[d.sound]

Originally Posted by Severian

Has anyone listened to the new Nicolas Jaar yet? I don't really love making threads about single albums, but I'm afraid I'm going to have to. I can't get this thing out of my head.

I have given it two listens and I don't know what all the hubbub is about.

[Severian]

Originally Posted by d.sound

I have given it two listens and I don't know what all the hubbub is about.

Really? I guess I didn't realize there was a hubbub. I saw it got a good review on pitchfork though, so I guess any time that happens, some hubbub is imminent. But they have it a pretty "meh" rating for a "Best New Music" selection. I swear the criteria for that designation is completely arbitrary.

Anyway, hubbub aside, I expected this album to resonante with many of the users here. Space is Only Noise was well received on SYG if I recall. As was the Darkside album. I think SIRENS is better than Psychic, if not Space... and in a year like 2016, it thoroughly spanks the fuck out of most of the more traditional (e.g. Not Elseq) electronic/electronic adjacent releases out there.

[The Soup Nazi]

Originally Posted by noisereductions

I liked Indie Cindy ok.

Havent heard the new one yet. But same as sev, woshipper, pre SY, yada yada

Michael Shannon lip-syncs to "Here Comes Your Man": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn36n8UtJNU

[Jeremy]

Originally Posted by Severian

Wait... were you guys ever expecting anything different?
I love the Pixies. My memory of the Pixies, which died somewhere around 2005. But were you guys actually thinking this album would be good?

I watched that video for the song with the rat and didn't hate it, but I didn't have any expectations.

Uhmm.... because Frank Black has been a consistently solid songwriter since 1987 and Indie Cindy had some really good songs on it?

Head Carrier is what it is. It fills all the Pixies quotas and never over achieves on them. It's a pretty decent 33 minutes of a talented band having a lazy day at work.

[Severian]

Originally Posted by Jeremy

Uhmm.... because Frank Black has been a consistently solid songwriter since 1987 and Indie Cindy had some really good songs on it?

Head Carrier is what it is. It fills all the Pixies quotas and never over achieves on them. It's a pretty decent 33 minutes of a talented band having a lazy day at work.

It's not awful, certainly. I guess Pixies having a lazy day just isn't something I'm too interested in. I'm not sure songwriting is a problem. In fact I'm sure it's not. I think the problem is in the execution. It just lacks a lot of what made the Pixies great in the first place. But I'm not trying to be a dick about it.

[Severian]

Really, it's very hard for me to listen to a record with the Pixies' name on it, and feel disappointed. I feel like I'm betraying something sacred. But ultimately it doesn't alter my opinion of the Pixies one bit. They're probablt never going to put out anything that floors me again, but they don't really need to.

And it's got to be damn near impossible for a band like this to give it another go and be truly successful. Many have tried, few have succeeded. When GY!BE came back in 2012, I thought they'd brought it pretty hard. But looking back, something was just missing, not necessarily from the music, but from the environmental ingredients that made their formative albums so great.

[evollove]

Can we all agree "Baal's back" is some killer shit?

[Severian]

Originally Posted by evollove

Can we all agree "Baal's back" is some killer shit?

Yeah, I think that's my favorite track on the album.

[selkcip]

new Graham Lambkin (double CD), titled 'Community', coming out next week on Erstwhile records... in a similar vein, the new Marc Baron CD Un Salon Au Fond D'Un Lac is a beautiful noise/music concrete album, made primarily with manipulated tape/tape machines.. quality consistent with Hidden Tapes--anybody digging this stuff?

[guest]

heard the samples for community and it's sounding very good, insane how lambkin is existing entirely on his own terms at this stage.

[greenlight]

C.O.W. / Chill Out World!

 

The Orb has special place in my heart, always have, eventhough I haven't follow them as much since their Bicycles & Tricycles, but I have to mention them on here since they have new album coming out in two days.

a press release says the title could be considered a reference to Paterson's uncredited role in The KLF's 1990 album Chill Out, and to the cows on the cover of Pink Floyd's Atom Heart Mother LP. occasional Orb collaborator Youth and ambient composer Roger Eno were brought on board for contributions, and The Designers Republic took care of cover art.

Paterson describes COW / Chill Out, World! as "our most ambient album yet".

you can stream it in full on soundcloud. I think I will be getting it on wax as well.

https://soundcloud.com/kompakt/sets/...ll-out-world-1

[_tunic_]

the new MONO album Requiem For Hell is released tomorrow (14th)!!!
Stream it here: https://soundcloud.com/monoofjapan

it's a killer!!

