Red Mosquito

Tuolumne wrote:As a point of comparison, Arcade Fire is expected to sell around 130K for their new album (although I saw an Amazon deal recently which could bump it up). The buzz around this album, atleast from where I stand, is deafening, I'm actually very surprised that they aren't topping PJ and becoming the biggest album of the year. Music industry is indeed a pile of ashes, but from the rock landscape, I thought they'd be much bigger. I've got to find time to listen to Reflektor properly, seems like something that requires undivided attention.

harmless wrote:I'm starting to pine for another album that takes a proper long time to figure out.

EJ wrote:

harmless wrote:I'm starting to pine for another album that takes a proper long time to figure out.

Time to start another speculation thread.

harmless wrote:

EJ wrote:

harmless wrote:I'm starting to pine for another album that takes a proper long time to figure out.

Time to start another speculation thread.

Well yes, but I'd like it to be an album that exists and still takes time to figure out. I think Lightning Bolt will be enjoyable for those that enjoy it, but for everyone else, there's not a lot to keep grappling with. I might be wrong, time will tell.

EJ wrote:

harmless wrote:

EJ wrote:

harmless wrote:I'm starting to pine for another album that takes a proper long time to figure out.

Time to start another speculation thread.

Well yes, but I'd like it to be an album that exists and still takes time to figure out. I think Lightning Bolt will be enjoyable for those that enjoy it, but for everyone else, there's not a lot to keep grappling with. I might be wrong, time will tell.

I agree with that. I think part of that is there's not much room to breathe in these recordings. They're pretty compressed. That's a production thing. Even Pendulum, which has the closest ties to Binaural era PJ, still has too much compression for my ears. Still think the song itself is top notch though.

VinylGuy wrote:

Tuolumne wrote:As a point of comparison, Arcade Fire is expected to sell around 130K for their new album (although I saw an Amazon deal recently which could bump it up). The buzz around this album, atleast from where I stand, is deafening, I'm actually very surprised that they aren't topping PJ and becoming the biggest album of the year. Music industry is indeed a pile of ashes, but from the rock landscape, I thought they'd be much bigger. I've got to find time to listen to Reflektor properly, seems like something that requires undivided attention.

Hey Tuolumne!! Im glad you are around more often.

Tuolumne wrote:As a point of comparison, Arcade Fire is expected to sell around 130K for their new album (although I saw an Amazon deal recently which could bump it up). The buzz around this album, atleast from where I stand, is deafening, I'm actually very surprised that they aren't topping PJ and becoming the biggest album of the year. Music industry is indeed a pile of ashes, but from the rock landscape, I thought they'd be much bigger. I've got to find time to listen to Reflektor properly, seems like something that requires undivided attention.

BurtReynolds wrote:Sales prove that Stip is entirely justified in liking Lightning Bolt more than Reflektor. case closed. Everyone apologize.

theplatypus wrote:

Tuolumne wrote:As a point of comparison, Arcade Fire is expected to sell around 130K for their new album (although I saw an Amazon deal recently which could bump it up). The buzz around this album, atleast from where I stand, is deafening, I'm actually very surprised that they aren't topping PJ and becoming the biggest album of the year. Music industry is indeed a pile of ashes, but from the rock landscape, I thought they'd be much bigger. I've got to find time to listen to Reflektor properly, seems like something that requires undivided attention.

I thought that, their indie-chic status of critical darlings notwithstanding, Arcade Fire were still kind of middle-tier commercially. I'm not surprised that PJ is easily outselling them.

evenslow wrote:

theplatypus wrote:

evenslow wrote: Who was that guy on the board around the Backspacer era that was always positive and would buy a bunch of PJ CD's to give away to people?

His username was Lloyd Dobler.

Bless,

Jared

Yes! That's the one. Whatever happened to him?

BurtReynolds wrote:Sales prove that Stip is entirely justified in liking Lightning Bolt more than Reflektor. case closed. Everyone apologize.

EJ wrote:

harmless wrote:I'm starting to pine for another album that takes a proper long time to figure out.

Time to start another speculation thread.

dimejinky99 wrote:

Heathen wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:Sales prove that Stip is entirely justified in liking Lightning Bolt more than Reflektor. case closed. Everyone apologize.

He just needs to avoid looking at both albums' ratings on Metacritic.

harmless wrote:

EJ wrote:

harmless wrote:

EJ wrote:

harmless wrote:I'm starting to pine for another album that takes a proper long time to figure out.

Time to start another speculation thread.

Well yes, but I'd like it to be an album that exists and still takes time to figure out. I think Lightning Bolt will be enjoyable for those that enjoy it, but for everyone else, there's not a lot to keep grappling with. I might be wrong, time will tell.

I agree with that. I think part of that is there's not much room to breathe in these recordings. They're pretty compressed. That's a production thing. Even Pendulum, which has the closest ties to Binaural era PJ, still has too much compression for my ears. Still think the song itself is top notch though.

Yup. I think that if this album had the same production values as something like Binaural or Riot Act, the response to it could've been through the roof.