man that final album is still such a disappointment. It's a startling failure
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Monday, 25 September 2017 06:15 (six years ago) link
It certainly wasn't worth waiting four years for. I mean, it still amazes me that they had four years to work on Moth and it still turned out awful.
― more Allegro-like (Turrican), Monday, 25 September 2017 06:40 (six years ago) link
yeah, totally agree Turrican. The first track is a non-starter and the album feels like a mess of experiments that went wrong with the exception of "Crying in public".
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Monday, 25 September 2017 06:54 (six years ago) link
watching live videos from the last tour, they seemed like they were having far more fun than this diluted album suggested
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Monday, 25 September 2017 07:00 (six years ago) link
haven't heard the full album but c'mon now "moth to the flame" is great
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Monday, 25 September 2017 07:22 (six years ago) link
4 years? really? didn't feel like a particularly long time between Something and Moth but apparently so. Something is definitely a classic album though
― Shat Parp (dog latin), Monday, 25 September 2017 07:53 (six years ago) link
Yeah, it was really four years, although there was that Polachek solo record in between.
― more Allegro-like (Turrican), Monday, 25 September 2017 20:35 (six years ago) link
Solo record was much better than the last Charlift. Seems like it may have influenced the way their final album sounded, especially "Ottawa to Osaka"...in a bad way.
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Monday, 25 September 2017 20:39 (six years ago) link
this is certainly a choice!
https://www.stereogum.com/1974416/caroline-polachek-pulls-out-of-moogfest-over-lineup-announcement/news/
― Simon H., Friday, 8 December 2017 18:07 (six years ago) link
i support this. she doesn't want to be enlisted in political grandstanding without her consent.
― treeship 2, Friday, 8 December 2017 18:19 (six years ago) link
someone at MOOGfest should have been conscientious enough to consider giving the artists a heads-up that this was how the lineup was getting rolled out, but I think Polachek could have handled this a little more professionally too. it's of course her choice if she doesn't want to play but it's still sad to see this kind of discord from two parties that ostensibly are pretty simpatico in their view of the world.
― evol j, Friday, 8 December 2017 18:21 (six years ago) link
There's no question that the tweet is tokenistic as hell, but outright bailing seems like an extreme response to me idk xp
― Simon H., Friday, 8 December 2017 18:22 (six years ago) link
"political grandstanding" seems like a bordering-on-bad-faith reading of this. I'm just looking at the tweet though, i don't know if there was more to the announcement or not.
― evol j, Friday, 8 December 2017 18:24 (six years ago) link
whether it is a worthy cause or not they didn't consult the artists as to whether they were OK with being enlisted in it
― treeship 2, Friday, 8 December 2017 18:34 (six years ago) link
caroline polachek doesn't have to be a gender activist if she doesn't want to
Support Caroline on this one!
― In a slipshod style (Ross), Friday, 8 December 2017 19:10 (six years ago) link
I have a lot of memories of friends experiencing a very particular kind of conflicted doubt when they get invited to all-female festivals. I can only imagine all those feelings compressed into a shock when learning about it after signing up. moogfest & emmy parker are definitely not grandstanding though, and I liked their response
the CEP solo album has a balance to it, the way her melodies give way after the opening pieces to longform sinewave textures. like hiroshi yoshimura & eliane radigue on the same bus. sounds great loud.
― Milton Parker, Friday, 8 December 2017 20:12 (six years ago) link
It does strike me as about 40 years too late to curate electronic music festivals around gender. Among musical genres, academic/experimental electronic composition has been the most friendly to female composers, and the most eager to fete female pioneers, at least since I first started paying attention in the 80s.
― Sanpaku, Friday, 8 December 2017 21:04 (six years ago) link
Milton - that polachek solo album is great!
― In a slipshod style (Ross), Friday, 8 December 2017 21:05 (six years ago) link
She sounded strong vocalizing with John Cale recently at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 8 December 2017 21:55 (six years ago) link
yeah I'm usually surprised at people not having heard her solo album -- it's way better than the last chairlift record
― sick, fucking funny, and well tasty (katherine), Friday, 8 December 2017 23:31 (six years ago) link
"From Ottawa to Osaka" sounds like a textural nod to her solo record; but the last chairlift record is so uneven it's probably for the best they split so they can both focus on their own projects.
