Author Topic: What Music are you listening to in 2012? (Read 39691 times)

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #425 on:** September 26, 2012, 08:22:20 PM »

Lost Kitten is definitely one of the highlights of the album. The vaguely glamorous feeling of decadence and charmingly disdainful sarcasm Metric learned to hone throughout the years is sharpest in that one. In fact, all of Synthetica feels like the band finally found a perfect balance between their intelligence and their pop sensibility. Love Youth Without Youth and Speed the Collapse as well, but all the songs are quite good.

EDIT: Also, "I was looking for a hooker when I found you", given context, is one of the best lines in an album chock-full of juicy one-liners. It definitely feels Emily Hayes' lyrics-writing hit a good new height here.

Luther Lansfeld · « **Reply #426 on:** September 26, 2012, 08:27:47 PM »

I'm not quite as enamoured with Fantasies, but I listened to it after Synthetica.

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #427 on:** September 26, 2012, 08:33:28 PM »

Honestly, I agree. Fantasies is cool in that arena rock way with powerfully catchy songs, but it's noisy and excessive often. Synthetica is just far more polished and about as acutely pop. It's plainly a danged well-written and recorded album overall.

Luther Lansfeld · « **Reply #428 on:** September 26, 2012, 09:15:43 PM »

Any other Metric albums worth a listen?

Grefter · « **Reply #429 on:** September 26, 2012, 09:59:30 PM »

All of them. They are all equally good in my opinion. I honestly don't even differentiate Fantasies from stuff like Grow Up and Blow Away.

JayZ - 99 Problems.

Thinking of doing DL casting of albums. Had been thinking of a few before this, but Black Album might be first.

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #430 on:** September 26, 2012, 11:14:33 PM »

Quote from: Grefter on September 26, 2012, 09:59:30 PM

All of them.

Yes. To elaborate: Metric's albums generally have a consistently solid minimum quality line and all their albums past add to the band's comprehension, even if they -do- vary in quality. Grow Up And Blow Away is verrrrrrrrrry '90s, but once you get past it being heavily attached to its own time, it has the highest quota of highly memorable songs in their catalog and some of the biggest winners in their career (the eponymous album opener, On The Sly, Hardwire, for instance). Old World Underground is high-energy and veers into the more interesting things they actually do with their new wave roots, along with being one of the best in terms of pop sensibility they have. Live It Out is very uneven, but its ambition is notable and while it's the height of Metric's excesses, sporting some horrible misses, the hits are just glorious. Think of it as an embryo for the lengths they'd reach in Fantasies and Synthetica.

Luther Lansfeld · « **Reply #431 on:** September 26, 2012, 11:38:45 PM »

Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros - Carries On

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #432 on:** September 27, 2012, 12:21:08 AM »

Allo Darlin' - Neil Armstrong

They released a new album too!?

Grefter · « **Reply #433 on:** September 28, 2012, 10:30:57 AM »

The Dillinger Escape Plan - Chinese Whispers.

There's a chemical weapon made from all your broken dreams.

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #434 on:** September 28, 2012, 11:58:55 AM »

Metric - Lost Kitten

Just the right amount of cleverness, sleaze and charm.

By the way, Mumford and Sons' Babel is -an amazing album-. Just thought you guys should know.

Grefter · « **Reply #435 on:** September 28, 2012, 12:47:15 PM »

Deadmau5 - Maths

Luther Lansfeld · « **Reply #436 on:** September 30, 2012, 04:16:46 AM »

Pet Shop Boys - Ego Music

This song is so smarmy.

Lady Door · « **Reply #437 on:** September 30, 2012, 05:53:01 AM »

Muse - Madness

No idea whether this is a "good" song or not, but I love the feel of it.

Grefter · « **Reply #438 on:** September 30, 2012, 11:05:41 AM »

3 Inches of Blood - Trial of the Champions.

Lady Door · « **Reply #439 on:** October 01, 2012, 04:58:07 AM »

Imagine Dragons - It's Time

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #440 on:** October 01, 2012, 11:41:58 AM »

Metric - Dreams So Real

Grefter · « **Reply #441 on:** October 01, 2012, 01:26:51 PM »

Fever Ray - Now's The Only Time I Know.

Luther Lansfeld · « **Reply #442 on:** October 01, 2012, 10:17:16 PM »

Nick Cave and Kylie Minogue - Where the Wild Roses Grow

Grefter · « **Reply #443 on:** October 01, 2012, 10:49:55 PM »

Los Campesinos! - Light Leaves, Dark Sees pt. ii

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #444 on:** October 01, 2012, 11:46:22 PM »

The B-52's - Rock Lobster

VySaika · « **Reply #445 on:** October 02, 2012, 04:54:10 AM »

Lana Del Rey - Born to Die

Eeeeeeeemmmmmmooooooooo. I love her stuff anyway, but man.

Just got a bunch of new CDs today(ordering shit I heard on Pandora and liked~), this was one of them.

Luther Lansfeld · « **Reply #446 on:** October 02, 2012, 06:28:36 AM »

The Beatles - Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da

Yoshiken · « **Reply #447 on:** October 02, 2012, 11:43:35 AM »

Gotye - Somebody That I Used to Know

Every time I listen to this, I can't help but think of the parodies.

Grefter · « **Reply #448 on:** October 02, 2012, 01:03:22 PM »

Los Campesinos! - Miserabilia.

Luther Lansfeld · « **Reply #449 on:** October 02, 2012, 04:31:25 PM »

Alexander - Truth

Fun little experimental album.

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