jj no. 2: A mix of Scandinavian balearic (I know)/outer space R&B/folk-y gloriousness...

Do you remember when ecstasy was an emotion, rather than a drug experience?

Also, what, like Spacemen 3 never had any songs involving ecstasy (as an emotion or an experience or even a song title - erm, hello Ecstasy Symphony, Ecstasy In Slow Motion, etc. etc.)

This is kind of why I hate drugs culture. It's completely hijacked words/phases/sensations that used to be much broader, conceptually.

Or, you know, has added new meanings to words which can in fact be multivalent.

Yeah, because the word "ecstasy" never had any multiple meanings or ambivalence until a drug was named after it...

http://wordbandit.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/the-ecstasy-of-st-teresa11.jpg

Yes, a little pill made all previous usages of the word obsolete & irrelevant for the rest of time.

Hurrah, we've absurdly misread & caricatured each other's arguments.

yeah im sure it was real confusing when the drug got popular and people would take it and go "ecstasy!!!" the other people in the crowd wouldn't know if the person like wanted more drugs or was just really happy or both because you see now the word had more meanings

This sounds like Anything Box to me... Pleasant, but nothing ground-breaking. Not sure how it scored so high at Pitchfork though?

I'm pretty sure that the first line of the song is "When I'm in the club, I'm always on his drug..."

So, you know, kinda reasonable to talk about the more recent version of the word in that context. But correct me if I'm wrong!

In other news, "gay" used to be a great word to describe someone who seemed happy and carefree.

I'll combine this album with the latest El Perro Del Mar thing and end up with a full albums worth of blissed out electro-folk with whispy vocals. Win/Win for me.

this is awesome! it's like Beach House made a disco album.

weird.. this album samples this:

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haha

This isn't anywhere near as good as the El Perro Del Mar record but I do like it a lot.

you can just post a youtube link here and it will embed

anyone else feeling O'Spada? http://www.thefader.com/2009/06/02/freeload-o-spada-time/

swedish boogie. bridge is sorta jamiroquai, but rest is great.

"time" is cool, i havent heard anything else

this doesnt feel very balearic at all tho!

i'd also choose the new el perro del mar album over this jj stuff. her vocals almost always leave me flat- the one exception being "ecstacy" but she's basically rapping there. for this reason i also really dig "intermezzo"

... that o'spada track is great, nobody said it was balearic did they?

just curious why it was getting mentioned in this thread

I cannot get this song out of my head. Except in my head it's this extended fuzz-feedback jam that gets more and more intense and grandiose, like some early Sterolab concert, huge pianos and Leslie speakers and guitar shrieks until you can barely stand it anymore. Which makes the actual song kind of disappointing.

uh which song?

uh fuckin "ecstasy"

how was i sposed to know

BECAUSE THAT'S THE SONG IN MY HEAD, DUH

they have a song with weezy?

oh never mind apparently they just sampled his verse off a trina track. that's... disappointing.

many things about jj are... disappointing. imo

do aspects of jj, tta,other sincerely yours vibes remind anyone else of pills n thrills era mondays - (obv without swr hollering all over top)

i'm thinking mainly holiday, bobs yer uncle, dennis and lois etc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCCn9nlIrzk&feature=related

I really love these guys. I only heard them in December but j2 quickly became one of my favorite albums of the year. I wish I were seeing them in March, but they're playing the night of Passover.

new album has leaked. so far so great. not very happy mondays.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b4/Jj_-_No_3_Front_Cover_2.jpg

1. my life
2. and now
3. let go
4. into the light
5. light
6. voi parlate, io gioco
7. golden virginia
8. you know
9. i know *
10. no escapin' this

Note: "i know" is on the LP version only.

I am liking the new one more than the first. More minimal. Less caribbean influence. I am hoping that 'i know' is a bark psychosis cover? but that's just me wishing.

So good. "Let Go" just blows me away every time I hear it. Beyond gorgeous. It almost hurts sometimes to listen to it.

i thought i liked jj but this new record is AWFUL! man. feels like the worst kind of late-90s trance-pop pawn shop dollar-bin dreck.

and what's the deal with "Light"?
tell me / where would I be / if you / had the right to choose?

this stuff is alright for like... before you go to bed but i think people jamming jj need to up their standards

la la la la la, it's all around the world

i do enjoy the new record but i will freely admit to having low standards. what should i be listening to instead? has anyone claimed to be "jamming" JJ? i always figured them for a strictly headphone pleasure and this is especially true of the new one.

not really sure wht jordan means been listening to no.2 and it's pretty great

If loving jj is wrong I don't wanna be right.

lol @ the lite jazz discussion upthread, so true

not re:jj

yeah i don't get it - i like the tough alliance and love air france thus by rights i prob should like jj but i don't. snooooze.

they took the bad bits from both instead of the good bits. this has grown on me a bit tho (at least From Africa To Malaga and Ecstasy have).

no idea who those two bands are, will investigate

serious coz?

'balearic' totally passed me by (I'm assuming they're balearic); big blindspot. only acts I've heard in any depth are studio, d. lissvik and mungolian jetset

yes, balearic they are/were considered

try meanderthals lp also cozen

oh yeah, I have that too (and a few others that don't come immediately to mind)

will def look into air france/tough alliance cos I really like the jj stuff

try smoking weed on the beach too if ur into that kind of thing

so into that kind of thing

both these records are great imo