Blonde Redhead - 23 (nu-ilx version)

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SEETHE WITH MISDiRECTED RaGE?

or...go have a smoke and crack open this cherry coke?

― M@tt He1ges0n, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:26 (seventeen years ago) link

"hstencil, is that free 45 with every LP? I'm gonna go to my local record store within the week to pick it up.

-- Harpal, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 07:33 (12 hours ago)"

nope, supplies are extremely limited. we got something like 3k in to give to stores to allocate as they see fit. so your store might already be out, definitely give 'em a call to find out.

matt, yeah, i work for beggars group, of which 4ad is a part. blonde redhead is one of the bands i product manage, and they're swell folks, i'm really enjoying working with them so far. except i have a major hangover from being out last night.

email me at hstencil at yahoo dot com and i'll see what i can do about getting that download action fixed for ya.

― hstencil, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 19:58 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm actually much more a fan of "Fake Can..." and remain sad that they've gone the way they have.

That said, my first impression was that the opener of the P-Fork review was essentially cribbed from Real Astrology. The rest of it seems like it boils down to "I think the album is overproduced." None of it is all that helpful.

― dlp9001, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 20:10 (seventeen years ago) link

I bought the record with the 45 in it too... so totally ruling!

― Davey D, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 20:13 (seventeen years ago) link

stence is a gent. (and i am dumber than even people on ILM might suspect)

― M@tt He1ges0n, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 21:17 (seventeen years ago) link

cool

― s1ocki, Thursday, 12 April 2007 00:40 (seventeen years ago) link

No 45 in my LP. I should've gone through all of them. Oh well, good package nonetheless.

― Harpal, Thursday, 12 April 2007 09:09 (seventeen years ago) link

my 45 wasn't in the package...the guy at the counter handed it to me seperately...so maybe you should go back and ask them?

― M@tt He1ges0n, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Regarding "Signs Along the Path":
http://blonderedhead23.com/remix.php

― Jazzbo, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:04 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't suppose the free 7" will be available in the uk?
I was going to ask Harpal to look out for one for me, but it seems he's out of luck too.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:19 (seventeen years ago) link

"I don't suppose the free 7" will be available in the uk?"

no, it won't, this is a US-only promotion. the single is the same as the one for sale in the UK, afaik.

― hstencil, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:35 (seventeen years ago) link

i should also note that they won't have it for sale on tour, either.

― hstencil, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:37 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm going to buy this tomorrow if it's in stock. so excited. 'misery...' still stands as one of my favourites from the century thus far.

― Charlie Howard, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:48 (seventeen years ago) link

ok finally heard this and am kicking myself for not buying it sooner.

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:55 (seventeen years ago) link

you're still pretty quick off the blocks there.

― Charlie Howard, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:56 (seventeen years ago) link

charlie, you'll dig it..to me, it's essentially misery with better songs and more interesting production.

― M@tt He1ges0n, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:58 (seventeen years ago) link

haha well

i think i will fall hook, line and sinker in love with this.

― Charlie Howard, Thursday, 12 April 2007 17:03 (seventeen years ago) link

I always hated BR until this album.

Lucky you hstencil. This is one of the good ones. I like the fact that you guys do downloads (a lot) now instead of sending me coasters.

― Dandy Don Weiner, Thursday, 12 April 2007 17:36 (seventeen years ago) link

OK, picked this up yesterday and gave it a listen.

What's striking about the pfork review is not only how badly it's written, but how WRONG the guy is. It sounds like he wrote a review of the last album, where I thought the production did actually detract from the songs (lots of awkward programming and compression). There are very few production tricks on this record unless reverb and delay suddenly require Alan Moulder's presence to work.

So yeah, it's good. Nice mood pieces and I think I'll appreciate the songwriting more over time. Kazuo's singing sounds great. Still think Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons was their high point--I feel like that record has so much more in the way of varied dynamics than the last two.

― call all destroyer, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:51 (seventeen years ago) link

8 bucks at bestbuy

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8291617&st=Blonde+Redhead&lp=2&type=product&cp=1&id=1630626

― modestmickey, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:55 (seventeen years ago) link

i still haven't bought :(

wasn't in the shops

― Charlie Howard, Saturday, 14 April 2007 08:01 (seventeen years ago) link

had mp3s of this for weeks, finally getting to the store to buy this today; since I now buy only 10 albums a year being all broke, this is a compliment. I think this album just edges out misery, but just barely; both of them are wonderful though. it's even made me reevaluate the earlier albums, which i used to really dislike.

― akm, Saturday, 14 April 2007 14:19 (seventeen years ago) link

did all the cds come with no insert like mine?

― akm, Saturday, 14 April 2007 22:30 (seventeen years ago) link

oh they're on the cd (it was in the player)

― akm, Saturday, 14 April 2007 22:48 (seventeen years ago) link

this is astonishingly good

the best new release i've heard in perhaps years

that pitchfork thing is baffling.

