thread in which we talk about kinda arty kinda electronic stuff which gets compared to "The Knife" type stuff

I want to thanks this thread for introducing me to the fantastic GRIMES

cool thread! a few more picks

new ford & lopatin feat tamaryn fits here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAGIb5U5wkY

dillon. more newsomesque than electro weirdo but this tune does the trick

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fq6HhsWgTpo

LOL. one of the most slept on records of the year. this is great stuff. "dare me" and "quarter life crisis" are also worth tracking down

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IiCiES0tAU

pandr eyez. came across these guys recently. they just put out an ep a month ago or so. sort of a poppier take on witch house, which i dig.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-OQZpy7pew

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJobaxZqy18

^ Ayshay - Warn-U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhMrFUZekww

^ Julia Holter - Goddess Eyes

This is probably not directly under the remit of this thread but I love this track so much I will take any opportunity to talk about it

Lamb - "Butterfly Effect"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzkGWdw9ieM

(although there are strong shades of We Love in the arrangement, now that I think about it)

Well, I listened to the whole Gazelle Twin album and I just wonder what I'm missing on it.

Like, I can hear that it's very obviously quite skillfully put together, and I appreciate the aesthetics ... but as a whole, it just felt leaden and plodding, and always just slightly too small, like I constantly wanted to nudge the BPM just up a little, too down-tempo, too dreamy, too bog standard "ethereal girl" which I've just done to death really and have no need to ever hear again.

I can recognise it's a well made album, it just does nothing for me.

Anyway there's a ton more videos on this thread I shall listen to now.

Too small? Too SLOW.

I thought you were saying it was too restrained and that bumping up the BPM would let it loose

That too, actually. I don't really know, and I don't really care to spend enough more time with that album in order to figure out what's not reaching me on it.

I want to thanks this thread for introducing me to the fantastic GRIMES

the more i think of it, the more geidi primes is one of my favorite records of the year.(n.1) i think i read an interview with grimes where she said she's embarrassed by it now, and thinks all her prior work pales in comparison to the album she's about to release early next year. i think she went as far as to almost say she wishes she hadn't released that prior work, which -- as i say -- is crazy!, since geidi primes is a very cool little disc.

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(n.1) possible it was very quietly released in late 2010, but it's basically new to everyone in 2011.

Actually I should spend more time with Geidi Primes, too, bcuz I might tend to agree with her, but I'd still like to look into that record more. I just got SO knocked out by the sprawling *reach* of Halfaxa.

I approach the Gazelle Twin as ambient/atmosphere album, so the pace doesn't bother me. The major flaw is that its pretty front-loaded, with few highlights for me past song 6.

Anyway GT is a woman who wears masks in public and namechecks J.G. Ballard. I'm predisposed to be smitten.

btw i also saw the twist in Incendies coming a mile off but that's cos every bloody review described it as "Greek tragedy"

may have seen the twist coming a mile off yet i am clearly unable to post things in the right thread

Actually I should spend more time with Geidi Primes, too, bcuz I might tend to agree with her, but I'd still like to look into that record more. I just got SO knocked out by the sprawling *reach* of Halfaxa.

i'm smitten with the dune-theme of the record, and i tend to hear it through that conceit. also, i think it's a charming little record, a reminder that not every good disc needs to be -- or should attempt to be -- "epic" (not everyone needs this reminder, but sometimes i do).

(yeah, I was this close to searching Spotify to see if Incendies was some hot new electro-pop outfit from Toronto)

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Whoa Grimes seems to spontaneously burst into the Nyancat chant at the end of GrisGris, that threw me.

3 songs in and I quite like the SLEEP ∞ OVER album but I think I liked it better when it was called Livonia.

It could just be the specific reverb they are using but if someone told me this was a rerelease of a record that had come out on 4AD in 1986, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.

or Black Tape For A Blue Girl

You're quite right, there is something very 4AD about it. The album was a bit of a letdown on the whole imo, but she's someone i'm definitely looking forward to hearing more from in the future.

Actually I should spend more time with Geidi Primes, too, bcuz I might tend to agree with her, but I'd still like to look into that record more. I just got SO knocked out by the sprawling *reach* of Halfaxa.

i'm smitten with the dune-theme of the record, and i tend to hear it through that conceit. also, i think it's a charming little record, a reminder that not every good disc needs to be -- or should attempt to be -- "epic" (not everyone needs this reminder, but sometimes i do).

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Geidi Primes is probably my favourite of her three releases, although they're all excellent. Watching her cobble the stuff together live is a blast, although I haven't seen her in a year or so, since the Lykke Li co-sign, NYTimes, etc. have brought her further and further afield from Montreal.

