um, print media dawg.

4 months? Wasn’t it always like, 6–8 weeks?

as I recall, the promo was download only — but isn’t that even easier to leak than a CD copy?

I’m not posting to this thread in case the DFA lawyers hunt me down and KILL me.

I only read about it on the DFA forum.

I AM GOING TO SUE YOU ALL IN THE POOP CHUTE

monkey butt

hey i hope one day that britney track comes out because, as far as i or anyone else on ilm knows (or ever knew) that, uh, never has been heard anywhere, yeah.

Was it called Monkey Butt?

OMG I found a download link and it’s great! It has like 5 long tracks with strings and a woman singing in a very high voice and a harp or something but it rules!

Is the album any good then? Bearing in mind that I disliked the first album but liked the Nike thing. Don’t want to waste ratio on it.

The people who’ve heard it over here seem to think it is, but then they are the fans, of course:

http://forums.dfarecords.co.uk/viewforum.php?f=2

(wtf “boring gear question” ? What’s he doing there?)

Matt DC 1979

i figured it would leak by thanksgiving, guess i was off

If I downloaded it, it would be better than their first one.

oh my. the first track is very bowie-tastic.

Don’t want to waste ratio on it.

Reason #4947 that BT sux-a-lot. It discourages idle curiosity or anything that might have a negative impact on “ratio”.

SLSK-4-EVAH.

the twinkly glockenspiel section of the nike track is one of the tracks, with some additional singing over the top.

I swear to god this is like the greatest thing evar for acid house

ok I totally posted that in the wrong thread.

who’s to say you’re not right though

Bearing in mind that I disliked the first album but liked the Nike thing

same, and i am so far liking this. “someone great” makes a whole song out of one of the 45:33 sections

New York I Love You would be the best musical emo track i’d ever heard had i actually downloaded this illegally before it came out

track list, timings and song by song annotation please?

James’ reaction:

http://forums.dfarecords.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=2080&start=22

He also replied on the “James!!! How DO you feel man???” thread:

http://forums.dfarecords.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=2087&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=15

If I had downloaded it, I wouldn’t share it.

I can’t get over how good “someone great” is. I’m really surprised.

Haha, that DFA forum thread:

i know what you mean. i was pretty bummed when i found out that it leaked SO EARLY. when my friend texted me, my jaw kind of dropped, but i just couldn’t resist downloading it and i’m in love.

“Someone Great” doesn’t do it for me—I just don’t dig the vocal at all, don’t think it adds anything to the track. “All My Friends” on the other hand is great, a totally unexpected slice of alt rock/indie schmindie really, with guitars ’n’ everything.

He also replied on the “James!!! How DO you feel man???” thread:

http://forums.dfarecords.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=2087&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=15

If I had downloaded it, I wouldn’t share it.

— StanM

I have no problem with artists getting bummed out at this kind of thing... I’m just surprised they aren’t more aware that ONCE IT’S OUT, IT’S *OUT* though. It’s not unusual for records to leak instantly anymore. Too much faith in human nature I guess.

I keep seeing the thread title as “so, are we going to act like the LCD Soundsystem album didn’t suck?” which probably says something about me, or ILM. But I’ll stop snarking (I haven’t downloaded btw).

this is some kind of record though isn’t it?

YSI ? (only joking)

Well, in the “Orchestra Of Bubbles” thread that leaked before some people’s review copies even arrived by post(!) so no, it’s not a record, which is to say you can’t get any faster once stuff begins to leak AS SOON as it’s sent out.

haha! i hadn’t heard that *although* that reminds me—

HAIL TO THE THIEF was recorded then leaked before being mixed and mastered. the early unfinished versions are better than the finished product in some cases.

I stand corrected! :D

parody thread titles are played out, but it’s really hard to resist starting one called “so, are we going to act like the LCD Soundsystem album didn’t suck?”

xpost lol someone already said that, sorry

“All My Friends” on the other hand is great, a totally unexpected slice of alt rock/indie schmindie really, with guitars ’n’ everything

like, yeah, the killers but better, much better

I hear a lot of New Order in that track.

i have no p2p right now and DFA has done a remarkable job at hitting every blog that leaked tracks in the last few days.

fingers in the dike

i am really loving this album.

