http://open.spotify.com/album/22C1JrW86j6L4qFWQmI1du
Emika on Spotify, y'all
― OH NOES, Monday, 28 November 2011 17:06 (twelve years ago) link
Kate Wax.
tbf I haven't heard much of her, but I know she has a new album on Border Community and that she's been getting Karin Dreijer Andersson comparisons.
― jaymc, Monday, 28 November 2011 17:08 (twelve years ago) link
Hey FT you would probably like this song:
L-Vis 1990 ft. Samantha Lim - Play It Coolhttp://open.spotify.com/track/7mfulxMqRcJoNu17KAfoeQ
The rest of the album isn't all that, but that one song is <3<3<3
― pomplamau5, Monday, 28 November 2011 17:28 (twelve years ago) link
Laurel Halo - Constant Index
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyVaNhkdGHE
― pomplamau5, Monday, 28 November 2011 17:53 (twelve years ago) link
Kate Wax on Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/album/0tzNz4MT9Pgli348lfqV12
― OH NOES, Monday, 28 November 2011 17:55 (twelve years ago) link
I think I need to come back to the Kate Wax and try her again another day. Didn't dislike her, it just didn't immediately grab me the way I put some things on and I'm all "OOH I NEED THIS IN MY LIFE."
― Fotherington Thomas, Monday, 28 November 2011 17:57 (twelve years ago) link
Kate Wax's "Human Twin" is kind of great
― OH NOES, Monday, 28 November 2011 20:21 (twelve years ago) link
I saw Battlekat supporting Lo-Fi FNK a few weeks ago. They were really good in parts but the vocals were a little too OTT Karin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWRXVINlRng
At the poppier end of the spectrum, the i quite like the Julia Marcell record.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jVk9csScOA
― ShariVari, Monday, 28 November 2011 20:36 (twelve years ago) link
Missed that Laurel Halo track yesterday. That is an EMPHATIC YES on that one.
Will work my way through the rest of the thread this morning.
― Fotherington Thomas, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 10:16 (twelve years ago) link
Battlekat hmmm, I agree it's a little OTT vocally (not that that is a bad thing! at all! especially in this thread!) but I'm not sure it's Karin she's over the topping.
― Fotherington Thomas, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 10:23 (twelve years ago) link
DOn't think that Laurel Halo has put out anything yet that is consistently amazing, but one or two of her songs are great. She's the singer on Games' 'Strawberry Skies' btw in case her name sounds familiar.
― pomplamau5, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 10:47 (twelve years ago) link
I guess Barbara Panther fits here? Her debut is one of my favourite things for this year, though sadly people seem to have slept on it...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPObpVHDQ9k
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 16:41 (twelve years ago) link
Yes, I totally <3 Barbara Panther and will rep for her, too.
― Fotherington Thomas, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 16:42 (twelve years ago) link
Vocally she's more Björkish than Dreijerish, but other than that she's definitely in the "artsy post-house synth-pop" category.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 16:44 (twelve years ago) link
No love for Glasser in this thread is both surprising and disappointing.
― boxedjoy, Saturday, 3 December 2011 12:39 (twelve years ago) link
I think that's because Glasser is really the trope codifier (obv The Knife is the trope namer) than any lack of Glasser love. I for one certainly love Glasser.
― Fotherington Thomas, Saturday, 3 December 2011 13:21 (twelve years ago) link
cosigning that l-vis 1990/samantha lim song, really fantastic - FT did you check out creep? two of the songs i've come back to most this year.
the emika album is one of those albums i enjoy so much when i play it that i can't work out why i don't play it MORE. like, i really like it but it's not the 100% craving need that, say, glasser is.
kate wax album was aight on one listen, keep meaning to go back to it
― lex pretend, Saturday, 3 December 2011 13:24 (twelve years ago) link
i did check out barbara panther but i honestly don't really know what i think of it, though i suspect i need to be in a very specific mood to enjoy it
another one that i'm not sure what i think of - charli xcx
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBxC5bRbruQ
― lex pretend, Saturday, 3 December 2011 13:25 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah I think we discussed how the Glasser/Karin comparisons are superficial in the other thread, I just thought it was worth bringing her name again since her album is very good.
I do not get Barbara Panther at all, her voice really irritates me.
― boxedjoy, Saturday, 3 December 2011 13:32 (twelve years ago) link
I love Barbara Panther's voice, it is just such a thing of joy to me. That slight squeak and whistle when she swoops up to "like moonlight people doooo!" But I recognise it probably is quite marmitey.
