James Murphy often lamented about a New York party scene him and his friends had outgrown without noticing. A 16 year old kiwi girl in 2013 recontexualized this from her working class flyover city background. In the process, defined pop music ever since.
A minimalism that is frustrating by design. An instrumental solely a vehicle for the vocals. The emotionless sonic mask that hides insecurities blown up by the internet. In a way, Lorde spoke to a generation not dissimilarly to many an indie ... read more
My absolute shock finding out this got released this morning. Very emotionally charged, and Aaron Turner adds so much to this band. There's this melancholy between the brutality that works so well. An impressive proof of life and a strong comeback album.
Let's make the album Never Enough by Turnstile: take 2000's Rise Against. Remove all the catchy choruses and the based leftist lyrics. In its place, we're putting in some 80s new wave and proto-dream pop. Make sure the effects on the vocals give listeners a headache after 15 seconds of hearing them. Riffs, who needs those? We only do vibes here. This thing needs to scream "one freaky goth baddie, please."
Like 2 or 3 good songs but very very uninteresting. She just doesn't fully have the voice to be doing this sort of stuff, but the songwriting here doesn't do her many favors. Saw them live a couple days ago and it really soured me on them as a group entirely