― Charlie Howard, Sunday, 22 April 2007 07:12 (sixteen years ago) link

This thread made me go and listen to a fair bit of their back catalouge as I only ever knew them as sonic youthy... wow. 23 is an amazing album, and one that sneaks up on you. Every new listen I hear dischord and restlessness in it. There's something very unique with what they do.

― Trayce, Sunday, 22 April 2007 13:02 (sixteen years ago) link

Oh, and ha - I loved yr emusic review Jess: for a band so in love with late-’80s rock — its tremoloverload, silver rocket exhaust trails and garlands of reverb. Heh.

― Trayce, Sunday, 22 April 2007 22:46 (sixteen years ago) link

I have finally heard this.

It is awesome.

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 22 April 2007 23:06 (sixteen years ago) link

Was surprised to actually like much of this. The best parts remind me of Unwound near that band's end, Unwound probably always having been a better comparison than Sonic Youth anyway.

― dlp9001, Sunday, 22 April 2007 23:26 (sixteen years ago) link

I really gotta resist going all Bimble on everyone about this album, it is that good (heh sorry Bimble!).

― Trayce, Monday, 23 April 2007 06:50 (sixteen years ago) link

kazu's vox on 'top ranking'

damn

― Charlie Howard, Sunday, 29 April 2007 17:02 (sixteen years ago) link

one month passes...

Still think Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons was their high point--I feel like that record has so much more in the way of varied dynamics than the last two

I bought Melody of... at their gig last night, and have already listened to it twice. I know exactly what you mean about variety of rhythm, pace etc. [That's pace, not Pace by the way.]

The live experience has improved a great deal since the last tour. More impassioned, greater variety of material, more hairshaking from Kazu!

― Daniel Giraffe, Thursday, 31 May 2007 07:37 (sixteen years ago) link

i love 'publisher' so much that i've forgotten what the rest of the album sounds like.

― fukasaku tollbooth, Thursday, 31 May 2007 11:45 (sixteen years ago) link

one month passes...

i love that song ('publisher') too. but i love most of the songs on the record, i'd say

seeing them tonite.

― Charlie Howard, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 05:30 (sixteen years ago) link

Fuck they played in Melb last night and I forgot all about it ;_;

― Trayce, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 05:59 (sixteen years ago) link

― Charlie Howard, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 06:08 (sixteen years ago) link

Eh I think I'd subconciously decided I wouldnt go anyway.

― Trayce, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 06:34 (sixteen years ago) link

haha that happens. i've missed many shows that way...just recently dinosaur jr., clutch etc.

― Charlie Howard, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 06:36 (sixteen years ago) link

excellent show, btw

well paced, with very effective means of recreating the lush studio sound

― Charlie Howard, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 07:22 (sixteen years ago) link

in short -- great band, great new record, great discography, great live show, etc.

i'm seeing a double bill in Austin in a couple months -- an 800 capacity club, with Blonde Redhead and the National co-headlining together -- that i'm really really really looking forward to already.

― stephen, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 17:10 (sixteen years ago) link

Been listening to this LP a ton lately. This band has got their shit together on so many levels. Truly an engaging aesthetic experience. Very sorry to have missed them in SF back in april or whatever.

― Sparkle Motion, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 17:13 (sixteen years ago) link

i always felt that they write these albums that sound like varied "a clockwork orange" soundtracks. the horns, synths, and esoteric guitars are very reminiscent of sometihng as dark and sexy as that film.

i would also like to add that the "lead" guitar line in "Spring and By Summer Fall" is so great, so jazzy. i love it.

― Forensicscene1338, Thursday, 26 July 2007 04:26 (sixteen years ago) link

four years pass...

this album is still really amazing

― Bandersnatch Cumberbund (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 10 May 2012 19:17 (eleven years ago) link

"SW" has prob been my most played track the last ~6 months

― johnny crunch, Thursday, 10 May 2012 19:19 (eleven years ago) link

that's up right now!

what a fucking band

i never was able to get into the most recent one, i should give it another go.

― Bandersnatch Cumberbund (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 10 May 2012 19:20 (eleven years ago) link

the last one was a bit of a snooze iirc

― btw didn't i braek ur heart (NickB), Thursday, 10 May 2012 19:26 (eleven years ago) link

yeah it didn't grab me....what they do is always on the *verge* of being kinda boring but somehow they've managed to make it magical most of the time

― Bandersnatch Cumberbund (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 10 May 2012 19:30 (eleven years ago) link

the last one was more than on the verge of boring actually. big come down off the previous three or four albums. it's pretty and all but not memorable.

― akm, Thursday, 10 May 2012 22:27 (eleven years ago) link

haven't listened to this in forever. Going to give it ago now. Think it may bring back to many memories of putting it on cdrs for girls I was into that weren't into the kind of music I was.

― owenf, Thursday, 10 May 2012 22:44 (eleven years ago) link

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