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everyone stopped caring about this stuff for four years and then the Drive soundtrack happened \o_o/

Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 24 October 2011 22:32 (thirteen years ago) link

I never stopped caring!

encarta it (Gukbe), Monday, 24 October 2011 22:33 (thirteen years ago) link

nice

― caek, Monday, 24 October 2011 23:24 (Yesterday) Bookmark

mid-song laughing elvis (schlump), Monday, 24 October 2011 23:24 (thirteen years ago) link

that rules

ffs sorrow (electricsound), Monday, 24 October 2011 23:28 (thirteen years ago) link

This is great, really great. Johnny Jewel has clearly embraced his pop instincts between this and the new Glass Candy, which is growing on me.

ha ha ha ha jack my swag (boxedjoy), Monday, 24 October 2011 23:58 (thirteen years ago) link

vox have a kind of demo vibe, hmmm

caek, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 03:22 (thirteen years ago) link

a little bird in pdx told me that johnny jewel recorded his own soundtrack for the drive sdtk and then it was scrapped by the bigwigs or the powers that be or w/e

this is a well-informed bird but i'm still skeptical- has anyone else heard anything about this?

it's time for the purpculator (psychgawsple), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 06:07 (thirteen years ago) link

There's a link to an interview with him about it on the Drive thread. He was sort of approached to do the score so he wrote and recorded one but never really heard back about it. He said it was going to be released in bits and pieces on various things.

encarta it (Gukbe), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 06:15 (thirteen years ago) link

i want to hear it.

also re: everyone stopped caring about this stuff for four years and then the Drive soundtrack happened \o_o/

i think that this is what happens when labels stop releasing albums? still crossing my fingers for 'after dark vol 2'

it's time for the purpculator (psychgawsple), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 06:30 (thirteen years ago) link

Desire's II was 2009 and I think that's my favourite from the label. I know I'm splitting hairs because 2 years is a long time but, still.

encarta it (Gukbe), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 06:52 (thirteen years ago) link

vox have a kind of demo vibe, hmmm

― caek, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 04:22 (5 hours ago) Bookmark

otm but it's sorta refreshing; not that chromatics suffer from it but i guess it is a way to diversify like ice-cool-production-sheen

mid-song laughing elvis (schlump), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 08:34 (thirteen years ago) link

They've put out a bunch of great singles in the last year - the Fred Ventura 12", the Alides Hidding 12", Simonetti's EP, the Perseo stuff, and the new/old Tiedye one (which I haven't heard yet)...

She Got the Shakes, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 09:00 (thirteen years ago) link

Lots of people stopped caring after seeing chromatics live, me included. Glass Candy live were great though.

du mein bestie (micarl), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 09:22 (thirteen years ago) link

God, I absolutely LOVE Chromatics live!

She Got the Shakes, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 09:55 (thirteen years ago) link

i am aware of all of the great releases in the past few years (see upthread!) but when you come out of the gates with 2 flagship bands and all they release over the course of 4 years is unreleased demos and rarities or w/e the interest is sure to wane

desire have a couple ok songs but i much prefer the idib 12"s if u wanna talk about later pd stuff

it's time for the purpculator (psychgawsple), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 23:08 (thirteen years ago) link

This could just be early infatuation, but "Kill for Love" is immediately angling hard for my '11 singles list.

After Dark 2 is becoming the Chinese Democracy of neo-Moroder hipsterism.

something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 20:25 (thirteen years ago) link

how long ago was the 'if i cant hold you' 12"? that shit was a jam

INDIE BAND (Lamp), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 20:30 (thirteen years ago) link

three months pass...

so this symmetry record... what do people think?

psychgawsple, Monday, 30 January 2012 04:18 (twelve years ago) link

i haven't spent much time with it but i think it might be sort of awesome, but i'll withhold further hyperbole until it sinks in

psychgawsple, Monday, 30 January 2012 04:19 (twelve years ago) link

i *will* say, tho, that 2 hours is a hell of a lot of one on one time with johnny jewel

psychgawsple, Monday, 30 January 2012 06:30 (twelve years ago) link

i'm a real human being http://i.imgur.com/zi7hd.gif

dave cool, Monday, 30 January 2012 06:33 (twelve years ago) link

hmmm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSycSBYHitc&

Number None, Sunday, 12 February 2012 17:27 (twelve years ago) link

Not sure what to make of that. It's certainly no Running Up That Hill.

Super Receptor (Barnaby, Hardly), Sunday, 12 February 2012 20:57 (twelve years ago) link

Cool video, non-exciting cover.

Still think "Kill for Love" is a cool track, though.

