68. Kacey Misgraves - Deeper Well

Almost exactly what pop said. First two tracks were good (neither were great) and apart from one called Jade Green the rest is a wet weekend. I hated Anime Eyes.

A track called The Architect sums it up really - it's an OK idea for a song and the melody/arrangement/chorus are passable, but some of the lyrics are so placeholder it's like the buzzer went off on Ready, Steady, Write and she had to put her pen down without changing the bit about the apple, or the line 'is it too late to make some more space'. Or most of the rest of it. I tell you who wouldn't have fucked this song up - Brandi Carlile.

Different trailer, not in the same ballpark!

I’m listening to this Glass Beach album (Plastic Death) and I’d genuinely love some others to do the same as I’m struggling to pin it down. It’s good, but the variety of genres/sonics are, for want of a better word, somewhat overwhelming.

Olimite wrote:

I’m listening to this Glass Beach album (Plastic Death) and I’d genuinely love some others to do the same as I’m struggling to pin it down. It’s good, but the variety of genres/sonics are, for want of a better word, somewhat overwhelming.

This could be my AotY. Wow.

20 minutes! Amazing.

If it's somewhere on a The Tain, The Island and Hazards Venn diagram I'll hopefully like it.

Got the Glass Beach one lined up for tomorrow. Never heard of them.

Just because the first track from the Glass Beach album shares the same name:

Anyone remember when we did a Shriekback album in an album club thing many years ago?  Was a Brooks pick iirc (although I don't think he liked it in the end).  I loved it and it's often something I'll put on if I can't decide what to listen to.  Nemesis is such amazing nonsense.
  

Genuinely excited to hear the Glass Beach again. I got Radiohead vibes, heard some Rivers Cuomo-style vocals, electronica, Speed metal, Faith No More.

Utterly batshit crazy.

72. Jurassic 5 - J5 (1998)



Shouldn't really count this as it's clearly breaching thread rules so I'll keep it short.  Had to listen after mentioning it; an actual full blown [10].  The lines 'ah ah, the tool spinners, cookin' a full dinner/killin' the firstborn of lyrical Yul Brynners' will be kissed by chefs forever.  I GET GOOSEBUMPS WHEN THE BASSLINE THUMPS.

Oh well. Thanks for giving it a shot. I thought given your Radiohead leanings, you would dig the randomness of it all.

Have to tell the thread about my brother. Was visiting him there and his music taste is very Q mag. Eventually we're moving chat onto the topic of music and he genuinely "you might not have heard of them"-d me and then put on Nothing Matters by The Last Dinner Party.

73. Glass Beach - Plastic Death (2024)



Bold mixture of styles that seems really accomplished in terms of musicianship.  Emo alt math jazz inspired prog rock wearing an In Rainbows T shirt was never likely to be something I'd be fully into though.  I wasn't too taken with the lead vocals, or what I could make out of the lyrics.  I actually heard a line I liked, then looked it up and realised I'd misheard it (FTR I thought I heard 'heart with a glass jaw', which is the sort of mawkish pish I like, but the line was actually 'heart with a glass door', which earned nil moot points).  The band pretty much sticks everything it chucks at the wall though.  The whole thing is impressively Jack-of-all-trades (even the metal flourishes didn't feel forced - Slip Under The Door is decent early on), and I assume this is a group of friends doing exactly what they want to do while putting 100% effort into every miniscule detail.  So fair play to them, it's just not quite my sort of thing.  Ergo it's more of a 'this lot are impressive!' record for me, rather than a 'this lot are great!' one.  I'd much rather listen to by-the-numbers rock with more appealing vocals/words tbh, which is why basic garage/southern rock is more my jam as I tend to prefer my guitar based music a little less hyperactive - this sometimes sounds like a big Mr. Bungle bundle to me.  They even gleefully mix things up during songs, with some tracks doing that mathrock/jazz inspired hand-crank thing (which isn't a thing, but I don't listen to a lot of this sort of music so to me it is - time signatures that speed up, shift lanes and slow down as if manually churned by someone pulling the strings on a whim while shouting 'dance, my pretties!').  

TLDR: I think it's good and I did quite like it (I've listened to some of it twice), but they're not a band I can see myself getting into.

74. Glass Beach - the first glass beach album



Having said that I did listen to the album before the second one on the way to work this morning.  I was reading at the time though, so didn't pay full attention.  I liked the jazzy electro freak-out on dallas but hated the autotuned vox on planetarium.  Off the top of my head I can't think of any examples of autotuned vocals I do like ever though.  Which makes me very cloud shouty and old man-ish, but it's an instant nails on a blackboard production technique for me.  This album was also a bit bonkers, although less so than the more recent one.  On the rare croony tracks she's actually got quite a strong voice, it just gets a bit rubberstamp emo when she's keeping pace with the bigger tracks imo.  It's also quite good for the screamo bits - it's just in the kinda middle range that it misses the mark for me.  Fun fact for my fellow nerds: This one has a track called Yoshi's Island on it.       

So yeah, not my usual thing but I enjoyed the diversion.

Nice.  Track always reminds me of my Naseem Hamed VHS.

I listened to my three fave LL songs on the way to work today to try and kick me out of lethargy:

Mama Said Knock You Out
I’m Bad
I Need Love
Go Cut Creator Go

Cracking cover.