the fact mix is huge
― try again, fascist (Matt P), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 03:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
love "you mean so much to me" from Touched. "pleasure" is the favourite from the new stuff i've heard.
when's the album out?
― misty sensorium (Plasmon), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 05:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
feb 7th. the wine/water 12" is amazing. i was a huge fan of the ep on merock but i kinda slept on the stuff on rvng so ive only picked it up recently but 'wine' is just a jammmm
― # (Lamp), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 05:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
i think the best blondes track is still 'you mean so much to me' tho
― # (Lamp), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 05:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://soundcloud.com/feelmybicep/blondes-water-bicep-remix
A++ epic sound
― misty sensorium (Plasmon), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 07:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
Anticipating! Was listening to Touched again yesterday actually, fabulous record.
― Derartu Cthulhu (NickB), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 07:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
def. looking forward to this
― dmr, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 17:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
saw them saturday night @ the MOMA. sound system could have been a little better but it pretty mesmerizing hearing them loud anyway.
the panning. THE PANNING!!!
― cutty, Thursday, 26 January 2012 13:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
Hmm, wondering now if i should take a train ride to London to see them next month.
― Derartu Cthulhu (NickB), Thursday, 26 January 2012 13:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
Just noticed this after posted the Wine clip to hipster house thread, but was unsure if it belonged there. I like the new single and the Bicep remix, the FACT mix is pretty great in terms of mapping out their sound and some influences.
There's a chance to see them in a couple of weeks here, I'm going to try and check them out. I suspect they might make quite a bit of sense live.
― MikoMcha, Thursday, 26 January 2012 14:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://drownedinsound.com/news/4144408-album-stream--blondes-self-titled-debut-album?ticker
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 00:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
so its just a rerelease of all the rvng singles?
― flopson, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 00:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
some live recordings
http://soundcloud.com/warmhq/10-07-11-via-festivalhttp://soundcloud.com/warmhq/blondes-live-set-at-gatekeeper
― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 03:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
the remixes seem pretty intriguing actually
― cuteforce, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 03:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/16230-blondes-blondes/
― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Sunday, 5 February 2012 07:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
lol @ first sentence
― ⚓ (gr8080), Sunday, 5 February 2012 07:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
didnt realize the remixes were coming all together on a 2nd disc:
01. Lover (A JD Twitch Optimo Mix)02. Lover (Dungeon Acid Remix)03. Hater (SFV Acid's Encino Oaks Remix)04. Business (John Roberts Remix)05. Pleasure (Andy Stott Remix)06. Wine (Teengirl Fantasy Remix)07. Water (Bicep Remix)08. Gold (One Blonde Strange Idea by Traxx)09. Gold (Laurel Halo Chains Remix)10. Amber (Variation in Cm by Rene Hell)
― ⚓ (gr8080), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 07:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
loving. Can't wait to get onto the remixes. The Bicep remix is FMB right? awesome.
― owenf, Friday, 17 February 2012 02:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
lol @ the digital version of the remix package coming with a robert miles remix
― psychgawsple, Friday, 17 February 2012 06:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
this album rules btw idk why i never noticed this thread
― psychgawsple, Friday, 17 February 2012 07:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
really great gig in london last night in a not very dancey venue - i'd love to see these guys play a club show
― jabba hands, Friday, 17 February 2012 12:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
haha i posted about this on another thread but its really really good!
― 99x (Lamp), Friday, 17 February 2012 16:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
these guys were awesome last night but was the standard shacklewell arms snoozy indie crowd. Determined to get them to a proper party
― straightola, Friday, 17 February 2012 16:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
Why did they leave the Robert Miles mix off the CD?? It's the best remix!
― mmmm, Friday, 17 February 2012 17:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
― MikoMcha, Sunday, 19 February 2012 10:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
This album is fabulous. Some of the percussion lines are just classic.
― Tim F, Sunday, 19 February 2012 13:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yeah, it's great. Been jamming to this all day. Some of the track I hadn't heard before. Love the fireworks crackling explosions on Amber.
Haven't made it to the remix disk yet, other than the Robert Miles track above, which I honestly had much higher hopes for.
