Red Mosquito

fuck yeah.

Creeps

this is really good. it has the national written all over it.

and exile with bon iver is a monster.

When I heard she stealth dropped a new album I figured it would be heavy on ballads but wow.....16 slow piano jams! We really need to go back to 8-10 song albums. Enough with the self indulgence.

It is very long.

This is good. Im shocked. Im not a huge fan of Tay Tay's general pop aesthetic but it seems she took cues from the likes of Jenny Lewis, Phoebe bridgers, Sharon Vn etten etc...

And it suits her well.

And its so fucking good to hear Justin Vernons deep baritone.

So far i only listened to Exile, and its a great great song.

Strat wrote:And its so fucking good to hear Justin Vernons deep baritone.

he should make an entire album just like this . . .

honestly, a lot of these sound like more upbeat versions of norman fucking rockwell songs (and i get the jack antonoff overlap)

bada wrote:When I heard she stealth dropped a new album I figured it would be heavy on ballads but wow.....16 slow piano jams! We really need to go back to 8-10 song albums. Enough with the self indulgence.

Pretty much every Taylor swift album could be immeasurably improved by removing 5-6 filler tracks, any album around the 14+ songs mark is too long

EwanRider wrote:

bada wrote:When I heard she stealth dropped a new album I figured it would be heavy on ballads but wow.....16 slow piano jams! We really need to go back to 8-10 song albums. Enough with the self indulgence.

Pretty much every Taylor swift album could be immeasurably improved by removing 5-6 filler tracks, any album around the 14+ songs mark is too long

I've been listening to a lot of the bands mentioned in the dorkiest guy in the band thread like the Cars and Boston...8/9 songs per album. Feels like enough. Seems like now a days instead of a tight all killer cohesive albums we get session dumps. I guess if you really love an artist you want everything I just don't think it makes for classic albums. I'm sure Taylor Swift fans could give a shit about my feelings on the subject.

EwanRider wrote:

bada wrote:When I heard she stealth dropped a new album I figured it would be heavy on ballads but wow.....16 slow piano jams! We really need to go back to 8-10 song albums. Enough with the self indulgence.

Pretty much every Taylor swift album could be immeasurably improved by removing 5-6 filler tracks, any album around the 14+ songs mark is too long

Disagree when it comes to Red and Lover.

EwanRider wrote:

bada wrote:When I heard she stealth dropped a new album I figured it would be heavy on ballads but wow.....16 slow piano jams! We really need to go back to 8-10 song albums. Enough with the self indulgence.

Pretty much every Taylor swift album could be immeasurably improved by removing 5-6 filler tracks, any album around the 14+ songs mark is too long

this album is only 5 minutes longer than gigatron

Really excited to listen to this when I get home from work.

Chris_H_2 wrote:

EwanRider wrote:

bada wrote:When I heard she stealth dropped a new album I figured it would be heavy on ballads but wow.....16 slow piano jams! We really need to go back to 8-10 song albums. Enough with the self indulgence.

Pretty much every Taylor swift album could be immeasurably improved by removing 5-6 filler tracks, any album around the 14+ songs mark is too long

this album is only 5 minutes longer than gigatron

They could have timmed that one too.

bada wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:

EwanRider wrote:

bada wrote:When I heard she stealth dropped a new album I figured it would be heavy on ballads but wow.....16 slow piano jams! We really need to go back to 8-10 song albums. Enough with the self indulgence.

Pretty much every Taylor swift album could be immeasurably improved by removing 5-6 filler tracks, any album around the 14+ songs mark is too long

this album is only 5 minutes longer than gigatron

They could have timmed that one too.

SHE WAS A STUNNER AND I AM STUNNED!!

cutuphalfdead wrote:Really excited to listen to this when I get home from work.

I'll be interested to hear your take. From the sound of it, you like the more poppy side of Tay Tay.

Chris_H_2 wrote:

cutuphalfdead wrote:Really excited to listen to this when I get home from work.

I'll be interested to hear your take. From the sound of it, you like the more poppy side of Tay Tay.

I like both sides. That's why Red is her best album.

This is really impressive considering as far as I can tell this hadn't even been started/written as of the end of the April? I guess it's a bit rawer than some of Taylor's other work, but it does not sound like a record written, played and produced in a mad dash.