I always really really liked “Get Innocuous,” dunno if it beats anything on this list for me, maybe “You Wanted a Hit.”

Also I can’t adequately express how fucking happy I am this isn’t a slide show.

agree with the first three but, where is home?

I feel like this will require multiple listens to see the whole picture. It’s different than what I was expecting, and I’m assuming different than what the majority of people waiting for this release were expecting as well. I’m not jumping on the hate train, but I feel like a lot of people will.

i don’t care what decade we’re in anymore

I just remember when Discovery came out, absolutely nobody I spoke to liked it–it got terrible reviews, everybody was so put off the the cheesy embrace of 80?s sounds–but looking back, they were the first ones riding that 80?s nostalgia wave, and it wasn’t really until, what, 2007? that the whole album took off and became an undisputed classic. The first time I remember listening to it, I remember not understanding it, but loving just a few songs (mainly the first three). It seems the new album is a completely different kind of retro (in that nobody is making anything like this right now) so of course it’s difficult to process and understand.

Now, of course, Discovery sounds completely of it’s time. It sounds less like 80?s and more like 10 years ago. Hopefully, this album won’t take 5 years to really show itself. Upon first listen, I don’t have any connection with any of these songs, but I feel like I could. There are a few songs that seem to slowly unfurl, waiting to reveal themselves tomorrow, or next year, or five years from now. “The Game of Love” is one of them. “Get Lucky” sounds so much better in the context of the album, rather than as a single. “Doin’ It Right” has potential because the beat is much easier for our generation to process contextually. “Contact” sounds familiar thanks to everything on Italian’s Do It Better.

There’s definitely some great stuff here. I don’t expect an immediate emotional connection because this style (which was built off a love and emulation for an old sound) was never one I experienced first hand. If you don’t absolutely hate it by the end of the year, we’ll just call it another Discovery.

kind of crazy that a daft punk song featuring julian casablancas wouldnt sound out of place on the latest strokes album. how the times have changed

Can’t tell if I’m being trolled by a completely reasonable top 10 Stereogum list.

HERE’S MY OPINION AND I HAVEN’T LISTENED TO IT.

They spent YEARS making these songs and WE have the mental capacity to determine its quality in AN HOUR???

I’m literally asking: do we possess that power?

*scrolls to the bottom to make sure “All My Friends” is #1*

It sucks.

That track feels rushed. Very cheesy.

So say there’s a veteran indie band who has already released a pile of well-regarded albums, who then drops a record that strikes a nerve with the general record buying public. That record sells significantly better than their previous releases and songs from that record maybe even start to appear as incidental music in prime time television. Surely it must have been a fluke, a conscious attempt to sell out with hooks and choruses intended primarily for stadium audiences to sing along with. Surely it was a stylistic outlier, and the fans who jumped aboard for the new album would generally dismiss the earlier records as less immediately rewarding and therefore less interesting.

So of course the next album after the breakthrough has to represent a “return to form,” meaning a return to a focus on minor-key ballads and soft droning rhythms. If you ask where the indelible hooks and dynamics of the last album went, why, goodness gracious, you might as well be asking for the latest Lumineers record, because you must be a complete mouth-breathing troglodyte. The only way a person could genuinely prefer the primary-color turn of the breakthrough album is if said person doesn’t know their ass from a hole in the wall, because everyone knows music sounds better when delivered in the key of depressed grayscale monotone.

It’s:
1. Yeah (Crass Version)
2. Losing My Edge
3. Movement

Sound Of Silver is one of the most disappointing second albums in history (just after Primary Colours by The Horrors), and I couldn’t be bothered with anything after that.

Do NOT come on here to leave negative comments!!!!! God I hate people sometimes…

Just you wait guys. I predict a resurgence of yacht rock. Kids legitimately enjoying and finding influence from Michael McDonald and Christopher Cross. The whole disco trend happened in the 00s, when it was called dancepunk. Bands like The Rapture, !!!!, The Bravery, LCD Soundsystem. But yeah, lets bring back smooth jazz/yacht rock to the masses!!!