Location: In the oatmeal aisle wearing a Shellac shirt
Re: Albums of 2020
Fri June 26, 2020 10:39 pm
tragabigzanda wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:HAIM's new album is pretty great
Might try this today
I LOVE this album. Haven’t connected with their earlier stuff, but the production on this is a blast. All sorts of ear candy, and great pop songwriting to boot. Going to spin it for a second time tonight while making dinner.
I watched a Fender Play live stream with J Mascis. He said he finished a new Dinosaur Jr. album during the lock down and that it would be out at some point. Hope that means by the end of the year.
verb_to_trust wrote:I watched a Fender Play live stream with J Mascis. He said he finished a new Dinosaur Jr. album during the lock down and that it would be out at some point. Hope that means by the end of the year.
what did he played? Lou Barlow also teased about the new album coming out.
verb_to_trust wrote:I watched a Fender Play live stream with J Mascis. He said he finished a new Dinosaur Jr. album during the lock down and that it would be out at some point. Hope that means by the end of the year.
what did he played? Lou Barlow also teased about the new album coming out.
Some dork from Fender just asked him guitar questions for an hour. Some of them J just sort of sat there and didn't respond to it was kind of funny. They did a few mini lessons on Feel the Pain and Start Choppin. Gave away a Jazzmaster to someone that wasn't me. He played a riff from the new album but couldn't make much of it. I didn't know that J knows basically no music theory for guitar.
Location: In the oatmeal aisle wearing a Shellac shirt
Re: Albums of 2020
Sun June 28, 2020 3:45 pm
tragabigzanda wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:HAIM's new album is pretty great
Might try this today
I LOVE this album. Haven’t connected with their earlier stuff, but the production on this is a blast. All sorts of ear candy, and great pop songwriting to boot. Going to spin it for a second time tonight while making dinner.
Have listened to this five times I think? Loving it more and more. The gimmick is definitely on the nose: “Imagine is Wilson Phillips did a Sheryl Crow song; and now a Feist song; Fleetwood Mac; Grimes; Carly Rae Jepsen...”
But I don’t care. The compositions are really great, the production is a blast, and there’s a noticeable restraint to it all — the vocals never overpower the music, and they really let the instrumentation breathe where it needs to. Simultaneously very mature and very fun.
verb_to_trust wrote:I watched a Fender Play live stream with J Mascis. He said he finished a new Dinosaur Jr. album during the lock down and that it would be out at some point. Hope that means by the end of the year.
what did he played? Lou Barlow also teased about the new album coming out.
Some dork from Fender just asked him guitar questions for an hour. Some of them J just sort of sat there and didn't respond to it was kind of funny. They did a few mini lessons on Feel the Pain and Start Choppin. Gave away a Jazzmaster to someone that wasn't me. He played a riff from the new album but couldn't make much of it. I didn't know that J knows basically no music theory for guitar.
cool.
Yeah J is a super weird dude. I always felt bad for Lou and those first years.
Mickey wrote:I agree that the soccer mommy album is underwhelming but I'm not feeling the same thing here. My favorite songs from Stranger in the Alps were "South Street" and "You Missed my Heart," so while I really like "Kyoto" I'm loving this one's quieter moments. Also "I Know The End" rules.
The more I listen to this the better it gets. In the running for AOTY for me.
Pottery are a group out of Canada somewhere's who released their first long player earlier this year. I found it on one of those Reddit posts about "sub-genre albums of the year so far", in this case "post punk" (which is always a genre I'm interested in). What a great discovery! Funky with great guitar and drum work, and always interesting.
Here's album closer "Hot Like Jungle" (which is for sure the most down-tempo thing on the album):