Also, while Vanessa is her most 'accessible' track, I still think the best pop song she's written is 'avi'

Also, came to post this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80Tf9XL11Bc

Not sure if CREEP fit in here, but they're wonderful and if this doesn't beat their collaboration with Nina Sky earlier this year, it's still worth a listen.

lol this is the third time Creep has been mentioned in this thread

ha. well, at any rate, the video just got released today. track out in january.

i don't really get this julia holter album. it's kind of like sonic decoration that plays as you're wandering around an art installation except there's no art installation

the only time i perked up was when "so lillies" went into the 4/4 beat :/

I am so not down with CREEP. I keep trying to get with CREEP and I think it's not them, it's me, but it's just not happening for me.

Should probably give these things another listen but I'm so full of flu today I just wanna down cough syrup and listen to J-Pop.

Oh, I thought you had something against Red'ohed's song of the same name.

Yeah, bring on CREEP featuring Thom Yorke and then we'll talk.

But I think that's on a level with the cough syrup induced "Thom Yorke / LOLrie Penny slash" head-splode that happened yesterday. I gotta lay off this stuff.

the best thing about creep is that they use vocalists who are amazing, not thom yorke!

i love the new one, think i might be alone in preferring "days" to "you" though

Lex, you can't fool me, after 2 glasses of wine you confessed to me you thought Thom Yorke's voice was pretty damned amazing when he sticks to his lower register so NYEAH NYEAH NYEAH. But whatever, you say potatoes, I say truffle fries.

This 'changing display names' thing is fun!

I might sack it when real ILX comes back, but for now...

I don't think I've seen Blouse mentioned itt. I don't know much about them/her but I love the track "Into Black" and the use of Les amants du Pont Neuf in the video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwvflpqOb5M

Really liking this one from Delilah - I think she first emerged as a jobbing vocalist with Chase & Status and I assumed her solo career was going to be along the post Katy B lines, but this new one seems to indicate she might belong here just as much...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljoDXRXxjPA

the best thing about creep is that they use vocalists who are amazing, not thom yorke!

I like Romy XX a lot but I would never call her "amazing"!

well she's kind of amazing at what she does!

this is prob the best thread, in the sandbox era, for some NEW ROISIN MURPHY:

http://soundcloud.com/hardcandymusic/roisin-murphy-simulation

OMG OMG OMG WOT WOT WOT

*bookmarks thread*

Will listen tomorrow.

Can't listen to it at the moment either but i'm excited. Nine minutes!

it's awesome. smooooove loungey deep house, róisín at her sultriest.

It's definitely pleasant in a "Matt DC on a boat" way but my fav Róisín Murphy tracks also hold together as songs and this is more of a house track with vocals imo.

Au/Palais, the whole EP is arty/electronic, vocals are more Kate Bush than The Knife:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gl4Y0vQ2UXs

Love that Roisin Murphy track and I would happily foot her babysitting bills for the next 18 years to get her to make a whole album of that, TBH.

"Matt DC on a boat"

<3 that this has become a term of reference

More than a year after it originally came out, Niki & The Dove finally made a proper video for "Mother Protect"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XojSSa0jwxU

I'm getting quite desperate to hear the Niki & The Dove album now. I hope it features Under The Bridges which is still my favourite thing they've done.

Might be my favorite too, but I really like Mother Protect and The Drummer.

ayshay was mentioned upthread, which i totally cosign - "warn-u" is one of the nost interesting EPs i've heard this year - but her new fact mix just kind of blew my mind http://www.factmag.com/2011/12/05/fact-mix-307-ayshay/

I am trying to decide if I like this or not (thanks Furnace Mane for linking it on the EOY list):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydFcH5yvtWM

There's a lot in there that I could get with (I like the sparkly noises in the background) but I'm really having trouble with the vocals, like it's something I could *almost* love, but the overall effect of something that's almost there but not quite in a troublesome way I can't quite put my finger on. (Which sometimes bothers me more than something I outright have no interest in.) Maybe I should listen to the rest of the album and not decide on one single.

It a good album of spare, almost ambient electropop, with a couple songs on the second half that are so earnest, so naive that they must be skipped to maintain the mood. Vocalist and (super?)model Sarah Ruba has a range from wispy to Liz Fraseresque that I happen to like.

Impossible to get a legit copy from North American sources which will hinder its year end rankings, perhaps they are planning a rollout in 2012.

The video just above is notable for using the Xbox Kinect output to generate realtime depth data.

They did a cover of Janet's He Doesn't Know I'm Alive that is pretty good, but not on the album.

There are things I so don't understand about mine own reactions to why I'll love one artist or song, and just reject another.

Because for all the fact that CREEP leave me cold, I have to acknowledge that I utterly love and adore this song, and it's mining almost ~exactly~ the same territory.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LacbQ4Lh7wk

This makes no conceptual sense to me.

(see also the whole love Austra, hate Florence thing.)