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Lust For Life - Pre-Release Thread
Thunder Revenant replied to Elle's topic in Retired Pre-Release Threads
I enjoy her more when she delivers quality music instead of posting cringy videos. -
Lust For Life - Pre-Release Thread
Thunder Revenant replied to Elle's topic in Retired Pre-Release Threads
She honestly posts some videos from her vacation on which she behaves like a f*cking teenager instead of promoting. -
So I pre-ordered on this shitty music -store she forces us to if we want Godsanova ... But I guess I won't get access to Paper Love huh? The song is actually quite cute. I love the gif
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The leamed version was a bit more cinematic, I guess that was from the time when she also recorded Human and Time. However, since Ison as an album has a much trip-hop-ish er feeling, the album-version with the tropical beat fits peetty good. I think I prefer this version over the demo
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Do You Feel Real is one meaningful, touching monologue ... Lana should take notes how to do it in a non cringy way.
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Otherwise it would have been a 14 track album. I doubt that she put those tracks on there in favor of others. They seemingly mean a lot to her so she put them on there. Stop being so f*cking greedy. The tracklist-picture she posted on FB calls Angel a "bonus track", so y'all haters can calm down
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I'm glad MM and AI are on there, however I also feel like both of them fit better on the Children Of Silk EP. I disagree with the people wishing for That Other Girl - it wouldn't have fit on ISON at all and I'm glad she reworked Ubderneath. I always felt that this track had much more potential and I love the way she used it.
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Yeah, I'd also LOVE to have a nice digipack or jewel-case edition!
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Bought it on Itunes and I LOVE IT! Here is my first-listen review "Shahmaran" is a wonderful album intro. I though "Underneath" was nice, but the rework definitly improved it A LOT: It immediatly drags you into the universe of ISON, it feels really intense and I love the slightly heavier vibe the vocals have. The slight changes in production made the track a lot more exciting and dramatic and the slightly middle-eastern vibe of it perfectly fits the new name for the track, which is lend from a goddess from said territory. 5/5 "Libertine" gives off really heavy Massive Attack vibes. It feels a bit ~lighter after the pretty impressive intro and I love the beat progression and the slightly urban feeling it has. For some reason it feels a bit short though. 4/5 "Marilyn Monroe" is still one of my favourite track by her. The emotion in her voice and the simple, yet super effective vocals always crack me up. I feel that it fits a bit better with the Children Of Silk EP though. The slightly delayed beat, the piano chords and the way her vocals blend into the strings during the 'chorus' is just perfect. I'M a huge Portishead fan and this track definitly has a similar appeal, although being pretty different at the same time.I would have loved it if she would have changed the second verse on the album version like she does it live. 5/5 "Hubris" is one of the most exciting songs on this album. Those dramatic, dark and almost threatening synths it starts with, the wonderful percussion that definitly competes Portishead's beats... I feel like I'm overusing the word but .. well, it's perfect. The placement right after "Marilyn Monroe" makes it shine even more, both the sounds, vibes and lyrics contrast in such a perfect way. The track name referring a sinful arrogance from the greek mythology is pure genius. 5/5 "Amandine Insensible" feels like an old friend. It's an extremely well executed track, I love how it changes between a pretty emotional and a quite ambient feeling. Again, this reminds me a bit of Portishead. 5/5 "Hero" really grew a lot on me since it's release. It has this pretty fragile, cold feeling attached to it, that reminds me a slightly bit of the production on Bjork's 'Homogenic'. One of the best moment is the last chorus, with the loop of the disorted vocals spinning on and on for a while, before the track has it's final breakdown. 4/5 "Scarlette" has a similar vibe as "Libertine". Again, the percussion is done in a great way. I lvoe her humming, it gives the track a slightly orientalic feeling. I really liek the breakdown in the middle of the song and the outro. Even though being far away from being "upbeat", this track is definitly one of the less heavy and more accessible ones (although still being far away from the tracks on The Suspended Kids) 3,5/5 "Bluecid" is yet another track reminding me of Massive Attack. It's pretty ambient and atmospheric. I think it's a bit weaker than other tracks on the album with a similar formula. 3/5 "Loves Way" is a bit calmer than most of the tracks. It's pretty intimate and emotional in a much less dramatic way. Probably a big grower, however I can't really appreciate it as much as the other tracks on this album at this point. 3/5 "Human" is an extremely effective track. The production is done in such a smart way, I love how meaningful her delivery is. The reversed-vocals part gets me everytime and the outro of the song keeps giving me the chills. 5/5 "Do You Feel Real" is goosebumps put into music. The sinister sound, her whispering speaking voice, the way her voice gets disorted and changes from being the protagonist and the narrator ... It reminds me a bit of an old cassette of Disney's "Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs" I had as a child - the part where the Evil Queen transformed into a hag had a similar kind of vibe. it's such a great great great Interlude. It's actually far too good to be actually called an interlude, especially with the last half of it where the beat compeats with the orchestral instruments. 