Lex, I have tried listening to a couple of Creep things but it just didn't seem to take with me. Maybe I should give it another try to see what it is that does/doesn't grab me.
I think that the Emika album is quite strong flavoured, and definitely a ~mood~ needed for it, it's not the kind of thing you can put on when you're walking to the shops, you need to be quite overcast and wearing your raincoat with knitted eyebrows and an expression deep in thought with mild misanthropy. Which is actually a mood I'm in quite a lot, so it's perfect for me. but other albums do not demand my emotional space the way that Emika one does.
― Fotherington Thomas, Saturday, 3 December 2011 13:41 (twelve years ago) link
I was seeing Grimes getting namechecked on the "artists you haven't seen discussed" thread
this was me. i really love her 2011 dune-themed album, geidi prime.
― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 3 December 2011 13:43 (twelve years ago) link
I just discovered the Emika this week. That album is an absolute must for fans of darker trip-hop like Mezzanine or Maxinequaye, but absolutely requires a decent subwoofer. Sounds pretty empty on my anemic car system.
This thread is custom made for Gazelle Twin, whose 2011 debut album is nicely poised between Lisa Gerrard and Fever Ray.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANaabsQo-uA
― Sanpaku, Saturday, 3 December 2011 17:53 (twelve years ago) link
half a min in and fucking hell that gazelle twin is amazing! how did i miss it! omg
― lex pretend, Saturday, 3 December 2011 18:41 (twelve years ago) link
WOW, it's the witchIER house Dead Can Dance. Or maybe it's the new iamamywhoami?
(No, I like it. Really.)
― Fotherington Thomas, Saturday, 3 December 2011 19:14 (twelve years ago) link
Who knew that early Dead Can Dance records would be the hip musical crush to namedrop in 2011? Makes me want to dig out Within The Realm Of A Dying song and flop about in white robes singing FWONTIERS! FWOOOONNNTIIIIIEEERS! FWONTIERS!
― Fotherington Thomas, Saturday, 3 December 2011 19:17 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXstxFoayxI
― caek, Saturday, 3 December 2011 20:00 (twelve years ago) link
possibly off-topic but i like it
― caek, Saturday, 3 December 2011 20:01 (twelve years ago) link
Caek, I think you'd really like the Jah Wobble & Julie Campbell album Psychic Life, which also sounds (in parts) like some lost On-U Sound project.
― Sanpaku, Saturday, 3 December 2011 20:44 (twelve years ago) link
emika is awesome
― q: are we not bel biv men? a: we are bel biv devo (m bison), Saturday, 3 December 2011 21:36 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah that Yang Yang song is kinda off topic but TBH it's utterly Fucken AWESOME so thanks for putting it here.
― Fotherington Thomas, Saturday, 3 December 2011 22:37 (twelve years ago) link
The Grimes half of the Grimes/d'Eon split from earlier this year is vastly superior to either Heidi Prime or Halfaxa, and everything I have heard from the new album indicates that it will be even better. Vanessa from the Darkbloom split might be my favorite track this year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxC2XLePDWQ
also, I'm really enjoying Julia Marcell, so thanks for that recommendation.
― fffv, Sunday, 4 December 2011 03:50 (twelve years ago) link
i like that song vanessa a lot, but i still love geidi prime.
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 4 December 2011 03:51 (twelve years ago) link
LOVE this thread. I've been way behind on music this year, but this is definitely helping me catch up.
glad people are up on Emika now - i nominated "Drop the Other" in last year's trax poll but no one except lex cared. :(
― Roz, Sunday, 4 December 2011 05:32 (twelve years ago) link
Don't think I was around last year to vote on EOY trax, but if I'd heard Emika then I certainly would have gone for her.
Not to turn yet *another* thread into a R@d10h34d thread but I have Thom Yorke to blame for this, after sifting through 2 hours of boring blahblah IDM on his 6mix (I got suckered into listening to it! The first track was Erykah Badu, I thought it was going to be good! it was all clicky blippy Modeselektor crap) the Emika track he played was pretty much the only one that made me ears prick up and go boy howdy. And then Lex was all "have you heard this REMIX!?!?" which was all I needed to convince me.
I like the look of Grimes' dirty makeup hair-flinging slumber party there. a++ wkiw But that is a stunningly beautiful video, and manages to capture a bunch of beautiful women having fun without being totally male gazey at all. Need to listen again without watching the video so I can get a better sense of the song because I'm worried it's distracting me.
