hahahahaha.


this is fucking awesome.

I will say that doing Helicopter on Conan (first tv bit?) was a bit worrisome for me, because that song is somewhat unique on HD....a bit ballady, radio-friendly and Pet Shop Boys, hahaha.... People who rush to buy Deerhunter because of Helicopter will be going "wtf?"


















I will also say that I was a bit on edge last night.

lol, salem. lol forever.

SMOKE YA OUT TILL A GHOST COME OUT YA MOUTH

Redlights is actually a really good song but what the fuck is with Jay on a crack binge rapping and shit? It's god-awful.

U Sey Abit Bishaum, U Sey Am Alaone, U Sey Ahm In Es Ishun, A Sey Ahm Na Hoame, U Sey Ahm Itsitshun, Ahm A Shee Ahm A Shee

you should write the liner notes. it'd be far more accurate than what I imagine they claim to be saying.

he sounds like fuckin ali g

ali g with a heroin problem

is jsut fugknig retradard

glad to read that informative article, it brought up some points that my years of reading articles hadn't brought to light

like the fact that white kids are never "from" chicago, i ignorantly assumed that some of the white kids from a massive city where whites are the largest racial group where "from" there

thanks to indie rock journalism i now know they're in the city for the drugs and transit

Hahaha aja this Salem band... ahahaha ahahaha. Hahaha omfg hahaha

wow

hahahahj

holy shit

wow

The Levi's and Guitar Center sponsorships are just too good to be true.

Oh man "redlights" hahaha hahaha just as good.

hahaha oh fuck wow

Thanx kinn

good lookin

Oh gee...

I think I might be in love with this group now.

The studio version of "tair" is actually sorta fresh.

Yeah, dude. I hear that.

Their Gucci remixes are pretty sweet too. Bird Flu & My Shadow especially.

all white bricks bricks

this is now the official salem thread. I'm so glad pitchfork gave these guys a 7.1. That means it's okay to like them.

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to SpaceCadetHayden again.

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaauuuu uuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh h

First legit guilty pleasure in a very, very long time.


That Gucci mix was pretty sweet. I absolutely love the studio version of tair. Sounds like a dirty south, heroin-injected Dalek.

Yeah, dude. I'm seriously downloading their discog now. Tair is the best track I've heard yet. And that's the same Jay from Clerks-looking dude? Awesome. I mean, I certainly wouldn't see them live, but that dirty grimy southern shit is, well, my shit.

Honestly, I'd rather hear this than over 95% of the shit on the radio.

The pitch-altered vocals, and the better mixed vox/ambience ratio totally makes the difference. That live video was a load of doodoo.

Thanks again kinn

Good lookinn

http://beemp3.com/index.php?q=fuckt&st=album

A whole bunch of there mp3s are available here for free if you don't feel like torrenting everything they got.

w3rd

Yeah, kinn. <3 you, bro.

how much better is a 7.1 than a 7?

Editor's Note: This review contains a list of the various names that have been used to describe the music of SALEM and/or other similar artists, among them "drag" and "witch house." It originally also listed "rape gaze", a term coined by Michigan band CREEP, as formerly listed on their MySpace and reported in the New York Press. The band today disowned the phrase and will no longer be using it, expressing to The Village Voice, they "would never want to advocate sexual violence against any human being. It was a play on words which we never expected to be used as an actual genre."




so evidently pitchfork tried to namedrop a non-existent genre with a despicable name in an attempt to be hipsters, then decided to remove the term rape-gaze...not because it's innapropriate or because it isn't a real genre, but because other hipsters(in this case a presumably shit musical formation) decided it was innapropriate and not a real genre

they wouldn't be hipsters if they didn't follow other hipsters, broseph.

I dunno, I love Water and Frost Eps, the album isn't bad either imo, in that live vid seems pretty obvious to me that the sound guy who recorded the tracks messed things pretty good, sounds like a BAD soundboard recording, I honestly doubt you can say it's their fault.
That said, there's a good chance they suck live anyways, but that's true for loads of band who make records.

