creep ft. romy madley croft (from the xx) - days

O_O

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5sqlH7Ot0U

deadboy remix even more O_O

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lz4AWUzQ7hU

there's an azari & iii remix too

romy's most...focused pop/dancefloor-friendly vocal yet? it's so good to hear her in this mode.

Her voice suits this vibe, yeah. Not sure if you could actually play it (the original) at a club night though.

both are great, like the original better tho

so this has gotten way less attention than i thought it would, given that it has on it a solo member of the xx

the video is totally "lol witch house" but i like it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neTm315zWqE

the deadboy remix is p good but overall this is just like *fine* seems a bit much having a thread for it. u have had good one track threads b4 like that ****tangled up one and mindreader but man if this isnt some shark jumping.

The Azari & III remix is the best, it keeps what's good about the original (vocals, swirly portentous synth noises) and chucks what's wrong with it (badly reappropriated Southern rap drum sounds - when will people learn these don't make for good dance music?)

i don't think of the original as really oriented toward the dancefloor though?

plax i am really not into reading you telling me what i should and shouldn't post everywhere. or tbh engaging with you at all right now, cuz you're being a bit of a dick. stfu.

i don't think of the original as really oriented toward the dancefloor though?

yeah it's...dancefloor-ready, i'd put it, like "night air" - all the ingredients are there to make it a dance track, but it's not one itself

They're both up there with, say, Archangel, if you played them about 6am in the middle of a load of late night minimal they'd sound amazing. At peak time, probably not.

haha i really like yr post abt hearing arcangel at the peak of like a marcel dettman set or smthg

It was Ripperton I think and the set was really super dry and skeletal so it felt like a celebratory anthem in that context.

yeah lol idk i just really liked that story, it totally vibed w/ experiences ive had. p sure i used to illustrate a point in a conversation once.

I heard someone at a house party once mix it into the Quarion/Jamie Lloyd remix and it was genuinely incredible, the two tracks chimed so well.

no love for the soul clap remix?

creep performing with nina sky

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfIaueb4e6U

that is great

Digging this hardcore

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDErC8-MrUw&feature=player_embedded

I love the visual aesthetic they've chosen too.

Yeah this is awesome.

so gorgeous

this is what I thought Salem was going to be like (which probably factors into my personal backlash/hatred; the gulf between expectation and reality is just enormous)

DJP is lol gawth

This new one is loads better than the first single, kind of like it. Sounds like it would suit a Hyetal or Guido remix.

DJP is lol gawth

my music choices are like me; dark, moody and bad-ass

thanks Dan, I just snorted loudly

you is the best song on android soundzzz def

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80Tf9XL11Bc&feature=player_embedded

this is what I thought Salem was going to be like : otm

Next featured vocal will likely be Claire Boucher (Grimes), who worked with them in November, IIRC.

btw "Animals" grew on me massively

New CREEP finally! Not with Claire but rather with TRICKY and Alejandra de la Deheza from School of Seven Bells!

https://soundcloud.com/creep-2/creep-call-her-feat-tricky-and

FUCK YES

at this rate if there's an album or compilation of tracks it'll be in 2014

this is excellent

they choose the best vocalists

http://www.spin.com/articles/creep-echoes-debut-album-introduction-planningtorock-song-premiere/

album includes vocals from Planningtorock and Lou Rhodes of Lamb

lex OTM

also ALBUM OF THE YEAR, calling it now

It'll be up there. By a LONG way.

1. "Introduction" (feat. Planningtorock)
2. "Vertigo" (feat. Lou Rhodes)
3. "The Key" (feat. Alpines)
4. "Days" (feat. Romy Madley Croft)
5. "Empty Chrch" (feat. Andrew Wyatt)
6. "Call Her" (feat. Tricky and Alejandra de la Deheza)
7. "You" (feat. Nina Sky)
8. "Jessica King" (feat. Dark Sister)
9. "Animals" (feat. Holly Miranda)
10. "Dim the Lights"

Why yes I will listen to all this music.

this is Dark Sister, apparently:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StV6naOjzOk

haha they really are such trip-hop kids, who else would have thought LOU RHODES

quite like that it's taken them about 3 years to get this out, wish they'd chosen a winter release date though

also this is the only place i've seen alejandra deheza referred to as alejandra de la deheza

why the fuck hadn't I heard Alpines before:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STh0PaH1LjA

Well you see the Daft Punk album is to school Skrillex fans on dance history in general and this album is schooling our lame asses, DJP.

ah Andrew Wyatt is the dude from Miike Snow, okay

you've heard half this album already i guess but it's pretty great

of the unheard ones, "jessica king" >>>>>

also the not-as-great-as-the-first-two singles sound a lot better in album context - it really hangs together well

"Vertigo" is on Spotify

I will listen to it once I finish playing Prince

"Vertigo" is great! I don't know the vocalist at all, but a) I have to remedy that now because b) she sounds like Marianne Faithfull circa Broken English. There's a short "intro" track with Planningtorock on their Soundcloud too. I can't wait for the album even if we've already heard most of it by now...

