The new DIIV album, Is The is Are. It's actually got a nice vibe to it for a modern indie pop record. Satisfying in that good old Built to Spill-y '90s way.

soooo weird you brought this up. I listened to it YESTERDAY for no real reason. Never heard them before yesterday. But I randomly gave it a go. And I liked it. But what's weird is I specifically thought "I think sev would like this. I should mention it to him."

Aww. you got my number man.
I don't love all the songs (some of them have that half baked feel that I didn't like about Deerhunter's Fading Frontier) but some of the songs are very good. The first track has that nice "rolling" kind of feel to it, plenty of momentum... love that. Then there's that song that sounds exactly like a Kim Gordon-sung Evol-era track.

Oddly, it reminds me a bit of the Cure, a bit of Built to Spill, and a bit of Nirvana (just in the kind of sneering bite of the lyrics, if not the actual singing.. Had a bit of Cobain in it).

I like DIIV. I liked them when they were called Dive. They're not outrageously inventive, but they're solid and they kick the ever loving shit out of Real Estate.

God I hate Real Estate. The industry as well as the band. When they got popular for remodeling REM for bored millennials, the bell really started to toll for indie rock.

I never even heard of Real Estate. At first I thought you were talking about Sunny Day...

No, no... It's some bratty bunch of low key whiny fucks who make godforsakenly dull and totally invertebrate indie pop. Pitchfork and the like can't get enough of them. Their last album came out... hmm.. Same week as Rick Ross's Mastermind I think. But yuck. Forget I mentioned them.

Also, I'm really liking this new record by Not Waving.

Anyone know Not Waving?
Very interesting electronic group, with a lot of experimental and noise sensibilities. Dirty factory dancefloor industrial shit. Their new album, Animals, just dropped on 2/5/16 and it's pretty fucking insane.

Not Waving-
They Cannot be Replaced {YouTube}
(A slow burner with an absolutely epic synth part that will fill your brain will hell and nostalgia and beautiful broken things- reminds me a bit of the title track from The Downwars Spiral)

24 - YouTube
(Put on your dirty spazz dancing shoes or take some ketamine and rock out)

Tomorrow we will Kill You - YouTube
(Menacing guitar sample driven downtempo track... This is exciting shit!)

Guy, listen to Not Waving.

Listening to all Kanye in preparation for the big day. Today it's Yeezus. Listened to at least one full album every day for the past six days.

The big day when they'll declare rapist Bill Cosby innocent?

Nope! That muh is guilty as fuck.

Well, I suppose he technically is innocent, in legal terms. As in not "proven" guilty. But I doubt that's what Kanye meant.

There was an awesome sequence in The L Word in which everybody dances to "I Want You Back".



They did a similar one with Roxy's "Do The Strand". Yes, I watched that show. I mean, come on.

Sometimes I forget YouTube exists.

The L Word "I Want You Back"

Tina dancing on the table... God-DAMN, she was my favorite.

The L Word "Do The Strand"

Also:

The L Word — Sleater-Kinney (lip-syncing, I believe) to "Jumpers". "Rollercoaster" or "Let's Call It Love" would have fit better, though...

https://excepter.bandcamp.com/album/presidence

working in the basement over the weekend, went on a total 90's alterna-kick after talking to sev about SP... listened to:

Everclear - Sparkle & Fade
Third Eye Blind - s/t
Scream soundtrack
Stone Temple Pilots - Purple
Bush - Sixteen Stone

had fun.

friend of mine played me some of his old favourites.
good stuff:

Sarcasm is sometimes hard to detect without non-verbal clues... If this isn't sarcasm you're practically screaming for a lobotomy.

It wasn't sarcasm and I'm sorry that my high school taste wasn't up to your high expectations.

Well, we've all been young and stupid — the point is why you would subject yourself to that wave of guano again.

because I actually enjoy the things that have led me to where I am. If didn't listen to what I listened to in high school, I wouldn't have gotten to the stuff I liked in college, nor the stuff after that.

Being a snob is great and all. But I enjoy nostalgia.

To elaborate: just because your pallet grows to enjoy fine Scotch, doesn't mean you're too good for cheap beer.

