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

[Icecream Icequeen 4,832]

2 minutes ago, Rico25 said:

lmao you wish

also there was no need hide this message?

I hid it cause there are people like you who is not ready to handle the truth yet 

[Rico25 7,164]

1 minute ago, Icecream Icequeen said:

I hid it cause there are people like you who is not ready to handle the truth yet 

[DLT 7,481]

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Cocc is so sexy mature and intellectual. Quirky yet sultry and seductive.  Raw personal and emotional. Idk I’m rambling adjectives but that’s how it is sometimes lol.  

 

[kitschesque 9,863]

21 minutes ago, redsangrias said:

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I'm thinking that, like how Paradise was an "afterthought" of Born To Die

Chemtrails is an "afterthought" of Norman Fucking Rockwell

 

It's like a spin-off sister album. For example if she removed the Nikki duet, and put For Free on a covers album, Chemtrails would basically be an EP just like Paradise.

 

 

 

I AGREE I love how casual it feels as well

 

[Thunder Revenant 20,686]

1 hour ago, evalionisameme said:

Slow beat laden songs with reverbed breathy female vocals basically is trip hop in itself but it can be pretty experimental.

I think that is a VERY broad understanding of that genre andit's sound - which, although diverse, is actually pretty profilic. Yeah, dreamy andmelancholic vibes with strings, reverb and slow beats are a huge part of it, but I woul never think of HM as trip hop. I also listened to it "for all of mylife", so when I think about it, I envision Portishead, Massive Attack, Bowery Electric, Archive's Londinium, Tricky's Maxinquaye, Laika, Flying Lotus, Bonobo, DJ Cam, Lamb, early Moloko etc. And HM is really not close to any of this.

[gasstationkween 5,422]

I can’t get over this album. 

[Nightmare 9,818]

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yosemite sucks

 

[Rust Dress 37,587]

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you’re killing me joe 

 

[kitschesque 9,863]

13 minutes ago, Pico Boulevard said:

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I think this album will be like Honeymoon - many people don't like it but over time they will start to love it. This album is a slow burner and only the intellectuals will love it from the very beginning 

 

 

Once you actually start noticing different layers and how the structures are built it gets three times as interesting. It's gonna age so so so well!

 

[jazzlessbaby 965]

I think the album is finally growing on me after the third listen. I still have a lot to absorb from it, but I am starting to connect with it.

[DeluluKing 7,268]

2 minutes ago, Nightmare said:

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yosemite sucks

 

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Your mind because It's so beautiful~

 

[DLT 7,481]

Just now, kitschesque said:

 

 

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Once you actually start noticing different layers and how the structures are built it gets three times as interesting. It's gonna age so so so well!

 

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This 100%, it’s so much better with each new listen.

 

[Nightmare 9,818]

Just now, YosemiteAv said:

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Your mind because It's so beautiful~

 

not worth the wait for me, sorry

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2 minutes ago, cinnamongirI said:

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you’re killing me joe 

 

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Isn't it John?

 

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35 minutes ago, redsangrias said:

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I'm thinking that, like how Paradise was an "afterthought" of Born To Die

Chemtrails is an "afterthought" of Norman Fucking Rockwell

 

It's like a spin-off sister album. For example if she removed the Nikki duet, and put For Free on a covers album, Chemtrails would basically be an EP just like Paradise.

 

 

 

I agree, but I guess I would compare it more to the connection between UV and HM. Even though both have a distinct, different sound, something about the artistic vision, the sonical landscape and the overall atmosphere seems to be similar. Like two different emotional and cognitive  aspects of the same topic, if that makes sense.

UV was dark and intense, an emotional breakdown moment. HM was its afterthought, the more subtle, withdrawn and contemplative dimension of that state of mind.

Similarly, Norman is very summery, maritime and while it has its poetic and contemplative moments, it's generally more "outgoing". Chemtrails on the other hand seems so somber and reclusive, like the silence that fills your house after your friends have left.

While her thoughts got distracted by the situations and people around her on NFR, she's alone with them on CoCC.

[gasstationkween 5,422]

Those hags on pop justice are bashing it ew

[venicebitch 13,344]

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Autotune in TJF… it’s her Charli era yup

 

[cellophane 762]

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Ranking after a couple of listens:

 

Dark but just a game
Wild at heart
Not all who wander are lost
Yosemite
Dancing till we die
White dress
Breaking up slowly
Tulsa Jesus freak

 

[kitschesque 9,863]

Hot take but I think Breaking Up Slowly fits great within the album! It just makes sense in the tracklisting and is a nice break. Them harmonizing is also very very pretty. I'm a huge fan of this track. If DTWD came right after Yosemite it'd be so dull lol. And now it's a breath of fresh air.

[BluebirdXO 7,677]

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I must start saying that I'm a NFR hater

 

Now let's move to my opinion on the album

 

I only listened to 6 tracks and only once, so I could still be excited for the release in the 19th.

I was so ready to hate it, since it was produced by Antonoff, but I actually like it. 

 

White Dress is a highlight. It would be better if it was produced by Dan, instead of Jack. I can't wait to hear it in vinyl quality

 

TJF was the only song that got stuck in my head. I had to control myself to not play it again

 

Yosemite was the track that I was expecting the most. I wasn't disappointed. It was really worth the wait

 

For Free was everything that I had imagined. I love Lana, Zella and Weyes. Hear them together is entering heaven. I just wish it had more instrumentals in the end of the song. The ending was kinda abrupt

 

I'll have to listen again to come up with a final opinion. The only thing that I didn't really liked it was the instrumentals in some songs. They seem lazy. And the constant mention of the candle in the wind. Her voice doesn't sound nice when she pronounces it and it looks tacky.

I hope she goes full folk with her next album and collabs with Field Medic (she follows him on ig and their music sounds like they can blend together). This album seems more a natural flow from L4L than NFR

 

On a first listen my hank is:

 

HM>UV>BTD>PARADISE>LFL=COCC>NFR