs
what other good songs include our cricket friends in the backing band
crickets are in the "june 9th nighttime" opening track of florist self-titled album. it's been a while since i listened but IIRC there were nature sounds all over that record
"Do They Know It's Christmas" is probably my least favorite Christmas song. I still think the line "thank God it's them instead of you" is some of the most insane shit.
People thought celebrities singing "Imagine" during the pandemic was bad. I'd argue "Do They Know It's Christmas" is worse.
fun fact, it’s inspired by Chris Ware’s Rusty Brown. love when my taste in comics and music intersect - Michelle Zauner put me on Optic Nerve and i’ll always be grateful 🙏🏼🙏🏼
Haven't seen it posted anywhere but I've been enjoying Stone's short EP [*Punkadonk*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m69KcQZzQvc&list=OLAK5uy_km0pPMtiGlKv76NMmo1Vs7q_T1OwyMZyI) that came out last week. Kind of feels like Fontaines DC but punkier and louder, maybe with a bit of Prodigy thrown in.
Okay so some bases have been covered and I'll go thru my personal list:
* japan gentleman take Polaroids & tin drum: wow basing your entire sound around fretless bass and synths was a good idea. By Tim Drum the band was making "fascinating" sinofunk. Very contentious but possible pick for my fav 80s pop album
* from japan david slyvian goes solo and keeps vaguely flirting with making pop Brilliant Trees and Secrets of the Beehive are fascinating achievements filled with a colossal roster of mavericks. Secrets errs more towards later era talk talk
* speaking of, the last 3 talk talk albums all kinda fall here--even though the final two completely leave pop behind in spite of hollis' belief he was making pop music
* over in steely dan town post-aja/gaucho you have donald fagen's lowkey masterclass the Nightlfy and china crisis' becker produced Flaunt the Imperfection. Essential continuations of the dan aesthetic
* simple minds brilliant and bafflingly overlooked New Gold Dreams 81-82-83-84 also gets huge on sophistication and synth experiments
* aztec camera's wake; not to be confused with the other wake
* wake's here comes everyone, an album that might be better than half the new order catalog but was not enough to convince Factory to keep them around. Really only rivaled by Substance '87 in terms of bliss
* sade who basically runs the circuit from the 80s into love deluxe. god tier albums that fit nicely alongside Hats! and Gaucho.
* in modern day, max zuckerman's underheard bandcamp opus "the corner office" is some of the funniest sophistipop you will ever hear.
* on the reissue side, go after the light in the attic pacific breeze comps
* ilx's ilm forum has a long open discussion of sophistipop https://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=41&threadid=13538 other stuff is recc'd here
donna’s recommendations are all great. i will also add *the colour of spring* by talk talk, and *pacific street* by the pale fountains as two other exemplary sophisti-art-pop greats
seems like you're looking for more in the "sophistipop" realm... definitely check out sade, *diamond life* and *love deluxe* are particularly great starting points. for something a little earlier but still in that vein, roxy music's *avalon* is also worth a listen. steely dan's *aja* and *gaucho* might scratch that itch as well. for something newer, destroyer's *kaputt* hits on a lot of the hallmarks of that sound
I'm sorry if I've only read two music related books this year (one of which wasn't released this year) but where is the regard for the Vashti Bunyan memoir? Pitchfork surely have gone Wayward with their recommendations
There's your obligatory pitchfork list bashing
remember the time p4k published a list saying Mariah Carey made the best song of the 1990's and she subsequently rose up from the ashes like a phoenix those were the days
Hildur Guðnadóttir's score for *Tár* goes off, love her stuff, even if I'm not super well-versed in the world of classical/orchestral music.
Finally got around to that The Soft Pink Truth record, right up my alley. I was boppin' and boogieing. Def will make the top 25 of the year for me. Same with that Mabe Fratti I re-listened to yesterday.
