***OFFICAL Dance of the Clairvoyants Reaction Thread!***

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  • Serres, Greece Posts: 29,956
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    Haven’t read any reactions yet; here is mine:

    Completely new sound! I like it, but will take a bit to adjust. Very groovy.

    Reminds me of Muse.
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  • Brookline, MA Posts: 979
    Music video is a little amateurish? Stock bonanza with a ton of super on-the-nose imagery. Meh. Doesn't ruin the song or anything, but I won't be revisiting this. Seems like it was rushed.
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    First reaction - clean, crisp, new wavy and reminds me of Devo.  Bass is finally up front, thanks Stone. 
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    AlaG said:
    Music video is a little amateurish? Stock bonanza with a ton of super on-the-nose imagery. Meh. Doesn't ruin the song or anything, but I won't be revisiting this. Seems like it was rushed.
    Clearly Boom's fault. Missed the deadline and showed up with some video of ants in his backyard on his iPhone. Stone wasn't happy, "Bees, Boom. We said we wanted video of Bees." 
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  • Posts: 15
    edited January 2020
    For me the part after around 1:40 is just much more enjoyable than the first couple of minutes. I'd like the guitar to be more prominent and perhaps less of Eddie's singing, I don't particularly like how he sings the first few verses.

    It's also so much better with headphones. 

    It is interesting stuff and I do admire the effort to do something unlike what we've call come to expect, but I am not crazy about it after several times listening to it. As many have noted, a lot of 80s/2010s sound there, which some people love and some people don't.

    It could have been a LCD Soundsystem song -- just not one of their best ones. It seems like the kind of thing that it may take a couple of albums to get completely right, a change in direction that could lead to very promising new music if the PJ classic sound was a bit more integrated with the new, but at least in this one song it's not quite there yet. 


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    Well, certainly not what I was expecting but that's the point, no? I remember hearing my 1st track off Vs, animal, at MTV music awards...I was less than smitten, I wanted Ten2.0 now it's one of my fave PJ tracks. 

    Thrilled to have new PJ music. 
  • Adelaide Posts: 6,247
    Thank goodness they’ve mixed it up and tried something completely different!!! We didnt need a watered down, regurgitated version of Ten or Vs, they needed to catch attention whether it be negative or positive. I love it!! 
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    edited January 2020
    Adrianler said:
    For me the part after around 1:40 is just much more enjoyable than the first couple of minutes. I'd like the guitar to be more prominent and perhaps less of Eddie's singing, I don't particularly like how he sings the first few verses.

    It's also so much better with headphones. 

    It is interesting stuff and I do admire the effort to do something unlike what we've call come to expect, but I am not crazy about it after several times listening to it. As many have noted, a lot of 80s/2010s sound there, which some people love and some people don't.

    It could have been a LCD Soundsystem song -- just not one of their best ones. It seems like the kind of thing that it may take a couple of albums to get completely right, a change in direction that could lead to very promising new music if the PJ classic sound was a bit more integrated with the new, but at least in this one song it's not quite there yet. 


    Yes. This is one comparison i hadnt seen yet. I do hear some LCD Soundsystem.  

    Loving this tune
  • Posts: 2,365
    So I'm wondering if the album version is much longer because didn't it say this was a radio edit??
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  • Posts: 366
    the new hippies will love it
  • Minneapolis, MN Posts: 28
    edited January 2020
    jsvajgl said:
    About a decade+ behind Radiohead. oof. That’s just...off
    It’s art. There is no beginning or end or in front or behind. 
  • Albany, NY Posts: 138
    Toytly dig the song, but I absolutely hate the drum sound. I don't care in any way for overproduced drums. They should always sound live on a record and these sound like a drum track. I could dig a whole album of weird tunes like this but not if the drums all sound that way.
  • Posts: 434
    I do enjoy the back half of the song more than the first half.. really good long outro. Overall very cool and different , I'm cool with that. Nothing like the suspense of hearing a new pj song for the first time
  • New Mexico USA Posts: 4,439
    tempo_n_groove said:
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    If Matt can play this way live without a backtrack I will be impressed.  It sounds layered and very much like a drum machine.

    Matt can play anything. It is live drums processed like a drum machine, the high hat is a drum machine. He can play it.
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    lastexitlondon said:
    Im with you  chris. Case in point. Getaway. Awful  live. Epic on album.
    This is true. The tuning down for Getaway makes it sound like it's not even the same song. Love the album version. 
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    blindmule said:
    Toytly dig the song, but I absolutely hate the drum sound. I don't care in any way for overproduced drums. They should always sound live on a record and these sound like a drum track. I could dig a whole album of weird tunes like this but not if the drums all sound that way.
    I think that's my final word on it too. The drum sound is shit. Judging by the Stone intro I think this is the only far out experimental song with drums like this. Gigaton means we gotta get some heavy shit, not rap production high hats.
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  • Serres, Greece Posts: 29,956
    4 things:
    a) Clairvoyants = instant reminder of High Magick: A Guide to the Spiritual Practices That Saved My Life on Death Row by Damien Echols
    b) Confusion is to commotion what love is to our devotion = the North is to South what the clock is to time (and the existential vibe of Severed Hand)
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    It’s really grown on me the past day
  • Florida Posts: 30
    edited January 2020
    Anyone hear a Duran Duran or The Police vibe with the layered vocals at the end? Love Stone’s bass grove throughout and the guitar interspersed. The drum treatment is a bit cold and icy unlike their usual warm sound but I get what they were going for. I know there’s a ton of Backspacer/Lightning Bolt defenders but lyrically this feels more like EV. Loving the sarcasm and bit of dread in the lyrics. 
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