I think it's quite unsettling actually, but that's probably the melodies and the treatment of the vocals rather than the voice itself.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 15:46 (twelve years ago) link
I want to thanks this thread for introducing me to the fantastic GRIMES
― not uplifting (Abbott), Wednesday, 7 December 2011 01:43 (twelve years ago) link
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
― cock chirea, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 10:07 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJobaxZqy18
^ Ayshay - Warn-U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhMrFUZekww
^ Julia Holter - Goddess Eyes
― los krampusinos! (pomplamau5), Wednesday, 7 December 2011 10:12 (twelve years ago) link
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
― OH NOES, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 15:01 (twelve years ago) link
(although there are strong shades of We Love in the arrangement, now that I think about it)
― OH NOES, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 15:02 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Fotherington Thomas, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 15:05 (twelve years ago) link
Too small? Too SLOW.
― Fotherington Thomas, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 15:09 (twelve years ago) link
I thought you were saying it was too restrained and that bumping up the BPM would let it loose
― OH NOES, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 15:10 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Fotherington Thomas, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 15:11 (twelve years ago) link
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.
________________________(n.1) possible it was very quietly released in late 2010, but it's basically new to everyone in 2011.
― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 7 December 2011 15:13 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Fotherington Thomas, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 15:16 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Sanpaku, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 15:49 (twelve years ago) link
btw i also saw the twist in Incendies coming a mile off but that's cos every bloody review described it as "Greek tragedy"
― Number None, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 15:58 (twelve years ago) link
may have seen the twist coming a mile off yet i am clearly unable to post things in the right thread
― Number None, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 16:07 (twelve years ago) link
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).
― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 7 December 2011 16:10 (twelve years ago) link
(yeah, I was this close to searching Spotify to see if Incendies was some hot new electro-pop outfit from Toronto)
x-post
― OCCUPY DEPRESSION (Fotherington Thomas), Wednesday, 7 December 2011 16:11 (twelve years ago) link
Whoa Grimes seems to spontaneously burst into the Nyancat chant at the end of GrisGris, that threw me.
― OCCUPY DEPRESSION (Fotherington Thomas), Wednesday, 7 December 2011 16:50 (twelve years ago) link
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
― OCCUPY DEPRESSION (Fotherington Thomas), Wednesday, 7 December 2011 17:08 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― los krampusinos! (pomplamau5), Wednesday, 7 December 2011 18:18 (twelve years ago) link
― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, December 7, 2011 11:10 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Permalink
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'
― lexferenda, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 21:26 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― lexferenda, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 21:29 (twelve years ago) link
lol this is the third time Creep has been mentioned in this thread
― OH NOES, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 21:35 (twelve years ago) link
ha. well, at any rate, the video just got released today. track out in january.
― lexferenda, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 21:47 (twelve years ago) link
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
― degas-dirty monet (lex pretend), Thursday, 8 December 2011 10:24 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― OCCUPY DEPRESSION (Fotherington Thomas), Thursday, 8 December 2011 10:50 (twelve years ago) link
Oh, I thought you had something against Red'ohed's song of the same name.
― Bela Lugosi's Derrida (MarkG oo la showaddywaddy), Thursday, 8 December 2011 11:00 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― OCCUPY DEPRESSION (Fotherington Thomas), Thursday, 8 December 2011 11:02 (twelve years ago) link
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
― degas-dirty monet (lex pretend), Thursday, 8 December 2011 11:04 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― OCCUPY DEPRESSION (Fotherington Thomas), Thursday, 8 December 2011 11:06 (twelve years ago) link
This 'changing display names' thing is fun!
I might sack it when real ILX comes back, but for now...
― Jilted John and Marsha (MarkG oo la showaddywaddy), Thursday, 8 December 2011 11:18 (twelve years ago) link
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
― LeRooLeRoo, Thursday, 8 December 2011 13:58 (twelve years ago) link
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
― OCCUPY DEPRESSION (Fotherington Thomas), Thursday, 8 December 2011 14:14 (twelve years ago) link
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