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He mentioned that in response to you saying he was never actually in the studio with Kanye, so the sarcasm's a bit unnecessary.

 

Comparing anything in today's music world to the 50's and 60's is ridiculous. Things have changed. Just because an artist doesn't release at least one album a year doesn't mean they couldn't if the industry would allow it.

yes to all of this. and when Ryan Adams is dropping 5 albums a year, most of them suck.

yep.

 

thanks to a screw up on iTunes yesterday

what exactly happened? that's kind of crazy.

I agree with the techniques involved in producing the respective records but my point relates the the volume of quality material produced in such a short period of time. Ryan Adams has done similar in the past, with varying degrees of success.

 

From a marketing point of view, in reference to a previous thread, artists don't need an album out every six months when you can release a record and then release a deluxe/special edition of the same record a few months down the line. Not that this is something I would imagine Bon Iver doing.

I could see him releasing another "Blood Bank"-like EP in with some "Bon Iver, Bon Iver" castoff songs or something. Plus most bands make money from touring and licensing anyway more than actual CD sales, so they can survive two to three years without a new record by allowing these songs to be used in TV shows and stuff.

Wasn't he just on one song? I doubt he was ever even in the studio with Kanye.

 

 

 

LouieB

there was a pfork article about him hanging out at Rick Ross's house or something with Kanye for a while in Hawaii I think.

Anyway, Dylan's recording method and Justin Vernon's are quite different. Dylan would routinely just launch into the song and the players had to hold on and just play along in many instances. And the jazz guys who released 2-3 albums a year were doing that mostly out of necessity. Gotta make money somehow...and the post production wasn't even that major. It's not like they were doing lots of layering or anything.

i'm so confused. what happened to these guys? at dawn through Z was a good run. now this again?

it's probably more you than them.

it's just too dumb for my taste unfortunately

 

musically it's kinda fun, but the lyrics + Jim's vocals?

 

 

 

yep yep!

 

going to both actually

dude his falsetto is great. it's so impossibly high. ...ly suspicious. yes i just did that.

I don't understand how you can't like Highly Suspicious.

ah ok. that's what i thought you were getting at.

have you heard any more of it, or is this the first stuff you've heard too?

the album is going to be untitled?

 

What a great band these guys were ...

one of the few bands I REALLY wish I had been alive to see.

this is the best record i've heard in 2011. I had medium expectations for it, and it's blown me away.

that Kurt Vile album is fabulous imo.

 

his vocals sound like Lou Reed meets Thurston Moore, not like those are exactly the most "in key" singers ever (plus, i'll take his vocals over the nasally whine of the RAA singer any day... (i do like them tho)

 

oh well. still my favorite album on the year, and easily the best of his 4 albums.

RAA's lead singer's voice is really bad live.

i've listened to the record three or four times, and was never struck much by it. I love his work with Nick Drake, though.

^ i bet that is very good.

I'm not quite sure you're allowed to like Radiohead if you don't rank Pablo Honey last, lol.

let's not start that, how bout?

enjoying this way more than my first few spins. go arcade fire, go!

it's okay.

i don't think i'll ever gush over anything radiohead does. their music makes me feel claustrophobic and it always sounds so ...depressingly futuristic, i guess. like, if all those horrible visions of the future in 1980s sci-fi movies came true, the music would sound like this. and that's depressing as fuck.

I just watched the video for Lit Up and that was directed by Vincent Moon as well and I sort of enjoyed that. it flowed a bit nicer than A Skin, A Night.

his music videos are definitely better ...mostly because they're usually around 4 minutes long.

I noticed this as well and it was a little unsettling for me too. it was cool stumbling across this thread only to find out that they were on tv again so recently. I just got into another big National kick a few days ago and it was a nice surprise.

 

ps: started watching their doc. A Skin, A Night and couldn't get into it at all. have any of you watched the entire thing and care to comment on it? it can be viewed on their YouTube page for free.

A Skin, A Night is weird. I wasn't sure what to make of it...I enjoyed it more than most, but it still isn't very good.

matt's beard is good.

i just think the way they chose to almost totally drop the guitars during the chorus was/is a weird choice. The song felt like it kept stopping/starting, which is totally unlike the album version.

I thought their first album was good, but not worthy of the lavish praise and album of the year honors it received. Add to that, I saw them early in their tour and thought they were a bit awkward and nothing spectacular.

 

Part of me wanted to not like this song to justify my prior feelings and bring them back down to earth. Damn you Fleet Foxes, I really liked it.

yes i thought the first record was good, but not spectacular (especially considering all the great music from 2008).

Dallas. sweet. will be there.