TEMPORARY Chemtrails Over the Country Club - Pre-Release Thread: OUT March 19th, 2021

[xxmissdaytonaxx 30,078]

Just now, past the bushes said:

yes to Dark But Just A Game love  the witchy and mysterious track NFR missed

hoping for a dark, witchy anthem 

[mrborntolose 9,967]

9 minutes ago, xxmissdaytonaxx said:

hoping for a dark, witchy anthem 

hoping it’s dark.. but it’s just a game 

[RuflesCando 120]

2 hours ago, domandapiano said:

I feel like pitchfork *could* have been much harsher to lmlylaw. They said it was kinda basic and safe but that sometimes that’s all you need. So I think they were more for it than against it. The snub of the title track is odd, I have to assume it was because of all the drama she managed to stir up with the cover reveal. I imagine they will review the full album tho.
 

Are either of those tracks as bold as Venice Bitch or Hope is a Dangerous thing... ? No, so it makes sense those got bnm and at least lmly didn’t. im just hoping the rest of COCC is enough to give it good scores. 
 

im sure it’ll be good either way but we know critics and especially pitchfork are incredibly aware of what’s ~trendy~ and they really give good scores to that kind of stuff  

Yeah. The album leans heavily on Mitchell, Baez, and King, which could help to sway them; they also love Natalie (Weyes Blood). They prefer originality but also call it a day if a derivative work is good enough.  I don't agree that they follow the latest trends in music but they do have editorial choices that are influenced by context (Apple's profile on The New Yorker by Pulitzer Winner Emily Nussbaum definitely helped her 10 to come to fruition). Normally they are just NY and NY Media related (Condé Nast) regarding buzz so the city has to welcome it in general. Criticism is technic and knowledge but also feeling and timing; also the review is personal to the writer but the grade is an editorial choice, probably a consensus to keep the Pitchfork brand as the most relevant and refined publication on music today.  Many times they changed the score of an album years later, tuning itself to the actual afterlife of work rather than the feelings on publication day (what will probably happen to born to die in a few years, considering how influential it was, that score is definitely going up). I expect in worst cases a 7.5 up, an 8.1 on a normal, no heat feelings, and an 8.8-9 on best cases. I've been wrong before but I'm usually good at this I think. 

[domandapiano 12,106]

7 minutes ago, RuflesCando said:

Yeah. The album leans heavily on Mitchell, Baez, and King, which could help to sway them; they also love Natalie (Weyes Blood). They prefer originality but also call it a day if a derivative work is good enough.  I don't agree that they follow the latest trends in music but they do have editorial choices that are influenced by context (Apple's profile on The New Yorker by Pulitzer Winner Emily Nussbaum definitely helped her 10 to come to fruition). Normally they are just NY and NY Media related (Condé Nast) regarding buzz so the city has to welcome it in general. Criticism is technic and knowledge but also feeling and timing; also the review is personal to the writer but the grade is an editorial choice, probably a consensus to keep the Pitchfork brand still relevant as the most relevant and refined publication on music today.  Many times they changed the score of an album years later, tuning itself to the actual afterlife of work rather than the feelings on publication day (what will probably happen to born to die in a few years, considering how influential it was, that score is definitely going up). I expect in worst cases a 7.5 up, an 8.1 on a normal, no heat feelings, and an 8.8-9 on best cases. I've been wrong before but I'm usually good at this I think. 

I think you’ve put more concisely what I was trying to get at (Im not great at conveying what I’m thinking and feeling through words). They aren’t trendy in the sense that they give good scores to what’s trendy in the popular sense, but they always want to appear like they are at the top of line as far as *taste* is concerned, and I think your paragraph expressed that. 

[ArtDecoDelRey 15,284]

I'm actually gonna collapse when the album comes out... there'll be so much new material! For me personally, when NFR! came out, the only track that I hadn't heard at all in HQ was Bartender (edit: nevermind, we had those HQ snippets for weeks)! Now however, including live performances/known lyrics, the follow tracks still remain entirely unknown: wild at heart, dark but just a game, not all who wander are lost, and dance till we die! And besides those, we only know select lyrics in White Dress and Yosemite and a brief live rendition of Breaking Up Slowly!

