why do indie pop bands always have so many members
― Paraoxonases in Inflammation, Infection, and Toxicology (nakhchivan), Monday, 28 October 2013 23:08 (ten years ago) link
because they're all dicks.
― ۩, Monday, 28 October 2013 23:11 (ten years ago) link
guys just ignore this dumb band
― lorde willin' (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 28 October 2013 23:13 (ten years ago) link
Hero & Leander remind me a bit like Dogs Die In Hot Cars. I like Dogs Die In Hot Cars more, though.
― this is how a punch sounds, like ditch, like quich (soref), Monday, 28 October 2013 23:14 (ten years ago) link
4 star AMG review
Review by Matt Collar [-]Hero & Leander's 2013 debut album, Tumble, is a sophisticated and accomplished work that showcases the band's baroque yet exuberant '80s post-punk and musical theater-influenced brand of pop. Centered around vocalist/violinist Emily Sills and vocalist/guitarist Gary Cansell, the band also features pianist Andrew Jones, guitarist Marc Sephton, bassist James Halls, and drummer Scot Lewis. These are literate, well-crafted songs that have much in common with the indie pop of bands like Field Music and Camera Obscura, and in all likelihood, the band will also draw favorable comparisons to the granddaddies of twee pop, Belle & Sebastian. However, while all of these juxtapositions are apt, Hero & Leander have their own distinctive sound that stands on its own. Vocalists Cansell and Sills complement each other nicely throughout the album, with Cansell's warm baritone playing off Sills' higher angelic croon. And while the band's overall sound is more bookish than rocking, they are not demure wallflowers. In fact, Hero & Leander's dual male/female leads and the band's organic mix of orchestral-sounding horns, sweeping strings, and sparkling guitar lines often bring to mind a less bombastic version of Meat Loaf's rock opera sound. To these ends, tracks like the utterly sweet "Kiss Me by the Water Cooler," the romantic "Everything Will Be," and the yearning album closer, "In Any Given Room," sound like they were culled from the soundtrack to a hit off-Broadway musical. Elsewhere, the band delivers a handful of angular, '80s post-punk-influenced songs like "Soul to Soul," "Collider," and the disco-inflected "The Infinite." While these songs certainly fit into the Broadway vibe of the rest of the album, they are also likely to get you dancing in the aisles of the theater you can't help imagining while listening to Tumble.
Hero & Leander's 2013 debut album, Tumble, is a sophisticated and accomplished work that showcases the band's baroque yet exuberant '80s post-punk and musical theater-influenced brand of pop. Centered around vocalist/violinist Emily Sills and vocalist/guitarist Gary Cansell, the band also features pianist Andrew Jones, guitarist Marc Sephton, bassist James Halls, and drummer Scot Lewis. These are literate, well-crafted songs that have much in common with the indie pop of bands like Field Music and Camera Obscura, and in all likelihood, the band will also draw favorable comparisons to the granddaddies of twee pop, Belle & Sebastian. However, while all of these juxtapositions are apt, Hero & Leander have their own distinctive sound that stands on its own. Vocalists Cansell and Sills complement each other nicely throughout the album, with Cansell's warm baritone playing off Sills' higher angelic croon. And while the band's overall sound is more bookish than rocking, they are not demure wallflowers. In fact, Hero & Leander's dual male/female leads and the band's organic mix of orchestral-sounding horns, sweeping strings, and sparkling guitar lines often bring to mind a less bombastic version of Meat Loaf's rock opera sound. To these ends, tracks like the utterly sweet "Kiss Me by the Water Cooler," the romantic "Everything Will Be," and the yearning album closer, "In Any Given Room," sound like they were culled from the soundtrack to a hit off-Broadway musical. Elsewhere, the band delivers a handful of angular, '80s post-punk-influenced songs like "Soul to Soul," "Collider," and the disco-inflected "The Infinite." While these songs certainly fit into the Broadway vibe of the rest of the album, they are also likely to get you dancing in the aisles of the theater you can't help imagining while listening to Tumble.
― ۩, Monday, 28 October 2013 23:14 (ten years ago) link
Was there an ilx thread where people discussed the relationship between Innocent Smoothies style 21st century twee indie and Mondeo Pop?
― this is how a punch sounds, like ditch, like quich (soref), Monday, 28 October 2013 23:18 (ten years ago) link
if not there is now
― ۩, Monday, 28 October 2013 23:19 (ten years ago) link
I have to listen to bad music on a daily basis (ok, strictly speaking, I choose to because I feel guilty if I don't listen to every CD I get sent) but I feel that there's something extra-specially appalling about this lot, imho.