Just like the first time, I think they should have just added half the bonus CD to the main album.

srsly- ysi?

man, “New York I Love You” is so great and different for them. it starts off w/something from beach boys’s ‘friends’ and then into a mix of berlin/transformer lou reed and maybe pavement and then ends w/some weirdo emo shit.

i am really loving this album.

x4

why i stopped frequenting the DFA forum a while back

Apart from ‘All My Friends’ I really do not like this album. Disappointing as I loved 45:33.

i really like “sound of silver” and “get innoculous”.

Given a few listens, there’s not a dud on here.

StanM said:

“Just like the first time, I think they should have just added half the bonus CD to the main album.”

What’s on the bonus cd?

gorillaz remixes?

33:45 maybe?

Yes I know I’m going to listen to it in a minute here, if only I didn’t have such a Beatles fetish...

I was just kidding about that bonus CD, by the way. I thought nobody was falling for it, but thanks for still doing so :-)

I love the new Station To Station voice on Get Innocuous. I get a bit tired of the standard nasal JM tones sometimes. I also love the “coming up” choir tones of the title track. Reminds me of the DFA remix of UNKLE’s In A State. Not so fond of Time To Get Away and Us Vs Them.

I have half an idea New York I Love You might be a terrible idea, but it somehow manages to get me pretty bad.

otm.

so which ones are getting the remix treatment? and by who?

which ones are getting the remix treatment

is this what we’ve become? YES

I find myself resolutely not wanting to admit how great this album is. Just don’t want to admit it. He really is taking his vocals seriously now isn’t he? God, why did I have to wait until Sunday night to play this damn thing? It makes me want to take off work tomorrow.

I love that shit about the Silver Teenager, you know man. That is the shit. And “All My Friends” is like the one track that calls New Order to mind for some reason, just like “Tribulations” was on the last one.

And if my friend in New York never hears “New York, I love you...” then I’ll kick his arse, for the serious.

He makes it seem too easy. Why aren’t there other acts doing this? Where is everyone else’s heads at? I need to have “North American Scum” in my life, man. I NEED that shit.

Also please tell me “Someone Great” is about John Peel. Thanks.

We’ll have to ask James, I guess. It could be about an old girlfriend, but it does sound like it could be about a dead friend, too. Anyone’s guess.

And “All My Friends” is like the one track that calls New Order to mind for some reason

Reason is obvious. Drums, bass, with this loping rhythm guitar just for color. Kind of this Only-New-Order combination.

“We set controls for the heart of the sun / One of the ways that we show our age.”

Love.

my pet theory is that someone great is about a miscarriage

but i really kinda think it is about a dead friend.

Missing the arguments they had while locked in the basement? Yeah. The only kind of locked in the basement arguing is about records.

Reason is obvious. Drums, bass, with this loping rhythm guitar just for color. Kind of this Only-New-Order combination.

Hmm...I thought maybe it had the same notes as Ceremony or something like that, same notes as some other NO song. I’m not enough of a muso to figure that out, though. At least, not right now.

I’m no huge muso, but I know New Order when I hear it.

i wish he wouldn’t sing. it really ruins the music

you are so incredibly wrong right now.

is this about the condos or about us or about his voice?

heh. it’s not about the condos. And his “voice” is hardly the issue. No one is claiming the guy is Sinatra or anything.

His vocals are sloppy, but they’re also almost always winking and knowing and totally appropriate to what he’s saying.

do you mean they are ironically bad?

I mean that you don’t get it at all, and you should hush up.

hahaha

seriously, that is the greatest gif ever

*_*

which ones are getting the remix treatment? and by who?

according to this interview, James Murphy!

Man does the album suck.

Man does the album suck.

Are you still listening to the first one? You must be.

So, I’m going to act like I didn’t hear the LCD soundsystem album.

It’s the graceful thing to do.

There are a few songs on this that I’m not all that impressed with. That’s all I’m going to say. 70% of it is great, no doubt.

i’m gonna go 72.

Thank god it’s easy to search the sandbox.

I was just going to say that as a long time anglophile, “North American Scum” is the absolute shit.

I love the “Blockbuster” yells in that song.

Am I right that he says towards the end—“where the DJ plays on his phone”?