cuz her forthcoming album playin' me is really excellent, even (especially?) the coldplay cover
this one is another highlight
http://soundcloud.com/mixmag-1/cooly-g-come-into-my-room
On Playin’ Me she displays the full spectrum of her sound, plummeting from her sometimes melancholy, sometimes romantic songs through to her more menacing, trackier sound. Recorded without any frills in her home studio, the album simultaneously recalls a legacy of black British music, filtering the female pressure and reggae lilt of Lovers Rock’s kitchen sink dramas, the sweet seduction of '80s Quiet Storm, through to sour, bitter-sweet synths, polyrhythmic dub decay of early jungle and tough tribal drums.
― kanye kardashian (lex pretend), Monday, 11 June 2012 18:39 (11 months ago) Permalink
i did not know Cooly G was a woman
― J0rdan S., Monday, 11 June 2012 18:39 (11 months ago) Permalink
her vocals all over her productions to date and indeed her producer stamp didn't give it away?
― kanye kardashian (lex pretend), Monday, 11 June 2012 18:40 (11 months ago) Permalink
i'm actually not sure i've ever heard anything of hers, just seen the name around
― J0rdan S., Monday, 11 June 2012 18:42 (11 months ago) Permalink
i think my personal favourite thing about cooly g's music is how...kind of casual and lazy it is, but not in a slapdash way, in a summery life-is-short-so-make-the-most way. you can't imagine her staying up alone til 3am to feel lonely and melancholy on the internet, she's got a kid to look after. she's a boss.
― kanye kardashian (lex pretend), Monday, 11 June 2012 18:43 (11 months ago) Permalink
"dis boy pt 4" was my favourite thing she'd done prior to the album, it appears not to be online oh well.
also key
(both on the album)
― kanye kardashian (lex pretend), Monday, 11 June 2012 18:47 (11 months ago) Permalink
looking forward to this. for some reason her hooks aren't very hook-y to me, but i like her sound a lot.
― 40oz of tears (Jordan), Monday, 11 June 2012 18:47 (11 months ago) Permalink
Oh yay, we definitely needed this thread.
I will go and listen to that Soundcloud if I can pry Spin Me Around off my MP3 player.
― Coolyplay G (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Monday, 11 June 2012 18:50 (11 months ago) Permalink
Casual, yes, but lazy? No way. It's the kind of thing that she's clearly put a lot of work into making it that breezy, it's the kind of appearance of effortlessness that requires so much thought and balance to make it look easy.
This is the one that has those phased out arpeggio stabs that just make me roll over on my back and waggle fingers and toes in the air like an overexcited infant. Her sound palette is just so lush.
― Coolyplay G (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Monday, 11 June 2012 18:58 (11 months ago) Permalink
yeah lazy perhaps wasn't the best word - it makes me feel lazy, rather
― kanye kardashian (lex pretend), Monday, 11 June 2012 19:08 (11 months ago) Permalink
At her very best (that King Midas Sound rework I posted on the other thread) she just makes me feel so ~woozy~
― Coolyplay G (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Monday, 11 June 2012 19:23 (11 months ago) Permalink
Loved the last single, am looking forward to the full album.
― MikoMcha, Monday, 11 June 2012 19:42 (11 months ago) Permalink
i think my personal favourite thing about cooly g's music is how...kind of casual and lazy it isYeah I agree with the general idea here, even if lazy isn't the exact right word - the tunes on the Dub Organiser EPs especially have the feel of lovely laid-back sketches a lot of the time. I think in general she has quite a ~low-key~ sound (even though yeah clearly there's a lot of detail and attention that's gone into it). I def enjoy her tunes most when listening to them back-to-back rather than taking them in isolation, so am looking forward to hearing the album.
― Not The Other One (Mr Andy M), Monday, 11 June 2012 19:46 (11 months ago) Permalink
I definitely hope her last single (with It's Serious) is indicative of the album.
