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Post by ganews on Nov 1, 2023 11:56:41 GMT -5
The poll winner for November is Tropical Fuck Storm, "Braindrops". Post your thoughts here!
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Post by pantsgoblin on Nov 2, 2023 12:29:58 GMT -5
We could all use some sloppy, deliberately awful Australian rock'n'roll in our lives. Stop being so self-serious. That's my review.
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Post by ganews on Nov 3, 2023 11:25:10 GMT -5
I'm afraid I don't have much to say here. I wouldn't expect different from an album named Braindrops. As the A&R man said to Tom Petty on Into the Great Wide Open, I don't hear a single.
I'm accustomed to musicians looking to get weird, particularly music majors. But I'd rather listen to King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard.
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Post by repulsionist on Nov 3, 2023 11:26:28 GMT -5
Wow! It won. Ok. Gracious thanks, voters. I'll prepare a rambling bunch of dispirited dead-end thoughts forthwith.
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Post by repulsionist on Nov 4, 2023 5:01:48 GMT -5
A thousand-million different ways to explain how things are not going well for humans on this planet. I like the way this gang does it. My first encounter with them was the eponymous single. I liked its caustic off-metre hip-hop rhyming telling the story of Melbournians. They had a prior album and have had albums since. I probably only need the one.
Best YouTube comment explaining this band: "It's like if the B-52s were in a world with no parties."
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Post by repulsionist on Nov 6, 2023 19:48:29 GMT -5
I've done the full listen now after dabbling in most tracks since discovering this back in July/August 2019. The free jazz comparisons come to the fore in tracks such as "Who's My Eugene?". I enjoy the "sloppy" playing of guitars. The guitar tones of both Dunn and Liddiard are to a casual YouTube listener indistinct. Kitschin's funk bass is tight and loose where it needs to be. Programmer and drummer Hammel provides "right place, right time" measures.
What makes this work valuable to me is how close to my own sentiments of despair and disgust this comes. I'm very jealous of Liddiard's words in various interviews that he's just giving it a "go" and trying to have fun, knowing that things are beyond repair and riches are not a likely outcome. Kitschin's recent news is her stage-3 breast cancer. Liddiard is out doing a solo thing trying to raise funds.
Though they're all pouring dark hearts out throughout their oeuvre, it does become trying when absorbing it for more than 20-30 minutes. I'm challenging to talk to for more than that time if I'm on a tear describing how partial I am to see things as all empty instead of even meagerly filled.
At the very least, listeners/abandoners/refuseniks coming across this here should try to hear it more than once. BTW, they did a sit-at-home in the Victorian Outback concert film of this record titled, "Goody Goody Gumdrops".
Again, thanks for the win, folks. Too bad we won't see anyone faint dead away in static photos or video.
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Post by pantsgoblin on Nov 8, 2023 4:02:40 GMT -5
There's a new box set of the complete recordings of Kirsty MacColl and from this writeup I learned that the final album before her tragic passing was called Tropical Brainstorm. repulsionist, do you know if this is just a coincidence or is this band on record as being influenced by MacColl? |
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Post by repulsionist on Nov 8, 2023 14:43:11 GMT -5
pantsgoblin, I cannot cite the reference via the device I'm currently responding from, but TFS did a Reddit AMA 4 years back just after release of Braindrops. Gaz replies to the query about origin of name as being an extemporisation from a fellow musician with whom they were sharing studio time and space with: Dan Kelly. A quick perusal of this fellow's musical history probably permits presumption that he'd heard the MacColl record and said something funny on the spot that didn't go further than, "That's great! We'll take it!" Sleuthing completed. Cheers for the inspiration.
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Post by Desert Dweller on Nov 10, 2023 18:07:58 GMT -5
I have no idea what to expect with this, other than the above YouTube comment about the B-52s, but in a world with no parties. Listening to it now.
Edited: Meh. There are some interesting elements in it, but nothing ever combined into anything great for me. Musically, several of the tracks were too meandering for me. I did like the female singers, but didn't care for the male singer. (Didn't look up the names of the band members, sorry.) I did like a lot of the instrument playing, but I was just never really gripped by the entirety of any song.
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