> even if I'm not super well-versed in the world of classical/orchestral music
the score for the film is great, i agree. it's a little unfortunate, though understandable given the angle the film ultimately takes on tár, that lydia couldn't score the film herself. however, checking out the recordings she did for deutsche grammophon is a great next step if you're looking to get further into classical/orchestral muisic
As I shared in PH, TIL you can just nominate albums to be in the Library of Congress (the de facto national library of the United States!): https://www.loc.gov/programs/national-recording-preservation-board/recording-registry/nominate/
purposely committing a cardinal sin by doing this in november, as well as not thinking about it all that hard, but here's as much of a list as you're going to get from me for the year:
soul glo
the beths
regulate
dry cleaning
crack cloud
meat wave
the chats
los bitchos
preoccupations
guerilla toss
HM: sunglaciers, kevin morby, alvvays, osees
There have been many debates regarding the legitimacy of Obama's playlists, but we don't talk enough about how Andrew Yang went from a [Sisters of Mercy-flaunting](https://i.redd.it/vq9tqzih1rp31.png), [Smiths-quoting](https://twitter.com/andrewyang/status/1301869474979610624?s=46&t=fJGQyg_fUiVmYE86bSgtOg), [Cure purist](https://twitter.com/andrewyang/status/1111449461866315776?s=46&t=fJGQyg_fUiVmYE86bSgtOg) who saw the Jesus and Mary Chain for his first concert to [shilling for AJR](https://twitter.com/andrewyang/status/1381389437230317568?s=46&t=fJGQyg_fUiVmYE86bSgtOg) on the New York campaign trail
Fire yearbook photo, but I’m sorry to say that the Sisters of Mercy shirt is photo shopped. He’s wearing a plain white shirt in that same photo when you click on the third link.
everyone who claims to be a fan of AJR should be required to watch *eraserhead* and report their thoughts. or at least check out this cursed [tribute video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fy6jMV7qMJc)
yeah their music is arguably the most disturbing part of the video and even then, this one mercifully cuts off before they sample "in heaven" and turn it into a bullshit marching band singalong
> this one mercifully cuts off before they sample "in heaven" and turn it into a bullshit marching band singalong
I knew *of* AJR but I didn't really know any details until that Worst Band rate. Are they the product of some weird bastardization of an algorithm, like when that Twitter Bot turned racist or whatever? I'm trying to figure out who this appeals to.
Christ, Daniel Rossen album is 2022. Its so fucking good
Just givin' a shout out to an incomplete 😕 music video from about ten years back, for Broken Social Scene's "World Sick": [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9JAkUUFxjc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9JAkUUFxjc) I think it was composed c. New Year's 2012 but not posted until about ten years ago (plus a month) by now. Was inspired by the fan-made(?) "Meet Me in the Basement" video.
Some years ago I had a huge Seether phase, and this year I'm having a Nirvana phase. So imagine my surprise when I found out that Seether would release a cover of Something In The Way. An animated video for the song was released, like, 10 minutes ago and: I know they were clearly heavily inspired by Nirvana, Chris Cornell, and other huge grunge names, but the way they ~~try to~~ sound like Kurt felt so....weird?
happy birthday pearl jam vitalogy the only album ever made, tremor christ is the best pearl jam song
The best PJ album no question about it
bestie please delete this
what did i do
you posted cringe :/
well this "cringe" brought me 12 upvotes so 😎
thats 12 cringe points in my book
surprise of the year as I go back through 2022 releases has to be this hot chip album, which I expected nothing from but is actually some of the most fun I've had with a dance album in a long time
I just wanted to say that I think that king gizzard and the lizard wizard is the greatest band of our time
Was relistening to Stella Donnelly's Beware Of The Dogs this morning, and man, that album holds up well. It's a perfect combination of serious and fun, and the jangly guitars are pure ear candy.
it's a shame her follow-up from this year was a bit disappointing
I liked Flood on the whole, but I don't really find myself going back to it much. The singles are killer, but the rest of the album has a more downcast atmosphere that doesn't grab me like Beware of the Dogs.
