Yoshinori Sunahara - Pan Am and Take Off and Landing
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Yoshinori Sunahara - Pan Am and Take Off and Landing
Die Antwoord -- Ten$ion
New Tim Exile.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4fM0y2Sfaw
I like this, but it seems a little redundant after what Beach House has been doing for the past couple years.Quote:
Originally Posted by dreamdead
De-Luxe - Lush
Jay Z - The Blueprint
Last minute grab off of Amazon's August $5 dollar MP3 downloads. Oh, early Kanye samples/beats. You make me remember when he was good.
Yeezus is the best thing he's done.Quote:
Originally Posted by dreamdead
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvZJI8rerWA
It's a shame this was left off the new album because it may be his most emotional song. The Streets homage at the end really drives it home.
I agree with all this, but the bad guest spots in the latter half of the album (Mac Miller, RZA, Tyler) really hurt it overall. As you mentioned, Ocean is strong, as is Domo (unexpected), and Vince Staples holds his own I suppose, but in the end no current rapper is on Earl's level, and they mostly bring down the album imo. Maybe a DOOM collab could work, but that's it.Quote:
Originally Posted by slqrick
He's as relevant as ever now. Maybe not commercially/pop charts wise, but musically he's been pushing rap forward as a genre for a while now. I love his old stuff too, though, and I'd probably be defined as a Kanye fanboy, so there's that.Quote:
Originally Posted by dreamdead
To tie this into the thread, I like the new Nine Inch Nails album, but it feels surprisingly "safe" post-Yeezus. Reznor still knows what he's doing though, and it sounds surprisingly relevant.
Just gave the new Janelle Monae a listen, need a couple of more listens, but loved her first album. A shit ton of music this year. Still haven't checked out The Weeknd's new one.
I literally cannot stop listening to this song. It's the only thing keeping my going right now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYx8IHJ9dWE
This is what I get for listening to the 80s stations on iTunes. Holy god I can't get it out of my head.
I go through a Tears for Fears phase about once a year, during which I listen to Seeds of Love non-stop. It's a masterpiece of modern pop music, one of the all-time great albums.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QU_qjH8J2I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Za9Tb1GaxzY
Another artist who's lack of super stardom baffles me.
Listening to some Savages - they're alright.
I found myself downgrading their music after the initial rhapsodic response from NPR, Pitchfork, and other sites. This takedown ended up mirroring my thoughts--the music is fine and all, but the degree of praise feels misguided, and the lyrics and their live delivery do more to turn me against the band than anything else. Especially since the Heliotropes debut has been greeted with a collective critical yawn, and that one's far more powerful and strident of a release to me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yxklyx
To say on task with this thread, Dmitri Schostakovich - Symphony #7 ("Leningrad") in C
Discovered the band Rachel's in Spotify and have listened to their entire discography. Good stuff.
I'm starting to get heavily into Duke Ellington (after years of having and liking Money Jungle and the Blanton/Webster box set but not delving any deeper) and boy is that a trip down the rabbit hole. Just a massive amount of material - so far I've been mainly focusing on the big band 78rpm era of 1926 into the mid-40s, which is collected in multiple massive box sets that still don't quite cover everything. It's stunning music, all these perfect 3-minute miniatures encompassing a huge range of tones, moods, and styles. The emotional and tonal variety of his music is dizzying; he was equally adept at frenzied, uptempo dance floor blasts and nuanced mood pieces. These years are dotted with vocal numbers that I generally don't find as satisfying - for all the wonderful instrumentalists that passed through Ellington's bands, he worked with very few great singers and a lot of mediocre ones, though Ivie Anderson at least is often very enjoyable - but even those tunes feature sumptuous arrangements and playing around the disappointing vocal refrains. This is an amazing body of work that I've neglected for too long, out of some misguided notion that this stuff was too old-fashioned in comparison to more modern jazz - clearly a silly idea that's been thoroughly shaken out of my head now that I've actually listened to this stuff in more depth.
I love The Duke. He is the greatest songsmith this country has ever produced.