― Fotherington Thomas, Sunday, 4 December 2011 10:01 (twelve years ago) link
They only released one album before disbanding but Zeigest are practically a The Knife tribute band. Same hometown even.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fo90OHJ0GxQ
― Moka, Sunday, 4 December 2011 10:21 (twelve years ago) link
I've heard that song before. I thought it *was* The Knife.
The stuff in this thread doesn't have to ~sound like~ The Knife, I was really just trying to get an index on that the kind of stuff that gets "compared to" The Knife, often for fairly superficial or affinity reasons, rather than actual stylistic similarities.
― Fotherington Thomas, Sunday, 4 December 2011 11:16 (twelve years ago) link
love all the grimes stuff itt
― dayo, Sunday, 4 December 2011 14:28 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.grimesiowa.gov/
― dayo, Sunday, 4 December 2011 14:29 (twelve years ago) link
her first album was called GEIDI PRIMES?! omg!
― dayo, Sunday, 4 December 2011 14:30 (twelve years ago) link
If Zeigeist falls within the purview of this thread, iamamiwhoami certainly does. They have no physical releases, only arty youtube promos for Amz/iTunes/emusic singles. I suggest viewing them in chronological order as there's a narrative arc of sorts, bottom to top here.
― Sanpaku, Sunday, 4 December 2011 15:15 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnLNZL2pvKY
yeah (might have been her second album tho). and most of the songs have dune-themes, too!
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 4 December 2011 16:58 (twelve years ago) link
no one likes Oni Ayhun? weird people itt - guess it's the sandbox.
― wolves lacan sandbox ed, Sunday, 4 December 2011 20:35 (twelve years ago) link
hmm sorry I can't get with anybody who views face dancers as a valuable addition to the dune universe xp
― dayo, Sunday, 4 December 2011 20:37 (twelve years ago) link
grimes track crystal ball is really good btw
i wish there was the old chillwΔve thread around, wont to post a bunch of outer limits traxxxx
― є(٥_ ٥)э, Sunday, 4 December 2011 20:39 (twelve years ago) link
uhm, sorry for being rude but I can't stand that woman and her voice, that's why I think Oni is the same thing but better since it's so very faux masculine / evil or not. It's good stuff. Please continue.
― wolves lacan sandbox ed, Sunday, 4 December 2011 21:28 (twelve years ago) link
Maybe instead of making comments about how weird we all are you could, you know, post some YouTubes or Spotify links for us to check out? I'll happily listen to anything in this general theme.
― Fotherington Thomas, Sunday, 4 December 2011 21:45 (twelve years ago) link
yeah stop being mean to grimes she needs positive vibes!
i don't mind her voice at all, actually. it didn't even occur to me that it's abrasive until it was mentioned here.
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 4 December 2011 21:46 (twelve years ago) link
I love her voice! But I also love early Cranes records so I have a high tolerance for weirdoes.
― Fotherington Thomas, Sunday, 4 December 2011 21:51 (twelve years ago) link
ah alison shaw - was wondering who she was reminding me of
― los krampusinos! (pomplamau5), Sunday, 4 December 2011 22:10 (twelve years ago) link
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"!
― OH NOES, Thursday, 8 December 2011 14:24 (twelve years ago) link
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
― degas-dirty monet (lex pretend), Thursday, 8 December 2011 22:28 (twelve years ago) link
OMG OMG OMG WOT WOT WOT
*bookmarks thread*
Will listen tomorrow.
― OCCUPY DEPRESSION (Fotherington Thomas), Thursday, 8 December 2011 22:33 (twelve years ago) link
Can't listen to it at the moment either but i'm excited. Nine minutes!
― Number None, Thursday, 8 December 2011 22:35 (twelve years ago) link
it's awesome. smooooove loungey deep house, róisín at her sultriest.