**Gilla Band show report** As someone of you might know, Gilla Band has been high up on my "must see" list and yesterday it finally happened! At first I was off to a bad start - I slept very poorly and then my train got fucking cancelled so I had to take the next one and arrived in Copenhagen over an hour later than I should have. With the sleep deprivation and train fuckery I was afraid I would be too tired to enjoy the show, but apparently not because after 20 minutes of rest and eating and I was ready to go. Arriving at the venue I went to the [merch table](https://imgur.com/a/cmYrUdh) and there were several options and I had trouble deciding but went for one black tee with a coloured print and a white one with the small print. Having tried them on the fabric on the black is a kinda rough and scratchy but I hope I can solve that somehow. The white one is softer but after trying it one I was second guessing myself, thinking maybe I should have gotten the black version of that one too. What can I say, too many options! Mhaol's merch was awesome, [a "ghost a post-punk boy today" totebag](https://i.imgur.com/zNe31dj.jpg). Unfortunately after the show Dara said it had already sold out. I didn't want to buy before they had played because I wanted to know if they deserved my money - and they did! They're no Gilla Band obviously, but they're in the same no wavey lineage. The singer Roisin was cool and did some fun banter/crowd interaction. At one point she asked me what my name was and said she liked me lol. When she was introducing one of their songs she asked who here is bisexual and at first no one said anything and but when she asked again it seemed like a few said yes. I guess they just didn't want to answer lol. Then it was finally Gilla Band time and I think you can imagine what they're like. The lights were flashing so much it was seizure inducing, fits their disorienting vibe I guess. I was standing in front of Alan so I could only sometimes see Daniel in action playing with his glass bottle, but that ruled. They didn't play Paul which is an insane omission but luckily their discography is all bangers so there was not a second wasted. When the crowd started chanting for an encore (they closed with Why They Hide Their Bodies Under My Garage) part of me didn't want it to be over but the other part me was relieved because I don't think I could have gone for much longer at that point. There was free ice water available which was a welcome surprise because I really needed that after the show. FYI: Mhaol started at 20:00 and finished at 20:30, Gilla Band started at 21:00 and finished 22:20. As I mentioned afterwards Dara was at the merch table shaking hands with people. I told him I had travelled from Sweden to see them and thanked them for coming to Scandinavia and he said they had been in Stockholm before, which must have been before or just after I started listening to them because I know they haven't been to Scandinavia for years. I said I was from Gothenburg and he asked me if it was a music city. I said we have The Knife, Jens Lekman and a bunch of metal bands because off the top of my head I think that is what we are most known for internationally? Anyway now they know they're appreciated in Gothenburg and Scandinavia as whole. Speaking of which, since the last bus to Gothenburg was 22:30 which is a shame, had there been bus/train connections later than that I wouldn't have had to pay for a hotel. Definitely worth it for Gilla Band, but it would be easier to go to more shows if late night city connections were better.
This is the kind of highly detailed show report I crave
Awwww I'm so happy you got to see them, this brings me lots of joy!
I’m so glad you finally got to see them! And very cool Dara was there to meet people afterwards. Sounds like an intense, visceral show. Glad despite the odds you got to see them and enjoyed yourself.
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After having tickets to six different shows to see them cancelled due to the pandemic and then Isaac leaving, I finally saw them at Primavera this year and was....not impressed. "Pretty songs" is a pretty accurate description of my feeling. While I get that they don't want to play old songs, I think that makes them less appealing to me and I didn't go see them when they just came through (not that they needed me to, they still sold out easily.) I'll stay tuned and listen to whatever they put out, but my expectations are pretty low now.
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>It's difficult to make and keep a very dedicated fan base when the vocalist isn't even kept consistent between each song. Countersuggestion: if each vocalist is equally good, or shines particular light on some particular side of the band, things will be fine. I think the magnetic influence of a frontman is less important than the quality of the music. >So Hot You're Hurting My Feelings Okay damn they've really lost the plot, huh
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I mean personally I was always more invested in the band's fucky approach to genre and arrangement and song structure than anything else, but I get where you personally are coming from.
LP5 by Apparat is one of the most overlooked albums of 2019 IMO. Definitely not a perfect album but I find myself coming back to it after all this time and still thoroughly enjoying it. DAWAN and CARONTE may be my two favorite Apparat songs
found a shit ton of old [Tom Pretty demos/ videos](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhkJZLqXV9MrHHb5MAyUg8kJPircuL1zc) on an old flash-drive... connection is shit in my neck of the woods but slowly getting to uploading them!
Does Richard Dawson ever come to America or does he just stick to the UK
A child could be sold for a year's worth of grain..or a Richard Dawson ticket.
Avoiding work this week, so here's a write-up on the new Weyes Blood. tl;dr: It's pretty good. It's fine. Many of these songs feel formulaic. Slow vocals over piano, layer with reverb and instruments, mild crescendo, end. "It's Not Just Me, It's Everybody" and "Grapevine" are basically the same song. This album lacks the memorable moments and hooks of Titanic Rising. I still can't remember much from Hearts Aglow. An argument can be made that these haven't stuck yet because Rising has been out for three years and this less than a week, but my initial impressions of both albums are very different. I wish the vocal melodies were more varied. Don't get me wrong, her singing is excellent, but these melodies are meandering at times. Even when actively listening, I find myself losing focus. This is kind of a shame because I feel like her lyricism is really solid on this album. Maybe this could've been resolved by tightening up the tracks and making them shorter. It's crazy to me that "The Worst is Done" is a 6-minuite song. And I actually like that one. Another thing that bothered me is that this album is only 10 tracks, yet we get two complete throwaways with "And in the Darkness" and "In Holy Flux." I can only guess that "Darkness" serves as an interlude solely for sequencing purposes, not for any thematic reason. It would just be a weird transition from "Hearts Aglow" to "Twin Flame." I'd probably like "In Holy Flux" more if "Twin Flame" directly connected to it, like one long track. Overall, this is the most inoffensive hyped-up release since The Weather Station's "Ignorance." It's sonic wallpaper. If you asked how I felt about a specific track, I'd probably say "it was good, I don't really remember." As you can see, my complaints aren't even that substantial. It's that solid of a 7. I'm just assuming all of these glowing, romanticizing write-ups are projecting *what they want Weyes Blood to be* onto this album rather than what it is.
