Lorde - Solar Power (August 20, 2021) Album • Page 33

Interesting notes on this album:

The Path, Stone At The Nail Salon, Fallen Fruit, Leader of a New Regime, Mood Ring - background vocals by Phoebe Bridgers, Clairo, Marlon Williams and James Milne
Solar Power - background vocals by Phoebe Bridgers & Clairo
Secrets From A Girl (Who's Seen It All) - background vocals by Robyn

plus multiple contributions from producer Malay

full credits: Lorde Releases New Album: Listen and Read the Full Credits

 

At no point could I make out either Clairo or Phoebe lol

 

I feel like having special guests sing on your record but them be virtually unrecognizable defeats the purpose of having special guests on your record. I felt the same way when boygenius was on Hayley William's first solo album.

 

I would agree with you ONLY if it was used as promo like if Lorde had "featuring Phoebe Bridgers and Clairo" listed on all these tracks. But the fact that they weren't used as promo, and are only really being uncovered as part of the credits, means that they are being used artistically the way that Ella and/or Jack wanted their voices to be used on the record. Whether it's successful or not is up to the user, but they aren't there as "special guests" but really just as another instrument

 

Yeah it’s not necessarily a bad thing, I just personally wish I could hear more of them as fans of both artists

 

I agree that as a listener/consumer, it would be cool to recognize them and Robyn more

 

Robyn is doing the flight attendant bit, yeah? What a sin.

 

I completely agree with you, I was just trying to add that Jack is not the only one fraternizing with minimal instrumentation right now.

First song that comes to mind is Lost Cause off of Billie's new album. I think it is boring both music and production-wise and could absolutely be bolstered with some more maximalist choices.

 

i do not enjoy finneas as a producer and would love to hear billie work with someone else but know that will never happen. just to chime in on billie for no reason whatsoever because no one asked what i think

 

I thought Finneas was great on her debut, but the latest album is just... not it. Some truly bad production mixed with a lot of very lifeless and boring production

 

Haha fair enough! I think the first album had a lot of fun production tricks but that the second one largely strips away anything exciting they had come up with.

Will mention I do like Happier Than Ever and think the lyrics carry most of the weight.

 

Lol you beat me to it

 

Who do you all consider to be good producers currently?(excluding Jack)

 

that is gonna happen a lot / has happened a lot for producers before they found fame just throwing anything and everything at the wall and then trying to replicate that once they become uber-famous and have to play by the rules

 

mark ronson is a very good pop producer, to keep it within the genre we're discussing

 

heavily disagree with the track this thread has taken, happier than ever >>>>

 

I'm pretty out of the loop with pop producers, admittedly, but Aaron Dessner did good work with T Swift and JMJ continues to be one of the most versatile producers in any genre.

I love Gil Norton, Butch Vig, Butch Walker (though he's been spotty the last year or two), Catherine Marks, Mike Crossey, and I'm very excited to see what Suzy Shinn does after heading up Van Weezer.

 

side note that isn't a side note, his new tv series Watch The Sound is absolutely worth watching

 

the 10 best songs on that album could maybe go toe to toe with this album's 10 best tracks, but at 19 songs it is not a better album as a whole

 

Where can I watch?

 

Mood Ring is really clearly the low point here imo

 

Ariel Rechtshaid and Rostam

but as Ella was saying pop music is so collaborative that it's you know as much as say who Charli or Gaga are working with as much as what they bring to the studio which is a lot

 

Apple TV, 6 episodes total at half an hour each. Each one focuses on a different broad production thing like... reverb, drum machines, etc. A TON of really amazing guests that are interviewed for it too

 

yeah personally I think his work is pretty great and think that’s one of my fav records of the year (especially from a pop production standpoint) but hey to each their own!

 

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