2012 Music Thread

[MikeyObviously]

Jonnyd:

Id recommend ****ed Up. One of my favs and mostly fit the bill you described.

[nyc999]

Originally Posted by LOL LDO

New The Tallest Man On Earth song is great. Like all his stuff.

Yes, all his stuff is great. I'm pretty psyched, recently got orchestra seats to see him doing a show in a small theatre.

[forthwrite]

The album in its entirety is pretty average but I love this song + clip.

[nyc999]

New St. Vincent

[SarcasticRat]

Originally Posted by forthwrite

The album in its entirety is pretty average but I love this song + clip.

I think the whole album is fantastic actually. The perfect kind of indie pop that is sweet and genuine instead of trying to get on an iPod commercial.

The new St. Vincent is cool, very unlike what is on her full lengths. Much more rocking and the b-side sounds like her attempt at drone metal or something.

Fiona Apple also released her first song in seven years today. It is good obv. http://soundcloud.com/fionaapple/every-single-night

[nyc999]

Jack White - Blunderbuss, streaming this week.

[forthwrite]

That link is broken. I posted a few tracks from it near the top of this page.

[nyc999]

Fixed (I think)

[Pudge714]

I think the whole album is fantastic actually. The perfect kind of indie pop that is sweet and genuine instead of trying to get on an iPod commercial.

While this maybe true, that name combined with the type of music they play creates a level of twee that is almost impossible to overcome.

[fluorescenthippo]

ive been using last.fm for 8 years and just discovered the neighbourhood and recommended radio stations. easily be best mix of music ive ever heard. love almost every song over a 4 hour stretch, most are new to me. if you dont have the lastfm plugin you are missing out bigtime

[Michaelson]

Originally Posted by Pudge714

While this maybe true, that name combined with the type of music they play creates a level of twee that is almost impossible to overcome.

Ha!

Can't help but agree. Hard to hype a band like that to anyone who doesn't make jewelry out of seashells and pebbles in their spare time.

[CBorders]

Originally Posted by forthwrite

From their new album Radlands.

Fun band. The first song of theirs I'd heard, "Young Love" sounds freakishly similar to any Arctic Monkeys track so I wasn't feeling them too much until I heard a few more songs. Zootime is a good album to check out.

[kwami42]

'Grot' from St. Vincent's Krokodil 7" is ****ing awesome, hope she does more like that in the future

[SarcasticRat]

Originally Posted by Pudge714

While this maybe true, that name combined with the type of music they play creates a level of twee that is almost impossible to overcome.

Yeah I despised twee for a long time and a lot of it can still be sickening. But I think older bands like Tiger Trap and now Allo Darlin' can find the perfect balance where their lyrics are from the heart, sweet, and maybe nostalgic but it feels genuine instead of some attempt at being cutesy. Kind of hard to explain the distinction though and maybe it's just something I made up.

"Tallulah" is also definitely the most "twee" song on the album too. Most of it is more up-tempo jangle-pop stuff ("The Letter" is another great track but there's not a video of it anywhere).

[Pudge714]

Could someone please try to explain Death Grips to me?