good stuff max
― s1ocki, Sunday, 1 February 2009 19:52 (fifteen years ago) link
I agree, this is wicked.
― the maximum value that ZS obtains given its constraint is 8 (Z S), Sunday, 1 February 2009 19:54 (fifteen years ago) link
That artwork is wicked max, whats your working fees? I intend to release my debut album in 2011 and I want you in.
― Moka, Sunday, 1 February 2009 20:32 (fifteen years ago) link
whoa:
http://vimeo.com/3108686
― caek, Monday, 16 February 2009 20:03 (fifteen years ago) link
<3
― StanM, Monday, 16 February 2009 20:37 (fifteen years ago) link
http://feverray.com/shows/
11th April Fever Ray in London The Royal Festival HallTime: 7:30pm. Admission: £20. Age restrictions: All Ages. Buy Tickets. Fever Ray will be supporting Royksopp
― StanM, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 17:35 (fifteen years ago) link
This has been my shit this winter, yall
― carne asada, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 00:31 (fifteen years ago) link
this is pretty much my favorite album of the decade by now.
― poortheatre, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 14:54 (fifteen years ago) link
just listened to this for the 1st time. it's good, but nowhere near as immediate as deep cuts/silent house. songs are less distinctive & distinct from one another -- hooks (to the extent that there are any) are much more subdued, textural. so, a mood piece. a few standout tracks: "if i had a heart", "dry and dusty", "keep the streets empty for me". <333 "coconut" builds slow but pays off okay.
a lot of the rest is a bit too vague, tastefully atmospheric for my crude tastes. "i'm not done" actually kinda killed me with boring, even with only half an ear tuned. perhaps the whole thing will grow on me, but i dunno. i tune out quick.
― welcome little swetty (contenderizer), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 19:45 (fifteen years ago) link
i tuned out kind of quick on the first listen too. after being initially impressed, that is. but after a few songs, it sounded a little monotone, and she kept hitting those notes that she likes to hit. i should listen again tho.
― Surmounter, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 19:54 (fifteen years ago) link
Only half of it is actually good. I have never been able to listen to it completely needs more sounds on her palette.
― Moka, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 20:03 (fifteen years ago) link
wrong, listen again, wrong
― pro bowl was fun (omar little), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 20:05 (fifteen years ago) link
think i agree with previous 3 comments - was v impressed when i first heard it, but it never hit me/sunk in as i expected to, 'if i had a heart' apart. i'm not done giving it chances yet though.
xp
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 20:05 (fifteen years ago) link
^^^^ i think people who don't like this have bad/boring taste in music
― tropical beards of paradise (san frandisco), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 21:38 (fifteen years ago) link
that's funny, cuz i figure this record will appeal most strongly to people with fascinating opinions about "good taste" lol
― welcome little swetty (contenderizer), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 21:46 (fifteen years ago) link
not hating, but the A+ design factor is v high
― welcome little swetty (contenderizer), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 21:47 (fifteen years ago) link
are you talking about the cover illustration i did
― max, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 21:47 (fifteen years ago) link
nuh-uh. but cover illo is ACE and looks nothing like charles burns.
― welcome little swetty (contenderizer), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 21:48 (fifteen years ago) link
thanks
― max, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 21:49 (fifteen years ago) link
U rocked that cover, bro
― carne asada, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 21:51 (fifteen years ago) link
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― Surmounter, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 21:52 (fifteen years ago) link
2nd mr. asada (who is good at tacos). got any other design/illustration stuff out there i might have seen, max?
― welcome little swetty (contenderizer), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 21:54 (fifteen years ago) link
have u heard of 'banksy'
― max, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 21:56 (fifteen years ago) link
...
― welcome little swetty (contenderizer), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 21:58 (fifteen years ago) link
max also does a stuff for the new yorker but that's mostly tv writing right?
― s1ocki, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 22:00 (fifteen years ago) link
max incorporates post modernism into all his works, or so ive heard
― tropical beards of paradise (san frandisco), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 22:01 (fifteen years ago) link
also by max:http://www.unificationfrance.com/IMG/jpg/star_trek_gay_rick_berman_1.jpg
― tropical beards of paradise (san frandisco), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 22:06 (fifteen years ago) link
max did you draw that image that accompanied your column on NCIS?
― pro bowl was fun (omar little), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 22:12 (fifteen years ago) link
yipes, missed the site link. dig the psych posters & skate graphics (plus everything, but esp those). an admirer
― welcome little swetty (contenderizer), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 22:14 (fifteen years ago) link
shucks guys yall are making my face red... thanks for the compliments tho
― max, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 22:32 (fifteen years ago) link
's cool, max! i'm a drawing geek, so geek i will. (working on biting gunsho ATM)
― welcome little swetty (contenderizer), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 22:36 (fifteen years ago) link
big fan max
― s1ocki, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 23:47 (fifteen years ago) link
On a thread where most people already said the album took a while to reveal itself, others still go "I listened to half of it once and all I liked was Max' cover" = WTF?