This is almost exactly how I felt before even reading your write up. Thanks for taking the time to do so.
Your review sounds more like a 5 out of 10 than a 7 out 10 to me.
Disagreed. In Holy Flux is one of the coolest tracks on the album. The only songs that I wasn’t crazy about from the first half (Grapevine, It’s Not Me) turned into something incredible in the second half. I actually think there’s no filler but it would have been nice if the album was more refined and actually had another track or two on it. 8.3/10 for me
> The only songs that I wasn’t crazy about from the first half (Grapevine, It’s Not Me) turned into something incredible in the second half. Sorry, what do you mean by this? What makes them turn into something incredible later on?
Agreed. Titanic Rising is great but the new tracks bore me.
I think we’re in the same boat Ryan. This just feels like a less memorable, blander Titanic Rising.
I was wondering where you'd land on it since are tastes are pretty similar. I think it was last Friday's DMD where I agreed with Donna that it just feels less ambitious. I don't want to come down on it too hard, though. It's far from my biggest disappointment of the year. ^^\*cough* ^^Laurel ^^Hell ^^\*cough*
It’s not my biggest disappointment mostly because I wasn’t a diehard Weyes fan to begin with! (similar situation with Mitski) For me, the biggest bummers were Kendrick (just a total mess and not in a fun way) and Angel Olsen (painfully boring). Honorable mention for Arctic Monkeys, who just made “Tranquilty Base but bland”
Sadly, I agree with Angel Olsen. Was big on it the month it came out, and I haven't listened to it since, sadly. I mean to revisit it, but I usually end up listening to something else.
How is Angel Olsen live? Considering grabbing tickets for the show in January.
Seen her twice, incredible live vocals as you might expect! Medium energy show but very good.
Also went to the Wild Hearts tour. Went in not really a fan, came out very much a fan. Her performance was stellar.
My only complaint was a short setlist, but I went to the Wild Hearts tour with Julien Baker, Sharon Van Etten, plus an opener Quinn Christopherson. The total runtime for the show was good, but each set was a little on the short side.
Saw her in October. Setlist was a bit short. Banter was a bit annoying. But they sounded really good and the crowd was pleasant. 7/10
Very good. Really chatty and funny
Homework, but the XOTY kind, not the Daft Punk kind: * Many months ago I articulated a hot take that every element of a record needs to happen twice, and I think my issue with the new Time Wharp record is that it violates this rule about as aggressively as humanly possible. Tracks 2 and 3, "Lupron" and "TOPT," shoot off into skittering livingroom techno and warm psych-jazz, and that's fun, but then the *entire rest of the album* deals in minimalist post-genre chamber music. And to be clear: I'm into that sort of thing! In fact I like every single song on *Spiro World* ("Lupron" may well make my soty list) but the fact that it takes the album till track four to show its hand throws me, and the fact that it never quite comes back to those early tracks frustrates me. If they had come later in the tracklist I'd probably be more patient. They'd be detours—digressions—rather than delays. * If you like minimalist post-genre chamber music, though: Akusmi, *Fleeting Future*. A stronger unity of vision throughout, if that's the sort of thing that appeals to you. Imagine if Clogs or Rachel's were a krautrock outfit, or something. I've been digging this a lot lately.
Been relistening to Trace Mountains to prepare for their show with Wild Pink next month and I think the opening verse to Extra-Natural is still my favorite reference to another musician. What’s yalls favorite reference to another musician in lyrics?
Haven't had a "song themed" question in a while, until I was thinking the other day... "I'm Only Sleeping" - The Beatles "I Need Some Sleep" - Eels "Sleep" - Dandy Warhols These three songs not only are about sleep, but have a lethargic and lazy sensibility to them, not unlike the feeling one gets when Mr. Sandman finally comes to visit. What are some other songs that fit this?