The 9th Album "Requiem For Hell" Out Oct 14, 2016PRE-ORDER INFO:
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ALBUM INFO:
"This album is a series of songs from a flood of inspirations in 2015. After writing song after song and giving them titles, we stumbled upon Dante’s “Divine Comedy” and the story struck a chord with us. “Divine Comedy”’s story about travelling down to Hell, through to purgatory, then from Heaven to reality turned out to be the same theme. This is when we decided to use Gustave Dóre’s illustration from “Divine Comedy”’s last scene as the main cover.
Not long after, by pure luck once again, our long-time friend Jeremy (the owner of our American label Temporary Residence) had his first-born. She was named Ely. Jeremy had been sending us photos and her heartbeats from long before she was born. When Ely was born, we decided to dedicate one of our songs to her, with hopes of her listening to it when she is grown up, and decided to use her heartbeats as an intro on “Ely’s Heartbeat”.
Through this album, we hope you can experience all life’s elements, from death and life, body and soul, hope and hopelessness, light and darkness, respect and honour transferred through generations, and new life."
/ MONO 2016
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Release date:14 October 2016

Furthermore looking forward to albums of Thought Forms and Esben & the Witch. Both will be released on November 4th. How cool is that!

I'm not yet liking the new Wedding Present ...

[Severian]

Originally Posted by _tunic_

the new MONO album Requiem For Hell is released tomorrow (14th)!!!
Stream it here: https://soundcloud.com/monoofjapan

it's a killer!!

Fucking aces, man!

[Severian]

Aaaand... the new Botany's out!
Gearing up for my first full listen.

 

If this doesn't land in my top ten for the year, that will be a first for Botany.

[SuchFriendsAreDangerous]

This Solange has a real Thom Yorke feel in a good way I think its what is bringing me into it.. feels like if Radiohead went neo-soul on us.. nice..
I don't know if I should call this a guilty pleasure or just admit its a good record

[Severian]

Originally Posted by SuchFriendsAreDangerous

This Solange has a real Thom Yorke feel in a good way I think its what is bringing me into it.. feels like if Radiohead went neo-soul on us.. nice..
I don't know if I should call this a guilty pleasure or just admit its a good record

Dude, why would this be a guilty pleasure?
Is it because when she started out she was kind of a Kesha-level teen alt-pop type? I don't know... I never listened to her first album, but her early stuff kind of had that look to it.

Whatever though. It's just a good album. A great album really. And I get where you're coming from with the Radiohead comment. But I think we think of it that way because Radiohead really managed to perfect highly intelligent music with a vocal focus that was both experimental and approachable at once.

The new Nicolas Jaar reminds me of Radiohead a bit too.

[SuchFriendsAreDangerous]

the Destiny's Child era makes it hard for me to respect anything Knowles sisters plus i don't usually jump on trending stuff.

my thom yorke comment was not so much about the lyrics themselves but the feel and flow of the vocal delivery

[Severian]

Originally Posted by Severian

Aaaand... the new Botany's out!
Gearing up for my first full listen.

 

If this doesn't land in my top ten for the year, that will be a first for Botany.

Ok so WOW this is not what I expected or wanted at ALL.

Not saying it's bad, but I listened to 5 songs waiting for what I though was just a really long intro to end.

Botany first appeared on my radar because of the incredible worldly, haunting textured beat music they made. It was like Madlib and Amnesiac and Miles Davis all at once. Powerful Fucking stuff.
The second album was not as good as the first but went off in a new direction, channeling hip-hop a bit more directly a la Prefuse 73.

But this .... uhh... this is an ambient mellow electronic album with virtually no beat or rhythm to speak of. Which is fine! I like plenty of ambient electro-shit, but I also own plenty of ambient electro-shit, and so far nothing about this is making me feel like I *needed* to have this album.

The sounds are lovely and contemplative and spacey, but I don't hear any of what made Lava Diviner (True story) such an immediate classic.

In other words, Botany seems to have lost a massive piece of their personality in their attempt to distance themselves from the Madlib, Prefuse and Stereolab comparisons. God dammit.

What an underwhelming experience. I can't think of anything to liken it to... Except... ok, imagine you loved Guardians of the Galaxy because of how full of life and fun and genuinely cool shit was in it... You loved it because, despite being a Marvel movie, of which there are billions, it felt fresh and not at all like just another superhero movie... (Botany's a beat-happy electronic act after all, and there are millions of those, but they managed to make something special within that framework)

So, imagine then that you go see Guardians of the Galaxy II and...
for some fucking reason it's like a 2001 ripoff but with no plot, just a bunch of slow-mo images of the Guardians characters, super up close, or drifting aimlessly through vortexes or some shit... just complete nonsense that has nothing to do with Guardians of the Galaxy, and has exactly NONE of the cool stuff that made the first one special for you!

That's kinda what it's like. And I'm irked because I bought this thing without streaming it first. Such is my confidence that Botany would make something worth buying.

Ugh. Bummed.

[evollove]

New Leonard Cohen. You Want It Darker

http://www.npr.org/2016/10/14/497542...want-it-darker

[louder]

Originally Posted by evollove

New Leonard Cohen. You Want It Darker

http://www.npr.org/2016/10/14/497542...want-it-darker

Seems like his "Blackstar", need to hear it.