Besides, I can't think of anything more hipsteric than getting your opinions on a band you never heard influenced by hipster articles and use a badly recorded youtube video as an evidence to prove your point. :p

"teh tube says am rite!"

p.s. lemme add their stage presence is almost at Romeroic levels.

Oh, yeh, watched Conan, Deerhunter at the end, kinda liked some of the "sounds" but the song was nothing too special.
Creepy singer. Lots of smoke on the stage.

I've been fortunate enough to see Bradford a total of 3 times. Twice after a show (Deerhunter), once wondering around an Atlanta record store (Criminal Records) before a Sonic Youth gig that was to take place later that night. Only spoke with him after those two Deerhunter shows....and he was super nice. Was very talkative and thankful for the support. Should also add that this was several years ago ("Turn It Up, Faggot" was new at the time), before the band blew up, and his demeanor may be a bit different now (honestly, I wouldn't know).

I'm not a serious fan, but I've read a few interviews. He comes off as being blatantly honest when he discusses his life, medical condition (marfan syndrome), sexuality, etc. I can appreciate that.

I honestly find him more interesting than I find his music. I loved "Turn it up..", but most of everything else I've heard (including the Atlas Sound stuff) has failed in catching my interest.

Either way, I think he's a figure that will be around a while. Wouldn't surprise me if he eventually reaches an "iconic" status. He'll no doubt outlive the current "indie" trend.

Bradford cruised me on the F train in NYC once. He was with the really cute guitarist. They got off at 34th street.

i don't get this at all.

i disliked them both before i heard them and when i heard them.

i am consistent in my dislike.

unless you are suggesting some kind of "don't dare judge anything until you've heard it for the sake of relativism" argument which i would dismiss outright.

i dismiss things before i even read articles about them all the time.

it's called not wanting to know about shit you don't want to know about.

altho perhaps i am pyschic.

because, do you know, this is astounding, but i actually do possess the ability to determine that a band is shit without hearing their music!

i know, its insane. but look - watch - i typed "music" into google news search and the first thing that came up was http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/soundof/2011/artists/

and i know all these bands are shit without having heard them!

PYSCHIC.

Puh Sci Chic.

So, in Salem's case, you read articles about music you already "dismissed" to find out what other people you consider hispsters think about music you don't want to listen to, and then end up listening to that music anyway to "confirm" you were right disliking them before you heard them and before reading articles about them?

lol

your psychic powers need some training.

what?

no. i read the article because it was linked on the authors blog which was on a list of blogs on a site i read a lot.

i didnt know what it was about till i read it.

then i found the video for that live song on another board were someone was making fun of it so i clicked.

please don't interrogate me over this.

Puh-sci-chic

ha ha, dude, I have no beef with you, I just didn't understand the "workflow" of your dislikings.
I still don't, but who cares?

i have a simple system for music.

step 0 - i dont care/its shit

step 1 - is it black metal?

step 2 - is it classical or drone?

step 3 - is it the fall, skaters, hospitals, moon wiring club or ghost box related, xanopticon or caretaker?

step 4 - i dont care

step 5 - its prob shit

step 6 - its shit

no it's their fault,nothing happens within the actual music, and all that's left is a hipster rapper trying hilariously hard to sound like his voice is ten times deeper than it is, his flow is rhythmically pathetic and his lyrics are generic shit that's been done a thousand times before.....but always with a better flow,more charisma and over more interesting production


i think you can say it's their fault

i'm under critical about music, i don't really care about deerhunter but i don't think they're anywhere near bad

but i have to draw line somewhere, and i've drawn it well before a deadpan hipster trying to sound like gucci mane over a synth going OooOoOOoOOoOOoOOoo with shit lyrics and no flow

poppler is right. the mix on that live track is bad but still the performance is fucking atrocious with or without the mix.

i mean music actually made by gucci mane already sucks

so a skinny white guy who's not from the south and obviously has a much higher voice imitating him and expecting to be taken serious, that's like the nadir of music performance right there

nevar herd gukki mean.

cos i know its shit.

psy fucking chic y'all.