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#364

Nothing all that personal is ever laid on the table. I don’t feel like I learn anything about Joe Talbot by listening to Joe Talbot.

there’s a song on the last record about his stillborn baby

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#365

In fairness in the thing he wrote about Idles he is very aware of his own faults and those of FWF

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#367

This is pointless bitching but I saw FWF last year (they were great) and the opener was Working Men’s Club who are probably the most bog standard post-post-punk type group to ever exist, and he has a go at exactly this type of group in the article

#368

don’t even get me STARTED on those absolute shit cunts

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#369

Also performe in the buff right?

#370

no idea

#371

plus, the first record being heavily influenced by his Mum’s death

#372

Geoff Barrow might be one of the worst people in the British music industry right now. Way more unlikeable and cynical and miserable than any of these bands that he has a bee in his bonnet about.

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#373

Go on, give us a little taste.

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#374

He’s very man-yells-at-cloud isn’t he?

#375

Imagine starting one of the best British bands ever and just… complaining about stuff all day long? Twitter turned his brain to shite, and all his fanboys enable it.

I’ve actively avoided buying stuff from his label recently because I just can’t reconcile giving him any money like that.

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#376

Invada? I dunno I try to give him the benefit of the doubt, I think like you say he’s just got sucked into that twitter-rant stuff.

#377

Invada, yeah. It’s a shame as they release some decent stuff but his rants last year about HAIM (a young band who don’t fit his listening taste, so of course he’s going to hate them) bordered on full-on misogyny, and that was the point I totally checked out with him. He’s just an arsehole.

#378

tatty-bye, geoff barrow

#379

Wait till he reads the Labour Party thread here

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#381

Okay new album is a massive retread of the last two in terms of subject matter; don’t mind the lyrics on the first song (which is an absolute BEAST of a track) but some later on are genuinely just mind-numbingly bizarre. The Kenny Beats contribution makes no discernible difference to these jaded ears. They’ve already said (like they said about Joy) that they’ve gone for absolute simplicity and the liner notes said they distilled every song to just one idea which is kinda weird and you have to wonder if that’s really a good thing. There’s the inevitable “fuck the haters” track but some of it is actually quite funny. And the singles that have been around for ages have really grown on me; they do have a genuine knack of getting under your skin. Still think that Brutalism remains the high point for now. Hm.

#382

that to me sounds like an excuse for lazy songwriting

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