Consumerism (Follow-Up)
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poptimistsBought 3 albums today.
Amerie: first half uniformly gorgeous, love the 86/87 washed-out synth-soul-pop she's using as a template, love the way breaking up songs has become her "thing" post 1-Thing. Second half slows down, I tune out, there's still stuff to like but not itching to hear the back end again.
Dizzee: usual curate's egg - "Pussy'ole" is funny, savage awesome, so is "Where's Da Gs" tho sadly no chicken noises on that one. There is an awful lot of putting ppl down for not being real on this album. DO NOT WANT to know what Dizzee thinks of the state of the world, Lily Allen collab disappointing, enough lust and venom on eg Flex, Bubbles, Da Feelin to make this a "keeper". I'll probably listen to it more than his other albums tbh.
Rihanna - just started listening, very pop but also sounds weirdly thin: where are the BIG ENGINE REVS that have made her number one for eleventy weeks? Futher reports possible. "Breakin Dishes" is good.
What do you think of these PLATTERS? If you've heard them. What else should I be buying in my newly ALBUM-FRIENDLY state?
Amerie: first half uniformly gorgeous, love the 86/87 washed-out synth-soul-pop she's using as a template, love the way breaking up songs has become her "thing" post 1-Thing. Second half slows down, I tune out, there's still stuff to like but not itching to hear the back end again.
Dizzee: usual curate's egg - "Pussy'ole" is funny, savage awesome, so is "Where's Da Gs" tho sadly no chicken noises on that one. There is an awful lot of putting ppl down for not being real on this album. DO NOT WANT to know what Dizzee thinks of the state of the world, Lily Allen collab disappointing, enough lust and venom on eg Flex, Bubbles, Da Feelin to make this a "keeper". I'll probably listen to it more than his other albums tbh.
Rihanna - just started listening, very pop but also sounds weirdly thin: where are the BIG ENGINE REVS that have made her number one for eleventy weeks? Futher reports possible. "Breakin Dishes" is good.
What do you think of these PLATTERS? If you've heard them. What else should I be buying in my newly ALBUM-FRIENDLY state?
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Date: 2007-06-21 06:35 pm (UTC)i played the field album to death earlier in the year. we've been in a cooling-off period, i'm seeing other people, but i'll never stop loving it.
gui barrato, many enjoyable tracks on, but ever since i played it through and realized how something about it falters in the last third, i haven't been trying to hear it as an album.
the other day a colleague came in to my office and said 'is this still the same record?' - yes; lcd soundsystem again and again.
i also played the deerhunter album to death earlier in the year, less lately, but it's still good when i play it. ted leo i expect to warm up to over a year or two (but individual songs on it i've already come to love).
hyphy hitz most enjoyable rap long-player this year. the devin the dude has been good, but seemed a little more monochromatic than earlier records. very much looking forward to ugk, should it ever drop. i got a leak of the turf talk record; it didn't seem as impressive as the hype around it had suggested, but i'll keep listening.