2016 New Music Thread

[kingcrawler]

4 hours ago, FloorFiller said:

'nother new M83 song

 

 

Fair to say he's taken some influence from the film scores he did with those strings. Decent song though, the first single grew on me a lot so I guess this might do the same.

I've listened to the new Explosions In the Sky album which leaked yesterday a couple of times now and it's really good. It's a bit softer than their last couple of albums and the songs are a little bit shorter than usual but it works well. Listened to Haelos album as well which is decent, although given it's their debut I had already heard half the songs on it and they're the stronger songs on the album.

[stuartbert two hats]

4 hours ago, FloorFiller said:

'nother new M83 song

 

 

I'm getting on with this one at all.

[bennyhana22]

After two listens, Prospect of Skelmersdale, the new, second record from The Magnetic North is a little bit wonderful.

I'd warrant precious little chance of seeing them on the Farm, which is a shame. They'd be mega on the Acoustic Stage...

Ben

[Brave Sir Robin]

On 3/15/2016 at 3:10 PM, Harmonic Prospector said:

Matey Three's new album got a 5* review in this months Q. May well be worth waiting until the album is out for a final judgement. 

2/5 in Mojo, who describe it as "kitsch" and "a total saccharine overdose". Sounds like it's going to divide opinions.

More positively, the Iggy/Homme album is a solid effort from all involved, and I've never really listened to her before but Emmy the Great lives up to her name on the new album. 

Edited March 19, 2016 by Brave Sir Robin

[kingcrawler]

I read the Q review of it the other day and my favourite bit of it was when they somehow managed to fit in a Limmy reference.

[dentalplan]

2/5? Blimey. Even if it is bad, I was not expecting a panning (if there are more like that).

New Scream record is a complete dud. Kinda embarrassing in parts.

[Guest]

1 hour ago, kingcrawler said:

I read the Q review of it the other day and my favourite bit of it was when they somehow managed to fit in a Limmy reference.

That's my activity to amuse myself in work for the next few months sorted! Start shoehorning in Limmy references. "The figures have increased on last period, but only by 0.0001%, which is very small. And that infinitesimally small; that's yur da's cock!".

[Andeeroo]

5 hours ago, Brave Sir Robin said:

2/5 in Mojo, who describe it as "kitsch" and "a total saccharine overdose". Sounds like it's going to divide opinions.

More positively, the Iggy/Homme album is a solid effort from all involved, and I've never really listened to her before but Emmy the Great lives up to her name on the new album. 

Emmy is indeed great. Get on the older stuff!

[Woffy]

On 16/03/2016 at 1:37 PM, TomViolence said:

Cheers mate. Managed to get one on Stubhub for £18 the other day, quite happy with that

Let me know how it went and esp. what US were like, Tom.

[home to you]

16 hours ago, Woffy said:

Let me know how it went and esp. what US were like, Tom.

It was awesome, first time in a while that I've enjoyed the support as much as the main act. I haven't been to Heaven in donkeys so going back there was cool too.

US seemed to impress a lot of people. The polite applause after songs turned a lot more genuine after 'Strawberry Glue' and they never looked back from there really. Very enjoyable set and I'll be keeping a close eye on their future movements.

DIIV were awesome too but in their usual unhinged manner

[st dan]

I'm very much enjoying Haelos debut album on this fine Sunday morning. 

[Woffy]

1 hour ago, TomViolence said:

It was awesome, first time in a while that I've enjoyed the support as much as the main act. I haven't been to Heaven in donkeys so going back there was cool too.

US seemed to impress a lot of people. The polite applause after songs turned a lot more genuine after 'Strawberry Glue' and they never looked back from there really. Very enjoyable set and I'll be keeping a close eye on their future movements.

DIIV were awesome too but in their usual unhinged manner

Oh that's amazing.

Thanks so much for taking the time to reply Tom!!! Really appreciated!!!

[Mattyb12]

Nylon strung - underworld.

 

Love it.

[Gnomicide]

The new Pet Shop Boys song has just been on the radio, even by there standard it's dreadful. 

An indefensible turd of a song.

[Woffy]

8 minutes ago, Gnomicide said:

The new Pet Shop Boys song has just been on the radio, even by there standard it's dreadful. 

An indefensible turd of a song.

Are they still a thing?

I thought they presented I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here nowadays.

[Guest]

Listened to The Life Of Pablo twice now, feels like a 5/10 album to me.

[tevaburger]

i've been humming this for the past week-plus....new record came out earlier this month...great band

 

[home to you]

Lead track from the new album (out 15th April). God I hope she's back at the farm in June!

[CaledonianGonzo]

3 hours ago, GETOFFAMYLAWN said:

Listened to The Life Of Pablo twice now, feels like a 5/10 album to me.

Ultra Light Beam's a jam.

[Guest]

3 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

Ultra Light Beam's a jam.

It accounts for 3 of that 5, the other 2 is No More Parties In LA

[CaledonianGonzo]

Yeah...I've only listened to it twice myself too and they're the two obvious initial standout tracks.

[FloorFiller]

i'm surprised more people didn't like Father Stretch My Hands Pt. 1. only 2 minute 15 seconds long but i just cannot get enough of it, ridiculous Kanye verse and all

album's not a classic by any means and i really all over the place but it's still getting regular plays from me! looking forward to the supposed next offering coming this summer

[kingcrawler]

Been listening to Cullen Omori's debut album over the last few days which is good. He was the singer in the Smith Westerns before they broke up and to be honest this album just sounds like another Smith Westerns one but that's certainly not a bad thing.

[FloorFiller]

2 minutes ago, kingcrawler said:

Been listening to Cullen Omori's debut album over the last few days which is good. He was the singer in the Smith Westerns before they broke up and to be honest this album just sounds like another Smith Westerns one but that's certainly not a bad thing.

been meaning to give his stuff a listen. this is very good! the other members' new band Whitney are sounding pretty damn promising as well - have only heard this song so far (not sure if they've released any more) but it's been getting a lot of plays from me. very different from Smith Westerns

 

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, FloorFiller said:

i'm surprised more people didn't like Father Stretch My Hands Pt. 1. only 2 minute 15 seconds long but i just cannot get enough of it, ridiculous Kanye verse and all

album's not a classic by any means and i really all over the place but it's still getting regular plays from me! looking forward to the supposed next offering coming this summer

Father Stretch My Hands Pt 1 is pretty decent, I actually think the album starts out pretty strongly, but that start gets tarnished when the rest of the record plumbs new depths of unfocused, uninspired dicking around. I'm not surprised he says it's only going onto to Tidal, even Kanye knows this is not a finished piece of work by any stretch of the imagination. The tracks really aren't bad for the most part, they just get seriously let down by the vapid lyrics. Famous is where it starts to go wrong, and it never really pulls it back despite some nice flourishes here and there. No More Parties in LA works best when you listen to it on its own, because by the time I get to it, I've had enough of hearing Kanye's voice.