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― a dystopian society awaits if we continue on this path. (contenderizer), Thursday, 26 August 2010 17:07 (2 years ago) Permalink
"tyrant destroyed" is apparently the suburban ghost dreams part
really stretching to hear the peter gabriel connection. doesn't come anywhere near as as TVOTR sometimes do.
Ha, "Castles in the Snow" reminded me of TVOTR.
― jaymc, Thursday, 26 August 2010 17:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
really enjoying the suburban ghost dreams part btw
― a dystopian society awaits if we continue on this path. (contenderizer), Thursday, 26 August 2010 17:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
that was matt dc, and it was good
― max, Thursday, August 26, 2010 12:02 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
if you dont like toto i dont like you ®
whoa whoa whoa -- i didnt say anything about toto, i said montee& they fit in w/ your 'personal brand' so i associated them w/ you the retro style felt like the only 'trick', the transcendent bridge or w/e ... spot on pastiche but not more than pastiche
― NOT FUNNY NEEDS MORE GUCCI (deej), Thursday, 26 August 2010 17:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
that artist statement tells me everything i need to know about never listening to this
― gg eileen (jjjusten), Thursday, 26 August 2010 17:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
Yeah, out of all the '80s big pop fetishists out there, Montée are among the least interesting.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 26 August 2010 17:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
― gg eileen (jjjusten), Thursday, August 26, 2010 12:11 PM (29 seconds ago) Bookmark
u might be reading it too literally
― NOT FUNNY NEEDS MORE GUCCI (deej), Thursday, 26 August 2010 17:12 (2 years ago) Permalink
yeah, it works better if you laugh
― a dystopian society awaits if we continue on this path. (contenderizer), Thursday, 26 August 2010 17:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
still kinda o_O
some of these songs work fine as demos, but it all screams for a big, glossy 80s production
― a dystopian society awaits if we continue on this path. (contenderizer), Thursday, 26 August 2010 17:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
specifically thinking of "when we're dancing"
― a dystopian society awaits if we continue on this path. (contenderizer), Thursday, 26 August 2010 17:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
only listened to 2 songs, but so far this is rad
― just sayin, Thursday, 26 August 2010 17:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
it is rad, and it doesn't let up. there isn't a bad song on here. otoh, it starts to sound a bit wallpapery after a while. like dude has made a such a close study and perfect reproduction of 80s moody pop that it eventually gets swallowed up by your memories of other stuff. "tether beat" is quite a standout though, love the vibe and quizzical guitar.
― a dystopian society awaits if we continue on this path. (contenderizer), Thursday, 26 August 2010 17:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
the guys voice sounds like peter gabriels voice
― max, Thursday, 26 August 2010 21:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
i dont know why i bother starting threads on ilm im always disappointed when people dont love stuff as much as i do
*sighs heavily*
just do not hear the peter gabriel thing at all, not even on "castles in the snow", which otherwise sounds exactly like TVOTR sounding like peter gabriel. i do like it in spite of it not sounding even a tiny bit like peter gabriel.
― a dystopian society awaits if we continue on this path. (contenderizer), Thursday, 26 August 2010 22:03 (2 years ago) Permalink
this thread is a pretty good example of 'branding'
― dayo, Friday, 27 August 2010 00:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
i really like these tunes max, thanks for starting this thread
― caek, Saturday, 28 August 2010 11:08 (2 years ago) Permalink
just remember: i was there first
― max, Saturday, 28 August 2010 14:14 (2 years ago) Permalink
putting you in the acknowledgments of my thesis right now
― caek, Saturday, 28 August 2010 14:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
i preferred the start of this thread
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Saturday, 28 August 2010 14:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
cool dog
― dayo, Sunday, 29 August 2010 00:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
― a dystopian society awaits if we continue on this path. (contenderizer), Sunday, 29 August 2010 02:36 (2 years ago) Permalink
what is this crap? where's the steel guitar?
― not everything is a campfire (ian), Sunday, 29 August 2010 02:39 (2 years ago) Permalink
see best line in "graceland" thread
― a dystopian society awaits if we continue on this path. (contenderizer), Sunday, 29 August 2010 02:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
Pitchfork gives it an 8.4 and their best new music tag.....let the backlash/indifference begin.
― Tim. E "LazRus" Lucas (Prose b4 Hoes...and Big Hoos), Monday, 4 October 2010 06:06 (2 years ago) Permalink
really loving this so far
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Monday, 4 October 2010 10:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
couldn't get into it. I don't like the guy's voice.
