theescapedslave

which would include nailing my testicles to a desk ahead of listening to radio 1.

album is the definition of a 10 this is it

Liars polarise me like almost no other band - the experimental stuff is great, the indie guitar rock stuff does nothing for me. On a sidenote this got me listening to DND for the first time in years. The thing is an absolute stone cold classic to my ears, a Spiderland, Loveless, Kid A level release.

looking forward to giving this a listen too...heavy breathing was great...

and not enough for others...first 2 songs are great..middle a bit ho-hum then picks up a bit at the end.

but Blank Media is a tune and a half even on my shitty work headphones...

seriously...this could be a new low in band naming.

that is amazing...a band i would never have expected to re-form.

all the pap on here that recieves the DiS rote score of 8 and this only gets a 7.

dustedmagazine.com in which white hate group Flight of the Conchords are called out for their hating...

http://www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/4248

"Flight of the Conchords is essentially an album of (mostly) R&B and hip hop pastiches. If I can quote Frederic Jameson at length for a moment: “Pastiche is, like parody, the imitation of a peculiar or unique style, the wearing of a stylistic mask, speech in a dead language: but it is a neutral practice of such mimicry, without parody’s ulterior motive, without the satirical impulse, without laughter, without that still latent feeling that there exists something normal compared with which what is being imitated is rather comic. Pastiche is blank parody, parody that has lost its sense of humour…” (his emphasis).

The schtick is this: nerdy white guys play R&B songs ironically and rap, but you know, in a dorky way. Not for the entire album, but for an appreciable amount, enough so that the songs not adhering to this strategy are merely diversions. Thus, one step removed from a rapping granny, Flight of the Conchords in 2008 traffics in the musical equivalent of “White people do things like this and black people do things like that.” Eminem is spinning in his grave right now.

Irony only works if there is a coherent target that one is undercutting. Wonder Showzen works not because its target is kid’s shows but rather because it is using the structure to attack dogmatic religious and right wing political beliefs. The Venture Brothers are amazing not because they ridicule awful 60s cartoons or comic book conventions, but rather use those things ironically to comment on the characters they’ve created. However, the target here is at best nothing and at worst traditionally black genres of music, the slightly concealed, slightly racist sentiment being that there are kinds of music that normatively are relegated to certain groups and isn’t it funny to transgress those boundaries. Thus, they’re not parodying a song or a certain artist, but rather creating pastiches of entire musical forms without any thought about what they’re saying or doing or the cultural context they’re making the songs within. It has inspired me though to go to New Zealand and peddle my brand of humorous Aborigine joke songs and see if I can get a show on TV One. That is, assuming New Zealand also treated their native people as deplorably as Australia did and that it works as a metaphor for United States race inequality.

One of the few successful attempts I’ve seen at the “white comedy duo raps” method came from The Mighty Boosh’s first season (and also the BBC radio show). In “Tundra” while trapped in the arctic, Howard and Vince rap about the blinding whiteness of the snow, but here, the joke is what they’re saying not that they’re rapping. I feel like Flight of the Conchords could do something interesting if they embraced the absurdity of their act and didn’t stand aloof from it at an ironic distance.

By Andrew Beckerman"

as some nathan barley celebrity special.

that Yellow Swans album is indeed great...

this is what DIS has been crying out...

they swear to much?

cock...

geez...i thought he had disappeared into some post-mike skinner purgatorial ether.

that is a bad album cover...

jeepers.

rapes ITAOT...

harvey milk?? no asmz - 13 blues for 13 moons?? at least you got why? up there....

not fleet foxes that is...still expecting a pretty good show from them even though i though meanderthal was ave - really just runined by the terrible hair metal vox...

1. why - alopecia
2. asmz - 13 blues for 13 moons 9hated it when i first heard it)
3. high dependecy unit - metamathics
4. fuck buttons - street horsssing (also hated this at first)
5. pissed jeans - hope for men (is this 2008?)
6. young widows - old wounds
7. harvey milk - life the best game in town
8. wino - a bottle of pills with a bullet chaser
9. deerhunter - microcastles
10. no age - nouns

hon mentions...bvon iver, final, tim hecker & aidan baker, nadja, belong, earth, mogwai, bonnie prince billy (good but he has done much better), russian circles, fucked up, nadja grails...most overrated - torch - meanderthal no actually even more overrated the horrible pap that is fleet foxes and i'm seeing them open for isis this week...oh and shearwater - rook sounded great atv first but faded fast, conor obersts was a bit patchy too....and tvotr suck grnerally so i had the pleasure of ruling that a bad album without even listening to it based on the shiteness of return to cookie mountain...oh and track title of the year has to go to harvey milks - a maelstrom of bad decisions...have yet to listen to the jesu split/s and the broadrick/aaron turner side project grey machine has goodness written all over it....

it was a decidedly scractchy set to be honest...murderer was the definite highlight...

didn't mess with the other A. Turner...

http://www.thepointcardiffbay.com/img/gigs/gig_picture183.jpg

the use of said phrase is just how ome people roll

speaketh the truth...

"a tout gave me a freebie"...dreams can be pretty twisted sometimes

"volume" that Mr McMahon speaks of....it certainly doesn't reside with the standard NME tripe.

a third ignorant party with my barrage of spelling errors arrrgghh.

in fact I don't see that much difference between bands on both sides of this so-called divide. For example both Foals and The Enemy market a aesthetic that IMO precedes their music. The Enemy market themselves to lager chavs, whilst Foals market themselves to be hipper-than-thou-while-till-musically-ignorant-walking-haircuts.

I think so anyways....

I never thought i would get to see Slint live and it was indeed great....vox were a bit low in the mix. You were right about the crowd though, I saw (and definitely heard) some hipster cow babbling on loudly during the encore even raising her voice so as to be heard during the louder parts....unfortunately she was out of projectile throwing distance...

hearing that single on the radio whilst drving brings an urge to plough head-on into large, fast moving traffic....

the only time I hear this god-awful shite is when I'm listening to the radio whilst driving around in my work car....this song has the dubious distinction of making me want to plough into large, fast-moving vehicles....credit where credits due though, on this effort Nash makes the trash that is Lily Allen seem somewhat more talented....quite the feat.