i found the album very effective when i was warming up for a bicycle race--chariots of fire type inspiration
― cutty, Monday, 26 October 2009 21:00 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, I want to ride around listening to this with my fists up in the air like a giant V-for-victory. For several hours. Except it's cold.
― from alcoholism to fleshly concerns (contenderizer), Monday, 26 October 2009 21:02 (fourteen years ago) link
So much better produced than any M83.
― Sickamous (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 26 October 2009 21:05 (fourteen years ago) link
didn't like this the first couple listens, then listened to it on headphones and did a 180. pretty awesome. at the same time, not much empty space in there - kind of fatiguing to listen to
― 6335, Monday, 26 October 2009 21:14 (fourteen years ago) link
turns out u were right btw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jBdxOFMuj8
― plax (I know, right?), Monday, 26 October 2009 21:53 (fourteen years ago) link
so gonna happen
― from alcoholism to fleshly concerns (contenderizer), Monday, 26 October 2009 22:15 (fourteen years ago) link
well-timed yall. i picked this up over the weekend but just got to it today and damn, it's a hell of an album. i always love it when bands turn a solid first record into a really really great second one. and i'd like to register my approval of this description:
a freight train made of power chord synths exploding angel vaginas
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 27 October 2009 01:25 (fourteen years ago) link
also for an album made w/all electronics (i assume anyway) you can just TELL that they had a blast putting it together
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 27 October 2009 01:27 (fourteen years ago) link
much as i love this album (possibly my favourite of the year) i don't think it's any better than the first one (probably my favourite of last (?) year). less shouty vocals, yes, but i don't buy that there's more groove here.
― toby, Tuesday, 27 October 2009 10:55 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm hearing people who listen to this respond either rapturously or disgustedly; not much in between.
I'm pretty ambivalent, tbh. it's OK, but as with street horrsing, I find the noise and drones and wooze enervating; the beats tiresome.
― m the g, Tuesday, 27 October 2009 11:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Really love it, but think the first was a little crazier/better. Also, isn't Lisbon Maru a bit of a retread of Sweet Love...? Definitely one of the albums of the year tho.
― Wax Cat, Tuesday, 27 October 2009 11:40 (fourteen years ago) link
my fully-automatic record player scratched the shit out of side b, sigh.
― GEDDY LEE JAZZ MINT (Future_Perfect), Tuesday, 27 October 2009 14:54 (fourteen years ago) link
How are they live? I'm seeing them weekend after next with Growing, hoping this holds up well live.
― More Butty In Your Pants (Telephone thing), Tuesday, 27 October 2009 23:27 (fourteen years ago) link
I loved 'em (see above). Seen them twice now and if you get them in the right venue they're LOUD.
― What do you want? This ain't an egg shop (grimly fiendish), Wednesday, 28 October 2009 10:01 (fourteen years ago) link
just what is so thrilling about the part in the lisbon maru when the synths come in? it gives me the chills
― cutty, Wednesday, 28 October 2009 13:01 (fourteen years ago) link
especially on big ass cans with tons of sub bass
― cutty, Wednesday, 28 October 2009 13:02 (fourteen years ago) link
i think its that their music is not about songwriting, it is about exploiting the frequency range to its fullest
― cutty, Wednesday, 28 October 2009 13:04 (fourteen years ago) link
yup yup
― I AM NOT ONE TO PURSUE GAME, MY FRIEND - NO, INDEED. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 28 October 2009 14:17 (fourteen years ago) link
very beginning of this album never fails to recall the 'wonder-inducing', repeating melodic theme from Goonies for me. Like, notions of Chester Copperpot, et al. Track 3 is def the "images from wedding montage" track, without a doubt. Heavy Mogwai-y vibe, etc.
― Lowell N. Behold'n, Thursday, 29 October 2009 20:55 (fourteen years ago) link
dang, track 4 is even more of the "wedding montage," victory-in-nature vibe.
― Lowell N. Behold'n, Thursday, 29 October 2009 21:02 (fourteen years ago) link
who likes the new album? i'm debating whether i should get it or not
― FACK, Thursday, 29 October 2009 21:06 (fourteen years ago) link
shut the fack up
― cutty, Thursday, 29 October 2009 21:11 (fourteen years ago) link
cold
― FACK, Thursday, 29 October 2009 21:15 (fourteen years ago) link
get it.
― I AM NOT ONE TO PURSUE GAME, MY FRIEND - NO, INDEED. (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 29 October 2009 21:38 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah this fuckin rules
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 29 October 2009 21:57 (fourteen years ago) link
this is really great
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 29 October 2009 22:02 (fourteen years ago) link
i should get the album?
