Top ones encourage people to chant more and the second one is fair enough because labour are currently shite
On closer inspection, Yard act were doing a ‘bit’.
Why (and where) was that?
Arctic Monkeys cover band as one of the supports for just a Sheffield date is fantastic stuff
I’ve been in a couple of bands with Nuha Ruby Ra and co-wrote one of her songs she plays in the set, get down and see her if you’re lucky enough to be going to any of the dates she’s on!
Yeah, she’s great. Echo that people should go and see her on one of those slots
Wrt the over-saturation thing, it’s not so much that she ‘should’ do this or that, but every time I see that she’s doing another tour I’m reminded of the album and realise I like it a little less. Beginning to feel a little bit like when I got really into Elbow around 2009 & later had much regret (link irrevocably made in my mind after she said she wants to be like them)
Saw her support Bambara last year, totally different to them but enjoyed it, especially the line that went something like ‘oh no, here comes another dick with a guitar!’, and her constant smile onstage.
Tbf don’t think Slow Club ever had any ‘indie cred’ did they?
Speaking only for myself, had no idea of her history until PP. Thought she was american when i got into Compliments.
‘Popular thing not actually any good,’ opines person on Internet.
do you still enjoy Compliments as normal (wow, loaded phrasing) then?
hmm … and you’re saying all that is just in your opinion are you?
i posted a nice entirely-surface-level analysis of how much the tour would earn, take that back!
it’s interesting you say this though, because I’m almost going the opposite way. So I still love her/both albums/don’t feel any over saturation etc - but I’m definitely not actively spinning PP very much, despite being fully into the spoken word stuff. It’s so of a particular mood and approach that I rarely want to dip in and out of it, it does what it aims for so well imoimoimo but i have to be in the right headspace for it and wanting to spend 40 mins in that musical world
whereas I could pull nearly any song from Compliments at any time and love it, it’s still very good as a whole album but just find it much easier to enjoy in bits and pieces without overthinking it
and The Best is still her, err, best song
^^^
Just Kids is the only track on the new album that I prefer to any on Compliments Please, personally
My favourite song is Prioritise Pleasure. The chorus is mint.