More a general band thread than one dedicated to this specific album, but since it's just out (their second full-length), I figured I might as well tie it in. I love The Limiñanas*! Effortlessly lazy retro pop laced with organ drones, tambourines, catchy basslines, twangy guitars, and bored-sounding boy/girl vocals. Recommended to people who like to wear sunglasses and look really cool while smoking cigarettes.
Salvation (from Crystal Anis):
Je ne suis pas très droge (from the s/t debut LP):
I'm Dead (early single):
* Their name is properly spelled with a tilde over the first N, but I left that out of the thread title in case it messes up searches. And they don't seem to pronounce it anyway, so...
― i know your nuts hurt! who's laughing? (contenderizer), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 19:23 (9 months ago) Permalink
a couple more tracks off their self-titled debut LP, which i've had a bit more time to absorb (came out in 2010):
― i know your nuts hurt! who's laughing? (contenderizer), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 19:25 (9 months ago) Permalink
aaand a couple more off the new one:
Longanisse:
Bad Lady Goes to Jail (demo version):
― i know your nuts hurt! who's laughing? (contenderizer), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 19:42 (9 months ago) Permalink
I have the I'm Dead 7" which is pretty great but I never checked out anything else by them yet. Should probably rectify that.
― Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 12 September 2012 19:47 (9 months ago) Permalink
you definitely should. "i'm dead" is GREAT, and it caused me to underrate their debut LP a little, but in retrospect, it's one of my favorite albums of 2010.
― i know your nuts hurt! who's laughing? (contenderizer), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 19:54 (9 months ago) Permalink
Found the new album diverting for a while but it's way pastichey and I just go back to my Gainsbourg soundtracks in the end. "Hospital Boogie" is probably my favourite, even if it sounds like a Beta Band knockoff.
― direct references of (seandalai), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 22:51 (9 months ago) Permalink
um, how do you pronounce "Anis"?
― Poliopolice, Thursday, 13 September 2012 02:07 (9 months ago) Permalink
'raynce preebus'
― balls, Thursday, 13 September 2012 02:12 (9 months ago) Permalink
― Colonel Poo, Wednesday, September 12, 2012 3:47 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
same
― flopson, Thursday, 13 September 2012 02:48 (9 months ago) Permalink
thirded
― A Pick Up Artist's Guide to Negative Approach (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 13 September 2012 03:14 (9 months ago) Permalink
I can't see youtubes in my phone but the song 'je suis une go go girl' is awesome
― Moka, Thursday, 13 September 2012 06:18 (9 months ago) Permalink
good record. hozac have been killing it this year
― yo is it true mcanus got sonned by a disco after a sunno))) beef (electricsound), Thursday, 13 September 2012 06:22 (9 months ago) Permalink
LOL crystal anus
― the late great, Thursday, 13 September 2012 06:26 (9 months ago) Permalink
They covered "I Know There's an Answer" on a Mojo Magazine Beach Boys tribute covermount CD a few months ago and it rules.
And this 7" is really fantastic too:
Love 'em
― Walter Galt, Thursday, 13 September 2012 10:14 (9 months ago) Permalink
Think I might be missing a 7", but got the rest. Love them. Undeniably pastichey, but what the hell.
― Wandering Boy Poet, Thursday, 13 September 2012 11:46 (9 months ago) Permalink
yeah, exactly. their sound may be a pastiche, but "french retro-60s garage pop" isn't a crowded field these days, so i'm okay with it.
― i know your nuts hurt! who's laughing? (contenderizer), Thursday, 13 September 2012 16:03 (9 months ago) Permalink
I dunno there's a bit of it about at the moment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmMdSBq37uY
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 13 September 2012 16:07 (9 months ago) Permalink
This is some seriously good shit.
― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Thursday, 13 September 2012 23:46 (9 months ago) Permalink
I used dig a bit of April March but this really is the shit.
― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Thursday, 13 September 2012 23:49 (9 months ago) Permalink
They're not really what I'd consider a breakthrough sort of band but everyone who I've played them to seem to love them at first listen.
I remember playing 'je suis une go go girl' at the outloud ilxor room months ago and even the metal dudes who hated everything that wasn't prog or metal we're into it.
― Moka, Friday, 14 September 2012 05:31 (9 months ago) Permalink
just listened to a few le pécheur tracks. they're doing something a bit different, imo. the sound is darker, noisier, more closely tied to heavy throwback psych rock and contemporary lo fi sonics. somewhere between retro pop, "shitgaze" and a black angels demo. singing and songwriting are a lot less appealing, too.
liminanas are as close to candy-coated modernist stuff like pizzicato 5, stereolab and april march as they are to grubby garage rock. kitschy but not quite cloying. to the extent that they do scan "rock", i associate them with the likes of the raveonettes, holly golightly and darklands-era jesus and mary chain: clean, orderly, catchy and rather simplistic (in a good way).
― i know your nuts hurt! who's laughing? (contenderizer), Friday, 14 September 2012 16:40 (9 months ago) Permalink
liminanus
― flopson, Friday, 14 September 2012 17:39 (9 months ago) Permalink
loving this band so hard. so catchy, so cool. chocolate in my milk is such a great song. really cool album structures too, with the instrumentals and the recurring motifs and exotic instruments and whatnot. one thing i will say, this isn`t really meant as a criticism, but the two albums sound very similar? doesn't sound like they progressed, or maybe, more likely, they are determined to make a very specific type of music.
anyway this band is great. <3
― marc iv, Friday, 21 September 2012 18:10 (8 months ago) Permalink
They really capture this stiff, squared-off feel to the beats in yé-yé that doesn't come through in other bands that toy with the influence. It's hard to recreate that showbiz studio musician feel after decades of rock rocking harder.
― bendy, Friday, 21 September 2012 18:19 (8 months ago) Permalink
newsinglenewsinglenewsingle!
b-side "Mobylette" is life-affirming: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xwev9u_the-liminanas-mobylette-feat-nadege_music#.UR7ZPKWUflo
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 16 February 2013 00:58 (4 months ago) Permalink
newsinglenewsinglenewsingle
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 23 May 2013 07:59 (4 weeks ago) Permalink