Red Mosquito

Bury Our Friends, Price Tag, Hey Darling and Fade are the winners on here for me. I greatly prefer Corin to Carrie who almost annoys me a little bit on her songs. Not a huge fan of A New Wave and No Cities To Love isn't a favorite of mine either (the chorus is cool, the verses not so much). The rest is good. Overall very enjoyable even though I don't think I like it as much as most of you guys.

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Now stop talking about Sleater-Kinney for a while and listen to the new Björk album.

Mike wrote:Bury Our Friends, Price Tag, Hey Darling and Fade are the winners on here for me. I greatly prefer Corin to Carrie who almost annoys me a little bit on her songs. Not a huge fan of A New Wave and No Cities To Love isn't a favorite of mine either (the chorus is cool, the verses not so much). The rest is good. Overall very enjoyable even though I don't think I like it as much as most of you guys.

Spoiler: show

Now stop talking about Sleater-Kinney for a while and listen to the new Björk album.

Ive always found it funny how so many of us SK fans like Carrie / Corin over Corin / Carrie (im in the Carrie camp)
But I will say, thats probably my one complaint on this album. Carries songs. Future Crimes, Im In Love With the Whole World (But Not You), Winter Pair, Boom, Race Horse, were all so great on the Wild Flag album. Especiallly Future Crimes, I really love that song. AND, Entertain was so great of course and Whats Mine Is Yours. But the songs on the new album... I just dont know. GREAT Chorus's on A New Wave and No Cities To Love, but the verses are kinda week.

But I still prefer her vocals over Corins, they really are sooooo drastically different though, yet, so great together. when they sing together on A New Wave, just so so good.

Corin has less opportunity to sound like a shrieking banshee here so I like this one. It's not even a question of not liking her shrill voice; I find it physically painful to listen to sometimes.

I never realised you were so soft, Burt.

i'm very delicate.

Only heard The Woods before this one, which i loved.
The new one is a beast.

Anyone else a little underwhelmed with how the LP sounds?

super nintendo chalmers wrote:Anyone else a little underwhelmed with how the LP sounds?

I've only skim-listened a few songs of this (downloaded files, though, not vinyl) and I wasn't impressed with the sonics; it struck me as sounding kind of loud and dull.

("Dull" as in lacking brightness and vividness, not being uninteresting.)

The production is definitely weak.

I'm just happy that it doesn't physically hurt my ears to listen to, unlike The Woods.

Farmer John wrote:I'm just happy that it doesn't physically hurt my ears to listen to, unlike The Woods.

It's a good hurt.

LoathedVermin72 wrote:

Farmer John wrote:I'm just happy that it doesn't physically hurt my ears to listen to, unlike The Woods.

It's a good hurt.

It definitely is. I love the music.

I'm all for loud and unwieldy, but they could have toned down the brickwalled compression a bit.

Farmer John wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:

Farmer John wrote:I'm just happy that it doesn't physically hurt my ears to listen to, unlike The Woods.

It's a good hurt.

It definitely is. I love the music.

I'm all for loud and unwieldy, but they could have toned down the brickwalled compression a bit.

I was once playing Hendrix at work, to which a customer said "Is that Hendrix? that cant be Hendrix? its illegal to play Hendrix that quiet, CRANK IT UP!" I feel the same way about the Woods

MadTIGERmaN wrote:

Farmer John wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:

Farmer John wrote:I'm just happy that it doesn't physically hurt my ears to listen to, unlike The Woods.

It's a good hurt.

It definitely is. I love the music.

I'm all for loud and unwieldy, but they could have toned down the brickwalled compression a bit.

I was once playing Hendrix at work, to which a customer said "Is that Hendrix? that cant be Hendrix? its illegal to play Hendrix that quiet, CRANK IT UP!" I feel the same way about the Woods

Thing is, if you crank albums like The Woods up, they sound even worse.

Birds in Hell wrote:

MadTIGERmaN wrote:

Farmer John wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:

Farmer John wrote:I'm just happy that it doesn't physically hurt my ears to listen to, unlike The Woods.

It's a good hurt.

It definitely is. I love the music.

I'm all for loud and unwieldy, but they could have toned down the brickwalled compression a bit.

I was once playing Hendrix at work, to which a customer said "Is that Hendrix? that cant be Hendrix? its illegal to play Hendrix that quiet, CRANK IT UP!" I feel the same way about the Woods

Thing is, if you crank albums like The Woods up, they sound even worse.

The Woods is a fantastic record and it's really a shame it sounds like shit.

well now I dont know what to think

It sounds great. The overuse of compression has overall been a detriment to music in the past few decades but that doesn't mean it's an absolute that it weakens a record. The record sounds brutal and uncomfortable, and it works; it's not like they're pushing mellow, melodic songs like Parachutes into the red.

Do you guys think Raw Power sounds like shit too?

LoathedVermin72 wrote:Do you guys think Raw Power sounds like shit too?

The Bowie mix, no. The brickwalled 1997 Iggy remix, yes.