Red Mosquito

tree_ wrote:This is worse than all of LB.

Now you're just being insane

tree_ wrote:This is worse than all of LB. You all will come around in time. You're just excited.

Stfu

mkay0 wrote:It’s an overt Talking Heads rip-off, but it’s extremely well done. 4/5

So I'm seeing a lot of Talking Heads, David Byrne references... I hear a Bowie tribute in here. Maybe this album ends up with tributes and nods towards some of those we've lost since LB?

Just a dumb thought... but I think I really like this one. I, too, cringed when I heard upper register to start the first verse but on second listen... it's butter.

What's crazy is that millenials (and therefore, radio) may actually eat this up.

Regardless... we've asked for experimentation for so long now. And that's what we have here. Make no bones about it!

Strat wrote:

PHATJ wrote:On repeat and feeling really niiice.

honestly this shocks me and im so glad you are enjoying this, phatj.

I’m fucking loving this. It’s right in my wheelhouse! Why does that surprise you?

Outro backing vocals "drown in a river"

adults who troll on the internet are a real thing.

this really starts to take off for me at about 1:50

tree_ wrote:This is worse than all of LB. You all will come around in time. You're just excited.

idiot

I can tell that they didn't overwork it which has been an issue over the past 2 or 3 albums. Despite the quasi-electronic production it feels delightfully raw. Ed could be better but at least he is staying in a range that doesn't make him a complete detriment.

stone's intro for the song is killer.

basically everyone had a hand in it.

started with matt cam drums.

stone came in with the bass.

jeff added the keys.

mike added that funky guitar riff.

ed came in with they lyrics.

one by one, yield style. i love this origin story.

that clairvoyant lyric is a bit much, though

Im so confused by everybody online talking about how creative this is and then saying things like "literally a Talking Heads song" in the same sentence.

I listened to it twice now. Pretty sure I didn't even make it through a whole song on Lightning Bolt.

I don't even know if I like it. It starts as a straight Talking Heads track, it really does. Then Ed's first vocals don't feel like they fit in with the music, so it's confusing. The grunts are very cool. David Byrne-y but also still very Ed, this is the best bit of the song without a doubt. Then the chorus is uninteresting and sounds like it belongs on Lightning Bolt, and on the next verse Ed crosses the line and just does a straight David Byrne impression---"I'm positive! Positive!". That was too much. And I don't like the ending, a lyric about boys growing their dicks is unexpected and weird but isn't worth listening to two repetitive minutes of chanting.

And none of it makes me want to dance

stip wrote:that clairvoyant lyric is a bit much, though

Mind your manners!

stip wrote:this really starts to take off for me at about 1:50

From bridge on is fantastic, but really the whole thing is pretty fucking cool.

verb_to_trust wrote:What's the word that sounds like a bleeped out f bomb at the beginning of the song?

love

thank god the band didn't let ed "put a little fixin' on it" and ruin it

verb_to_trust wrote:

stip wrote:that clairvoyant lyric is a bit much, though

Mind your manners!

lol