Lorde - Solar Power (August 20, 2021) Album • Page 34

Happier Than Ever is very good

 

Here’s a good pop album from 2021:

Caroline Kingsbury - Heaven's Just a Flight (April 16, 2021) • forum.chorus.fm

 

Big fan of Happier Than Ever/Billie in general. Can’t get into anything else Finneas has done.

 

A better oceanic song. Everyone should listen to this.

 

pop or otherwise? daniel nigro, danny l harle, a.g. cook for more pop stuff. and nicolas jaar's work with fka twigs of course. just production in general, ive made some of my favorite producers very well known. kurt ballou, matt bayless, jack shirley, ross robinson (i used to hate him now i love him lol @nohandstoholdonto justice 4 u) , terry date, mike sapone, andy hull, brad wood, casey bates, brian mcternan, i mean the list goes on and on. and then there's hip-hop producers which is more akin to what pop producers do but even then vastly different in other respects. i could literally list like 50 beat makers off the top of my head that i love.

 

i mean....

damn dawg speaking of matt bayles

 

I feel like Jack gets contrasted with Rostam a lot lately, but maybe that's just because they both worked with Clario

 

put this on since you posted it and tbh this is pleasant but fairly derivative imo. v little being done here that I think brings anything new or special to the table. certainly good stuff, but it’s weird imo bc I feel like it’s being brought up in lieu of an artist who’s bringing stuff I feel is genuinely new and different to the major label pop landscape rn. ppl have been doing the bombastic 80s influenced stuff for the better part of a decade now it seems and idk I feel like I have heard the best of it by now and am ready for the pop landscape to move onward as a whole. it just isn’t as exciting to me personally.

hell yeah thank you for the shoutout Ross rules, and I am coming to the conclusion lately that Terry Date is prob my fav producer ever and a few others you listed I super fuck w too. I feel like I have said as much here before but my thing with Ross is I am always less concerned with the relative fidelity or whatever of his records (which I would never claim to be outstanding) than I am the incredible performances he seems to capture from the artists he works with. the first two Korn albums are the prime example of that imo. anyway love you bud hope you’re having a great day.

 

Who have we talked about that is doing something new? Lorde? Billie? I disagree with that

 

Can tell this is gonna need a few more listens, but it's low key fine and borderline really good in a few places. Pretty much what I was hoping for.

 

that and they kind of work in the same general lane of indie, jack just has more of a production discog to pull from. though rostam still has some big ones like the last haim album. but when it comes to their solo work i think rostam's records are way better than anything bleachers has done by orders of magnitude.

 

then disagree with it idk, it’s certainly fresher to me than what you linked

 

Also not saying Kingsbury is new or innovative (sonically, I definitely think the subject matter is). Just that I dont wanna fall asleep listening to it

 

new Kississippi is a great pop record btw

 

I'm biased, but I think Butch Walker's last two production projects (Kalie Shorr and The Wallflowers) are some of his best production work. Both hearken back to very different eras in very charming, authentic ways (and sound great, and have great songs).

 

Good point. I was thinking Green Day and his latest solo album haha

 

His last solo record sounds incredible ("Out in the Open" is a good example), it's just a tough hang.

 

Definitely my favorite pop album of the year.

 

Truuuuu

 

I don’t really have anything to add to the Jack discourse, but I feel like this album occupies a similar sonic space as the most recent Clairo record. Which I guess makes sense since they were both made by Jack and Clairo is all over this album.

 

I think the production on the Clairo album is really cool and very technically impressive. I think Clairo has a nice voice. But I think the album sucks and is not a sum of it's parts. Nothing is memorable, nothing to hook onto, barely can tell when one track ends and the next starts. It's a "vibe" but despite being technically impressive, the songs just don't back it up

 

Yep. I’m sure a lot of people would disagree but I think this record pulls off the laidback, Laurel Canyon vibe much better than that one

 

yeah, I definitely agree here. And obviously I won't fault anyone for liking the Clairo album, but I've tried a few times and it's just one long blur of an album where I keep waiting for cool memorable moments and they never arrive

 

That Clairo album felt like it took everything I liked about her earlier stuff and threw it out the window. It was like it was actively working against her strengths as a songwriter.