Ah! By complete randomness I have just made contact with another local artist who knows Final Cut Pro. I think we're going to do this.
― Popcorn Supergay Receiver (Masonic Boom), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 14:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
I am seeing them tonight! so pumped
― Time, a group with Jam and Lewis (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 15:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
So jealous, they're sounding so amazing on this tour.
(But if you speak to them, tell them to give me the prize, my video will be awesomes.)
― Popcorn Supergay Receiver (Masonic Boom), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 15:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
I can't wait to see them again! July needs to hurry up...
― keraia2027, Thursday, 5 April 2012 09:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
They were p good but not amazing. They didn't play "Heart is Strange" or "The Night" (even though the latter was on the setlist taped to the stage) but it was still a blast to hear, like, half of Ghostory and Disconnect from Desire live.
― Time, a group with Jam and Lewis (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 5 April 2012 15:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
They didn't play The Night?! That's odd. They didn't play Heart is Strange when I saw them in London either. Bye Bye Bye sounded great though.
― keraia2027, Thursday, 5 April 2012 18:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
i know i was rly bummed
― Time, a group with Jam and Lewis (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 5 April 2012 19:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
Show tonight = righteous!
They need to obey the Foghat Rule and go with fourth album double-live. Their live sound is so unbelievably powerful right now.
― Reality Check Cashing Services (Elvis Telecom), Friday, 20 April 2012 08:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
Listening to the RSD single now and the Siouxsie cover is fun. Ben gets a convincingly Manzanera sound going out of his guitar.
However, the flip-side to this "When She Was Me" is mind-croggingly beautiful 4am post-party comedown/crash trance-motorik. It makes me think of being somewhere vaguely unfamiliar and you have to take a cab because you're both too drunk and too high and are desperate need of coffee and dessert so the cab driver takes you across the city to a cafe his brother owns instead of the great one down the avenue but it doesn't matter because you get to see the central city look like an electric lost city of cibola
― Reality Check Cashing Services (Elvis Telecom), Thursday, 26 April 2012 07:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
why is this not available in the UK :(
― liberté, égalité, beyoncé (lex pretend), Thursday, 26 April 2012 08:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yes, this is patently unfair. Since they won't let us buy it legally, please to rip it and email it over to us. ;-)
― They have fangs, They have teeth! (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Thursday, 26 April 2012 08:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
Here's Siouxsie...
― Reality Check Cashing Services (Elvis Telecom), Thursday, 26 April 2012 08:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
WCC, check your email
― Reality Check Cashing Services (Elvis Telecom), Thursday, 26 April 2012 08:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
Fuck, I have to listen to it again!
― Reality Check Cashing Services (Elvis Telecom), Thursday, 26 April 2012 08:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
Seriously... I want to hear it echoing off of skyscrapers late at night.
― Reality Check Cashing Services (Elvis Telecom), Thursday, 26 April 2012 08:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
awesomes! thanking you!
(Cornish broadband please do not let me down.)
So far Kiss Them For Me is sounding amazing...
― They have fangs, They have teeth! (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Thursday, 26 April 2012 08:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
I was going to try to walk to Nanjizal Bay before the rain hits, but I need to put on a kettle of tea and listen to these, first few seconds sound SO AMAZING. Just completely the right aesthetic for them.
― They have fangs, They have teeth! (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Thursday, 26 April 2012 08:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
WCC can you fwd this to me please!
― liberté, égalité, beyoncé (lex pretend), Thursday, 26 April 2012 08:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
I'm *trying* but Cornish broadband can only seem to do one thing at a time...
― They have fangs, They have teeth! (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Thursday, 26 April 2012 08:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
"Kiss Them For Me" is like whirling shoegaze Blondie. I love it!
― Reality Check Cashing Services (Elvis Telecom), Thursday, 26 April 2012 08:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
got it WCC, thanks!
― liberté, égalité, beyoncé (lex pretend), Thursday, 26 April 2012 08:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
They really are determined to turn into the 00s Cocteau Twins, but without any of the bad yuppie coffee bar bits. This is just utterly blissful.
It is just the guitars and vocals from Cocteau Twins rolled over the top of Ibiza era New Order. Which has my teenage self just completely weeping with happiness.
I'm gonna put this on my headphones and go up Pedn-Men-Du and watch the storms roll in.
― They have fangs, They have teeth! (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Thursday, 26 April 2012 09:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
Argh you guys, I want to listen to this too!
― Roz, Thursday, 26 April 2012 09:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
check your fb roz!
― liberté, égalité, beyoncé (lex pretend), Thursday, 26 April 2012 09:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
thanks so much, lex!
― Roz, Thursday, 26 April 2012 09:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
Can I get a copy of this somehow? My store on RSD only got like two copies, and they were gone when I walked in the door. Email is phil (dot) p (dot) dennison at gmail.
― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Thursday, 26 April 2012 09:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
Just as FYI, it is available electronically on iTunes in the US (which is where I got mine)
― Reality Check Cashing Services (Elvis Telecom), Thursday, 26 April 2012 09:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
this version is a borefest. i'm not convinced by the vocals, way too robotic for me. she's doing a textbook reading of the main melody and belting out her lines like an automaton, not even a single vocal inflection of note.
oh, she's echoed to death during the harmonies for no apparent reason, gimme a break
― cock chirea, Thursday, 26 April 2012 10:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
lex, you are awesome, thanks!
― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Thursday, 26 April 2012 12:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
I was going to buy a second copy 'cos the store I went to on RSD had like five left, but they were one-per-customer. I knew somebody here would want one.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Thursday, 26 April 2012 13:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
Note to haters: please see thread title. Take your irrational and trivial hating elsewhere, pls. This thread is for love only. Kthxbye.
― They have fangs, They have teeth! (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Thursday, 26 April 2012 13:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
I got the RSD single but haven't listened yet. Does it come w a download?
― Time, a group with Jam and Lewis (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 26 April 2012 21:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
Listened to the files lex forwarded to me and this is terrific! I could definitely listen to "When She Was Me" for hours.
Next time RSD rolls around, I kinda want them to cover Book Of Love.
― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Friday, 27 April 2012 12:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
I don't want to discourage any band from releasing fun, one-off singles... but this one isn't super great. The b-side is kind of cool, but I'm starting to think the loss of Claudia was a crippling blow.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Friday, 27 April 2012 13:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
Agreed that KTFM isn't the best thing, and pales in comparison to how utterly fantastic Ghostory is. I'll admit to totally hating it when it first emanated from the office stereo across the room, but I like it better listening on headphones for sure.
Regardless my love for them has fully blossomed with Ghostory - such a wonderfully listenable album from start to finish. I really don't think there's a dud track on the whole record. Plus the Cocteaus comparison is totally spot on - they have nailed those perfect harmonies. It's all sort of a late-80's/early-90's shoegazer melange, isn't it? Which is basically aural crack rock for me.
― mikebee (BATTAGS), Friday, 27 April 2012 23:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
finally got a chance to listen to this on proper speakers and agree with the general sentiment - the cover is cute but "when she was me" is pure gorgeousness.
They just keep getting better and better imo. Ghostory is ROTY for me at this point.
― Roz, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 17:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
What I like most about this band is that every album has at least two astonishing, career-justifying moments for me ("Iamundernodisguise", "White Elephant Coat", "Dust Devil", "Camarilla", "Low Times", "When You Sing").
― I'M THAT POSTA, AAAAAAAAAH (DJP), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 17:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
But what about "Heart Is Strange"!
― Time, a group with Jam and Lewis (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 18:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
"Heart Is Strange" is a great song but there are at least three others on that album I like more (the two I mentioned plus "Windstorm")
― I'M THAT POSTA, AAAAAAAAAH (DJP), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 19:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
ha i agree but with different songs
iamundernodisguise / prince of peace / heart is strange / ilu / low times / white wind
― liberté, égalité, beyoncé (lex pretend), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 20:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
Siouxsie fans can be pretty protective even in 2012, judging by some of the iTunes comments.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 22:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
And how many of them own Through The Looking Glass?
― Reality Check Cashing Services (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 22:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
Also difficult to even imagine the song without the Schooly D beat hammering away..
― mikebee (BATTAGS), Thursday, 3 May 2012 18:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
When that and "Pearl" by Chapterhouse were released within months of each other there was plenty of 'wait hold on' moments going around, I recall. Perfect goth/gaze/hiphop crossover (key early moments being A R Kane via M/A/R/R/S and the MBV instrumental sampling "Security of the First World").
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 3 May 2012 18:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
Hooray, they'll be playing a few blocks from me in October. Makes up for having to miss them for Pulp last month!
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 16:39 (11 months ago) Permalink
Now HERE'S a cover version I didn't expect.
http://soundcloud.com/vagrantrecords/sviib-howtolove
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 24 July 2012 16:40 (9 months ago) Permalink
It's such a dreamy cover! Wasn't expecting it either, but it's just lovely. And the Radiohead cover is gorgeous too.
― keraia2027, Tuesday, 24 July 2012 20:47 (9 months ago) Permalink
"how to love" is gorgeous shoegazeness
― moullet, Tuesday, 31 July 2012 01:36 (9 months ago) Permalink
the MBV instrumental sampling "Security of the First World"
oooooaaaaaahhhhhaaaaoooooooohhhhaaaaahhhwannakissyouinparis
― the mandy moorhols (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 31 July 2012 19:13 (9 months ago) Permalink
well i thought the lil wayne cover was just a nice curio when i first heard it but inexplicably it's totally kicked in to the point of obsession this week
― lex pretend, Friday, 28 September 2012 08:27 (7 months ago) Permalink