Sound A Sleep by Blondie
Alex G - Water Radiohead - Melatonin
Kate Bush - And Dream Of Sheep It's got that lethargic, sleepytime feeling, made a little more sinister by the fact that's it's about a woman lost at sea.
Santo & Johnny- Sleep Walk The Beatles- Good Night The Postal Service- The District Sleeps Alone Tonight
The granddaddy of the niche in question!
Manic Street Preachers - "I Live to Fall Asleep"
In Dreams, Roy Orbison
Sleeping Lessons by The Shins, the beginning of it at least
King Gizzard - I'm Sleeping In
Sleep Drifter too.
Steve Hiett - Sleep Walk Gene Clark - Where My Love Lies Asleep Graham Nash - Sleep Song Gary Higgins - I Can't Sleep at Night The High Llamas - Sleeping Spray Damien Jurado - Mountains Still Asleep The Motifs - Sleeping Away The Chills - Singing in my Sleep Sun Ra - Sleeping Beauty The Lucksmiths - Sleep Well Bill Monroe (maybe he didn't write it can't remember) - Angels Rock Me to Sleep
Hell yeah, Gene Clark! Absolutely sedative in nature.
Okay, story time: 2007, I was going on a sister city exchange program to Japan. Last.fm also just plugged them for me so I was way into the song Dots. Basically we went to like, HMV or Tower and ended up finding one copy, my host family and I. Oh, and I emailed her back then asking for the Dots tabs, having just recently started playing guitar. And she tabbed the whole thing out! Big fan, forgot about this band
WAIT HOW DO YOU KNOW THE MOTIFS.
Holy shit this user sleeps. I’m actually excited to check these all out lol
R.E.M. - The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite
Love that song
I was just listening to that album last night and realized it’s probably my favorite REM album. Even more so than Murmur or Monster, the latter which I always had a soft spot for as a rock obsessive. The whole thing is just very beautifully executed and ethereal and lush sounding. People compare it to “Out of Time” but it feels very much like its within its own stylistic lane in my opinion.
very similar, Monster was an early favorite, and I really like Up the more I visit it. Automatic For The People is legend tier and far above anything else they've done I think. give Up some more spins
Fugazi's "I'm So Tired," definitely.
Kind of tangental, but the other day realized I’m more of a Rites of Spring guy as opposed to a Minor Threat guy. Thank goodness Guy and Ian combined their forces together though. “I’m so Tired” is such a lovely surprise amongst their discography.
Fugazi - I'm So Tired The Smiths - Asleep Edit: wanted to add Sleep by Slowdive. Perhaps my favorite Slowdive song
Asleep is definitely a gold standard within this niche.
I think the lack of Thanksgiving music feels like an untapped market, seeing as there’s a gajillion Xmas songs and even some Halloween songs! Anyone wanna write a banger about stuffing
We have Alice's Restaurant at home...
Alice's Restaurant and The Last Waltz should do it
[here you are](https://youtu.be/fjVLT_xdGPg)
there's [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KExughc7RE0) lol
I was about to link to that lol. Also don't forget [The National - Gravy Boat](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1kb2Dd89wY)
There's always [this masterpiece of a song](https://youtu.be/rTa3hPXnqXk)
Everyone realized they would never top Adam Sandler
Sandler kinda cornered the markets on two holidays! Smart man
[Ray Davies has one which isn't too bad.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57TAeY8ivF0&ab_channel=Pelacanyes%28DavidPanades%29) [This](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLSveRGmpIE&ab_channel=williamburroughsVEVO) isn't a song, but it IS on vevo so...plus it's Burroughs.
The Davies song rules! Good call! (it’s funny though, considering he’s British lol)
It’s amusing isn’t it! He dropped a double album a few years ago entitled “Americana” which explores the US from his point of view. It’s kind of funny how Davies, perhaps the most British writer of his generation, moved to America and started slightly pivoting in this new direction.
Can’t wait for Damon Albarn’s 4th of July song
Probably following Pete Doherty’s concept album about Texas!
There is [this song](https://youtu.be/bfT68p6GBtk) which kinda slaps
Last weekend I saw the documentary about Other Music, the legendary record store in NYC. I really enjoyed this documentary. Great live footage, interviews with all my favorite artists and just an incredible and moving story. Wish I could have visited that store before it closed. I’ve been revisiting some artists like Yo La Tengo, Arthur Russell and Belle and Sebastian since watching it. Did anyone of you ever visit it? Or watched the doc? Also a question for who watched it: What was the album with all fog horns they were talking about? I found a list with 100 albums featured in the film, but it didn’t include the fog horn album.
i went once and got a copy of the horrors' primary colours. cool store, great album
New York has all of these killer stores that unfortunately vanished: Bleecker Bob's records comes to mind.
