Quote from: omegakitty on April 07, 2013, 06:01:36 PM

Quote from: MuppetFace on April 07, 2013, 05:19:43 PM

Yeah, I'm looking forward to The Terror. Should be out soon right?

Vinyl on April 15. I think the CD has officially been out for a week.

Just checked Amazon and Flaming Lips.com

Both editions should be out on the 15th. Exciting!

I realize why I thought the CD was out earlier, they now have a different label for international releases (Bella) so the UK got an April 1st release. They also get a bonus 7" or mini CD with the vinyl or CD edition respectively. There should be a pretty cool Beatles cover song on them.

If you're thinking about getting the vinyl the silver version from the US Lips store (Warner Bros) is supposedly limited to 2500. I wish they would have included those bonuses with the US release 

This isn't exactly new, but I've been *really* digging this as of late. One of my favorite releases of last year.



TRST by Trust.

Giving it a listen right now. Nice!

Ooh, new Medeski. I always wondered how "real" jazz fans felt about MM&W.

Been listening to the Knife, James Blake and Kurt Vile all weekend.  They all 

I'm NOT feeling the new Yeah Yeah Yeahs at all. Too formulaic and by-the-numbers (but I guess that's to be expected). Same with Tyler the Creator's new one -- his schtick is getting old quick.

My feelings are a little tepid over the new Tyler, the Creator. It's a safe album in that it doesn't strive to do anything novel, but then I don't think it needs to do anything novel. It lacks the refreshingly underground appeal of Goblin, but then Goblin lacks the refreshingly underground appeal of Goblin. That certain something has been slowly dissipating since Bastard. And really that's fine for me, because I'm not looking for a personal anthem or lifestyle and can gladly divorce the sounds from the meta-contextual stuff surrounding it. Don't care about the relevance, don't care about the generational thing. The best aspect for me is still the exuberance, Tyler and Frank's voices, and the stripped-down Gravediggaz vibe. Thankfully there's something about Tyler's gnarled flow makes me forget that he's the same guy on Loiter Squad.

Wolf is definitely more polished than anything he's done before, which is either a good thing or a bad thing depending on your perspective I guess. I don't think Tyler's style benefits from added complexity, and really the simpler things are kept the better (like "Yonkers"). Some of these tracks get a little too ambitious, too overwrought and suffer for it. The album is more consistent from track to track in terms of quality, which is good, though in terms of feel it also sort of runs together. I think this homogeneity was sort of necessary because the album seems less overtly built around a central concept compared to Goblin. The latter was a mess, but it worked for the theme of therapy sessions. In contrast there's less here to really tie things together, so the new album kind of runs on for too long and becomes a blur. Consequently it's more enjoyable for me when taken in small doses.

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I've only just started listening to Kurt Vile's Walkin on a Pretty Daze and James Blake's Overgrown. So far the new Kurt Vile isn't really doing anything for me with the exception of a few tracks. Might be a slow grower however, so I'm going to keep listening. The new James Blake is surprisingly good to me; I really didn't care much for the direction of his self-titled debut to be honest, though I like his earlier EPs (and parts of the debut). I'm definitely enjoying this new full-length however.

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The new Vondelpark full-length, Seabed, is kind of similar to James Blake in certain respects. I'm really digging it too. Like... a lot. This is definitely in the running for my favorite electronic album since last year's absolutely masterful Fin by John Talabot.

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Also picked up Habitual Levitations (Instilling Words with Tones) by Intronaut this week. A little too proggy / techy for me to have it on constant rotation, but I've been digging it.