Young Galaxy - Shapeshifting (2011) ~*produced by Studio's D. Lissvik*~

i never liked a mountain of one precisely because of the vocals :(

but there's so much balearic/nu-disco stuff without bad vox, without any indieness, that it's quite obvious why i don't think of it as indie

i think destroyer might be my first big war of 2011

Balearic was always the indie circle on the space disco / beardo disco / balearic venn diagram.

Maybe you really just like space disco and disco revivalism with balearic elements?

i love the amo1 vocals

I dug them on the collected works (for the most part) and esp the first EP, but I haven't been able to sit through Institute of Joy.

Maybe you really just like space disco and disco revivalism with balearic elements?

i guess? i never really paid attention to the taxonomy of any of this. i like lindstrøm and d. lissvik instrumentals and everything touched by permanent vacation and that amazing disco re-edit in your thread and the latest magician mix and aeroplane when they were good and todd terje. does this mean i have to stop using the word balearic :(

but c'mon for real destroyer are the actual worst in both theory and practice

i mean really if i could pick the thing i LEAST WANT in this music it's THAT FUCKING INDIE VOICE. why is this happening? why are people suckers for that shit?

i guess? i never really paid attention to the taxonomy of any of this. i like lindstrøm and d. lissvik instrumentals and everything touched by permanent vacation and that amazing disco re-edit in your thread and the latest magician mix and aeroplane when they were good and todd terje. does this mean i have to stop using the word balearic :(

Well if you want to avoid inadvertently referring to stuff you might not like, yeah.

Lex have we checked on your opinion of Steely Dan (excluding Tori covers of same) before? I feel like we have but I can't remember what the conclusion was.

since when did "balearic" refer only to the indie shit and not to the good stuff, anyway? is this a just-ilm thing or did some disco revivalist committee decide on this at some point

i like the two steely dan songs i've heard (but not as much as the tori cover), i have a steely dan album in my itunes that i've been meaning to listen to for i think 3 years now*, i like the idea of them in my head but if they're anything like destroyer i am definitely just going to delete it unheard

*record holders are can - i think i've had TWO albums by them in my itunes for four years now but i still haven't heard a note of either

since when did "balearic" refer only to the indie shit and not to the good stuff, anyway?

it doesn't, but nor can you separate balearic from "the indie shit". In particular, "balearic" has heavy historical grounding in effete white pop-rock, which lends itself to indie revivalism as readily as disco revivalism.

Steely Dan don't have similar vocals to destroyer, but I'm just curious as to the limits of your aversion to (in this case only slightly) whiny white male vocals.

*record holders are can - i think i've had TWO albums by them in my itunes for four years now but i still haven't heard a note of either

you listened to destroyer before can??

the latest magician mix

do you mean BEANS? cause that one is amazing and balearic in many ways (including containing divisive indie elements waha)

i like the two steely dan songs i've heard (but not as much as the tori cover), i have a steely dan album in my itunes that i've been meaning to listen to for i think 3 years now*, i like the idea of them in my head but if they're anything like destroyer i am definitely just going to delete it unheard

*record holders are can - i think i've had TWO albums by them in my itunes for four years now but i still haven't heard a note of either

― lextasy refix (lex pretend), Monday, February 7, 2011 11:29 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

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you listened to destroyer before can??

i prioritise stuff that's current, as ever

do you mean BEANS? cause that one is amazing and balearic in many ways (including containing divisive indie elements waha)

yes! entire thing was awesome.

it doesn't, but nor can you separate balearic from "the indie shit"

i find i can separate the stuff i like very very easily from the indie shit

How did Destroyer/Dan Bejar infect this thread? Keep that shit in its own place where I never have to hear about it.

it doesn't, but nor can you separate balearic from "the indie shit". In particular, "balearic" has heavy historical grounding in effete white pop-rock, which lends itself to indie revivalism as readily as disco revivalism.

^^^ This is kind of what I was getting at upthread.

she sounds like the chick from the cranberries!

Also this. And a bit "crap Sinead O'Connor". It's all a bit self-consciously late-80s early 90s etheral warble.

The guy's vocals aren't actually significantly different from the guy from the Junior Boys or that Twin Shadow dude. But the songwriting isn't really up to Junior Boys quality.

I've always thought that encoded in the concept of "balearic" was a kind of aesthetic redemption of certain kinds of stylistic "failure" - which is perhaps the most anti-Lex notion I can concoct (at least excluding notions about whiny white male vocals). Expounded on this here and here.

She sounds a bit like Shakira to me fwiw.

the moment (on "blown minded") when she pronounces the words 'sublime intuition', it's like 1996 all over again

The guy's vocals aren't actually significantly different from the guy from the Junior Boys or that Twin Shadow dude. But the songwriting isn't really up to Junior Boys quality.

― Matt DC, Tuesday, February 8, 2011 5:12 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

dude's vocals aren't junior boys quality, either

This sounds pretty good to me today. Even the over-singing, melodramatic chicks vocals aren't annoying me.

I've been loving this album the past month or so (helped by the great weather we've been having in the UK) but whenever I listen to it I'm inevitably left with a sense of yearning for Yearbook 3 and I don't think that's ever going to happen :(

With the dawn of summer, this album gets better and better. Beach music, imo.

this album is god damned excellent

they are happy parents!

So good!

http://www.gorillavsbear.net/2013/01/23/premiere-young-galaxy-pretty-boy/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+GVSB+%28gorillavsbear.net%29

The bigger tracks on the new album are spectacular, world conquering songs. In particular "Fall For You" which sounds like a more strident (lol this is young galaxy) take on The Tough Alliance's "A New Wave".

See also "Fever", "Out The Gate Backwards", "Sleepwalk With Me".

"Out The Gate Backwards" is on that Studio go Happy Mondays tip in a way nothing has been since the actual Studio album.

Mssr Lissvik still produces? Keen to hear this, though might have to salt it away until summer.

I've pre-ordered but have been looking almost daily to see if it's leaked as this is possibly my most anticipated album of 2013. Loved Shapeshifting and the little I've heard of this so far sounds great.

I really wish Studio were still together.

Definitely living up to expectations so far

I really like "Pretty Boy"

'new summer' is my fav so far

Really hope the Peaking Lights remix getting a vinyl release

Every time I put this album on it makes me so happy.

Except "What We Want" which is kinda schaffel-pop by numbers.

i love, love this album

"Out The Gate Backwards" is on that Studio go Happy Mondays tip in a way nothing has been since the actual Studio album.

― Tim F, Wednesday, April 10, 2013 6:19 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

totally otm, take away the vox and you have a studio b side

(though the vocals sound great on top of it)

i'm enjoying this a ton more than their debut

Their debut? This is their 4th record...

the last album, whatever

fusion of lissvik and young galaxy seems more precise here than it was on shapeshifting which i really liked then forgot about

Yeah the first track aside Shapeshifting was very pleasant but forgettable imo, this is much more commanding. It helps that every tune is on an entirely different tip.

helps that someone's taken the dude's mic away, too

'High And Goodbye' and 'B.S.E.' from Shapeshifting are two songs that to me are completely unforgettable and utterly brilliant, I cherish them deeply.

The new album is great too, not nearly done discovering it.