haven't listened to new beck because it was a chore getting stock and i didn't want to cannibalize it

the two songs he played on SNL didn't do anything for me

is it all like that?

3/2/2014 10:41:51 PM

i think the rest of it is more like blue moon than wave. the production and arrangements are both great, but it's a follow-up to sea change, so if you aren't into that kind of beck then you probably won't be into this either. i really like it, but i also hope his second record planned for this year goes in a much different direction.

3/2/2014 11:43:52 PM

i love sea change

but all the sea change songs are hooky, and those two were certainly not, so i'm skeptical

also, why the fuck is beck the only artist on earth that supposedly works in cycles where records are specific follow-ups to records from ten years earlier? that's not aimed at you ^, because everyone does it, but wtf?

mutations baffled everyone, so midnite vultures was supposed to be the "true follow-up" to odelay, and then mv was even weirder. sea change was too quiet to be a "true follow-up," and before you know it we're talking about guero as a "follow-up" that's eight years and four records later.

p.s. i've never listened to the information

3/3/2014 12:50:12 AM

wasn't aware that beck had done the follow-up thing before, but in this case he brought back all the people he recorded sea change with, minus nigel godrich.

morning has a nice hook and sounds a bit like the golden age when it starts out, which is kind of neat i think. waking light is pretty great too. it probably won't be album of the year for me or anything, but i think it's worth your time if you like sea change. the information is also worth listening to if you ever get around to it

3/3/2014 9:05:18 AM

how's it compare to mutations? because that's the last Beck I got in to.

3/3/2014 9:26:24 AM

new Pharrell album is out today, digging it so far

3/3/2014 10:23:07 AM

i don't think digital witness or birth in reverse are very good. is the rest of the album phenomenal or something?

3/3/2014 10:24:05 AM

^^^ i've always thought if you like mutations you should like certain parts of sea change, so by extension i guess that applies to morning phase as well since it's also like sea change in some places. i dunno. i have a hard time comparing any of his albums.

^ i think both of those tracks and all the others are very good.

[Edited on March 3, 2014 at 10:30 AM. Reason : .]

3/3/2014 10:28:32 AM

i liked the last album. o well

3/3/2014 10:31:29 AM

surprise new Kid Cudi album out today also. Hopefully its better than his last album, giving it a listen now

Pharrell's new album is great, fyi. There's a new song with Daft Punk on it (Gust of Wind).

[Edited on March 3, 2014 at 11:15 AM. Reason : asdf]

3/3/2014 11:15:01 AM

really really like the new Trust album

3/4/2014 3:05:06 PM

i don't think the men will ever make a record i won't enjoy

3/4/2014 5:55:44 PM

Sun Kil Moon's Benji is still solid and still really depressing.

3/6/2014 12:47:58 PM

http://www.craveonline.com/music/articles/656301-exclusive-new-tool-album-reportedly-finished-set-for-2014-release

Take this w/ a grain of salt...but supposedly Adam Jones of Tool is quoted saying their album is finished.

3/7/2014 10:21:02 AM

^anyone know anything about this possible Tool movie they speak of?

3/7/2014 10:31:06 AM

Quote :

"really really like the new Trust album"

me too. loved the first one and this one is even better.

3/7/2014 10:35:51 AM

https://twitter.com/AdamJones_tv/status/442003891551342592


so much for that.

3/7/2014 2:39:21 PM

so wye oak's new record is all synth and bass apparently. wonder if that was influenced at all by future islands

3/10/2014 8:02:12 PM

new black lips getting a lot of play here.

3/10/2014 9:13:55 PM

^^ more likely it's influenced by the fact that jenn's been working on two synth-based projects for years

3/11/2014 12:10:32 AM

Quote :

"Sun Kil Moon's Benji is still solid and still really depressing."

the track Dogs is very

3/11/2014 10:41:59 AM

SBTRKT released some new music: http://transitions.sbtrkt.com/

3/12/2014 3:28:34 PM

think the new War on Drugs will end up being my most played album in 2014

3/13/2014 6:28:28 PM

Shit. I was thinking the Esso album was coming out this month.

Not only is it not this month, it ain't the next either

Other than the 3 songs on Soundcloud (and shitty live Youtube videos), are any of their other songs on the internet anywhere?


I'll just put this here:

3/17/2014 11:27:51 PM

Morning Phase is phenomenal.

