2022 albums discussion thread

Had a couple of listens to Arctic Monkeys new one and quite like it tbh. Some of the arrangements are really very good and it seems nicely produced to my fat ears.

A couple of listens is not going to cut the mustard here, Tux. It is three listens or go fuck yourself.

I'll give it 4 listens before my final opinion, but then I won't share anything about that opinion for at least 2 weeks.

I like where you're going with this, big man. You might wanna throw some superlatives around in the meantime.

Finally getting around to the arctic monkeys album. I fully blame all of this on Miles Kane, if I wanted a last shadow puppets album, I'd listen to the last shadow puppets.

Would expect the first end of year list from a publication to appear in the next week or 2 so probably time to start putting something together (before I get completely distracted by the World Cup).

The debut hasn’t aged well either

It's not technically 'new', but i'm working my way through the late-era b-sides comp weller put out a few weeks ago. I'm sure I've heard most of these, but none of them left a mark, and none of them are doing so now. He's getting very close to 2000sneil young territory, where he just puts out so....much...stuff that it kind of all blurs together and I don't remember any of it. It all sounds nice in passing, though.

Snail Young

Not a fan of solo weller. I never was.

Thanks.

The new Richard Dawson feels too daunting to me, 1st song is 40 minutes, think I'll pass... :/

PUSSY

... I was losing the will to live this morning waiting for the vocals to kick in.

11 minutes 33 seconds if you fancy jumping straight in!

Wish he'd do something like 2020 again FFS.

Haven't listened to the full album yet, but this was played on Gideon Coe the other night and it's rather great. A new band to me, but I suspect it will appeal to many here.

CC: BARNEY

This album slipped under my radar completely.

DIIV - Live At The Murmrr Theatre

"In the summer of 2017, DIIV played an acoustic show at the Murmrr Theatre in Brooklyn. DIIV viewed it as a sort of reboot for the band, with frontman Z. Cole Smith a few months into his sobriety journey. The gig was filmed for a Tidal documentary released in early 2018, and now it has become a live album. Live At The Murmrr Theatre features 11 songs, including covers of Alex G’s “Hollow” and My Bloody Valentine’s “When You Sleep.”

"In August 2017 I was 5 months sober and DIIV hadn’t played a show in almost a year. Our friend Ric helped us set up an intimate acoustic show in a theater in our hometown of brooklyn. We decorated the stage with stuff from our houses and played our home videos on a tv. We invited our friends and family and played some songs from our first two albums and some other artists’ songs that felt important to us as a band. It felt like some kind of reset. We recorded the show and forgot about it for a bunch of years. We recently found the recordings and thought people might want to hear them. I think of it as a kind of official bootleg I guess. Our friend Jarvis mixed it and our friends Parker and Jim made the art. enjoy."

Druun (2:50)
Past Lives (3:08)
Human (3:14)
When You Sleep (4:02)
Dopamine (4:34)
Hollow (4:15)
Loose Ends (4:42)
How Long Have You Known (4:01)
Under the Sun (4:18)
Earthboy (3:33)
Wait (6:41)

My god she's pretty beautiful.

Dunno, I like them loud and distored

Whitney just released your favourite song btw

Thank you Barns.

Did they rework the lyrics? I think I enjoy the live version better but this is still proper tasty.

All The Best,

BTW,

This was co-produced with Rado. I wonder if he's going to be involved in producing a new album for them.