― dmr, Monday, 4 October 2010 11:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
man I can't wait for this 80s thing to be over so we can get on with an ironic nu-metal cargo shorts revival
― (e_3) (Edward III), Monday, 4 October 2010 14:14 (2 years ago) Permalink
oops sorry, thought this was the bat for lashes thread
― (e_3) (Edward III), Monday, 4 October 2010 14:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
http://cdn.stereogum.com/downloader/?file=/files/mp3/Bear+In+Heaven+-+Lovesick+Teenagers+(Twin+Shadows+Twins+In+Heaven+Remix)/
― caek, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 21:36 (2 years ago) Permalink
lol ilx url api sux
try again
― caek, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 21:37 (2 years ago) Permalink
Hey I am really liking this album.
And I *do* see the Gabriel thing, at least on a few of the songs - early era Gabriel, not shit like "sledgehammer" ffs. Something about the production and vocal work.
It has a real 80s 4AD feel to it as well: a bit Clan of Xymox, a bit Modern English, in feel.
I am liking this muchly on first listen.
― cathedral-sized jellyfish in your mind (Trayce), Thursday, 21 October 2010 04:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
Stuff like "Slow" on the other hand sounds massively Morrisey-esque.
YES i knew the gabriel was there thanks trayce
― max, Thursday, 21 October 2010 04:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
u r welcome. I totally hear it! Which makes it really bloody good.
― cathedral-sized jellyfish in your mind (Trayce), Thursday, 21 October 2010 04:51 (2 years ago) Permalink
hey guys i'm looking for max's official thread on this band, is this it?
― george pimpton (s1ocki), Thursday, 21 October 2010 04:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
I've been loving the shit out of a few bands doing this kind of dreamy 80s pop lately - Bell Hollow, Veil Veil Vanish, old Prids stuff.
xpost haha.
― cathedral-sized jellyfish in your mind (Trayce), Thursday, 21 October 2010 04:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
Also, "im always disappointed when people dont love stuff as much as i do"
I so agree with this :/
― cathedral-sized jellyfish in your mind (Trayce), Thursday, 21 October 2010 04:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
hey slocki--youre in the right place--have a seat
― max, Thursday, 21 October 2010 04:56 (2 years ago) Permalink
Last.fm poster said: "Molly Ringwald is dancing to this in her bedroom". hahah <3
― cathedral-sized jellyfish in your mind (Trayce), Thursday, 21 October 2010 05:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
*awkwardly squeezes through row of sitting ilxors and takes last empty seat as max's presentation begins*
― george pimpton (s1ocki), Thursday, 21 October 2010 14:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
Realised too late for my top 10 of 2010 ballot that this is my favourite album of the year :/
― Stevie T, Thursday, 21 October 2010 14:37 (2 years ago) Permalink
it's october?
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 21 October 2010 14:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
Monthly print mag lead times wait for no man.
― Stevie T, Thursday, 21 October 2010 14:42 (2 years ago) Permalink
― george pimpton (s1ocki), Thursday, 21 October 2010 14:57 (2 years ago) Permalink
i like this a lot.Random friends of mine that have heard me playing it in the background around the house seem to dig it too
― Aerosol, Thursday, 21 October 2010 15:06 (2 years ago) Permalink
*raises hand*
― I love you girls but that music is for radical faeries (Matt P), Thursday, 21 October 2010 15:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
Have been playing Confess a lot recently. I bought the first album months ago but haven't got round to playing it yet, I'm not sure what I'm saving it for really.
― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 12:38 (4 months ago) Permalink
a cross between Phil Lynott and a genie.
― friday goodness thank it's (flamboyant goon tie included), Tuesday, 15 January 2013 14:22 (4 months ago) Permalink
cmon guys you have to admit now the 2nd album was a letdown
― zero dark (s1ocki), Tuesday, 15 January 2013 15:01 (4 months ago) Permalink
nah not even fronting. i like the first one a lil more probably but the 2nd was great too
― max, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 15:05 (4 months ago) Permalink
2nd album is way better
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Tuesday, 15 January 2013 17:09 (4 months ago) Permalink
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― zero dark (s1ocki), Tuesday, 15 January 2013 17:22 (4 months ago) Permalink
forget is star wars, confess is empire. five seconds is the at-at attack on hoth.