3/23/2014 2:51:44 PM

Wild Beasts has, once again, let me down - they are completely phoning it in

3/23/2014 10:34:57 PM

could anyone hook up a zippyshare link for the new wye oak? it's on exystence but can't ever get it to finish.

3/24/2014 9:00:35 PM

^seconded. Wye Oak were fantastic at haw river, definitely looking forward to hearing their new stuff.

3/25/2014 10:51:30 AM

3/25/2014 1:33:37 PM

Quote :

"Wild Beasts has, once again, let me down - they are completely phoning it in"

i'm only recently familiar with Wild Beasts, but i really enjoy the album. especially the track Mecca.

3/25/2014 2:38:34 PM

^^^&^^^^, PM'd you both links.

3/25/2014 8:10:10 PM

^^ their first two albums were like British Vaudeville Howling Opera good times, the last couple have just been brooding moody beats sad music

[Edited on March 25, 2014 at 10:57 PM. Reason : they're? seriously]

3/25/2014 10:57:32 PM

The Hold Steady sounds like The Hold Steady


also..i am really loving this The War on Drugs album. to me, it feels like it's 1/3 Dylan, 1/3 "Darkness" Springsteen, and 1/3 something all it's own. thoughts?

3/27/2014 8:52:11 AM

^ i can see that. i've been playing that record a lot lately.

and because his 8 hour ambient interpretation of herman hesse's siddhartha was apparently not enough, billy corgan will be performing “sunday with rumi,” a collection of “4 sonic impressions on poems by the great Sufi mystic” tomorrow afternoon. i didn't think billy corgan could manage to do anything more billy corgan than the siddhartha thing. he's also apparently releasing 2 albums in 2015 that he has described as "guitars, guitars, guitars, and more guitars"

i love billy corgan

[Edited on March 29, 2014 at 3:03 PM. Reason : a]

3/29/2014 3:03:18 PM

^^ seen the dire straits comparison in a couple of reviews and I can see that too.

3/29/2014 9:57:17 PM

I know it's late but the new Beck keeps making me go back to Sea Change. So emotional right now man.

3/29/2014 10:20:13 PM

god that new swans song fucking rules. cannot wait for the new album.

3/29/2014 11:02:29 PM

the new wye oak is tremendous. have been listening to it nearly exclusively for a few days. for anyone who went to the hr ballroom show, how did it sound live?

3/30/2014 2:51:58 PM

sounded awesome live, and the energy was great

especially considering the fact that a lot of stuff is sequenced

those kids are goddamn geniuses

3/30/2014 3:36:16 PM

^yep. that was my first time seeing wye oak and now i can't wait for another chance.

3/31/2014 2:37:25 AM

the only bummer about that is not seeing them with the incredible amount of noise they were making as two people in the knot/civilian era, and with jenn playing bass there's less room for her tasteful-but-amazing guitar fireworks

they ruleeeeeee

3/31/2014 3:17:38 AM

friend sent me the Sylvan Esso album a few weeks ago, really good. super minimal production throughout.

new Liars is good too

3/31/2014 11:44:02 AM

The Hold Steady album has grown on me a lot over the weekend. the closing track, Oaks, is one of the best things they've ever done IMO.

3/31/2014 3:10:21 PM

^^ is it still worth listening to if you don't get what all the fuss is about after the first 3 singles?

3/31/2014 5:38:24 PM

top 10 of the year so far (mostly in order):

1. St. Vincent-St. Vincent
2. Beck-Morning Phase
3. Wye Oak-Shriek
4. Real Estate-Atlas
5. The Hold Steady-Teeth Dreams
6. Lost in the Trees-Past Life
7. Warpaint-Warpaint
8. The War on Drugs-Lost in the Dream
9. Future Islands-Singles
10. Yellow Ostrich-Cosmos

still heavily anticipating the new sharon van etten

3/31/2014 10:05:33 PM

I've listened to "Passing Out Pieces" approximately 659 times and I've yet to get tired of it

it's a near lock for my favorite track of 2014

4/2/2014 12:14:43 PM

Dont know how many of you would care, but apparently Kanye has postponed some tour dates so he can release a new album this year.

4/2/2014 6:15:43 PM

^^ I'm hearing that. Great song

4/4/2014 9:22:09 AM

finally got around to this cloud nothings album and god damn. think i'm going to need to squeeze that cradle show in on the thursday before easter.

4/6/2014 7:53:09 PM

the new todd terje is kinda fun

4/9/2014 8:30:12 PM