'kin' is a pretty incredible album, feel like it's massively slept-on. it's reminiscent of how austra was vv similar to the knife in ways that were pretty good but just made me want to listen to 'silent shout', except this is similar in ways that make me want to keep listening to 'kin'.
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Thursday, 20 December 2012 22:31 (eleven years ago) link
Agree that this has been slept on massively, I've not seen it on one end of year critics list. I'll be voting for it in the ILM poll for sure, no album has come close to it this year.
For the people who still like to own actual CD's they've recently announced they're releasing Bounty in March.
http://towhomitmayconcern.cc/releases/iamamiwhoami-bounty
― Kitchen Person, Thursday, 20 December 2012 22:44 (eleven years ago) link
^ neat
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 20 December 2012 22:49 (eleven years ago) link
I really like this album. For me, this and chairlift destroy the rest of the competition when it comes to catchy synthy Knifey styles this year
― besides Sunny Real Estate (dog latin), Thursday, 20 December 2012 23:17 (eleven years ago) link
Playing in London again in May.
― Go Narine, Go! (ShariVari), Thursday, 20 December 2012 23:37 (eleven years ago) link
Couldn't agree more, it's excellent! Varied but still cohesive. Grimes gets all the attention, and I wouldn't say this destroys her, but it is just as good.
― LeRooLeRoo, Friday, 21 December 2012 00:04 (eleven years ago) link
this year's gazelle twin in terms of quality and unfortunate underappreciation imo.
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Friday, 21 December 2012 21:35 (eleven years ago) link
Playing a date in the US...in Oakland. https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10151715593939336&id=270417754335
http://symbiosisgathering.com/lineup/
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 18 July 2013 21:04 (ten years ago) link
http://www.popjustice.com/videos/iamamiwhoami-fountain/123717/
― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 21 January 2014 23:00 (ten years ago) link
That's a good one.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 21 January 2014 23:07 (ten years ago) link
I'm usually a big fan, but this is a bit too Sarah Brightman for me, I don't know...
― LeRooLeRoo, Wednesday, 22 January 2014 04:30 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, the vocals ruin it a bit for me too. I feel only Liz Frazer can pull off that sort of thing. The song would have probably worked if it was sung a full octave lower.
― daavid, Wednesday, 22 January 2014 05:18 (ten years ago) link
Late period Cocteaus got away with it because they had a better sense of tension and release and always shimmering sonics. I recall some missteps from them too (IIRC, on Love's Easy Tears) when they got into a lock groove of trilling.
Hopefully the next one from Joanna & co. will be more grounded.
― His magesty's satanic walnut farm (Sanpaku), Wednesday, 22 January 2014 05:25 (ten years ago) link
Love's Easy Tears is CT at its best imo.
― LeRooLeRoo, Wednesday, 22 January 2014 06:19 (ten years ago) link
Another new song. Hopefully this means an album is on its way.
http://www.popjustice.com/videos/iamamiwhoami-hunting-for-pearls/124760/
― Kitchen Person, Thursday, 27 February 2014 01:10 (ten years ago) link
Bandwidth schmandwidth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJxXYHQIF40
― disposable soma (Sanpaku), Thursday, 27 February 2014 04:00 (ten years ago) link
Another five singles have been released since the last post on here and an album is out in three weeks. Kin is still one of my favourite albums of the decade so far but I've been strangely unmoved by any of the songs I've heard from this new one and haven't even listened to all of them. Will definitely give the album a listen but I'm just not expecting to be blown away like I was with Kin or Bounty.
― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 14:28 (nine years ago) link
I've heard all the singles on Spotify and I like all of them. Didn't realize they were leading up to an album so soon (I'm accustomed to her taking a couple years to get to that stage).
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 02:54 (nine years ago) link
"Fountain" and "Hunting for Pearls" have probably been two of my most played tracks this year, awesomely excited for this next record
― nxd, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 08:41 (nine years ago) link
Maybe I just need to spend some more time with the songs that are out there. I'm actually more behind than I realised. Seven of the ten tracks on the album have already been released and I may have only heard three of them.
The album is out Nov 10th and is called BLUE.
― Kitchen Person, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 15:08 (nine years ago) link
Three new songs: "Shadowshow", "The Last Dancer", and "Ripple"
For some reason Vogue Magazine has the exclusive album stream.
― TTAGGGTTAGGG (Sanpaku), Thursday, 6 November 2014 17:40 (nine years ago) link
Second live concert video, streaming now.
― Immaculate molars, baby! (Sanpaku), Thursday, 30 April 2015 00:07 (eight years ago) link
"Kin" is my favorite album from 2012.
― Ross, Monday, 17 October 2016 17:43 (seven years ago) link
It's in my Top 3 with Visions and Bloom.
― LeRooLeRoo, Thursday, 20 October 2016 00:41 (seven years ago) link
I'd put Kin just behind Kaleidoscope Dream. It would definitely make my top 10 of the decade. It's a shame I couldn't get into the follow up in the same way. It just kind of passed me by.