― ledge, Wednesday, 16 January 2013 11:24 (4 months ago) Permalink
the second album is pretty poor. some of the lyrics are horrendous and make it hard to listen to.
― Heterocyclic ring ring (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 11:36 (4 months ago) Permalink
fyi i prefer star wars
― ledge, Wednesday, 16 January 2013 11:48 (4 months ago) Permalink
Finally got round to playing the first album today (like I said earlier in this thread I've owned it for months now) It totally blows Confess away. This album is incredible! When We're Dancing and Yellow Balloon are my early highlights.
The other day I was reading his reviews on Rate Your Music and came across one for Forget that said, Where did the interesting songs, beautiful vocals, and strange production go? I think they were being way too harsh on Confess but I can see what they mean. Forget is quite unique and just beautiful in places, Confess is way more straight forward and seems a little hollow in comparision. Of course Five Seconds still rules all.
― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 02:56 (3 months ago) Permalink
so which one of these albums is better?
― goole, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 20:06 (3 months ago) Permalink
recently picked up Confess, and it's def holding my attention, but it's also giving me a second-guessy feeling which i haven't really figured out.
― goole, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 20:07 (3 months ago) Permalink
the first is way better
― flopson, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 20:24 (3 months ago) Permalink
upthread there's an argument about if/how he sounds like peter gabriel. whether he does or not seems a little beside the point.
i forget who argued this (reynolds probably), but there was an argument out there, in the flush of the "80s boom" ten years ago now, that all of the chilly, harsh, dominatrixy, ice queen type vocals that were all over electroclash and neo-nuwave at the time were a serious misremembering of 80s. that the 80s were a time of very lush and florid and soulful vocals; even about vocal pyrotechnics being attempted by people who really couldn't do them (phil oakey, hi) -- iirc the end of this piece wondered when the bigger, cheesier, sweatier 80s would come back into fashion
i have this in mind because it sounds to me like TS is trying to fully inhabit the lame side of the 80s, the grand reach of "boys of summer" or phil collins or even clapton's "behind the mask". certainly on ilm (and in my house) this is a very natural and welcome kind of move. seems obvious to describe it here, even.
to try to put my finger on it, Confess is giving me a play-acting feeling. like running into someone who always cops an accent. like he's treating 80s arena-pop the same way rockabilly or bluegrass bands treat their referent sources. is he a roots act?
"run my heart" rules pretty hard though.
― goole, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 20:37 (3 months ago) Permalink
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― zero dark (s1ocki), Tuesday, 19 February 2013 21:48 (3 months ago) Permalink
otm
― слабоумие и отвага (cozen), Tuesday, 19 February 2013 21:50 (3 months ago) Permalink
first one is better
― max, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 21:57 (3 months ago) Permalink
all right, shit
― goole, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 21:57 (3 months ago) Permalink
i have this in mind because it sounds to me like TS is trying to fully inhabit the lame side of the 80s, the grand reach of "boys of summer" or phil collins or even clapton's "behind the mask".
totally, see also rhye and the one vocal track on cfcf's new ep
― max, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 22:02 (3 months ago) Permalink
or chad valley for that matter
― max, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 22:03 (3 months ago) Permalink
i'm a full calendar year behind on all music fyi
― goole, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 22:05 (3 months ago) Permalink
thx tho!
haha i am paying extra close attention b/c i have been waiting for this particular flavor of 80s revivalism to break wide since tv on the radio
― max, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 22:07 (3 months ago) Permalink
oh man i never liked them
― goole, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 22:07 (3 months ago) Permalink
― max, Tuesday, February 19, 2013 10:02
What new CFCF EP? Or do you mean Exercises?
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 20 February 2013 10:43 (3 months ago) Permalink
yeah I mean the David sylvian half cover on exercises
― max, Wednesday, 20 February 2013 11:32 (3 months ago) Permalink
Ah. I got all excited for a moment as Exercises was one of my favourite releases of last year.
― groovypanda, Thursday, 21 February 2013 11:47 (3 months ago) Permalink
which rhye tracks/lp do you have in mind, because i'm not hearing it?
― caek, Friday, 22 February 2013 22:31 (2 months ago) Permalink
MUSO POST
i figured out what he's doing on guitar here. it's an alternate tuning! and a pretty odd one; it's tuned to an Eb maj 7 chord
Eb Bb Eb G Bb D
i wonder how he came up with that, and if he writes in that tuning a lot. somebody should ask him!
― goole, Thursday, 28 February 2013 18:31 (2 months ago) Permalink