Barbara Panther, Niki & the Dove, Gazelle Twin, Julia Holter, and iamamiwhoami also got shoutouts.
― Plato’s The Cave In Claymation (Sanpaku), Sunday, 15 January 2012 19:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
And Austra.
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 23:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
this leaked. and it's good, but I don't think it will convince anyone who wasn't prone to be convinced by the previous stuff.
― fffv, Saturday, 21 January 2012 02:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
i really don't know what i think of this album
― tinie tempurah (lex pretend), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 13:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
there are bits of it that are OH FUCK YES, and there are bits that i am just not down with and a lot of the time it's like she's nearly hitting the spot and then nothing happens
― tinie tempurah (lex pretend), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 13:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
I'm loving the background vocals on Vowels = space and time.
Skin is also an early favourite.
Be A Body (侘寂) is totally going to be the next single, right?
This is an album of wonderful moments. Not all of them are 'songs' for me yet, but a lot of them are.
― Somewhere between Fergie and Jesus (Alex in Montreal), Friday, 3 February 2012 22:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
I quite like "Oblivion," not sure yet about the rest.
― jaymc, Friday, 3 February 2012 22:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
When is this out, properly? Really want to hear this, the comments are piquing my interest.
― Drexciya's Midnight Runners (Wheal Dream), Friday, 3 February 2012 23:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
really digging this myself
― Chris S, Saturday, 4 February 2012 03:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
from what I understand, this is out on either the 21st of this month (Arbutus, US and Canada) or the 12th of next month (4AD, most everywhere else). and I hope that previous comments did not imply that I lack enthusiasm. I love Visions a lot, but despite all of the pop aspirations it feels like it was built to inspire obsession from a limited audience.
― fffv, Saturday, 4 February 2012 03:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
She definitely has the charm and hooks to pull to a wider audience but her songwriting could use some editing... many times it does sound like the songs drift without any specific purpose and as a whole it drags.
― Moka, Saturday, 4 February 2012 05:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
For legit consumers, Visions streaming in its entirety
― Pauper Management Improved (Sanpaku), Monday, 13 February 2012 21:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
Can't. Don't have the bandwidth!
*cries*
Why couldn't this have been available 2 weeks ago when I still had all you can eat broadband?
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Monday, 13 February 2012 23:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
Given there's nothing on the album I'm bored by, I think editing would inevitably mean reducing the idiosyncratic facets I'm charmed by.
Best thing about Grimes: she has such disinterest (contempt?) for lyrical content as she chirps through her baby birdsong. She might as well be the electropop version of Juliana Barwick..
― Pauper Management Improved (Sanpaku), Monday, 13 February 2012 23:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
yeh this is excellent
― nathey, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 16:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
"skin" is very pretty, but a bit insubstantial, tho i guess "insubstantial" is kinda the point. soft, sweet, ghostly. don't hear no afx, but enya sure. and i don't hate enya, but i don't love this. got bored before the 6 minutes were up.
"oblivion" is much more immediate. the nothing lyrics are kind of selling me, "look into my eyes and la la la la la, see you on a dark night". that's great! love the synths at the end, too.
want more songs like "oblivion"
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 16:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
dunno, but it's v nice. enya influence is even more prominent at the beginning, but j-lo too? love the shift to dark propulive beats halfway through.
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 17:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
For lex:Grimes namechecked a similar/sympatico artist Mozart's Sister whose voice might be more to your liking:
― Pauper Management Improved (Sanpaku), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 17:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
^ Also of Montreal.
― Pauper Management Improved (Sanpaku), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 17:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
I'm gonna bookmark this thread for when I've topped up my data bcuz "electronic Juliana Barwick" = WCC catnip if I wasn't onboard already (which I have been since Halfaxa)
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 17:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
so she made this on garageband, huh?
― the third kind of dubstep (Jordan), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 17:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
Mozart's Sister is also v. good!
They have a three track EP called DEAR FEAR from last year. Maybe they have other stuff too? Not sure.
― Somewhere between Fergie and Jesus (Alex in Montreal), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 18:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
yaaaaaarg, just listening to her stuff now (i'm always way late with everything) and enjoying it a lot. i just took a break from some incredibly bureaucratic shit at work to watch this video and i don't..think..i can go back to work again today
― tmi but (Z S), Friday, 17 February 2012 21:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
Skin reminds me of a mix between Enya and Natalie Imbruglia's smoke. Am I too off?
― Moka, Friday, 17 February 2012 23:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
Really can't believe we have come to a point where evoking the names Stacy Q and Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam results in a positive fucking review. I give up.
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Friday, 17 February 2012 23:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
I love this album cover!