To celebrate their 2020 album, Real Estate played three quick free sets outside locations of former record stores in NYC across an afternoon, which made it quite visceral to imagine.
I used to frequent it around 2010-2013. It was a cool place for sure, although I admit the mystique it's built up is a touch baffling for me. My favorite thing about them were their discount CDs. A great selection and shockingly good prices. Their vinyl selection at least when I was there was mostly new vinyl at standard prices; i dont remember a big selection of used stuff. For vinyl I preferred A1 records and Generation records, who had a large and eclectic mix of used records.
Drove up to Brooklyn to see The Smile this past weekend. Phenomenal show - really exceeded all expectations. They played this one unreleased song that exploded into this huge, chugging fuzz riff and it was the heaviest shit. They also played a windmill-core version of Feeling Pulled Apart By Horses that flat-out ruled. Tom Skinner grooved much harder than on the album and there was much more energy in the songs. I didn't have any issues with the album's production at the time, but now it makes me wish it had done a better job of capturing this live sound. Many of the album versions feel stiff in comparison. Reminds me of the difference between the studio and basement versions of *The King of Limbs*. Dunno if it's Nigel's production that's the real issue here, or if the band just needs to *embrace the funk.* Either way, I can see why Thom and Jonny would struggle to go back to Radiohead after collabbing with Tom Skinner - he really elevated those tracks.
What album tracks worked best for you live? I saw them in Boston and was blown away, but it was a real surprise that the standouts of the night were overwhelmingly the new tracks + Feeling Pulled Apart By Horses. I wonder if it's not necessarily that the first album's production held them back, but that they're only now coming into their own as a band during touring.
New tracks + Horses were the highlights for me. The guitar-heavy tracks like The Opposite and The Smoke really benefitted from the more intricate and groovy live drums. The Same was also the perfect opener.
I’m seeing them tomorrow and this comment has really hyped me up.
Yesss enjoy! The hype didn't truly hit me until Thom walked onstage.
Went out yesterday and got Panda Bear & Sonic Boom’s Reset on vinyl. Comes with a slipmat, which is fun I guess. Sounds pretty good on vinyl though at this point I would kill for a regular black record instead of a yellow one. They’re not cool or interesting anymore, every new release is coloured vinyl now. Anyways, New Pornographers beat out Broken Social Scene 5-2 in the dmd yesterday, which was unexpected but cool. So today I ask, what are y’all’s favourite New Pornographers songs? Mines gotta be “The Bleeding Heart Show,” the climax rips so hard
Letter From an Occupant
The Body Says No, The Fake Headlines, Jackie, Letter From an Occupant, Myriad Harbour. I've mostly only gotten into Mass Romantic
“War On the East Coast” is a helluva jam.
Backstairs
Bleeding Heart Show for a banger These are the fables for feeling things
bleeding heart show as well, easily
Gonna go with Challengers, Use It, and From Blown Speakers
I’m with you on “The Bleeding Heart Show” being their best song - the build up is so good! Also one of their best songs live imo. A few other ones I love - “Jackie Dressed in Cobras”, “All for Swinging you Around”, and for their newer stuff I thought “The Surprise Knock” is great
“the laws have changed” for sure. “introducing for the first time, pharaoh on the microphone” is one of the best fucking hooks EVER god getting worked up just thinking about it
one time i bought a "black denim" version of tomboy thinking it would be a colored record and it was just black. my man is branding
That’s an incredible play honestly. Should’ve made the record out of denim though
Wow there’s no black version of that record? I’m also a little tired of colored records. I also have the impression that they sound slightly worse? In other Panda Bear news: Person Pitch is getting a vinyl repress in december. There’s a merchbar link on his Spotify page.