However, in the interests of full disclosure, I should say that like DJM, I also got sent a CD by Hero And Leander and can remember throwing it across the office angrily but it was forgotten about pretty rapidly. It wasn't until a PR or mate of the band or whoever asked me to check out the YouTube ("Hey you guys!") that I really felt that some kind of higher agency was taking the piss out of me.
I mean, really when you see stuff like this, you just think, "Why do I even bother getting out of fucking bed in the morning?"
― Doran, Monday, 28 October 2013 23:21 (ten years ago) link
maybe that's a question worth asking?
― Paraoxonases in Inflammation, Infection, and Toxicology (nakhchivan), Monday, 28 October 2013 23:26 (ten years ago) link
Ok, Captain Save Hero & Leander, sorry for hating on the poor student indie band.
― Doran, Monday, 28 October 2013 23:34 (ten years ago) link
https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/p480x480/1381582_738622486153420_1913495297_n.png
― this is how a punch sounds, like ditch, like quich (soref), Monday, 28 October 2013 23:40 (ten years ago) link
"I mean, really when you see stuff like this, you just think, "Why do I even bother getting out of fucking bed in the morning?"
funny, for me it's when I see people shitting on a perfectly amiable band with 1,000 YouTube hits for absolutely no reason and making it some kind of moral crusade that I wonder why I bother getting up.
― katherine, Monday, 28 October 2013 23:56 (ten years ago) link
That's all fair comment, except, a belligerent and sarcastic post in Rolling Worst Music and here, hardly amounts to a moral crusade.
― Doran, Tuesday, 29 October 2013 00:04 (ten years ago) link
I genuinely - no word of a lie - expected there to be consensus on how bad this band are. Now that I can see some people are getting really upset about this, I'm going to let it lie. Apologies, I didn't mean to offend anyone.
― Doran, Tuesday, 29 October 2013 00:06 (ten years ago) link
It's so milquetoast that I don't see all that much to get genuinely worked up about, they have a non-starter school band or stage school vibe which provokes a bit of remove imo.
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 29 October 2013 00:13 (ten years ago) link
http://personal.rhul.ac.uk/uhle/001/heroandleander.jpg
― Most people do not want a mixed-up interchangeable body OR mind (soref), Tuesday, 29 October 2013 00:33 (ten years ago) link
http://heroandleanderuk.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/young-love2.jpg?w=300&h=142
― Most people do not want a mixed-up interchangeable body OR mind (soref), Tuesday, 29 October 2013 00:41 (ten years ago) link
http://www.kimballstock.com/pix/DOG/03/DOG-03-RK0502-01P.JPG
such vitriol for a band whose music is the equivalent of the above
― sarahell, Tuesday, 29 October 2013 00:44 (ten years ago) link
now you know how Taylor Swift fucking sounds to me :)
― little busquets made of tiki-taka (imago), Tuesday, 29 October 2013 00:48 (ten years ago) link
/pvmic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgmdgSZ67-4
― Paraoxonases in Inflammation, Infection, and Toxicology (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 29 October 2013 00:48 (ten years ago) link
this band is more tolerable than Haim tbh
― sarahell, Tuesday, 29 October 2013 00:51 (ten years ago) link
what about the band my vitriol?
― Paraoxonases in Inflammation, Infection, and Toxicology (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 29 October 2013 00:51 (ten years ago) link
though Haim is pretty much just:http://www.caninecancerremedies.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/small-dog-stock.jpg
― sarahell, Tuesday, 29 October 2013 00:52 (ten years ago) link
http://rlv.zcache.com/i_love_twee_pop_pet_clothing-r1c88976cbec04e76bb45ddea7d5716b3_v9w7f_8byvr_324.jpg
― Most people do not want a mixed-up interchangeable body OR mind (soref), Tuesday, 29 October 2013 00:52 (ten years ago) link
this band is basically Cud, right?
― little busquets made of tiki-taka (imago), Tuesday, 29 October 2013 00:55 (ten years ago) link
as in food for cows?