Spoiler

 

[Make me your Dream Life 87,898]

30 minutes ago, mrborntolose said:

hoping it’s dark.. but it’s just a game 

I honestly hope she goes more w the spooks vibe. what if she does vampires 

[mrborntolose 9,967]

4 minutes ago, Dragon said:

I honestly hope she goes more w the spooks vibe. what if she does vampires 

manifesting a vampy witchy szn of the witch mixed with 24 vibes with Alice in wonderland references and deep message with positivity from negativity 

[Make me your Dream Life 87,898]

6 minutes ago, mrborntolose said:

manifesting a vampy witchy szn of the witch mixed with 24 vibes with Alice in wonderland references and deep message with positivity from negativity 

I need more Heroin vibes. the walking dead parallel vibes. if ur running at night w the title track on. it's kinda witchy. like renaissance period witchy 

[pin up galore 18,997]

the way she keeps singing in that breathy higher register I really think we might be getting 2007 Lizzy vocals on some of the more country/folk tracks 

Spoiler

manifesting Rehab vocals

 

 

[mrborntolose 9,967]

15 minutes ago, Dragon said:

I need more Heroin vibes. the walking dead parallel vibes. if ur running at night w the title track on. it's kinda witchy. like renaissance period witchy 

Ugh your mind period 

[Fingertips 72,043]

The title track and the video still gives me chills. 

you're in the wind, i'm in the water 

 

I wonder what other song on the album will make me feel this way. 

[gasstationkween 5,616]

30 minutes ago, Dragon said:

I need more Heroin vibes. the walking dead parallel vibes. if ur running at night w the title track on. it's kinda witchy. like renaissance period witchy 

This. You are one of my favourites !

[honeybadger 40,620]

i need a shades of cool style instrumental break/bridge.... something that's barely intelligible but makes me lose my fucking marbles every time  and it doesn't necessarily have to be of similar intensity or instrument, cherry chorus background thing also fits... i want more incomprehensible lyrics with incredible instrumentals

 

so who will be that bitch to take on the task? dark but just a game? i'm watching you 

[The Stargirl Pinky 71,658]

35 minutes ago, mrborntolose said:

Ugh your mind period 

A mind period sounds very uncomfortable 

 

 

[Ultraviolencequeen 2,849]

I feel so good about the concept of the first 4 tracks in that order, the serve. 

[RuflesCando 120]

1 hour ago, domandapiano said:

I think you’ve put more concisely what I was trying to get at (Im not great at conveying what I’m thinking and feeling through words). They aren’t trendy in the sense that they give good scores to what’s trendy in the popular sense, but they always want to appear like they are at the top of line as far as *taste* is concerned, and I think your paragraph expressed that. 

Yeah, I was afraid of just repeating what you said! Sorry if I did that! Your comment made me think about how probably Pitch would deal with this. I hope we're right and they like it (if they don't and the album doesn't deserve the pan, it's 100% on them to relinquish once again Lana's talent and artistic intelligence only to in a few years admit they were wrong (like they did with BTD on the LFL review)

[American Whore 51,343]

i think i listened to the live version of Breaking Up Slowly like once so that's still a fresh song for me. still hoping it's not a feature 

 

also happy page 3700!!

 

[Terrence Loves Me 72,703]

me stuck in an eternal state of sunshine and smiles and rainbows and happiness on march 19th

[Obduration 6,548]

6 minutes ago, Terrence Loves Me said:

me stuck in an eternal state of sunshine and smiles and rainbows and happiness on march 19th

This is the worst one of these gifs 

[NikoGo 60,819]

8 minutes ago, Terrence Loves Me said:

me stuck in an eternal state of sunshine and smiles and rainbows and happiness on march 19th

Seeing that picture takes me back to December, when the lnk.to/Chemtrails started working and we were CONVINCED she was going to debut the title track because “she’s posing as a plane”

 

can’t believe that was over two months ago now