(Not dissing the Insane Max Posse here, Maxxalo love 4 life peace out etc)
― StanM, Wednesday, 25 February 2009 04:27 (fifteen years ago) link
umm, people having opinions, WTF?
― welcome little swetty (contenderizer), Wednesday, 25 February 2009 04:34 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah i think i had the same reaction as lex...found it interesting at first, really liked the first track, but ultimately liked it less and less with each subsequent listen. maybe it's just not what i'm looking for right now, i can give it another try in a few months. then again maybe i just have bad/boring taste
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 25 February 2009 04:42 (fifteen years ago) link
(I was talking about their lack of patience, xpost. They don't have to like it. :-) )
― StanM, Wednesday, 25 February 2009 04:55 (fifteen years ago) link
Well for me this is some sort of a light version of 'silent shout. They both came out around the same time of year and I remember being very interested and addicted with both at first before it started erosioning. Tho, Silent Shout started wearing off until April and 'Fever Ray' has worn off in less than a month for me.
― Moka, Wednesday, 25 February 2009 05:07 (fifteen years ago) link
obviously the brother is not a necessary element of the knife. did karin dreijer do the music?
what i mean to say is that this may as well be a knife album. karin is the one who sends chills down my spine.
Totally disagree - there's really obviously something missing here. That's not to say it's a bad record but it's got the same problem as The Eraser, when you take the seemingly most prominent member away from the joint creative spark that's responsible for their best work.
This is a much better record than The Eraser though, but it's very samey. That said, Keep The Streets Empty For Me is amazing, and I think I'd rather listen to that 12 times in a row than play the album again.
― David Bentley: Rhythm Ace (Matt DC), Wednesday, 25 February 2009 09:46 (fifteen years ago) link
^ this, including streets empty love (though not limited to that track). most obvious absence is that of person who writes the catchy bits.
― They don’t understand. And I eat a lot of matzo brie. (contenderizer), Wednesday, 25 February 2009 15:00 (fifteen years ago) link
how do you know he writes the "catchy" bits and not karin, and maybe instead of his absence resulting in it being less "catchy" this is just an artistic choice by karin?
― pro bowl was fun (omar little), Wednesday, 25 February 2009 16:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Silent Shout had catchy bits?
― David Bentley: Rhythm Ace (Matt DC), Wednesday, 25 February 2009 16:36 (fifteen years ago) link
yes
― pro bowl was fun (omar little), Wednesday, 25 February 2009 16:38 (fifteen years ago) link
silent shout was wall to wall catchy bits! pop tunes. ear candy with hooks. this is ear candy with, well, with fewer hooks, let's say. or less obvious hooks. and i don't know that this isn't an artistic choice on karin's part (last post was meant to come across a bit tongue-in-cheek). but if so, it's a perverse one
a certain sparkle seems to have gone into recession. i miss the seemingly effortless knack for jaw-droppingly perfect (pop) moments on display in deep hits and silent shout, and you know, it's tempting to speculate. "when i grow up", for instance, plays like "from off to on" with the genius excised
again though, "if i had a heart", "dry & dusty" & "keep the streets empty" are magnificent
― They don’t understand. And I eat a lot of matzo brie. (contenderizer), Wednesday, 25 February 2009 17:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Forgot to mention this earlier, but the video for "If I Had a Heart" is free on US iTunes until next Tuesday morning.
― Telephone thing, Friday, 27 February 2009 22:38 (fifteen years ago) link
Love this album, especially in concentrated doses. Putting on "I'm Not Done" after sitting in relative silence for hours was an outstanding experience.
― I shall always respect my elders (Z S), Tuesday, 3 March 2009 01:55 (fifteen years ago) link
No mention of the "When I Grow Up" video? For shame! It's the same guy that did the Royksopp video with Karin and it's a beaut.
― Telephone thing, Tuesday, 3 March 2009 14:48 (fifteen years ago) link
we share our mother's health is catchy in the most fucked sort of way, but i generally disagree with the above comment that silent shout had "catchy bits"
it's a mood album, it's not catchy
― cutty, Tuesday, 3 March 2009 14:51 (fifteen years ago) link
some conflation of catchy with dancey perhaps. that's the only thing "missing" from this virtual Knife LP.
i don't quite get why there are two singles with videos from this album already - neither really scream single to me (but then nothing from the album really does).
― tuomasters at work (blueski), Tuesday, 3 March 2009 15:26 (fifteen years ago) link
I posted it a couple of weeks back. yah, it is way awesome xxp.
― caek, Tuesday, 3 March 2009 16:12 (fifteen years ago) link
'like a pen' is catchy and there are other bits on the album that are as well, but i think on a whole yeah 'silent shout' might be more about the mood than catchiness. which is fine, mood is underrated as a quality.
― pro bowl was fun (omar little), Tuesday, 3 March 2009 16:29 (fifteen years ago) link