Personal call to leave it off -- blatant transphobia doesn't really qualify for beef status. There's no fun in that.
Whirr deserve to never be thought about or mentioned again, IMO!
Last year, I was doing a lot of ink drawings of still-lifes of fruit. And I was thinking a lot about excess, being able to not have something — that’s got to do with a lot of the songs on the album. The idea of this inedible mountain of fruit, while the birds in the background make it look huge. I like that idea of something so massive that’s supposed to be enticing, but it just isn’t. There’s like an onion and a peach, and it’s huge and blue. Blue is a really unappetizing color to me.
The banana omission is appalling! What's a fruit bowl without a banana? Very suspect.
I don't like Leto because he was praised for a "progressive" role that was largely anything but. (Here's another one.)
He also seems like the exact type of gross liberal douchebro I enjoy loathing, so I may as well keep doing it! He definitely won't mind as he's counting his millions.
To jump in, I saw them early into the Bitter Rivals era (actually it may have been the album release show?) and I actually agree. I can't listen to the studio versions of it, but damn if some of them didn't go hard live. None of them reached the heights of "Crown" or "Demons," but they still were pretty close.
Hopefully there will be some live bangers on this new one.
Idk, as a pretty big Sleigh Bells fan I think that this is OK, and not an entirely unsurprising direction for them to move in. It's definitely less cringey than the softer shit on Bitter Rivals. Nowhere near Treats/Reign era good, though.
I never really understood all the Nao love, to be honest. I just went back and relistened to it and it's better than I remembered, but I still don't get what the big deal is. Glad other people are enjoying it, though!
No one else on staff rode for it either.
Yeah, the wonderful thing about music is that anyone can find merit in anything! That's why I don't get too upset when someone likes/doesn't like something I don't/do. I just focus on what I like, and ignore the rest. There's too much music out there to focus on stuff you don't connect with.
I actually totally agree with you! Preeminent was probably too heavy of an adjective to use, but I still think they are super good, and probably even a little underrated, only because of the way they became so popular so fast. They were my first real introduction to post-rock in middle school before I started to dive deeper, so I still have a lot of nostalgic attachment to most of their albums. They don't hold a candle to, like, Mogwai or Godspeed, but I wouldn't personally rank them too far below that. (I also *gulp* don't connect much with Sigur Ros, though I respect them a hell of a lot.) I've also never seen them live, so can't attest to that.
They are definitely not as varied as most of the bands you listed, but I also kind of like that about them? Maybe it's just years of rewatching Friday Night Lights that have made me particularly attuned to their brand of melodrama.
But I am also probably what you'd call a casual post-rock listener, so take everything I say with a grain of salt!
I thiink this is just a short tour and she'll do a bigger one in the spring? She's only playing like five or six cities this time around.
I'm driving down to see her again in Philly on Friday though! Lol! Tickets are $10 on Stubhub! Lol!!
You're right! The original article actually just changed, too. It originally had a location and date in there and everything. I've updated to make it more vague.
:) Thanks
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