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I don't give a darn about your indie bands

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matz2;2337220; said:
Trouble Will Find Me by The National is the most amazing album I have heard in some time. Perhaps it's just that they are my favorite band or that some of the songs just really resonate with me right now. I highly recommend this album.
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It's very, very good. I hesitate to say more than that about it because it always seems to take some time and repeated listening to figure them out. The AV Club's review sums it up best I think:

Like the rest of the National catalog, Trouble Will Find Me is subtly insinuating; at first it seems almost free of hooks, then six listens later it?s difficult to get it unstuck. It burrows and then resides, first easy to forget then basically impossible.
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I've read several reviews today as I've listened. AV Club's is best. It gets to the heart of what it's like to listen to the album and what's it's like to learn how to listen to and enjoy The National. Many of the rest spend too much time on boilerplate or swooning about the name-checks of touchstone albums that are sprinkled throughout the album's lyrics.
 
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I think I'm giving the new Daft Punk album a solid B.
Listen to it all the way through twice now - four really really great songs and 1 good song and the rest are decidedly "meh"

Still a comfortable purchase. Check it out.
 
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I picked up Savages debut "Silence Yourself" yesterday. I'm still not entirely sure what I think about it after 3 listens, but it has my attention. It's raw, bold, abrasive and certainly self righteous. Something you don't see much coming from an all girl band. The energy and emotion is off the charts. It has a post punk feel like Joy Division or Siouxsie & The Banshees, but faster and heavier. "A Place to Bury Strangers" might be the closest comparison I can think of.
 
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Daft Punk without their helmets:

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That's right, champagne beer pong. Full baller status.
 
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Local band Twenty One Pilots seems to be picking up a ton of steam lately. They were on Conan last August and are getting pretty regular play on Sirius these days.

 
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BigWoof31 said:
I think I'm giving the new Daft Punk album a solid B.
Listen to it all the way through twice now - four really really great songs and 1 good song and the rest are decidedly "meh"

Still a comfortable purchase. Check it out.
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At this point, I wouldn't consider them an indie band. If you beat Taylor Swift for album of the year, then I wouldn't say you're an indie band. And I'm a huge daft punk fan. The album ranks up there as one of the best. But they are a group that has not put out a bad album.
 
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