― Taylor Swift fucking sounds (sarahell), Tuesday, 29 October 2013 00:55 (ten years ago) link
never going to knowingly hear a my vitriol song, sorry nakhers
― little busquets made of tiki-taka (imago), Tuesday, 29 October 2013 00:56 (ten years ago) link
i listened to the first minute of it -- this, basically:http://petworthnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/iStock_000006861565Medium.jpg
― Taylor Swift fucking sounds (sarahell), Tuesday, 29 October 2013 00:56 (ten years ago) link
aren't MV trying for something a little more aggressive than that
― Paraoxonases in Inflammation, Infection, and Toxicology (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 29 October 2013 00:58 (ten years ago) link
they may be trying for it, but that is what it comes across as IMO
― Taylor Swift fucking sounds (sarahell), Tuesday, 29 October 2013 00:59 (ten years ago) link
cold
― Paraoxonases in Inflammation, Infection, and Toxicology (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 29 October 2013 01:00 (ten years ago) link
yorkies yap like nobody's fucken business
― little busquets made of tiki-taka (imago), Tuesday, 29 October 2013 01:05 (ten years ago) link
shitty nu-emo wank and the vocal pronouncements of a yorkshire terrier fill a somewhat similar holistic bracket for me
― little busquets made of tiki-taka (imago), Tuesday, 29 October 2013 01:06 (ten years ago) link
^^ which means i am otm
― Taylor Swift fucking sounds (sarahell), Tuesday, 29 October 2013 01:07 (ten years ago) link
you will have been
― Paraoxonases in Inflammation, Infection, and Toxicology (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 29 October 2013 01:08 (ten years ago) link
don't nultify my achievement nakh!
― Taylor Swift fucking sounds (sarahell), Tuesday, 29 October 2013 01:35 (ten years ago) link
The De La cover sounds like The Kane Gang or Hue & Cry or Curiosity Killed The Cat - is somebody really wanting that??
― mr.raffles, Tuesday, 29 October 2013 02:42 (ten years ago) link
OK, I've not played any of these, I'm sure they are fair to middling stuff that will get no traction except for this kind of publicity...
Except that SOMEBODY POSTED A VIDEO OF "THE HARD!" Yeah!!!!!
― Mark G, Tuesday, 29 October 2013 09:54 (ten years ago) link
xpno
― ۩, Tuesday, 29 October 2013 11:12 (ten years ago) link
funny, for me it's when I see people shitting on a perfectly amiable band with 1,000 YouTube hits for absolutely no reason and making it some kind of moral crusade that I wonder why I bother getting up.― katherine,
― katherine,
Listen to their cover of Me Myself & I and then say that.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9qT6TBr9RE
― ۩, Tuesday, 29 October 2013 11:18 (ten years ago) link
There is a bit of overlap isn't there, I think it started with 'Lovefool'.
― Gavin, Leeds, Tuesday, 29 October 2013 11:38 (ten years ago) link
is mondeo pop after the 80s yuppie sophistipop or the same thing with a different name?
― ۩, Tuesday, 29 October 2013 12:25 (ten years ago) link
damn i hear much worse music every day on television, shopping, etc.
― brimstead, Tuesday, 29 October 2013 15:41 (ten years ago) link
I'm sorry to hear that.
― ۩, Tuesday, 29 October 2013 15:48 (ten years ago) link
If I heard that on the subway I would smile for a second or two. I feel like this is not an uncommon reaction. And I don't think I'm wrong for having it. Sorry.
― katherine, Tuesday, 29 October 2013 17:03 (ten years ago) link
the track on this advert is worse than hero and leander
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hh0Jq680aZM
The soundtrack to ‘Reasons To Be Cheerful’ is inspired by Ian Drury’s iconic hit from the 70’s and is updated by Sense, a UK rapper. The ad uses people of Britain to inform the creative and follows the best things about being British.
― Paraoxonases in Inflammation, Infection, and Toxicology (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 29 October 2013 17:05 (ten years ago) link
If it got played on the subway there might be a lot of suicides
― ۩, Tuesday, 29 October 2013 17:08 (ten years ago) link
I don't know, I guess I'm lacking whichever acquired taste or which coolness gene makes "pleasant, absolutely nothing dislikable" code as "THE WORST THING EVER."
― katherine, Tuesday, 29 October 2013 17:11 (ten years ago) link
These people are good musicians. That's as far as I'm willing to go.
― a dessicated quasi-tsunami of gut-busting cosmic - tech (DJP), Tuesday, 29 October 2013 17:13 (ten years ago) link
is lorde from new zealand innocent smoothies music?
