GLASSJAW Posted March 29, 2012 Author Share Posted March 29, 2012 sigur ros and the walkmen have both officially announced their albums. sigur ros due out in may, walkmen in june i believe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D-Money Posted March 29, 2012 Share Posted March 29, 2012 Yay for Walkmen! Love those guys. Mark Lanegan's new disc is pretty good. Plods along a bit, but lots of good tunes. Ode To Sad Disco is probably my fave so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GLASSJAW Posted March 31, 2012 Author Share Posted March 31, 2012 new Hot Chip single is so, so, so good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D-Money Posted March 31, 2012 Share Posted March 31, 2012 new Hot Chip single is so, so, so good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GLASSJAW Posted April 4, 2012 Author Share Posted April 4, 2012 Any Flaming Lips fans here? I've been getting into them recently. Kinda digging some songs, but others just aren't sitting well. Listened to (most) of that new Chromatics record that p4k just gave a high rating to. Reminded me of M83 at times. Really not my thing... and at 90 minutes, it's just way, way too long for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D-Money Posted April 4, 2012 Share Posted April 4, 2012 Any Flaming Lips fans here? I've been getting into them recently. Kinda digging some songs, but others just aren't sitting well. Listened to (most) of that new Chromatics record that p4k just gave a high rating to. Reminded me of M83 at times. Really not my thing... and at 90 minutes, it's just way, way too long for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D-Money Posted April 4, 2012 Share Posted April 4, 2012 White Rabbits - Milk Famous Kid On My Shoulders, Dinner Party, While We Go Dancing...White Rabbits' Fort Nightly was full of fantastic, energetic, and catchy-as-hell rock songs. It's one of my favourite debut albums by any band. The next album, It's Frightening, started off similarly with Percussion Gun and Rudie Fails, but then veered off into more restrained, atmospheric grooves and ballads. (A lot of it was attributed to the influence of Spoon frontman Britt Daniel, who was producer.) It was still a great album, but I missed the unrestrained exuberance they started out with. Now equipped with Spoon's producer, Milk Famous continues in the atmospheric direction. Though another step back from Frightening, it's still quite good. It's certainly nowhere near deserving of the bashing that Pitchfork gave it (5.6? WTH?). But man, I sure miss the band I originally fell in love with. Highlights: Heavy Metal, Temporary, I Had It Coming 7/10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D-Money Posted April 4, 2012 Share Posted April 4, 2012 Dr. John - Locked Down If you were wondering where the thick, gutsy blues-rock went on the last Black Keys album...here it is. Dan Auerbach (Black Keys frontman) produced this album, and his fingerprints are all over it. And really, judging by Dr. John's vocal stylings, his fingerprints were all over the Keys first. All in all, as far a straightforward blues/funk goes, this is great stuff. 8/10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D-Money Posted April 4, 2012 Share Posted April 4, 2012 Cloud Nothings - Attack On Memory Pitchfork fawned all over it, so I tried it out...and hated it. Kind of a cross between the Vines and Les Savy Fav, only more "indie". Not really my taste. That said, it's probably something I would have appreciated as a teenager. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GLASSJAW Posted April 4, 2012 Author Share Posted April 4, 2012 Cloud Nothings - Attack On Memory Pitchfork fawned all over it, so I tried it out...and hated it. Kind of a cross between the Vines and Les Savy Fav, only more "indie". Not really my taste. That said, it's probably something I would have appreciated as a teenager. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GLASSJAW Posted April 4, 2012 Author Share Posted April 4, 2012 not even a fan of the album cut version of this, but this version is amazing. cooome on. this is a rockin tune. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GLASSJAW Posted April 5, 2012 Author Share Posted April 5, 2012 Chromatics highlight is a Neil Young cover. Great song! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Psycho_Path Posted April 5, 2012 Share Posted April 5, 2012 I Mother Earth released a new song. Really hoping they make a new album (to my knowledge they don't plan to do this) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hume Posted April 5, 2012 Share Posted April 5, 2012 i've listened to Port of Morrow all the way through a few times now. it's pretty lyrically amazing, the wordplay is what keeps me engaged through the whole thing. musically, everything sounds so nice and pleasant, but nothing is very exciting or interesting. overall it's above average to me, but won't make my top 10 albums of the year or anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D-Money Posted April 5, 2012 Share Posted April 5, 2012 I definitely agree with the last part (I have to be in a teenager state of mind to enjoy it), but man, those comparisons are brutal! Not so much Les Savy Fav, who to me are just a completely uninteresting and inoffensive band, but The Vines!?! When I hear the Cloud Nothings vocals, I'm much more inclined to liken them to Cobain's occasional freak out or pretty much any punk band from the mid 80s. The Vines, to me, are a band that quotes a band that quotes a band that quoted Nirvana. Like a record label just injected them with heroin and pushed them on stage. Whereas Cloud Nothings seem much more interested in a more broad spectrum of influences ("Wasted Days" alone sounds like 5 or 6 bands meshed into one 9 minute jam) I understand that it's not for everyone, but hated it?! Anyway, the Flaming Lips seem super hit or miss with me. I've listened to Embryonic a couple times in the last few days, and a few of those songs are great (the first track, for example), but some others are just terrible. The first song featuring Karen O is one of the worst songs I think I've ever head. I can't stand that woman. Edit: Er, sorry, it's the "I can be a frog" song that I find so awful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Humble Rodent Posted April 5, 2012 Share Posted April 5, 2012 Not gonna lie, I've never been able to get into classic Flaming Lips stuff, but I ???? love embryonic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D-Money Posted April 5, 2012 Share Posted April 5, 2012 Not gonna lie, I've never been able to get into classic Flaming Lips stuff, but I ???? love embryonic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D-Money Posted April 5, 2012 Share Posted April 5, 2012 The one current band/artist that I have longed forever to see live, but have not been able to yet, are the Flaming Lips. I saw them play Jimmy Kimmel, and it was fantastical. And from everything I've heard/seen, they go completely over-the-top to make a show a real show - something spectacular. Just looking at those pictures makes me smile uncontrollably. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hume Posted April 6, 2012 Share Posted April 6, 2012 i got free vip tickets to see Tennis live in vancouver later this month because my friend tweeted them a picture of the inside of a different fridge every day for a month. pretty funny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GLASSJAW Posted April 6, 2012 Author Share Posted April 6, 2012 is Tennis any good? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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