― FACK, Thursday, 29 October 2009 22:31 (fourteen years ago) link
sb'd u for that
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 29 October 2009 22:35 (fourteen years ago) link
ok then
― FACK, Thursday, 29 October 2009 23:28 (fourteen years ago) link
You should get it and then listen to it until you get it.
― StanM, Thursday, 29 October 2009 23:51 (fourteen years ago) link
makes sense, will do
― FACK, Friday, 30 October 2009 01:14 (fourteen years ago) link
"Olympians" is one of my favorite tracks of the year. So triumphant.
― the supposedly self-aware acoustic stylings of Joe Latte (kshighway1), Friday, 30 October 2009 04:30 (fourteen years ago) link
oh shit
i avoided this band for a long time because i hated their name (dumb i know) but this is really good
― bread has no effect on you (ciderpress), Thursday, 5 November 2009 17:25 (fourteen years ago) link
no i hear you; i had their first album for a year before i listened to it cuz of the stoopid name.
― I AM NOT ONE TO PURSUE GAME, MY FRIEND - NO, INDEED. (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 5 November 2009 17:28 (fourteen years ago) link
its also not really what i expected at all from the 'noise' label people are throwing on it, i'm getting way more of a jarre/vangelis vibe
― bread has no effect on you (ciderpress), Thursday, 5 November 2009 17:28 (fourteen years ago) link
vangelis and orbital are the main things i get off them
― I AM NOT ONE TO PURSUE GAME, MY FRIEND - NO, INDEED. (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 5 November 2009 17:29 (fourteen years ago) link
perhaps it's time i finally check out orbital then!
― bread has no effect on you (ciderpress), Thursday, 5 November 2009 17:31 (fourteen years ago) link
more mogwai/black dice
― cutty, Thursday, 5 November 2009 17:32 (fourteen years ago) link
xp oh FUCK YES if you like Fuck Buttons and you have a taste for kitsch and disco you'll LOVVVVE Orbital.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dera1hWRoIghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCgVaLrTpr4https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q25Zx6B5HJA
i'm kinda meh on both mogwai/black dice; something about FB presses my buttons har har more than them
― I AM NOT ONE TO PURSUE GAME, MY FRIEND - NO, INDEED. (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 5 November 2009 17:33 (fourteen years ago) link
I definitely hear the Mogwai in there. Bits of Space Mountain kind of remind me of Orbital, the thumping drums in Feathered Serpent are pure Underworld though. Such a 90s record!
― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Thursday, 5 November 2009 20:30 (fourteen years ago) link
srsly growing: http://hypem.com/track/663226/Growing+-+Rave+Pie+Only
― plaques (I know, right?), Thursday, 5 November 2009 21:26 (fourteen years ago) link
not to beat a dead horse but this album does indeed rule...if you go on long runs or long drives or listen on headphones the pleasure is increased ten fold...
― oscar, Sunday, 22 November 2009 03:04 (fourteen years ago) link
Saw them last night, good show.
― mh, Sunday, 22 November 2009 03:17 (fourteen years ago) link
on my way out to see them can't wait!
― plaxico (I know, right?), Thursday, 17 December 2009 20:47 (fourteen years ago) link
holy shit! also, made me totally change my mind abt the new album which sounded fucking fantastic live! Bright tomorrow and ribs out were highlights tho
― plaxico (I know, right?), Friday, 18 December 2009 17:18 (fourteen years ago) link
I quite liked the record, but live I didn't get it. They need some actual beats or something if they are gonna do the rave thing - their songs kind of build but just don't go anywhere. I mean there are more interesting noise acts and I'd rather go to a proper rave than stand around getting bored to the brand of pseudo-techno they serve up. They're kind of caught between the two pillars without bridging them very well imo.
― ears are wounds, Friday, 18 December 2009 19:21 (fourteen years ago) link
nah its great when the guy starts hitting the big drum
― plaxico (I know, right?), Friday, 18 December 2009 19:42 (fourteen years ago) link
This album is still fucking amazing. Right now "Olympians" is my shit.
― you gone float up with it (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 19 February 2010 22:39 (fourteen years ago) link
good time for it to be!
― eau de humanity (haitch), Saturday, 20 February 2010 02:25 (fourteen years ago) link
good point, will play at full volume asap
― shite new answers (cutty), Saturday, 20 February 2010 03:57 (fourteen years ago) link