Hey man I still sing "Strawberry" from Sparkle and Fade to myself when I'm in a shitty mood. It cheers me up, despite being a truly heartbreaking look at drug addiction.

If they ever wrote a classic song, it wasn't Santa Monica or You Make me feel Like a Whore or Father or Mine or Everything to Everyone or any of the super awful shit that followed. It was fucking "Strawberry."

That track has a universal appeal and a truly genuine sound. Like the Replacements or Lou Reed circa Transformer. It's a great, great song. Agree?

Love strawberry hell yeah

Prob my fav song on the albuum.

that line "10 long years in a straight line/ they fall like water/ yes I guess I fucked up again" always hits me. Great song. Srs - my band in high school covered that song hahahaha

Yup. That's the lyric right there. That's the one.

I put that track on a mixtape I made for my girlfriend in high school. Hah.

I discovered Sebadoh, Folk Implosion and Daniel Johnston from the Kids soundtrack haha.

Yo Sev: all the Bowie replays lately have me thinking of that Aphex Twin remix of "Heroes" on 26 Mixes. I always loved that remix in all its mess-of-a glory.

"Sour" blew my mind, tho. That track was so standout. It's better than all the Folk Implosion tracks on there I think.

Plus "Fright Night" by Lo Down Click. Wish those guys made an album or something.

then again, Sebadoh > Folk Implosion.

Though I do love One Part Lullabye.

to get back to talk of bands that I love that yall probably hate

I love the Dandy Warhols

here's Genius from their first LP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qh9AkysPLq8

(Sev, i think you'd dig this if you dont' know it)

Love it.
Though the Bowie tributes are starting to wear at me a bit. I'm interested to hear the Flaming Lips stuff, but Amanda Palmer and Lady Gaga and Beck+Nirvana doing "Man Who Sold the World" is all kinda driving me nutso.

I would like to hear a really well crafted various artists mix though. Something the Lips might end up doing. But it would have to involve a lot of talent. Not just Stardeath +White Dwarves and Miley Cyrus.

I'm trying to think of who I'd like to hear on such a tribute album. But I'd rather have one tribute that's high quality and well thought out than dig through all this crazy shit, most of which is extremely ill advised and forgettable.

You already are a nutso. Now, if you're talking about the Bischoff/Palmer EP (with Anna Calvi on "Blackstar"), you're most doubly nutso, because it's gorgeous and smartly arranged, FAR from being one of those lamentable penny-a-dozen "Beatles on strings" kind of recordings.

Fuck has it been FOURTEEN years already???

Damion Romero — It Gets Worse

With such a title, you know you're already golden. And then the record's awesome, so there.

Haven't heard it. Just exhausted by all the Bowie tribute shit.

Original cover, chosen by the powers that be:



Miles: "Why'd you put that white bitch on there?"

Star Wars Headspace compilation.

Honestly, while most of it is ok, the only tracks in really feeling are the ones by Kaskade and Bonobo at this point. The rest of it sounds way too "bug dumbass EDM"-y to me. These tracks have a more thoughtful, emotional vibe to them. Less festival banger bullshit, more introspective and subtle. Especially the Bonobo track.

They reached out to the wrong set of DJ's and producers for this thing. FlyLo was a good choice. But aside from him and Kaskade and Bonobo, I think this is pretty missable. Why didn't they go for a less "EDM," and more just plain electronic music feel?

I would have called DJ Koze first. Then Burial. Then Fantastic Mr. Fox, Madlib, patten, KidKanevil, Fennesz, Todd Terje, Boards of Canada, maybe Jonny Greenwood and maybe Trent Reznor to get some high octane professional film composer types in that shit. But maybe not. Oh, Portishead for fuckin sure. And Botany. This thing could have been epic and emotional as hell, and been an excellent compliment to the film scores. Instead, it's kinda just meh.

I just feel like this could have been a really artful, rich, textured album if they'd not tried to do the EDM thing. I love electronic music, but I Fucking hate most shit that's referred to as EDM. Thank god there's no Deadmau5 on this bitch.

I miss being able to call shit IDM.