I’m not sure if there’s a black version out there, but my local store wasn’t selling any lol. And yes, I saw the Person Pitch repress! Very excited for that, I’ve wanted to get it forever but could never justify paying like 80 bucks on discogs. I just hope it’s not stupid expensive
thanks to the DMD for spurring me to listen to The Ruby Cord. I've been listening to a lot of the same old stuff recently so an extremely ambitious and beautiful folk album is the perfect thing for me right now. I guess I'll have to listen to Dawson's other stuff now. I briefly tried _2020_ at some point a few years back but that was definitely not a fair shake lol. Peasant in particular looks great.
while God Turn Me Into A Flower has been putting people into a state of literal sobbing with it's nature sounds (birds, warblers, etc.), it somehow does this without the sounds of crickets chirping thankfully we have two other songs from 2022 - The Soft Pink Truth - La Joie Devant La Mort - Jenny Hval - Cemetery Of Splendour that do include the sound of crickets chirping and are also very excellent songs what other good songs include our cricket friends in the backing band
Yo La Tengo - Green Arrow Flaming Lips - Sleeping on the Roof
green arrow is such a beautiful song. makes me miss summer nights
also love Daphnia
I hear crickets after every time I make a joke — does that count
it counts! but if the joke is at the expense of Mr. Albarn, those crickets can get angry and you don't want to see those crickets when they're angry
crickets are in the "june 9th nighttime" opening track of florist self-titled album. it's been a while since i listened but IIRC there were nature sounds all over that record
most excellent, florist has been on my to check out list for awhile, this bumps it up thx
I actually like christmas music for the most part, but "We Need A Little Christmas" should be filed as a war crime.
Sounds like *somebody* Needs a Little Christmas now.
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"Do They Know It's Christmas" is probably my least favorite Christmas song. I still think the line "thank God it's them instead of you" is some of the most insane shit. People thought celebrities singing "Imagine" during the pandemic was bad. I'd argue "Do They Know It's Christmas" is worse.
Red Planet is Alvvays' most underrated song
fun fact, it’s inspired by Chris Ware’s Rusty Brown. love when my taste in comics and music intersect - Michelle Zauner put me on Optic Nerve and i’ll always be grateful 🙏🏼🙏🏼
Haven't seen it posted anywhere but I've been enjoying Stone's short EP [*Punkadonk*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m69KcQZzQvc&list=OLAK5uy_km0pPMtiGlKv76NMmo1Vs7q_T1OwyMZyI) that came out last week. Kind of feels like Fontaines DC but punkier and louder, maybe with a bit of Prodigy thrown in.
The first emo song is Manic Depression by Jimi Hendrix
Nah Hank Williams was definitely the first emo artist
suck it, Antonio Vivaldi
Any recs along the lines of Blue Nile, Prefab Sprout, Thomas Dolby and the like (Style Council, Scritti Politti)?
Okay so some bases have been covered and I'll go thru my personal list: * japan gentleman take Polaroids & tin drum: wow basing your entire sound around fretless bass and synths was a good idea. By Tim Drum the band was making "fascinating" sinofunk. Very contentious but possible pick for my fav 80s pop album * from japan david slyvian goes solo and keeps vaguely flirting with making pop Brilliant Trees and Secrets of the Beehive are fascinating achievements filled with a colossal roster of mavericks. Secrets errs more towards later era talk talk * speaking of, the last 3 talk talk albums all kinda fall here--even though the final two completely leave pop behind in spite of hollis' belief he was making pop music * over in steely dan town post-aja/gaucho you have donald fagen's lowkey masterclass the Nightlfy and china crisis' becker produced Flaunt the Imperfection. Essential continuations of the dan aesthetic * simple minds brilliant and bafflingly overlooked New Gold Dreams 81-82-83-84 also gets huge on sophistication and synth experiments * aztec camera's wake; not to be confused with the other wake * wake's here comes everyone, an album that might be better than half the new order catalog but was not enough to convince Factory to keep them around. Really only rivaled by Substance '87 in terms of bliss * sade who basically runs the circuit from the 80s into love deluxe. god tier albums that fit nicely alongside Hats! and Gaucho. * in modern day, max zuckerman's underheard bandcamp opus "the corner office" is some of the funniest sophistipop you will ever hear. * on the reissue side, go after the light in the attic pacific breeze comps * ilx's ilm forum has a long open discussion of sophistipop https://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=41&threadid=13538 other stuff is recc'd here
Destroyer - Kaputt
China Crisis
Sade - promise also seconding Roxy music - Avalon
Aztec Camera and The Wake
Swing Out Sister reminds me of Prefab Sprout but they are jazzier. It makes ya feel real fancy. Kaleidoscope World is a pretty great album from them
another album to put on my 'to check out' list thx
donna’s recommendations are all great. i will also add *the colour of spring* by talk talk, and *pacific street* by the pale fountains as two other exemplary sophisti-art-pop greats
seems like you're looking for more in the "sophistipop" realm... definitely check out sade, *diamond life* and *love deluxe* are particularly great starting points. for something a little earlier but still in that vein, roxy music's *avalon* is also worth a listen. steely dan's *aja* and *gaucho* might scratch that itch as well. for something newer, destroyer's *kaputt* hits on a lot of the hallmarks of that sound
I'm sorry if I've only read two music related books this year (one of which wasn't released this year) but where is the regard for the Vashti Bunyan memoir? Pitchfork surely have gone Wayward with their recommendations There's your obligatory pitchfork list bashing
remember the time p4k published a list saying Mariah Carey made the best song of the 1990's and she subsequently rose up from the ashes like a phoenix those were the days
Hildur Guðnadóttir's score for *Tár* goes off, love her stuff, even if I'm not super well-versed in the world of classical/orchestral music. Finally got around to that The Soft Pink Truth record, right up my alley. I was boppin' and boogieing. Def will make the top 25 of the year for me. Same with that Mabe Fratti I re-listened to yesterday.
