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It's all right. Half of the songs are so perfect that it hurts and half of the songs are bland throwaways. In my opinion. It's a Clientele album, all right.
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that's why i think the show will be great. Clientele vibes all around, who cares what songs are being played. i'll get stoned and drink whiskey gingers.
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I last saw them back in early 2010. It was right after Alex Chilton died, and they played "Nighttime." It was a fine show. I will also be seeing them in November. It's been too long.
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C-poots wrote:reuben wrote:Misread the title to this St. Vincent record as MASSEDUCATION and I'm pretty disappointed that it's not the real name.
I've read the title as MASSEDUCATION this entire time and only your post made me realize my error.
Gave this a listen today. I do not like it, I think its boring and I'm really tired of this guy's production style. Pretty sure Chrono railed against him too, and I get it. Its like there's no dynamics to any song, its all this flat straight line blegh.
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C-poots wrote:C-poots wrote:reuben wrote:Misread the title to this St. Vincent record as MASSEDUCATION and I'm pretty disappointed that it's not the real name.
I've read the title as MASSEDUCATION this entire time and only your post made me realize my error.
Gave this a listen today. I do not like it, I think its boring and I'm really tired of this guy's production style. Pretty sure Chrono railed against him too, and I get it. Its like there's no dynamics to any song, its all this flat straight line blegh.
LMAO, even Annie is linked up with Jack Antonoff now?
i'll reserve judgement but this is troubling
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Probably the worst song I've heard all year
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Yeah it's a bad record and even worse that it's not a concept album about the Board of Ed.
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Or like a Lauryn Hill tribute or something.
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Probably the worst song I've heard all year
this is a travesty
hollower than bird bones, that classic Antonoff "New Jersey soul"
i guess this is what depressed hipsters think "pop" is? this sound would slot in nicely in Zootopia Twotopia
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zappo wrote:
now this is excellent.
http://www.gigslutz.co.uk/interview-alasdair-maclean-clientele/
Interviewer wrote:We’ve talked about the sound and atmosphere you create as a band and you’ve mentioned that with each album you’re trying to refine that sound and get at the essence of it. Some critics have a tendency to accuse acts of rehashing old songs. What’s your opinion on that?
MacLean wrote:I think that I completely understand why people would say that about The Clientele, as they’re viewing us in 2015 as a Rock ‘n’ Roll band. The kind of rock band that has to focus on reinvention, this Miles Davis or Picasso styled reinvention. But in 2015, Rock ‘n’ Roll bands don’t mean anything and The Clientele isn’t one; they’re an art project. Again I know that sounds aggressively pretentious.
What it is it’s a refinement of a certain idea and it’s something that’s lasted a couple of decades and a lot of people have contributed to it. So you shouldn’t expect a Kid A from us or a Screamadelica. That’s all bullshit now anyway. I don’t think it matters now, I don’t think it has any meaning anymore. What we’re doing is just rumbling on with this art project that’s been going on since the ’90s.
Our whole aim and our whole methodology is separate from what they’re looking at, what their expectations are. We don’t have that idea of the difficult third album, that’s foreign to what we do."
if you're not self-aware about being aggressively pretentious, you're probably not interesting
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I read that interview just last week. Dude gets it. "It" being his band. Or maybe even himself, I dunno.
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reuben wrote:Or like a Lauryn Hill tribute or something.
It's not this? This is what I thought everybody was talking about until like five minutes ago while reading the latest posts in this thread.
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i'm going to use the phrase "Miles Davis or Picasso styled reinvention" as much as possible going forward
got two tix for The Clientele Nov 10
i can't have another Jens Lekman situation where i get into his new album six months after he does a show here
got two tix for The Clientele Nov 10
i can't have another Jens Lekman situation where i get into his new album six months after he does a show here
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Sunny.
undo wrote:
Probably the worst song I've heard all year
Have definitely heard worse, but holy jeez is this the longest four minute song I've heard in a long time.
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This song is remarkably silly and I kinda desperately wanna hear GDB's opinion of it.
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I'm listening to the new Bell Witch nonstop. Which is a single doom metal song that lasts for 80 minutes. My favorite album of 2017 is DAMN so I don't know how anyone should weigh my opinions at this point.
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If anyone is in the mood for some extremely bombastic, overly earnest guitar music that might actually make you smile I'd recommend Gang of Youths LP Go Farther in Lightness.
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https://pitchfork.com/news/brian-eno-and-my-bloody-valentines-kevin-shields-share-new-song-listen/
I want to get/hear this but I don't want to give money to fucking Adult Swim
I want to get/hear this but I don't want to give money to fucking Adult Swim
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undo wrote:https://pitchfork.com/news/brian-eno-and-my-bloody-valentines-kevin-shields-share-new-song-listen/
I want to get/hear this but I don't want to give money to fucking Adult Swim
you know the track is embedded in the page you linked to? Or specifically you want to hear it whenever without going to pitchforkmedia.com?
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I had not allowed the script, it wasn't showing up for me. 
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I was so confused. I didn't want to taunt you with the fact that I'd heard it, in the event that you wouldn't be able to, so I just kept my mouth shut. Glad you were able to work around it.
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Julien Baker sounds like the soundtrack to a CW show maybe it'll grow on me the way War On Drugs has over the past few months but right now I don't get it.
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