― dream words & nightmare paragraphs from a red factory in a dead town (Abbbottt), Friday, 17 February 2012 23:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
yeah, is awesome. post in the best of 2012 thread!
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Friday, 17 February 2012 23:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
after being completely underwhelmed by anything i heard of hers before this record (i'm kind of with lex on the voice thing), i'm really enjoying "oblivion" and "circumabient"
― Whiney vs. (BradNelson), Saturday, 18 February 2012 01:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
Fucking adore this record.
Funny that Alex in Montreal referred to Braids upthread as this album strikes me as something of an electronic equivalent, simultaneously tuneful and spacious and drifting (whereas I think Juliana Barwick is a bit of a misleading point of comparison).
"Skin" esp. is wonderful.
― Tim F, Saturday, 18 February 2012 06:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
i gave this a few more tries and while there's nothing i actively dislike about her music, neither is there anything hooking me back in - it's all vaguely "interesting", also very unmemorable and lite.
― if u leave imma crank wu-tang in my black matte truck (lex pretend), Saturday, 18 February 2012 11:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
cf julianna barwick who hooked me straight away, and gazelle twin whose music i absolutely adore sinking into. grimes has no gravitas.
― if u leave imma crank wu-tang in my black matte truck (lex pretend), Saturday, 18 February 2012 11:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
the cover of this record is really really bad. if you're going to rip off the sacred bones design scheme (which i really love), at least do it well!
― jonathan - stl, Saturday, 18 February 2012 15:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
ripoff Sacred Bones serifs + some Cyrillic lorem ipsum + some 1994-bad-sci-fi-book-cover graphics + giant in-class notebook doodle-looking thing = a mess and I like it
― dream words & nightmare paragraphs from a red factory in a dead town (Abbbottt), Saturday, 18 February 2012 15:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yeah, Tim. The BRAIDS reference was not accidental.
Visions is getting a 4AD release in the rest of the world, but Grimes and BRAIDS and Blue Hawaii a couple of other bands in the same general aesthetic universe were all on the same local label for a few years based out of Montreal.
A bunch of their early stuff is available for download by donation at the Arbutus website, including Geidi Primes and Halfaxa, the first two Grimes albums, and Blue Hawaii's Blooming Summer.
Not that that necessarily implies that they sound *the same* but their music is definitely in conversation with each other.
― Somewhere between Fergie and Jesus (Alex in Montreal), Saturday, 18 February 2012 16:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
And 'Skin' continues to be the standout for me - the first Grimes track that's hit me emotionally.
(That's not a backhanded compliment - I love the rest of her stuff, but Skin really gets to me.)
Other standouts: Infinite <3 without fulfillment, Genesis, Oblivion, Vowels = space and time, Be a Body (侘寂). Possibly Nightmusic.
― Somewhere between Fergie and Jesus (Alex in Montreal), Saturday, 18 February 2012 16:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
thanks for the links and suggestions, alex!
― tmi but (Z S), Saturday, 18 February 2012 16:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
Of the first two Grimes album, I think Halfaxa is a bit more like this one - it's the clear transition to the kind of thing she's doing now, but I love Geidi Primes - it's a little less cohesive, but there's a lot of cool stuff going on.
The Blue Hawaii tape was one of my favourite albums of 2010 - the standout is 'Blue Gowns'. Blue Hawaii's vocalist = the lead vocalist from BRAIDS which should help determine if it's your thing or if you should steer clear - (aka this is a warning for Lex)
― Somewhere between Fergie and Jesus (Alex in Montreal), Saturday, 18 February 2012 16:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
The Geidi Primes cover is also really lovely:
― Somewhere between Fergie and Jesus (Alex in Montreal), Saturday, 18 February 2012 16:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
Halfaxa got another similar weird "skull" motif cover everywhere else, but in Canada we got a photo negative of a topless woman with a bunch of purple.
― Somewhere between Fergie and Jesus (Alex in Montreal), Saturday, 18 February 2012 16:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
#!
Just found this - apparently there was a re-release of 'Halfaxa' with this track tossed in the middle of it and I never found out? This is lovely.
― Somewhere between Fergie and Jesus (Alex in Montreal), Saturday, 18 February 2012 16:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
laurel halo did an awesome remix of that track
― Whiney vs. (BradNelson), Saturday, 18 February 2012 16:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
And naturally it's not available anywhere but Europe. Dammit. (The Original. Not the Remix)
― Somewhere between Fergie and Jesus (Alex in Montreal), Saturday, 18 February 2012 16:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
if you're going to rip off the sacred bones design scheme
well, it does "rip off" the sacred bones design scheme (general layout, fonts), but also pushes beyond it in interesting ways. and the drawing is wonderful. one of my favorite album covers of the year so far.
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Saturday, 18 February 2012 18:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
Skin is killing me. Be a Body (侘寂) too. all of them really.