― Kitchen Person, Thursday, 20 October 2016 01:24 (seven years ago) link
Blue is sounding incredible to me right now.
― Working night & day, I tried to stay awake... (Turrican), Sunday, 18 December 2016 23:50 (seven years ago) link
^ It's so good :) I love Jonna Lee.
― Everything Moves Towards The Sun (Ross), Thursday, 29 December 2016 19:55 (seven years ago) link
Holy Shit, new Jonna Lee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVWOZqsIm_0
― Carlotta's Portrait (Ross), Tuesday, 14 March 2017 01:17 (seven years ago) link
Interview on her new solo project
http://www.anothermag.com/design-living/9616/the-ethereal-new-musical-endeavour-from-jonna-lee
― Carlotta's Portrait (Ross), Tuesday, 14 March 2017 01:22 (seven years ago) link
this new one sounds a lot like Ellie Goulding to me
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 14 March 2017 08:00 (seven years ago) link
Love the song and the video! My boyfriend also asked if it was Ellie Goulding while I was watching it. I can hear some inflections in her voice that sound similar.
― LeRooLeRoo, Wednesday, 15 March 2017 04:10 (seven years ago) link
Looks like this marks the end of IAM project as well. If this is chapter 2, bring it on!
― Carlotta's Portrait (Ross), Wednesday, 15 March 2017 04:11 (seven years ago) link
I just want more grinding, ala "Clump". As much as I love ethereality, we live in friction.
― Sanpaku, Wednesday, 15 March 2017 04:47 (seven years ago) link
Returning to this, discovering it has fewer views than many shitty videogame playthrough segments, has confirmed my opinion that Western Civilization deserves to collapse.
― Sanpaku, Wednesday, 15 March 2017 04:53 (seven years ago) link
Sanpaku OTM
― Carlotta's Portrait (Ross), Wednesday, 15 March 2017 05:05 (seven years ago) link
NOT HUMAN, JUNE 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5z3n5TJB4Xk
― Carlotta's Portrait (Ross), Tuesday, 30 May 2017 00:07 (six years ago) link
So stoked. Samaritan just keeps getting better with repeated listens.
― Fetchboy, Tuesday, 30 May 2017 00:21 (six years ago) link
Looks amazing!
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 30 May 2017 03:02 (six years ago) link
"Concert in Blue" was so good as well. "The Deadlock" an original song from that session, is prime IAM
― Carlotta's Portrait (Ross), Tuesday, 30 May 2017 03:49 (six years ago) link
Not sure why Jonna felt the need to distinguish this from the iamamiwhoami material.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Xdov_B-cQg
― it's just locker room treason (Sanpaku), Friday, 2 June 2017 19:04 (six years ago) link
IONNALEE is Jonna doing it on her own afaik. IAM was more collaborative
― Unchanging Window (Ross), Friday, 2 June 2017 19:12 (six years ago) link
Really good single as usual. Kinda feel like it doesn't have the usual layers of IAM's stuff though, where you can come back to it and find something new - it's much more immediate. The outro is fantastic though
― Unchanging Window (Ross), Friday, 2 June 2017 20:43 (six years ago) link
Given time I think "Blue" is close to as good as "Kin". Try listening to this while walking by the seaside on a sunny day, it accompanies the empyrean sparkle of water perfectly. "Kin" is more of a weird and tense record, but "Blue" is absolutely consistent in its embodiment of the air/water elements. It's a release and exorcism of demons and reclamation of joy.
― Unchanging Window (Ross), Wednesday, 5 July 2017 21:00 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzqJCco1WE8
just cuz
― Unchanging Window (Ross), Thursday, 6 July 2017 02:13 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUSDfx9ItWs
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Sunday, 8 October 2017 03:42 (six years ago) link
new song on friday is a redux version of this apparently http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=4yAI5_YXNqI
excited
― In a slipshod style (Ross), Wednesday, 22 November 2017 05:53 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihd9dKek2gc
newest single, favorite of the bunch and reminiscent of Blue era
― In a slipshod style (Ross), Monday, 27 November 2017 04:09 (six years ago) link
so I never, ever hear about this woman's work outside of ILX and via people who have liked it on youtube. maybe i'm out of touch; I think all of it is pretty great; does she have any kind of presence outside of these narrow confines?
― akm, Monday, 27 November 2017 05:19 (six years ago) link
hi akm, yeah would say she does to some extent. rym rated Kin as #82/1200 albums in 2012. Will say out in the wild I don't meet a lot of iam fans, probably know about 3 tbh
― In a slipshod style (Ross), Monday, 27 November 2017 05:25 (six years ago) link
new album feb 16 "everyone afraid to be forgotten"
thankfully this time Jonna put out less advance singles than she did for "Blue" which ended up making the album a tad familiar on first listen.
technically this is a new artist and not imamamiwhoami anymore
― kolakube (Ross), Monday, 8 January 2018 21:21 (six years ago) link