I like this, the voices intertwine in quite a pleasing way.
Not too fussed on the level of collabs on this album- feels a bit odd. Glad to see the tracklist on the new one trimmed down
Not sure he could best his earliest stuff though. ST was a proper important thing for me back in 2011 or whatever and you can still hear it today in all the SoundCloud shite
Best album of his. Always found the other ones just liking the odd song.
Didnāt realise he was dating Jameela Jamil
Had a browse through the norman records reviews when looking for a pre-order. Shocked at how really nasty they are - managing to be casually sexist, racist, and crass about mental health across these three.
James Blake:
"I wish heād shut his stupid vocodered trap for a bit though. Imagine having this twat & Jamie Lidell doing a duet in your living room? āRight love, get the sweeping brush out, some fuckers done a big android soul turd on the carpetā¦ā
Overgrown:
āIām not impressed either by the vaunted RZA collaboration āTake A Fall For Meā sounding like the musical equivalent of a violent gang member being invited to to a middle class dinner party and having to be on his best behaviour.ā
Assume Form:
āAnyway the crybaby songster (we say that simply because it pisses him off so much) has a new record outā
Norman Records reviews are awful, they need to move on from that terrible music snob negativity that most publications left behind a decade ago.
I also think that Overgrown review should also be flagged up to them on twitter as being not OK
Very big fan of James Blakeās clumsy mentions of technology. The TV and I got a lot of mileage out of singing āput that way and talk to meā when one of us was glued to their phone.
Looking forward to replacing that now with the Power On lyrics ādrop a pin on the mood youāre inā
Me and my gf had an on-going thing with a different lyric from the same song for a while. She moved out of my flat for a few months back when Colour In Anything came out.
Every time she came round, Iād load up the song so he was singing āIām not living here, Iām not living here anymore. I donāt live here anymoreā just as she came through the front door.
NEW ANDRE 3000 VERSE
(Enjoyed the album on first listen. Really like the track with ROSALĆA.)
Hmmm yeah Iāll send them a message about this, itās definitely not OK.
i just realised i donāt remember anything on that last album other than bon iver being on it - in fact iād completely forgotten it existed tbh
first song on this new one is pretty bad, seems all over the place and he sounds well Chris Martin in places
think me and olā jimmy might be done here
Has one of those bullshit vertical videos on Spotify. No thanks m9
The middle section on this new one is pretty enjoyable and a solid run of songs for me, from Tell Them to Whereās the Catch. Feels a lot more varied than Colour in Anything, not sure if thatās for better or worse yet.
I love the run of Iāll Come Too, Power On and Donāt Miss It.
Not taken with this atm. Imo heās not done anything that could match up to those first EPs and the ST
Still doing this shite then. Majorly off putting
Didnāt think I was that into this on first listen but I have been going back to it all weekend, that Rosalia track is really something.