― MikoMcha, Sunday, 19 February 2012 14:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
The Business/Pleasure pairing is absolutely perfect, and the rest is really solid too. Haven't got round to all the remix disc but I'm totally feeling the Bicep remix.
― boxedjoy, Sunday, 19 February 2012 19:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
This is officially the least stealable band name ever. They couldn't have made it any harder to find if they'd called themselves Paris Hilton Sex Tape.
― Homosexual Satan Wasp (Matt DC), Sunday, 19 February 2012 20:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
This albums! So sweeping, so brooding! It strikes me as an odd coincidence that this and the Talabot album have come out at the same time because they both are like extended paeans to the build.
I think it's on "Pleasure" (though I may be wrong) where about halfway through this gorgeous piano riffing section emerges... while we're not in Marshall Jefferson territory by any stretch it still feels like this massive moment of rightness, like the entire universe has deemed this moment mandatory.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 22:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
This albums!
― Tim F, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 22:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
Lover is a great song, but Pleasure is where it really starts kicking off.
Do agree with this from the first post though:
But their best work is still "Moondance" from 2010
― Feebs K-Tel (NickB), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 22:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
I think the Blondes-Talabot link is so clear, they're very similar albums texturally as well as structurally.
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 23:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
ha, yea i was surprised at how well that robert miles remix turned out but i def wouldn't say it's my favorite of the bunch. the teengirl fantasy mix is p striking, and i'm also really feeling stirmonster's remix of "lover" that plays the melody from don cherry's "brown rice" against the original song's meredith monk sample.
this is definitely one of my favorite releases of the year so far, along with the talabot disc. i don't remember "pleasure" for the piano lines per se but more because of the somewhat unexpected lissvik-style balearic synth-guitar flourishes that pop up and make me sad that this is probably the closest we will ever come to another "life's a beach". tho that sadness quickly dissipates because it's an incredible track in it's own right
― psychgawsple, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 23:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
this album is LOVELY.
i have no idea how i hadn't even heard of them until yesterday when a friend recommended them in response to a "where is all the decent music this year" whinge - though a search did reveal that i'd just ignored the press email and d/l links a few months ago, presumably due to the boring name or maybe the douchey press release. this is so much more anonymous than i'd have thought and all the better for it
― lex pretend, Thursday, 23 February 2012 09:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
finally listened to this all the way through (via trans-pacific flight). It's really really nice, but I kind of wish it was a little more of a continuos, monolithic thing (instead of 8 separate tracks) it's like, so close. def one of the best things I've heard all year though.
gotta dip in to the remixes next.
― ⚓ (gr8080), Thursday, 23 February 2012 09:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
Do check out Touched if you haven't heard it yet!
http://open.spotify.com/album/7v19RUyMR3I1J2wOFsXZ0p
― Feebs K-Tel (NickB), Thursday, 23 February 2012 09:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
Great music, awful name
― Alexandre Dumbass (dog latin), Thursday, 23 February 2012 10:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
still need to hear the album in full. will rectify this today.
― Alexandre Dumbass (dog latin), Thursday, 23 February 2012 10:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
I think "Gold" is my favourite track at the moment but they are all so so so good. Just marvelous.
― Tim F, Thursday, 23 February 2012 12:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
i think it's a great name and also cannot recommend the live show enough, it was awesome
― jabba hands, Thursday, 23 February 2012 12:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
Actually maybe I mean "Wine".
― Tim F, Thursday, 23 February 2012 12:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
they all sound pretty much the same so you probably mean both
― lex pretend, Thursday, 23 February 2012 12:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
In fact I just checked and I do!
― Tim F, Thursday, 23 February 2012 12:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
Absolute top tier: "Business", "Pleasure", "Wine", "Gold".
So close as to barely matter: everything else.
― Tim F, Thursday, 23 February 2012 12:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yeah, Wine is my fave.
― MikoMcha, Thursday, 23 February 2012 12:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
Absolute top tier: "Business", "Pleasure", "Wine", "Gold"
Do they have other tunes called 'Yachts', 'Cocaine' and 'Secretaries'?
― Homosexual Satan Wasp (Matt DC), Thursday, 23 February 2012 13:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
Actually, each of the original 12" gathered together in the album was arranged by a ying/yang theme: lover/hater, business/pleasure, water/wine, gold/amber.
