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Man... Anonymous was such an huge disappointment for me. I hope this is a good comeback

1 hour ago, Can'tComplain said:

Most bands in the genre used to put their more acceptable songs early on and their crazier out there stuff near the end of the album, lately I've seen a lot of the opposite. The flashy weird songs go close to beginning and the more acceptable stuff later (Shrezzer's album is a good example with the egyptian sounding and hip hop influenced tracks right out the gate). It's a weird shift that I personally am ok with since I listen to albums in full even if Im not thoroughly enjoying it, but I'm sure it's turned off a few people. It must have an upside though since it's happening more frequently.

Huh I guess I haven't noticed. I'm in the same boat, I listen to the album in it's entirety instead of just picking singles. It's just weird because I know DGD/Swan has been very adamant about 'radio singles' being first. Eidola said they had to convince them to keep their song order the way it was for their LP even though he knew it was a concept album. 

19 minutes ago, sprdnglkwngs said:

Tilian's spanish verse was one of the most memorable parts on the album imo. Immediately brought to mind The Mars Volta.

Definitely memorable and it warmed up on me. It just feels so awkward as the 3rd song on the LP. 

23 hours ago, colddayinhell said:

 

Yep. A few good tracks (America Online, Deep Blue, Dance With Somebody). Rest are boring. 
 

A half a minute into Collateral shows what they’re capable of. This is just.. ugh. Goddamn it lol. 

Yeah it really feels kind of a like an identity crisis.

They've shown they can perfect one pure sound with Nocturnal and Kids but also have a good balance in variety with Days of Thunder and Endless Summer....This just lacks so much cohesion - going from vaporwave-esque songs to Kids B-sides - that I was honestly wondering if they should have just made several "experimental" EP's instead.

That said, I'm kind of surprised it took them so long to take a stumble. I feared blowing up with Kids was going to do it. And up to this album it was probably my least favorite, but even then it's still really good and even more impressive that they put out nothing but hits for the last 6 years.

This honestly makes me question their decision on Calentamiento Global even more.

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I thought we grew out of that phase

I guess this whole LP is going to have guest vocals? Count me in

Uhh so is this the front side of this cover?

Did I listen to a different song from everyone else??

Sounds like a TTS b-side / repeat of Ludens. 

I don't get how everyone shits on bands like TWA and AA for doing these boring pop-rock songs with snorefest "breakdowns" but somehow thinks BMTH is doing anything better. 

I dig the throwback sound, but man, are they purposely trying to have bad SEO with that band name? 

Hmm I like everything in theory but something about her airy vocals just don't fit well with the R&B for me. Not sure if it's just the production or her singing style, but when it's just her voice isolated and not doing something crazy, like in verses....it's missing something. 

Like the vocal layering at the end of the second song works so much better for me.

Aaah skipped around it because I don't want to listen to any more singles before release. So hyped for more

5 hours ago, Ohm said:

I fucking like it lol ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. Tracks are fun, only time will tell how good I really think it is.

Yeah Worlds Apart was up there fore me but it quickly fell short after a few listens. I'm cautiously thinking this is above it though

26 minutes ago, Gvmbit said:

It's a good album but I can't deny i'm disappointed and got bored fast. Their last EP was so dark and incredible and I expected more. 

Had they not put out so many singles I probably would have been a lot more disappointed, since yeah that EP was fantastic. But the singles were enough to scale back expectations, too hard to shake off that sophmoric slump vibe

I'm not the biggest J-Pop fan but her previous LP was surprisingly good, I'm curious if this can hold up

Edit: welp the answer is not at all. Besides a few singles it's pretty bad 

So is it just one of the original members left?

Same for me, I stumbled upon them and Young Kato sometime last year at the same time and had them on repeat for like 4 months. 

Uncleans need some work but there's potential

Wow that's a lot better than the artwork and name would make you think. 

15 hours ago, InsidAero said:

Alright, well, in that case, here are some of my favourite R&B (and some soul and funk) artists right now:

• 070 Shake - alternative R&B, art pop, trap
• Anderson .Paak - psychedelic/neo-soul, west coast hip hop
• Blood Orange - synthfunk, alternative R&B
• D'Angelo and the Vanguard - neo-soul, funk
• Frank Ocean - alternative R&B, art pop
• Free Nationals (song has Anderson .Paak featured) - psychedelic soul, funk
• Hiatus Kaiyote - neo-soul, acid jazz, nu-jazz, jazz fusion
• The Internet - alternative R&B, acid jazz, jazz-funk
• Janelle Monae - contemporary R&B, art pop, synthpop
• Kali Uchis - contemporary R&B, neo-soul
• Louis Cole - synthfunk, sophisti-pop, dance-pop, jazz fusion, a bit all over the place sometimes
• Mac Miller - neo-soul, alternative R&B, jazz rap, pop rap, cloud rap
• The Neighbourhood - alternative R&B, indie pop, synthpop
• Rina Sawayama (some of her other songs are even rock/metal oriented if that interests you) - contemporary R&B, dance-pop
  • Also her producer is one of my favourite pop artists, Clarence Clarity.
• serpentwithfeet (had no idea what track to share since this is my favourite R&B album of all time, check the rest of it out if you like this) - experimental R&B, art pop, chamber/ambient pop, gospel, UK bass
• Shlohmo & Jeremih - alternative R&B, wonky, glitch hop
• SZA - alternative R&B
• Thundercat - neo-soul, funktronica, nu-jazz, psychedelic soul
• Tyler, the Creator - neo-soul, psychedelic soul, experimental hip hop
• Vincent Blue - here's your K-pop lol, or K-R&B I guess (too many single letters for my taste)
• The Weeknd - alternative R&B, synthpop, ambient pop

I'm sure that's enough for you haha. Hope you enjoy.

Ah man thanks a lot! I know a few but most I never bothered to dig too deep (or at all, like SZA, despite being told to listen to her multiple times), so I'll definitely come in with an open mind. 

Wow I didn't even realize they put out stuff in 2017. 
 

And now didn't realize they were going to do a few shows with TREOS. Man that would have been great. 

On 5/13/2020 at 6:33 PM, InsidAero said:

That depends, do you prefer more contemporary, traditional R&B or do you like the new wave of alternative R&B (you mentioned Blackbear so you may learn more toward this)? 

Hmm I grew up listening to 90s rnb but I'm down for whatever. Honestly the reason I listen to Kpop radio stations is just for the rnb style songs lol

14 hours ago, InsidAero said:

Nice little R&B album, though there's better out there.

Yeah it felt a bit too straightforward. Do you have any recs? I just listen to old school stuff here and there so I never really pay attention to newer stuff other than Gallant and Blackbear I guess

It's interesting, mid 2010 vibe. It was obvious by the cover art, but the lyric video cemented the fact that they really bad aesthetic sensibilities. 

Ooh didn't think they'd start doing vocals. Anything that gives me TTNG vibes is my weakspot

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two 'interludes' (i hesitate to call them 'songs'), inspired by two unrelated-but-similar-happy-accident photographs where an arrangement of birds in the sky and surfers in the sea looked like sheet music – so i transcribed the photos into melodies and this is the result. hope you enjoy.

for reference – birds : https://www.instagram.com/p/B-W3hqgFFpd/
surfers : https://www.instagram.com/p/B5o6QnJFJGv/