She is the lead singer of Lamb, who have been awesome since 1997

wow i'd forgotten about these guys. i really liked that nina sky track.

This is out therre. The mix of "Days" is completely different or am I wrong?

not on my promo copy? i did think romy's vox sounded slightly different but not notably so

Naw, it's the beat that sounded different.

it's way different yeah

I wouldn't say WAY different but I feel like the bass was tweaked some

also this whole thing RULES OMFG

yeah far as i can tell this record is awesome

yeah if on the one hand we've heard half these songs already, on the other the sequencing and album context has really opened up some of the ones that didn't stand out as standalone singles, like "call her" and "animals"

oh i said that a few days ago, haha!

I will slightly disagree with you there because I thought "Call Her" was exceptional from the get-go.

i did like it, but i didn't have that compulsive must-hear-this-50-times-in-a-row urge that i got with "days" and "you" - it is an excellent track though

btw does anyone have any idea as to who jessica king is?

http://i975.photobucket.com/albums/ae232/daggerlee/77668E92-6C4D-4C19-A5F4-E06C3EC6D386-5567-0000081254D0ADC1_zps42f348b6.jpg

creep is getting that ITUNES money

http://www.theverge.com/2012/10/2/3442458/machine-gun-kelly-mgk-microsoft-store-video-gig

i'm sort of impressed given that i assume there were issues getting the album out (no longer with original uk pr company, delays, little real promo)

(I do agree that "Animals" makes more sense on the album than as a standalone)

Is it even coming out on physical media? Their site/tumblr/etc haven't been updated in months...

Amazon has it as MP3 only so my assumption is that there's no physical copy.

booo.

been looking forward to this album.

A comment on their Facebook says "vinyl in the works," but that's about it

the album has been posted in the xbox music catalogue.
so, clearly someone is working on getting this out and available.
apparently i have clicked a button in the xbox music application that means i now have this available in the cloud.
no idea if that means i am limited to the number of plays ..
however, f*ck all that boring crap, this album is hitting many of my sweet spots.

so, clearly someone is working on getting this out and available.

not really, that happens pretty much 'automatically' if you're going through a digital distributor, who pushes it out to a million digital music outlets (from iTunes to weird Russian streaming sites).

i wasn't familiar with Xbox Music but i just checked and my records are there, so.

I just finally bought the damn thing on iTunes. It's a really well-sequenced record, isn't it? To me it feels like it gains tremendously from being laid out as a full-length rather than a set of one-off singles

I think this improves as it goes along but really takes off with 'Days'. They're generally dependent on the quality of the songwriter/vocalist they're working with. The whole thing *sounds* amazing but they work so much better with vocalists who provide a bit of contrast to the gothiness - Nina Sky, Romy, whoever Dark Sister are, even Sia. The Lou Rhodes track feels thuddingly predictable by comparison.

'Vertigo' is my cut from this.

AOTY

http://noisey.vice.com/en_uk/read/youneedtohearthis-creep-interview

jesus this album slays so hard

this record rules

"dim the lights" ;_;

This album is so, so, so, so, so good.

I can't say AOTY because I'm torn between this and Maya Jane Coles and Austra, but my goodness, this is so, soooo good.

(And it pains me not to AOTY an album that Alley Deheza is on, any year that Alley Deheza features on a record, but there it is.)

ok .. having bypassed wi-fi in the west wing that never allowed proper streaming, i have now been able to stream this album properly.

i want this on a silver disc.

is it going to get a proper physical release ?

I am coming back to this album today and it's pretty much perfect

this record is so great

this record rules

― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Monday, December 16, 2013 8:29 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh, me otm

yes, yes you are

I would kill for a CREEP/We Love tour

so underrated in general!

Idle curiosity: lex, DJP, nathey, and myself account for 4 of the 6 votes Echoes received in the 2013 ILX poll. Only 7 albums in the top 77 were voted for with higher "enthusiasm".

Ah...We Love. Now I have to track down the Timeless EP (2011) and "End of the Night" single (2012)

never got to hear this album properly.
i have never seen a cd copy of this ever.
however, it appears that they are available via the usual places (albeit very expensive : £30 on amazon !), so i guess it was released.
i guess there was not a lot of push behind it, or, the label pulled it from having a full release ?

Half was released as singles over 4 years, so the album itself was anticlimactic. An issue with a lot of debut albums this decade.

cd arrived yesterday (not £30 via amazon !)
it is, as has been said, bloody fantastic.
would love to know how this album got so lost.
did the girls just call it quits and pull back from the needs of the promotional chaos, or was it that the label just lost interest ??
there has to be a story for such a wonderful album that features so many big names on it to disappear like this.

today : 8 hour driving session + crap football result + vodka.

outcome : this album is perfect.

CREEP - Animals (Alpines remix) just came on via a random selection.
still sounds massive, and totally brilliant.