― MikoMcha, Thursday, 23 February 2012 13:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
^gets the concept
― ⚓ (gr8080), Thursday, 23 February 2012 17:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
cocaine/secretaries
― flopson, Thursday, 23 February 2012 19:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
cocaine/ketamine
― lex pretend, Thursday, 23 February 2012 19:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
action/romcom
― ⚓ (gr8080), Thursday, 23 February 2012 22:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
gr8080/lex
― Tim F, Thursday, 23 February 2012 22:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
...
― MikoMcha, Thursday, 23 February 2012 22:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
Now I'm loving this. Between this, Todd Terje and the new John Talabot, the house scene is really spoiling us.
― Alexandre Dumbass (dog latin), Thursday, 23 February 2012 23:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
So far it's the opener, lover, that hits me most - that gapped chanting with all the reverb on it - inspired programming!
― Alexandre Dumbass (dog latin), Thursday, 23 February 2012 23:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
That's a sample from a Meredith Monk piece btw.
― Feebs K-Tel (NickB), Thursday, 23 February 2012 23:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
l-r: Meredith Monk, Blondes
― Feebs K-Tel (NickB), Thursday, 23 February 2012 23:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
well shit, that didn't work
― Feebs K-Tel (NickB), Thursday, 23 February 2012 23:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
The Bicep remix is on repeat at my house - awesome album from start to finish
― skip, Thursday, 23 February 2012 23:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
Really enjoying this, it's very 'Days of Mars' with added acid house revivalism, not what I expected at all.
― Homosexual Satan Wasp (Matt DC), Friday, 24 February 2012 12:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
siiiick album
― max, Friday, 24 February 2012 17:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
I am very slack in not listening to this, it seems.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 24 February 2012 17:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
im into this also, for the record
― johnny crunch, Friday, 24 February 2012 17:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
The Wine-Water pairing is definitely my favourite. Wine sounds like Layo & Bushwacka's Love Story refracted again and again and again, it's such a corny everyone-hug-each-other dancefloor moment but it completely works.
― Homosexual Satan Wasp (Matt DC), Friday, 24 February 2012 21:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
solid albumif you press play, no return allowed
― moullet, Saturday, 25 February 2012 15:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
"a little more chill, a little more swirly, a little more… stoner-y?”
― MikoMcha, Saturday, 25 February 2012 16:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
There is also a 'boring' video for the track Amber.
― MikoMcha, Monday, 27 February 2012 08:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
kids these days
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Tuesday, 28 February 2012 03:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
― Homosexual Satan Wasp (Matt DC), Friday, February 24, 2012 12:55 PM (1 week ago)
^^
― etc, Friday, 2 March 2012 11:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
There's something about these guys that reminds me of one of Lex's posts from last year where he was wishing for a dancier version of Emeralds. They don't quite have that depth or complexity to their sound (and heck, no Mark McGuire in the band either), but maybe this is a manifestation of that sort of way of thinking?
― Feebs K-Tel (NickB), Friday, 2 March 2012 11:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
Picked this up last night.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 2 March 2012 12:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
it took me a while to work out why this album massively impressed, but seemed like a bit of a drag.. it's because the second half is so much better than the first, so takes a while to get going. I only really listen from Wine onwards n/days
― merked, Friday, 2 March 2012 13:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
it's because the second half is so much better than the first, so takes a while to get going
^ this is definitely true - think the record is possibly arranged in chronological order???
― Feebs K-Tel (NickB), Friday, 2 March 2012 13:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
y'all don't like "lover"?
― psychgawsple, Friday, 2 March 2012 17:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
and starting the record after "pleasure"... hrm. you guys must get something completely different out of this than i do, that is far and away my favorite track
― psychgawsple, Friday, 2 March 2012 17:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
the sounds on this album are just dazzling...like that moment when you're momentarily blinded by the sun shining off water or glass
― lex pretend, Thursday, 22 March 2012 13:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
I keep revisiting this album, or at least have been in a constant visit since seeing them live back in June. It translated well to a live act.
― your native bacon (mh), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 20:36 (9 months ago) Permalink