― matt damon & the jb's (the anephric project), Tuesday, 12 June 2012 03:12 (11 months ago) Permalink
Album is amazing, some crazy crazy rhythms on this.
― Tim F, Thursday, 28 June 2012 14:07 (10 months ago) Permalink
when is it out?
― gonna send him to outer space, to hug another face (NickB), Thursday, 28 June 2012 14:09 (10 months ago) Permalink
They're not going to tell us, they're just gonna boast about how they've heard it and we haven't. And then tell us they're over it by the time we hear it. As usual. ;_;
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Thursday, 28 June 2012 14:10 (10 months ago) Permalink
Shockingly, the first google result for "Cooly G Playin Me release date" confirms that it's July 17.
― Tim F, Thursday, 28 June 2012 14:12 (10 months ago) Permalink
Jeebs, that's a long way off still.
― gonna send him to outer space, to hug another face (NickB), Thursday, 28 June 2012 14:21 (10 months ago) Permalink
― matt damon & the jb's (the anephric project), Tuesday, June 12, 2012 3:12 AM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Yeah the album definitely runs with this sound a bit, though "It's Serious" (unsurprisingly) remains maybe the densest thing there rhythmically (give or take "Up In My Head"). But as you'd expect there's a real sense of groove-restlessness throughout.
I think Cooly G got picked up by a lot of people early on in part because her rhythms tend to code as textural/atmospheric as much as physical, so there's a kind of percusso-melodic spaciousness to the music that appeals to people with a preference for dance music qua sound design.
What's remarkable about the best bits of Playin Me is the way she pushes her grooves in both direction: the eerie surround-sound feel is more enveloping and yet in many places the beats are also physically more impacting. Especially the way the title track is all rippling atmospherics and snare chatter before dropping into the most enormous mid-range synth riffing climax ever - it's simultaneously music for films and music for raves. It's not so much that the music is better than before - though the best tracks here are her best ever, I think - but the album format works really for her I think.
― Tim F, Thursday, 28 June 2012 14:32 (10 months ago) Permalink
textural/atmospheric as much as physical
I'm not adverse to a bit of dancing, but this deffo rings true for Cooly G. Her stuff works much better as bewitching headspace music. Kode9 was saying somewhere about the Laurel Halo and Cooly G albums being in the lineage of the Burial albums – come down music rather than bangers to throw down to (like the Funkystepz, Terror Danjah singles he's releasing).
― Mercer Finn, Thursday, 28 June 2012 14:50 (10 months ago) Permalink
I find Cooly G's more atmospheric stuff works fine as dance music, it's just slow dance music. And it's some of the only slow dance music that actually makes me want to slow dance with someone.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Thursday, 28 June 2012 14:57 (10 months ago) Permalink
it's not really comedown music, it's sober but dreamy music
― bitch I'm on the 242 (lex pretend), Thursday, 28 June 2012 23:56 (10 months ago) Permalink
also if i fucking heard laurel halo's album during a comedown, bloody hell that would not end well
Especially the way the title track is all rippling atmospherics and snare chatter before dropping into the most enormous mid-range synth riffing climax ever
TOTALLY - when it suddenly drops, so does my jaw
― bitch I'm on the 242 (lex pretend), Thursday, 28 June 2012 23:57 (10 months ago) Permalink
This is great, really love the dazed textures on this. I wouldn't say it's "sober" so much as it's "slightly tipsy and sleepy in a good way" - totally dreamy, and even in its toughest moments when there's traces of dubstep and grime it still feels incredibly sensual and seductive.
― boxedjoy, Saturday, 30 June 2012 20:56 (10 months ago) Permalink
Also, fans of funky producer tags will be disappointed, I haven't noticed any MWAH MWAH MWAH on this.
