Shura - Nothing's Real (TONIGHT 8pm SYNC PLAY)

[Jark]

let's revisit one of the albums of the decade, the dreamy pop/electronic masterpiece that is Nothing's Real



if you don't know/adore this album already I THINK YOU'LL REALLY LOVE IT so please do join us!

@Iguana @Pingu @RJN @SDF @POP! @Tisch @Pipo @funky @ameraal @Beverley @FetchFugly @northernlad @ZenGiraffe @COB @Music @Logic? @joanne @OutSynk @Alex @monsta @octophone @Tetris-Rock @BoysForSeles @Ag @Zu-Klara

tonight 8pm!

 

[AGinAg (37)]

Oh I think I recall liking this, but I probably won't get involved.

 

[AGinAg (37)]

Well done on learning how to tag me

 

[COB]

I'm still doing Kylie hun

 

[Beverley]

Yes, I'll come to this!

 

[AGinAg (37)]

I'm still doing Kylie hun

He has everyone on ignore!

 

[Jark]

I'm still doing Kylie hun

I didn't know you'd taken over that fuck

 

[COB]

I haven't! But if it's still happening I'm only doing Abbey Road, which is at 7 anyway

 

[Jark]

OK, then anyone who wants to do can do Abbey Road (I can't be BOTHERED tbh) and then we'll all get high off sadness with Shura together

 

[OutSynk]

I don’t know her.

 

[Tisch]

Might not be tonight but I'll be sure to listen! Can't remember if it was this one I gave a go or another one.

 

[funky]

Seriously, one of the best pop albums of all time.

 

[Mats]

tunes, all of it!

 

[Jark]

Seriously, one of the best pop albums of all time.

isn't it just? there's no point me even rating tonight 'cos everything's a 10 (or above)

 

[RJN]

Let's just hope we all have upsetting developments in our love lives in the next 3 hours to really GET this album

 

[Mats]

the video for What's It Gonna Be is so sweet. it's really embarrassing how teeny this album makes me feel *breaks hip jumping the stairs*

 

[Jark]

5 minute warning!

 

[POP!]

5 min Away from home but here

 

[Jark]

DON'T TEXT AND DRIVE @POP!

 

[Iguana]

Just trying to catch my breath from the Kylie sync listen

 

[Iguana]

I've pressed play

 

[POP!]

Pressedplay !

 

[Jark]

Just trying to catch my breath from the Kylie sync listen

you can probably getting away with skipping the intro

I think I've only heard this once before. it's quite evocative.

 

[Iguana]

This is NICE

 

[RJN]

Yeah the intro is kind of nothingy. Nothing's Real is not of my favorites but its a good opener and a solid 8/10.

 

[Jark]

the entire album is co-produced by Joel Pott (of Athlete) and Shura, and written by them, with Greg Kurstin also involved in two tracks.

getting things off to a very STABBY 80s ELECTRO start with the title track with a few 70s DISCO STRINGS thrown in for good measure. it's about having anxiety attacks and being told by the doctors there's nothing WRONG with her (medically).

09 Nothing's Real

 

[Iguana]

It's giving me La Roux vibes who I'm not the BIGGEST fan of

 

[RJN]

it's about having anxiety attacks and being told by the doctors there's nothing WRONG with her (medically).l

I did not know that but what a great topic for a song

 

[POP!]

I'm a dead girl walkin
I NEED MEDICINE!

Very early 80s disco new wave to me.

 

[POP!]

09 Nothing's Real

 

[Jark]

I'm on my OWN
you're at the BEACH
hundreds of miles away...

loads of yearning and a feeling of nostalgia in What's It Gonna Be. definitely gives me some big 80s new wave/random Gwen Stefani energy.

09 Nothing's Real
09 What's It Gonna Be

 

[RJN]

What's It Gonna Be makes me want to DANCE and CRY (the best combination in a song)

08 Nothing's Real
09 What's It Gonna Be

 

[Iguana]

What's It Gonna Be was much better.

05 Nothing's Real
07 What's It Gonna Be

 

[Iguana]

Ooh I'm liking Touch

 

[RJN]

Touch is one the best songs of the last 10 years. The lyrics are PERFECT. She really is able to write about the feelings of wanting to be with someone but knowing it isn't going to work so so well

 

[POP!]

"What's it Gonna Be" is begging to be a teen movie BOP that never was. It's so lovely.

09 Nothing's Real
10 What's it Gonna Be

 

[Iguana]

Touch is one the best songs of the last 10 years.

 

[Jark]

Touch is one of my favourites of all-time! I have used and abused this song a great deal in the last five years.

I really love how simple it is - just the same short "verse" and "chorus" repeating over and over, with new musical elements coming in sparsely to add depth. it's a very careful, delicate song in that sense and I think it's deliberate to match the subject matter - that feeling of tip-toeing around somebody because it's just so difficult not to get it wrong.

I never felt so close
and now I know it's over


09 Nothing's Real
09 What's It Gonna Be
11 Touch

 

[Iguana]

05 Nothing's Real
07 What's It Gonna Be
08 Touch

We're making PROGRESS

 

[POP!]

"Touch" is THAT bitch. And by that I mean the SULTRY GEM

"You wanna touch me, but you're too late..." STINGS

09 Nothing's Real
10 What's it Gonna Be
10 Touch