5/5 "The Language Of Limbo" is definitly a big HIGHLIGHT of the album. I'm glad she decided to put it on there. It's actually quite stripped back for a Sevdaliza song, yet it's super intense at the same moment. Her vocal delivery is on par and I realyl love the simple, mantra-esque nature of the lyrics. The way the track keeps on spinning within itself, seemingly leaving the "Limbo" but then falling back ... extremely welldone. 5/5 "Replaceable" channels Nina Simone. The bass-strings are great, the percussion sounds so laid back and her vocals are super-jazzy. I also really love the lyrics. 5/5 "Grace" manages to mix up a very dramatic, orchestrated cinematic sound with some almost tropical beats. I especially love the strings in the background of the chorus. Her vocal presence is incredible aswell. The song feels pretty close to "Shahmaran" for some reason. 4/5 "When I Reside" is a pretty nice conclusion for the album. It still has it's dark moments, but generally it has this peaceful, dremay and yet again super orchestral feeling. It feels much more interlude-esque than "Do You Feel Real" though. 3/5 "Angel" is a beautiful outro, it has the same peaceful, beautiful vibe "When I Reside" has (even though the lyrics aren't really that peaceful). I like the slightly more down-to-earth vibe, I'm super positive this is a big grower and I need to come back to listen to it more carefully, but for now I can't really feel the same excitement for it as for other songs. 3,5/5 I've yet to fully explore the album and grasp the concept behind it, however I think it's a greta release, if not the best one of this year (or decade?). I've waited for an artist like Sevdaliza so long and I'm glad she graced us with her art today. Her formula of combining dark, cold, vulnerable and fragile soundscapes with warm, ambient and relaxing ones is extremely well done, her production (especially her way of tampering with her voice) and the beats she uses are on par. She is a wonderful vocalist aswell. I love how she reminds me a lot of all those legendary 90 TripHop albums/artists, while still being super creative and innovative at the same time.
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Lust For Life - Pre-Release Thread
Thunder Revenant replied to Elle's topic in Retired Pre-Release Threads
The fun thing that you can play Burning Desire form this playlist, which is usually not aviable on Spotify Germany. -
I hate Amazon music. They still don't have it uploaded
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IT'S SO WONDERFUL! I love the reworked version of Underneath, I LOVE Grace and Replaceable is godly!
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Lust For Life - Pre-Release Thread
Thunder Revenant replied to Elle's topic in Retired Pre-Release Threads
Fool! She will bring Yayo around again with LDR6 and perform it instead of doing the lead single. -
As much as I love new content, I'm actually fine with not having a deluxe. I mean .. ISON has 14 full length tracks and two supposed interludes. That's a big load of material and I guess quality > quantity. I would have loved more tracks, but a 18 tracks + album quickly loses direction or becomes stale. I'm SUPER SUPER SUPER happy it's coming out on the 26th now ... I'm so hyped to hear Replaceable in full!
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It's hard to say since her songs tend to completely change over their course but I think it might be the "Do You Feel Real?" interlude
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Lust For Life - Pre-Release Thread
Thunder Revenant replied to Elle's topic in Retired Pre-Release Threads
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Her not saying anything scares me ...
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The track actually worked out better than I'd expected it to.
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Then what is it in your opinion?
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This is extremely hard to answer ... Video Games was the song that caught my attention, make Lona look up on the internet (and discover stuff like multiple unreleased tracks, demos and AKA, which were all already aviable by then) and become a fan. However, the track that actually made me excited for Born To Die was the release of the title track. High By The Beach was a fresh, cool single, one of the best tracks on HM and I was always extremely happy when i heard it on the radio. However, my favourite one is definitly West Coast. It took a short while to grow on me, but then it git my hypnotized and I would still consider it my favourite Lana track. Love belongs to her weaker tracks IMO and it didn't really got me excited (rightfully so, judging by the generic bore that is Lust For Life), so it's a shame they did not at least use the radio-potential it had. I needed a LOOOONG time to get into Ride, and yet even now I still don't really love the track.
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I hope Amazon Spain's date is correct, otherwise I think I might die x)
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Lust For Life - Pre-Release Thread
Thunder Revenant replied to Elle's topic in Retired Pre-Release Threads
Gawd, y'all are terrible. You're not her mother ... I remember when fans harassed Francesco after he and Lana broke up ... such cringeworthy, over-obsessive, second-embarassment stupidness! -
I'm soooo glad she chose The Language Of Limbo to be on there .. it's such a perfect song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7Y-Yfspjts