havent had a chance to listen to a whole lot of new stuff since i cant torrent music anymore, but i guess i can look back at the earlier releases i was looking forward to and a couple of updates too
high violet and together kind of dissapointed me in the end. high violet was probably my most anticipated album of this year, but i really think i should have gone back and listened to some of their older albums because i feel like ive moved on from the national. high violet is definitely a great national album, but it's just not an album im that interested in listening to anymore. it just kind of bores me :(
together is just a mediocre album from a great band, imo. i think the new pornographers are starting to run out of ideas, just like the hold steady. real shame ebcause i must have listened to crash years like 100 times before i heard the rest of the album. in the context of such a mediocre album, though, i dont feel like listening to it so much.
i feel like the more i listen to this is happening, the more i agree with what evan said about all lcd albums having a bunch of interesting tracks and a bunch of boring ones. for all the praise this albums getting, i can only really get behind four of the nine tracks, and the rest i have trouble listening the whole way through. all i want and drunk girls are definitely the standout tracks, but dance yrself clean and you wanted a hit are decent also.
in terms of new music, i wasnt so hot on sleigh bells and was kinda middling on the radio depts clinging to a scheme, but right now im listening to janelle monaes archandroid and holy shit it's amazing. noticed it after it got a 94 on metacritic (which is fucking nuts, that makes it the joint 5th highest rated album of all time on the site) and it does not dissapoint. it's a huge genre-spanning masterpiece that you guys should all listen to.