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Originally Posted by SigmaChiCard
Ultimately I would hear the album end to end and there was just nothing at all remarkable about it and I was left feeling bored.
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That's totally fair too - that's sort of a fatal concept album flaw anyway: pushing the concept too far detracts from the actual songs, and individually, I agree that the songs just aren't as strong as something like "Rebellion (Lies)".
Ah, I see - that makes sense, again I think songs like "I Can Change" and even "Dance Yourself Clean" still fit what you're looking for ... but yeah, I do feel you. I'm definitely a Murphy apologist of the highest order, and I think the album gains a LOT when viewed through the lens of his divorce and etc., but I'm certainly biased.
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Girl Talks mixing was fantastic for the most part, but the juxtapositions were less interesting and a lot of the hip-hop choices were a less danceable than previously. I imagine myself back at one of his shows again and one of the keys to those shows were a mix of a little more popular songs (i.e. Nobody but Girl Talk could make me sing along to Kelly Clarkson) and minimal elements of songs where he'd give you just enough of a taste to know the song then move on (i.e. the veruca salt scream or the neutral milk hotel "1,2,1,2,3,4"), but with this effort it seems like it's always just one track over another kind of mashup rather than mixing in a lot of elements. It sounds good still, but it's just not the kind of arrangements he is capable of and sounds more like a Party Ben kind of Mashup rather than a Girl Talk arrangement.
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I actually felt kind of the opposite - I felt like I was actually at his shows much more so than "Night Ripper", even though the cuts were slightly "deeper" (in a catalog sense) ... I guess, though, that works in opposition to my feeling that this one is sort of an homage to music nerds. Putting "Down for the Count" over the coda to "Layla", for example, is brilliant.
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When the cover art was released, I was expecting the guys to go even more electronic and didn't believe it when I got the promo copy, I couldn't believe my ears and thought it was a joke. The first listen I was just trying to get over my shock. The second listen I gained appreciation. The third listen I took it for what it was and just really enjoyed it.
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Will definitely give it another spin, then.
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I literally cannot understand what half of the Contra songs are even about.
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It definitely lacks ... for lack of a better term, any sort of facile nature that the first album had. For example, "Diplomat's Son" is pretty obtuse, even though it's my favorite track on the album I'm not sure exactly what to do with it.
However, it seems almost like it's more rewarding to peel it apart - "California English" is probably the best example here, the entire take-down of do-well subculture (here, vegan/natural foods) using toothpaste as an example of where it can all go wrong. ("Cousins", in my opinion, attacks privilege and entitlement, both in a holistic sense and also in contrast to people who hated on their work and appropriation of other cultures)
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Beach House is my Vampire Weekend in a way. It's my kind of summer music. It's funny you'd hate shoegaze but like Wavves and How to Dress Well...just all kind of similar
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That's a great point, and I make no bones about my own internal inconsistencies, haha.
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Also, if you're a fan of Passion Pit, send me a dm and I can send you The Pass.
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Definitely will do.