― sarahell, Wednesday, 30 October 2013 19:59 (ten years ago) link
I found a listing for the gig, this was the guy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaaVn1Zj7IM
― kirti madam you're not a gag mrs thatcher eighty advantage and myspace (soref), Wednesday, 30 October 2013 20:01 (ten years ago) link
hahaha I know him!
― sarahell, Wednesday, 30 October 2013 20:02 (ten years ago) link
This video seems a bit more 'musical' than what I remember of his performance?
― kirti madam you're not a gag mrs thatcher eighty advantage and myspace (soref), Wednesday, 30 October 2013 20:02 (ten years ago) link
― sarahell, Wednesday, 30 October 2013 19:59 (1 minute ago)
http://wonkette.com/501972/poor-crackers-over-at-stormfront-reduced-to-lowly-pledge-drivemommyblogging-in-effort-to-keep-hate-alive/screen-shot-2013-02-19-at-10-21-26-pm
― nakhchivan, Wednesday, 30 October 2013 20:03 (ten years ago) link
also lol @ 0uts0und new music festival
― sarahell, Wednesday, 30 October 2013 20:03 (ten years ago) link
Innocent Smoothies style music:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUx-S-7oV2s7sDyC68DmMsHFoTFp3OGk6&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Twitter&utm_content=Twitter&utm_campaign=Twitter
― kirti madam you're not a gag mrs thatcher eighty advantage and myspace (soref), Wednesday, 30 October 2013 20:37 (ten years ago) link
why is drivemommyblogging one word?
― pervilege as a meme (contenderizer), Wednesday, 30 October 2013 23:27 (ten years ago) link
contz have you watched the vauxhall advert linked upthread
― nakhchivan, Wednesday, 30 October 2013 23:31 (ten years ago) link
i did say it resisted abbreviation but contz is alright
works, yeah
vauxhall ad makes it seem like a terrible, terrible country
not half as bad as that ras trent video though
― pervilege as a meme (contenderizer), Wednesday, 30 October 2013 23:41 (ten years ago) link
also thank you for suggesting i watch something that did not improve my day
― pervilege as a meme (contenderizer), Wednesday, 30 October 2013 23:42 (ten years ago) link
dean contz
― Jesus (wins), Wednesday, 30 October 2013 23:42 (ten years ago) link
adam, what do you think of clint the pig?
― sarahell, Wednesday, 30 October 2013 23:44 (ten years ago) link
43 seconds of hurt, it's not like you couldn't do yourself a lot more damage in that time than watch a vile advert
― nakhchivan, Wednesday, 30 October 2013 23:48 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=By_gUAd-r5c
― sarahell, Wednesday, 30 October 2013 23:51 (ten years ago) link
if that's clint the pig, then i think nothing but good thoughts. waddle waddle.
i'm worried about the dog though. looks bitey.
― pervilege as a meme (contenderizer), Thursday, 31 October 2013 00:08 (ten years ago) link
do you think there is any sort of abject quality to that film?
― nakhchivan, Thursday, 31 October 2013 00:30 (ten years ago) link
maybe a paradisiac undercurrent, all fauna reduced to a single plane of transcendence, clints become fausts become clints, waddling in elysium never to want for a single thing?
― nakhchivan, Thursday, 31 October 2013 00:33 (ten years ago) link
the last few seconds suggest some sort of panic is overcoming faust? a jouissance is abundant, soon he will gave way to bestial urges and paradise ends for faust, and for clint too
― nakhchivan, Thursday, 31 October 2013 00:36 (ten years ago) link
Exactly what i was going to say
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Thursday, 31 October 2013 11:10 (ten years ago) link
trying to remember what hero and leander were and what they were about
― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 30 September 2014 13:46 (nine years ago) link
Deutschland we love you!Posted on June 11, 2014 by heroandleanderuk
We love you as much as chimpanzees love football. So we’re coming back to see you this Saturday for the Lothringair festival, in Germany’s belly button – that’s Aachen, pub-quiz fans. I’ll be wearing the same trousers that I wore there last year, because, shit, it’s 2014, the flowers are coming, I might win the lottery one day and I really like this pair of trousers. Also on the bill are Carlson, who we love more than the moon loves the sea. Check them out here. See you on Saturday. Ours is a double gin and cider X
http://heroandleander.org/2014/06/11/deutschland-we-love-you/
― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 30 September 2014 13:52 (nine years ago) link
this thread is on the first page of google for hero and leander band
― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 30 September 2014 13:53 (nine years ago) link