C'mon man, she's such an easy target.

I'm interested in your dude naked vocals of this.

Severian's input always appreciated too. So pure.

I'm not picking on her. I feel sort of bad for her. I'm talking about her style, which she picked up from somewhere else.

Regina Spektor, that Feist chick, Sharon Van Etten, even Kate Nash with the accent: they all sound very similar.

To my ears, they're struggling to channel Billie Holiday. I never told anyone they had my permission to try this.

I don't really know most of those chicks apart from Regina Spektor, whose music I know very little about. I'm sure you're right and you get a lot of dudes trying to sound like the Pavement singer too. It's just as bad. Also, how much can you do with a voice, really?

Or all those singers who try to be the Alice in Chains guy or Eddie Vedder? God, how many hundreds. Maybe that trend is over now.

It's really weird how vocal trends occur at all.

In the pop world, for the past decade many people have decided to sing "may" for "me," as in: "Look what you're doin' to may." I hear that all the time. Who decides this stuff?


I dunno. Seems to me the people who sing from their own gut manage something uniquely their own.

But I can see how the lowly ones might have a problem, and might latch onto whatever's hip in the air.

I don't care about the pop world.

Good idea. I'm gonna do the same.

WHOA, leave SVE out of that bunch! As for the rest (and about five million more), yes, they sound lamely Holiday-ish but their root is more Chan Marshall than Billie.

Is that Cat Power chick really that influential on girls singing these days? She's alright by me, it's just that she only seems to sing about disappointment, lost opportunities in love and that sort of shit. Nothing wrong with that, it just get a bit tedious after a while.

What record is that? You guys!

Thanks.

She actually covered Mary J Blige's "Deep Inside" on a John Peel session (not quite "recently", evidently).

Ween suck.

Floating Coffin is a high point for sure. Also my favorite, though this year's Mutilator Defeated at Last has been in pretty constant rotation since its release.

I'm also big into the old OC'S material, like the 3+4(Songs About Death & Dying/Get Stoved) and 2 collections.

Let's argue!

By sheer coincidence...

Browsing around youtube. Come across a cover of "David Watts" featuring a harp and sitar. Sounds promising.

Then the female singer comes in. Hey, what do you know? THAT voice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44zix8j-8UE

Thee Oh Sees are so great...
Web on their latest has been my favorite (sort of) song since I first heard it played live last year.
I find it hard to listen to the whole album after that, as it opens Mutilator...
You'll hear people saying how good they are and wonder whether these guys are sane after listening to an album picked randomly. Their live performances are so thrilling, the songs are way better on stage (I discovered the studio version of Dead Energy after a couple of live shows and could not recognise it).
I find Carrion Crawler/The Dream, Floatin Coffin to be among the solid albums, along with Putrifiers II.