Johnny Fever, Sunday, 12 February 2012 21:06 (twelve years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbx8qRg6tPE&feature=youtu.be

LaMonte, Friday, 17 February 2012 23:50 (twelve years ago) link

Now I'm excited about their comeback again.

boxedjoy, Friday, 17 February 2012 23:56 (twelve years ago) link

yeah this is awesome

john-claude van donne (schlump), Saturday, 18 February 2012 00:02 (twelve years ago) link

You mean because of 'lady'? It's an old track, no? I've had a demo of it since 2008 or so. Had no idea it hadn't been released since then.
The version on this video doesn't sound vert different from what I have... the vocals are mixed higher and the rhythm halfways was definitely improved but the basics are still there. If this is from their new album I wouldn't get too excited yet until I heard the rest, Lady has been around for years now.

Moka, Saturday, 18 February 2012 03:20 (twelve years ago) link

I thought this Chromatics record was supposed to be out Valentine's Day, but it obviously didn't come out. What's the hold up?

Johnny Fever, Friday, 2 March 2012 20:18 (twelve years ago) link

think it's a mastering issue or something? It's been delayed anyway

Number None, Friday, 2 March 2012 21:44 (twelve years ago) link

Eh, it's probably a "we don't have the funds to press a bunch of copies, but when we do..." issue.

Johnny Fever, Friday, 2 March 2012 22:02 (twelve years ago) link

check out Nite Jewel's album if you've got a hankering for some smooth synth-pop JF

Number None, Friday, 2 March 2012 22:08 (twelve years ago) link

hella frustrating to see this thread bumped with still no further mention of the symmetry album. would you guys listen to it if i told you that the vocalist from chromatics is on the final track? you know that johnny jewel is symmetry, right? are you not responding b/c whiney was making fun of a track from the actual drive stdk that had nothing to do with idib?

psychgawsple, Saturday, 3 March 2012 00:35 (twelve years ago) link

no, it's not another springsteen cover

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdV5fnwTwZM

pretty accomplished morning after/comedown vibes

psychgawsple, Saturday, 3 March 2012 00:40 (twelve years ago) link

not saying that the album is mindblowing or anything but it's a pretty good listen if you like the more ambient side of chromatics or if you dig the instrumental glass candy trax

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wlTmedBBG4&feature=related

psychgawsple, Saturday, 3 March 2012 00:46 (twelve years ago) link

it's a pretty good listen if you like the more ambient side of chromatics or if you dig the instrumental glass candy trax

Not as much as the more pop side of Chromatics or the vocal Glass Candy trax, so I really don't have much to say about it. It's cool for chillin out.

Johnny Fever, Saturday, 3 March 2012 01:08 (twelve years ago) link

i like the symmetry album but i haven't got anything interesting to say about it sorry

jabba hands, Sunday, 4 March 2012 22:01 (twelve years ago) link

whatever happened to Twisted Wires? saw them open for Glass Candy and thought they were pretty good, and liked that one single they released ... then they disappeared off the face of the earth, apparently.

Spectrum, Sunday, 4 March 2012 22:17 (twelve years ago) link

Yeah, Symmetry is nice stuff. New Chromatics vid but still no release date for ''Kill for Love".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbuEDkPOq9I&feature=youtube_gdata_player

LaMonte, Monday, 5 March 2012 03:52 (twelve years ago) link

Good track. (But I wonder though whether I'll be able to shake 'Drive' from this aesthetic now).

MikoMcha, Monday, 5 March 2012 20:01 (twelve years ago) link

I think this may be my favourite Chromatics track.

daavid, Tuesday, 6 March 2012 07:50 (twelve years ago) link

These have all been in high rotation for me, especially Lady. I have a feeling this is going to be one of the few albums I'm in the record store for on release day.

Popture, Tuesday, 6 March 2012 09:44 (twelve years ago) link

...and yet another new single (it's really beautiful):

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

Walter Galt, Monday, 12 March 2012 10:14 (twelve years ago) link

that is great

flagp∞st (dayo), Monday, 12 March 2012 13:06 (twelve years ago) link

Yeah, quite looking forward to this record now.

MikoMcha, Monday, 12 March 2012 19:54 (twelve years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Chromatics album supposedly on iTunes now, but I don't see it.

stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Monday, 26 March 2012 21:21 (twelve years ago) link

https://twitter.com/#!/MikeSimonetti/status/184434832275808257

Barnaby, Hardly, Tuesday, 27 March 2012 00:26 (twelve years ago) link

about to listen to this.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/kill-for-love/id514145032

fffv, Tuesday, 27 March 2012 02:02 (twelve years ago) link

There it is!

stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 02:41 (twelve years ago) link


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