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