Chorus.fm Record of the Week Club • Page 72

This one is easier to keep up with than the film thread (which I sadly haven’t participated in for a long while). But I’ve been traveling all over recently, so it’s been hard to keep up with this one too recently.

I think a break built into the end of each round would be nice. It gives folks time to catch up or reflect back on some of their favorites from the round. Or just generally take out some of the burn out that comes with these threads.

 

I’ll choose a record when I get home from work

 

Film thread is not currently active, we just do one pick per round and do another round when theres interest

the horror thread goes on but I cant watch that much horror

 

in my other group, i usually try and listen close and if i don’t like the record say why, then listen again and again until i find bright spots / songs. i tend not to give a numerical rating but sometimes i will.

 

This round im going with Yuck's debut self titled album from 2011. Fuzzy indie/garage rock that had ALL the blogs hyped in the early 2010s. Album still rocks though and its one of my favorites of this kind of sound.
Special shout out to the tracks The Wall, Operation, and Rubber which was a quasi gateway to shoegaze for 20 year old me.

 

Great pick. I love The Wall but I don’t think I’ve heard the whole thing. Hyped to listen

 

sweet, never heard of this band before… excited 2 give it a whirl

 

Oh hell yeah, I loved this when it came out but I haven’t relistened in a long while

 

I will definitely rejoin this thread when MWE ends this week

 

I used to love that Yuck record, happy to revisit. Peak indie sleeze era

 

Okay yeah the Yuck album holds up, I forgot how many lower key songs there are on here. Might be recency bias but some of those remind me of (a better version of) Blake-led Rilo Kiley songs, Elliot Smith inspo intact. The fuzzy rockers send me right back to 2011/2012 when me and my friend Christian had a short-lived band that was writing that kinda music.

 

did you ever get into blake’s band ‘the elected’?

 

No but they're on my shortlist to check out in the near future.

 

Was thinking about using that album for one of my picks. Well played!

 

i saw the band play in ‘04. blake was pretty early using a laptop for sounds. he wore a gas mask at one point. pretty wild stuff. there were probably no more then 20 people there. they opened for neva dinova, and conor showed up to sing. i think it was the same time one jug came out.

good times. reminds me of a buddy who didn’t make it that loved the elected… bittersweet.
here’s one of the first songs i heard.

 

Oh I'm digging this a lot

 

Rilo Kiley is one of my favorite bands and Blake is one of my favorite guitarists but I cannot stand his voice. Makes those Elected records a tough hang for me.

 

getting major pavement / dinosaur jr / sonic youth vibes from this yuck record. there's some of that late 2000s / early 2010s mac demarco stuff through in, and some similarities to kurt vile.

 

Really digging this Yuck album

 

I think the second half starts to blend together/turn to white noise for me, but I really love those first songs. Especially Shook Down

 

Shook Down is easily their best song imo. Can leave that on repeat for hours

 

Have heard of this band but never listened. Excited to finally give this (and Van Morrison) a spin!

 

this album rules. fuzzy and leisurely (and even beachy at times), but not without a few garage rock-type bangers as well. it totally sounds like it should've come out in the 90's alongside bands like Dinosaur Jr., Pavement, and even Yo La Tengo (that last song!!!) and at the same time fits perfectly with the Real Estate and Mac DeMarco type stuff.

 

Yuck reminds me of the garage band version of someone still loves you Boris yelstin

 

I’m into Yuck. The comparison Im leaning into the most right now is Statistics. Kind of a similar sound to their album Often Lie, but with more energy and a little more going on with the guitar.

Starting my second listen now.