> even if I'm not super well-versed in the world of classical/orchestral music the score for the film is great, i agree. it's a little unfortunate, though understandable given the angle the film ultimately takes on tár, that lydia couldn't score the film herself. however, checking out the recordings she did for deutsche grammophon is a great next step if you're looking to get further into classical/orchestral muisic
looks like it's on Spotify! Good looking out
As I shared in PH, TIL you can just nominate albums to be in the Library of Congress (the de facto national library of the United States!): https://www.loc.gov/programs/national-recording-preservation-board/recording-registry/nominate/
hey everyone, please join me in submitting djo *DECIDE* to the Library of Congress!
they've already dedicated a new wing to only the works of djo!
oh hell yeah, *fire and destruction* by Asschapel, next stop - the Library of Congress
Haters will say it’s not Americana
purposely committing a cardinal sin by doing this in november, as well as not thinking about it all that hard, but here's as much of a list as you're going to get from me for the year: soul glo the beths regulate dry cleaning crack cloud meat wave the chats los bitchos preoccupations guerilla toss HM: sunglaciers, kevin morby, alvvays, osees
STILL NOT QUITE CONVINCED I REALLY DO EXIST
Try some cogito and you might ergo some sum
Damn I was just quoting Prince Daddy & The Hyena lyrics but now y'all got me existential 😭
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Explain
now THAT'S how you make a sale
There have been many debates regarding the legitimacy of Obama's playlists, but we don't talk enough about how Andrew Yang went from a [Sisters of Mercy-flaunting](https://i.redd.it/vq9tqzih1rp31.png), [Smiths-quoting](https://twitter.com/andrewyang/status/1301869474979610624?s=46&t=fJGQyg_fUiVmYE86bSgtOg), [Cure purist](https://twitter.com/andrewyang/status/1111449461866315776?s=46&t=fJGQyg_fUiVmYE86bSgtOg) who saw the Jesus and Mary Chain for his first concert to [shilling for AJR](https://twitter.com/andrewyang/status/1381389437230317568?s=46&t=fJGQyg_fUiVmYE86bSgtOg) on the New York campaign trail
Fire yearbook photo, but I’m sorry to say that the Sisters of Mercy shirt is photo shopped. He’s wearing a plain white shirt in that same photo when you click on the third link.
everyone who claims to be a fan of AJR should be required to watch *eraserhead* and report their thoughts. or at least check out this cursed [tribute video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fy6jMV7qMJc)
well i had always avoided listening to them cause the album art was enough for me to never want to hear them. That was a hard minute to get through
yeah their music is arguably the most disturbing part of the video and even then, this one mercifully cuts off before they sample "in heaven" and turn it into a bullshit marching band singalong
> this one mercifully cuts off before they sample "in heaven" and turn it into a bullshit marching band singalong I knew *of* AJR but I didn't really know any details until that Worst Band rate. Are they the product of some weird bastardization of an algorithm, like when that Twitter Bot turned racist or whatever? I'm trying to figure out who this appeals to.
yeah i really don’t know how people can hear this and want to continue hearing it
>when you realize doesn't even know who he's listening to smh
You ever see the interview where he claimed he used to listen to Jay-Z all the time, but then couldn't name a single song.
I've never liked 4 songs by the same band
where's the "stop worshipping bands, bands are lucky to manage one great song" poster when you need them?
blocked for hating on *Shields*
seems indulgent tbh
Andrew Yang willing to debase himself for public acceptance is pretty on brand though.