― In a slipshod style (Ross), Friday, 8 December 2017 23:46 (six years ago) link
'Amanaemonesia' just popped up on shuffle play and blew me away all over again. I still can't believe how much of a step forward Something was from their debut, and even moreso how they went completely to shit afterwards.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Sunday, 12 August 2018 21:41 (five years ago) link
Definitely one of the best singles in the respective year. Follow up was super patchy, some songs felt like they may have fit better on Caroline’s solo record, which was very good.
― Abomination Street (Ross), Sunday, 12 August 2018 21:53 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7w6R4I7I3wA
absolutely phenomenal imo
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 23:58 (four years ago) link
beautiful song
― monotony, Thursday, 20 June 2019 00:47 (four years ago) link
song & video are both incredible, very excited for this record. was a little worried that she said in this interview that Danny L Harle co-produced 2/3rds of the record but he was apparently involved on "Door" so it should be fine
― ufo, Thursday, 20 June 2019 01:39 (four years ago) link
Wow, I'm blown away by this. Agree that video is just as incredible as the song. Suddenly very excited for her album now.
― kitchen person, Thursday, 20 June 2019 04:14 (four years ago) link
It's a nice song, but there's a limit to how much I want to hear her in ballad mode. Generally prefer the upbeat tracks.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Thursday, 20 June 2019 05:05 (four years ago) link
What struck me here is how much the vocal technique she (over)relies upon mimics overt autotune.
― despondently sipping tomato soup (Sanpaku), Saturday, 22 June 2019 23:29 (four years ago) link
omg I love this
― Tim F, Sunday, 23 June 2019 12:26 (four years ago) link
This is so good!
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Monday, 24 June 2019 13:51 (four years ago) link
That last Chairlift album was underrated too.
True
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, 24 June 2019 17:46 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19ku7o_25wUhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6HDrFxDVX8
two more tracks, nice but not stunning in the way that "door" was
― ufo, Wednesday, 24 July 2019 05:06 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NTUY-jP47I
― ufo, Monday, 16 September 2019 21:24 (four years ago) link
Apparently the album is out on October 18th. Going by these singles, it's shaping up to be quite special.
― kitchen person, Tuesday, 17 September 2019 01:28 (four years ago) link
I like em all so far! Door still the standout though
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Tuesday, 17 September 2019 11:48 (four years ago) link
I did not expect to like this as much as I do (still not really into "So Hot You're Hurting My Feelings," not sure why, on any axis) but I do, also from what I've heard it is somehow the closest to a sarah brightman album I am likely to get (exaggeration but it is definitely conversant with classical/new age stuff)
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Monday, 7 October 2019 12:45 (four years ago) link
Does this mean she's pretty much abandoned the more upbeat pop songs?
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, 7 October 2019 13:51 (four years ago) link
not exactly, no
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Monday, 7 October 2019 16:24 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZtUJ4b2jsw
another wonderful single, extremely excited for this
― ufo, Monday, 14 October 2019 23:04 (four years ago) link
unsurprisingly this rules. kinda sequenced weirdly with the most pop moments right near the end though
― ufo, Thursday, 17 October 2019 22:41 (four years ago) link
Loved all the tracks that have dropped so far; Hit Me Where It Hurts is doing it for me the most of the new tracks.
― triggercut, Friday, 18 October 2019 09:18 (four years ago) link
that's probably one of the weaker ones for me, my favourites of the new ones are "pang" and "shut up caroline". "door" and "so hot you're hurting my feelings" are some of the very best songs i've heard this year still
― ufo, Friday, 18 October 2019 12:01 (four years ago) link
this album is so sick
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 18 October 2019 12:54 (four years ago) link
as a white man I can't believe the misogynists at pfork only gave this a 7.3. ;)
(sorry)
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Friday, 18 October 2019 13:10 (four years ago) link
About 2/3rds of this album is great; the rest that isn't sounds like something made by the kind of white woman Kelela called her out for being.
― winters (josh), Thursday, 31 October 2019 18:22 (four years ago) link
what does that mean?
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Saturday, 2 November 2019 06:57 (four years ago) link
she wrote "n***as" on her instagram last year, quoting a lyric, and kelela saw it and was understandably mad about it
― ufo, Saturday, 2 November 2019 08:56 (four years ago) link