― boxedjoy, Saturday, 30 June 2012 21:06 (10 months ago) Permalink
;_;
The "mwah mwah mwahs" are some of my favourite bits.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Monday, 2 July 2012 08:14 (10 months ago) Permalink
This album is really good! Kind of reminds me of the Nina Kraviz album but with a different set of touchstones. Got that same warm, intimate, late-nite vibe.
― The Reverend, Monday, 2 July 2012 19:53 (10 months ago) Permalink
Really digging this album. The atmospheric backdrop reminds me so much of the atmospheric drum 'n bass days of 15 years ago, seriously #lololdpeople
Still want to kill the Coldplay cover with fire though, horrible choice, horrible execution
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 13 July 2012 23:23 (10 months ago) Permalink
This album is just so seriously freaking amazing fantastic. It's just so... DREAMY. The whole thing is just this spinning woozy textural late night everything is melting and so beautiful. The atmospheres are just so hypnotic and lush and... dreamy. I just want to sink into it like a big pillow. I just want to put this on headphones and wander around in a daze.
― Queue de Cheval (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 19:32 (10 months ago) Permalink
I have just learned Cooly G is not a male MC who was active in the 90s (as I had mistakenly guessed when I saw the name on lists), and I like Playin' Me so far. (And I guess these end of the year whirlwind (if something that goes on for at least a couple months can be called that) roundups are worth it, because I'm finding other things I like from this year--it just tends to be music scattered in lots of different places.)
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 15 December 2012 01:51 (5 months ago) Permalink
love this
― Tome Cruise (Matt P), Saturday, 15 December 2012 01:59 (5 months ago) Permalink
I was gonna come and post this reminds me of the Nina Kraviz album (and not just because of the gender), and then I noticed Rev had already said the same... There's definitely a similar introspective, moody, nocturnal not-quite-danceable-dance music feel to both albums. I really do wish Playin Me was (mostly) instrumental, though... Her singing is so bland and mediocre compared to the intricate programming and rhythms.
― Tuomas, Monday, 31 December 2012 12:47 (4 months ago) Permalink
I've kind of cooled (npi) on this album.
― Rolling "2 chainz" draadje (The Reverend), Monday, 31 December 2012 21:36 (4 months ago) Permalink
I still think it's pretty good, but I think sometimes it's as uneventful as it seems, rather than, oh, it's just doing something really subtle.
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 31 December 2012 21:44 (4 months ago) Permalink
yeah, uneventful is the right word
― Rolling "2 chainz" draadje (The Reverend), Monday, 31 December 2012 21:45 (4 months ago) Permalink
Cooly G is ace.
― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Monday, 31 December 2012 21:58 (4 months ago) Permalink
I do like her sonics. Do people still say "sonics"?
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 31 December 2012 22:55 (4 months ago) Permalink
i think her voice is the best thing about it.
― Tome Cruise (Matt P), Monday, 31 December 2012 22:56 (4 months ago) Permalink
i mean, i really like her voice, is all. i like the "production" as well.
― Tome Cruise (Matt P), Monday, 31 December 2012 22:57 (4 months ago) Permalink
I'm on the fence. Need to listen more. I still think this might be one of my favorite albums from the past year, but then again I still am underwhelmed with what I've heard from 2012, and even my favorites have pretty significant weaknesses. (Even precious Sa Dingding, who I still love best.)
Actually her accent lends interest to her vocals, for me, but I don't know what it would sound like to someone more used to that accent.
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 31 December 2012 22:58 (4 months ago) Permalink
idk it's just a voice with an appealing character to me.
― Tome Cruise (Matt P), Monday, 31 December 2012 23:04 (4 months ago) Permalink
and i like the uneventfulness, i can just sort of vibe to a track when it comes on. deep thoughts here.
― Tome Cruise (Matt P), Monday, 31 December 2012 23:08 (4 months ago) Permalink
I have played this album so much this year, especially "What This World Needs Now"
― AMERICA IS ABOUT RESSLING (DJP), Monday, 20 May 2013 19:54 (3 days ago) Permalink