I think the album really shows post-everything/Internet music doesn't have to just be some senseless exercise in referencing. like there's the Mr. Bungle/Girl Talk-style, 'yo look what just threw in' approach, but it can be done more selectively. like anything is available, but then you can pick out a finite set of elements with more purpose. this feels really cohesive and harmonious to me, like there's a logic to the aesthetic system she creates, and real emotional resonance (really gets to me actually). could probably work out some cultural meaning in this beyond just 'hey post-modernism waka waka'
― Chris S, Saturday, 18 February 2012 19:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
― if u leave imma crank wu-tang in my black matte truck (lex pretend), Saturday, February 18, 2012 11:15 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
The (excellent) Frankie Rose album is much more in Julianna Barwick territory than this is, IMO.
― Tim F, Sunday, 19 February 2012 11:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
She comes across as tremendously likable in the p4k interview I think - love how she invokes all this hi falutin stuff almost inevitably to have a go at herself, and she seems to anticipate a lot of the criticisms that people might want to throw at her without seeming like that's what she set out to do.
― Tim F, Sunday, 19 February 2012 11:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
Boucher, I mean.
Smoke weed, listen to Mariah Carey. Hilarious, and awesome.
― MikoMcha, Sunday, 19 February 2012 11:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
she seems like an excellent person! but i'm not hearing anything compelling in her music.
― lex pretend, Sunday, 19 February 2012 15:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
Frankie Rose is a vocalist, songwriter and musician living in Brooklyn, NY. She was formerly an original member of acclaimed garage rock acts Crystal Stilts, Dum Dum Girls, and the Vivian Girls.[1]
erm i'll stick with julianna barwick thanks :o
― lex pretend, Sunday, 19 February 2012 15:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
So annoying contenderizer, ppl need to realize that ian has been the guy from fugazi not the guy from minor threat for 2+ decadesp
joeks?
― controversial vegan pregnancy (contenderizer), Saturday, 4 May 2013 19:24 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
I agree with spazzmatazz.
― rock 'em sock 'em (Treeship), Saturday, 4 May 2013 19:27 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
she will be a legend
― i also enjoy in line skateing (spazzmatazz), Sunday, 5 May 2013 03:33 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
so does she not do vowels = space and time live? :(
― i also enjoy in line skateing (spazzmatazz), Monday, 6 May 2013 05:27 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
Sadly, no. I put it on at a party last year and some kid asked me if it was new Ciara...
I said yes.
― Cousin Slappy, Monday, 6 May 2013 06:36 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
lol
― dyl, Monday, 6 May 2013 06:46 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
― markers, Monday, 13 May 2013 01:48 (1 week ago) Permalink
<3
― Treeship, Monday, 13 May 2013 01:55 (1 week ago) Permalink
E>_<3 - O -
― your holiness, we have an official energy drink (Z S), Monday, 13 May 2013 02:12 (1 week ago) Permalink
you know what i mean
lol i cannot decipher that
― Treeship, Monday, 13 May 2013 02:28 (1 week ago) Permalink
They were supposed to be experimental heartshades
― your holiness, we have an official energy drink (Z S), Monday, 13 May 2013 02:31 (1 week ago) Permalink
in this photo, the artist flees a sea of camera dorks
― controversial vegan pregnancy (contenderizer), Monday, 13 May 2013 03:36 (1 week ago) Permalink
hipster kokopelli
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Monday, 13 May 2013 04:52 (1 week ago) Permalink
dorkslovetofotou (xp)
― Drugs A. Money, Monday, 13 May 2013 06:53 (1 week ago) Permalink
I like this.
http://soundcloud.com/rookiemag/oblivion-katie-and-allison
― fffv, Tuesday, 21 May 2013 02:20 (2 days ago) Permalink
wow, that's great. anyone heard the waxahatchee album? is it as good as this?
― monotony, Tuesday, 21 May 2013 14:26 (2 days ago) Permalink
rad cover
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 21 May 2013 14:44 (2 days ago) Permalink
I really like the Waxahatchee album, but it doesn't really sound like that.
― monster_xero, Tuesday, 21 May 2013 16:34 (2 days ago) Permalink
Here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoDhmH66CoI
― monster_xero, Tuesday, 21 May 2013 16:35 (2 days ago) Permalink
the swearin' album is closer to that sound
but what you're looking for is bad banana/p.s. eliot probably
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 21 May 2013 16:58 (2 days ago) Permalink
that cover is fucking atrocious
― ogmor, Tuesday, 21 May 2013 18:26 (2 days ago) Permalink
not been tricked into clicking on something that bad for a long time
― markers, Wednesday, 22 May 2013 16:48 (Yesterday) Permalink