― degas-dirty monet (lex pretend), Thursday, 8 December 2011 22:51 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― thread of missing brony (sean doily), Thursday, 8 December 2011 22:59 (twelve years ago) link
Au/Palais, the whole EP is arty/electronic, vocals are more Kate Bush than The Knife:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gl4Y0vQ2UXs
― Cosmo Vitelli, Thursday, 8 December 2011 23:13 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― OCCUPY DEPRESSION (Fotherington Thomas), Friday, 9 December 2011 11:19 (twelve years ago) link
"Matt DC on a boat"
<3 that this has become a term of reference
― degas-dirty monet (lex pretend), Friday, 9 December 2011 11:38 (twelve years ago) link
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
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 9 December 2011 19:44 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Kitchen Person, Friday, 9 December 2011 19:53 (twelve years ago) link
Might be my favorite too, but I really like Mother Protect and The Drummer.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 9 December 2011 20:13 (twelve years ago) link
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/
― degas-dirty monet (lex pretend), Saturday, 10 December 2011 12:52 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― rekeningopnemer (Fotherington Thomas), Monday, 12 December 2011 14:06 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Sanpaku, Monday, 12 December 2011 15:18 (twelve years ago) link
They did a cover of Janet's He Doesn't Know I'm Alive that is pretty good, but not on the album.
― lexferenda, Monday, 12 December 2011 20:51 (twelve years ago) link
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.)
― rekeningopnemer (Fotherington Thomas), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 11:54 (twelve years ago) link
OK, I persisted beyond the single on New Look and I'm liking it a lot more. Some things bear looking a little closer at. The singer does have a much wider range than is shown by that one song. When will I ever learn not to judge an album by its singles?
― rekeningopnemer (Fotherington Thomas), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 16:19 (twelve years ago) link
I was going to say in the other thread when you talked of moving discussion here that New Look are more focused on being tuneful and less on being arty than this thread would imply. But then the sandbox died. "Teen Need" is my jam from that album as of this moment.
― malcolm the tenth (furnace mane), Thursday, 15 December 2011 10:37 (twelve years ago) link
Now I'll have to read this thread cause I see there's Ayshay talk.
Yeah, Teen Need was definitely one of the songs I favourited off that album. But they did seem to be focusing more on being a pop band than making the interesting textures, and I can never quite seem to balance my need for those two things.
― Thomosexual II (Fotherington Thomas), Thursday, 15 December 2011 10:39 (twelve years ago) link
Btw I will totally cosign Ayshay's fact mix and the Nguzunguzu megamix on the Warn-U EP. I need to check her new EP under her government name (Fatima al Qadiri) tho.
― malcolm the tenth (furnace mane), Thursday, 15 December 2011 10:43 (twelve years ago) link
I meant to listen to her FACT mix the other day, loaded it up and everything, but got caught up in something else. I will do that now instead of getting caught up in glam bam thank you ma'am comps.
― Thomosexual II (Fotherington Thomas), Thursday, 15 December 2011 10:44 (twelve years ago) link
oooh new stuff from her, didn't know that
one of my favourite moments in journalism this year was getting the warn-u ep into my metro singles column right next to beyoncé
― degas-dirty monet (lex pretend), Thursday, 15 December 2011 10:46 (twelve years ago) link
OK, this stuff is absolutely awesome and hitting a lot of my happy places.
But I'm so culturally ignorant WRT the music of that part of the world that I don't have the ability to distinguish much between this, and some of the more modern ends of Baris K's sets, and the weirder bits of, like, Cafe Istanbul compilations. If they're using samples of similar source material, or if I'm just having a racist reaction of "I can't really distinguish between massively different strands of Middle Eastern traditions."
― Thomosexual II (Fotherington Thomas), Thursday, 15 December 2011 11:43 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i don't really claim to be au fait with exactly what's going on here. fatima al qadiri's ep under her own name is WHOA though
http://soundcloud.com/fatima-al-qadiri/sets/genre-specific-xperieince
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpgtuWQ2vUc
― degas-dirty monet (lex pretend), Thursday, 15 December 2011 19:15 (twelve years ago) link
kate: the warn-u ep is all samples of her own voice reciting islamic chants, apparently chopped up a bit to alter their meanings.
― malcolm the tenth (furnace mane), Friday, 16 December 2011 00:57 (twelve years ago) link
yeah my friend sent me this a few days ago - great
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsbG4pXrhr8
― nice catch cuauhtemoc blanco niño (dayo), Friday, 16 December 2011 01:02 (twelve years ago) link
For this year's charity action (Music For Life), radio station Studio Brussel has arranged this cover of Luc Van Acker's Zanna - both the version and video are quite Knifish, imho:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPOWuFLcKLM
― StanM, Sunday, 18 December 2011 13:08 (twelve years ago) link
If this album doesn't feature in the ILX100 this year, I may have to consider disowning you lot:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8uht6FFReE
(When Saints Go Machine - Konkylie) - This isn't the best track on there, but then I enjoy the whole album all the way through.
― dog latin, but cool (dog latin), Thursday, 22 December 2011 11:43 (twelve years ago) link