Azari & III - Hungry For The Power (and suggest me some similar stuff)

Ehhh. One gimmicky solid retro single, one instant classic, several halfassed tracks...

well, i'm not saying they're at the heights of say OJ da Juiceman or Kreyshawn

I never said I was expecting a great album from kreayshawn

just OJ?

Oj has more good songs than azari and iii. Maybe not any as good as "reckless", but def some at the level of "hungry"

Or better

I thought your bias against contemporary rap production made that point invalid so I initially chose not to engage it

you're kinda funny

"Into The Night" is incredibly great too! I think I prefer it to Reckless but don't like it as much as Hungry. PLUS there's that remix of Eurodancer, they're all solid gold.

I find myself reaching for the Prince Language version of "Into The Night" more than the original, it's such a perfect record.

I would love for this album to come out in both an "original" and "pitched up" format, the vocals sound so much better when set to +5.

so bummed that all the photos from their first Sydney Opera House show seem to have been taken after Cedric removed his enormous fuzzy hunting cap

― all cats are gay (sic), Friday, 3 June 2011 11:39 (1 week ago)

hey guys stop worrying! he was behind me in the queue for the bar just 14 hours after that post and:

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y115/kitbrash/canadia_hat.jpg

:D

Just been listening to the album and liking it. But since I'm rockist that's probably the kiss of death.

Saw their live show last night and it was pretty good - would have been even better if the sound had been configured so you could hear them singing and not just the bass, but the spectacle of it, particularly the dancing, was really fun. I think it also helps to think of them as being in vein of Cut Copy/Junior Boys rather than the likes of Tensnake and Aeroplane; they're more like a pop band drawing from dance, and that perspective helps make more sense of what they're doing.

yeah, i will agree with lex and say that the two 'main dudes' were among the more nice and interesting interviewees i've ever worked with.

when i saw them dj it was p weak which has def colored my experience ... they played good songs & seemed like characters, but they just werent reading the crowd or something. idk maybe it was an off night

but they actually played much more like a tensnake/aeroplane dance-y style than a cut copy / jr boys one (if i get that dichotomy which im not sure i do), at least relative to classixx, who i had seen just before

what they DJ isn't really an indication of how they play live.

(totally disagree with Cut Copy comparison though)

the album is vg btw

undecided!!!!!!!

I didn't see them DJ so I can't comment, it was a live show with the two singing and the two at the back generating the music on their equipement.

I don't mean that they sound like Cut Copy or Junior Boys; what I'm trying to get at is that Azari & III's own catalogue seems to be about songs rather than tracks. I think it was Tim who said on another thread that "Reckless" is a great song that you could present in any form, and that's the impression I get from these guys - it's as much about songcraft and their identity as it is about producing dancefloor bombs, it just happens that they can do both simultaneously.

Hercules & Love Affair probably a better comparison point?

Really want the album to leak in the next couple of days so I can be familiar with the songs before Glastonbury.

Also <3 vogue-off in the crowd story.

xpost yeah that's the best comparison point, so obvious and yet I don't understand why it didn't spring to mind.

Azari & III LP Stream

did this not get mentioned yet?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ph9OiYmSHBU

art dept remix of "hungry for the power" is still my shit

the album's being streamed? EVERYONE GO AND LISTEN TO "UNDECIDED" RIGHT NOW because holy shit that song has been blowing my brains

Undecided and Tunnel Vision. This is not a disappointing album.

Yeah, Manic is definitely the stand out track for me.

Undecided is interesting but a little rough sounding, I could see some incredible remixes coming from it.

Ok..I actually didn't listen all the way through before. Did he just say "the final solution" in Manic? Wtf?

Wow, undecided really develops!

Manic is SO !!!
by which i mean chik chik chik not EXCLAMATORY
though it's kinda that too

stoked

LOVE this album.

this album is p hokey

how so?

it's a lot better than i was expecting. actually it's properly good, no caveats.

makes me think of the first chromeo record. directionless pastiche w/out the songwriting. aside from reckless, obv, which is still amazing

obviosuly amazing but still only their 3rd best single imo.

after what

hungry >into the night >reckless.

i have no idea if those are all on the album though.

They are but no way are any of them touching reckless. "hungry" is exactly what i'm talking about wrt pastiche. And "into the night" works well as an intro track but no way is it as good a song... Its all buildup

i've never heard it on the album and so i don't think of it an an intro track. i really love it.

This album is killer. The comparison to Chromeo is way off mark. It's not some ironic joke for students who wear flat caps.

really that comparison makes no sense.

i dont think chromeo was an 'ironic joke' either esp by the 2nd album, but it was str8 revivalism much like this

azari's camp-revivalism is too cynical

I guess there's never any way of determining a band's motives unless you're in the band, so fair enough, but I've been to see them live and it was a fucking blast. They obviously put their heart and soul into it, whatever their 'deeper' motivations may or may not be.

Which is certainly not something I could say about Chromeo.

what do you mean, cynical? if anything you could accuse it of being too reverent but what's cynical about it? tbh i think you're just giving it a name like "camp revivalism" then criticising it based on the tag you yourself gave it.

http://wac.47f5.edgecastcdn.net/8047F5/jamjar/jamjar/_cracks/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Azari-III-CD-packshot-602x602-sized-217-217.jpg
hmmmm....

Come on! That's an awesome cover. It's slightly camp but in a straight up superb way.