garret morris to thread
― sexyDancer, Thursday, 30 October 2008 22:46 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.discogs.com/image/A-193237-1129499104.gif
― micarl, Thursday, 30 October 2008 23:45 (fifteen years ago) link
Tinchy Stryder?
― micarl, Thursday, 30 October 2008 23:46 (fifteen years ago) link
For some reasons parts of this album also make me think of the first Isolee album. And not just because both have tracks that reference Loveless.
― Tim F, Friday, 31 October 2008 00:49 (fifteen years ago) link
not sure what the question is but yeah tinchy stryder is on the track Princes
― dmr, Friday, 31 October 2008 01:11 (fifteen years ago) link
And that picture is of Tinchy Stryder as well.
― Alex in SF, Friday, 31 October 2008 01:12 (fifteen years ago) link
oh I get it. for some reason that image doesn't show up for me
― dmr, Friday, 31 October 2008 01:56 (fifteen years ago) link
gotta say, i think the gang gang dance have a lot of this in their sound...
http://srsly.tv/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/dcd84.jpg
i mentioned that in another thread, too.
also, telepathe sound so much like gang gang dance on their first ep it's scary. i'd be willing to bet ggd came along first, though
― psychgawsple, Friday, 31 October 2008 02:43 (fifteen years ago) link
"First Communion"-which sounds like a tribal version of Justice jamming with the Yeah Yeah Yeahs in the Clap Your Hands Say Yeah practice space
wtf?
― mizzell, Thursday, 6 November 2008 16:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Right now, I could listen to "Vacuum" forever.
― DLee, Thursday, 6 November 2008 16:56 (fifteen years ago) link
it was cool to see that song live cause i didnt't realize the main riff was guitar.
― mizzell, Thursday, 6 November 2008 17:00 (fifteen years ago) link
'Blue Nile' sounds quiet Prefusey
― Cittaslow Mazza (blueski), Thursday, 6 November 2008 17:37 (fifteen years ago) link
hey look there's an LA version of GGDhttp://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/download/147194-pitchforktv-rainbow-arabia-let-them-dance-video-premiere
― mizzell, Thursday, 6 November 2008 17:48 (fifteen years ago) link
Tinchy doesn't really work for me or feels un-necessary on 'Princes' but the music is awesome
― Cittaslow Mazza (blueski), Thursday, 6 November 2008 17:48 (fifteen years ago) link
haha where is this nonsense quote from?!
i think tinchy sounds immense on 'princes' (it's a slightly reworked version of his 'mainstream money' verses which people should check) (haha slight mystery: i interviewed him about a month, maybe more, ago, and asked him about working w/gang gang dance (before i'd heard the track)), and he said that there had been plans to work with them but nothing had come of it in the end. i assumed the rumours i'd heard were false - so i was obv v confused when i finally heard 'princes'. so i'm not sure whether he misheard my question and thought i was talking about someone else, or whether gang gang dance just used vocals he'd already laid down...)
― lex pretend, Thursday, 6 November 2008 19:38 (fifteen years ago) link
haha where is this nonsense quote from?!http://www.straight.com/article-168984/gang-gang-dance-credits-right-its-rise
― mizzell, Thursday, 6 November 2008 19:50 (fifteen years ago) link
another band doing the dubby, worldy, noisy thing is SF's Mi Ami http://www.myspace.com/miamiamiami
a lil less on the sampledelic side of things, though.
― jaxon, Thursday, 6 November 2008 20:07 (fifteen years ago) link
Wow this is amazing. So much going on! I'm on the penultimate track and already want to go right back to the start to listen back to spot more things. The Tinchy track works I think, because his flow is in someways better suited to being part of the murk than right upfront, and on Princes it sounds like another sample being woven in and out.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 6 November 2008 21:12 (fifteen years ago) link
Wait to to you hear the last track though!
― Tim F, Thursday, 6 November 2008 21:35 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm loving this.
― dan selzer, Friday, 7 November 2008 20:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Hecuba is the L.A. gang gnag
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, 7 November 2008 20:48 (fifteen years ago) link
If anything is going to beat Portishead for me this year... it could be this record. I've played it at least a dozen times this week, and it hasn't gotten the least bit old.
― ilxor, Saturday, 8 November 2008 03:24 (fifteen years ago) link
"The audio disc with that, btw, runs to the exact playing time as Music For 18 Musicians. "
Doubly weird, then, that the start of their song "Nicoman" is exactly like the start of that very Reich piece.
― uptown churl, Saturday, 8 November 2008 05:20 (fifteen years ago) link
wow this album is great! loving the uh kaleidoscopic-ness and the 'computer incarnations for world peace' vibe
― WHALE WARS (jabba hands), Sunday, 9 November 2008 00:31 (fifteen years ago) link
anyone hear that brian degraw solo lp?
http://printedmatter.org/cover_images/82969.418.jpg
i have been a huge fan of these guys for years so i duno if most people just picking up 'saint dymphma' would be into it, but it still is a great, weird record. almost reminiscent of one of yamataka eye's side projects (lift boys, etc)
― psychgawsple, Sunday, 9 November 2008 22:35 (fifteen years ago) link
show tonight was sooo much better than cmj
although I can admit the possibility that the other show might have gotten that good if I stayed past 3am. the super housey encore was the best bit
― dmr, Saturday, 29 November 2008 07:16 (fifteen years ago) link
I saw this tour a few weeks back and they were excellent. Too bad I plunked down $15 for the new LP and it's no God's Money.
― Nate Carson, Saturday, 29 November 2008 09:05 (fifteen years ago) link
i like st. dymphna but i was pretty well blown away by the live set. hard to describe without making them sound hokier than they are (indie-tribal, trance-rock, whatever). the show was really well sequenced -- dmr is otm about the encore, they saved that final extra gear for the peak.
― tipsy mothra, Saturday, 29 November 2008 14:35 (fifteen years ago) link
Too bad I plunked down $15 for the new LP and it's no God's Money.
Are you kidding? I love God's Money, but the new album is ten times the strength of God's Money, easily the best music they've put to tape.
― ilxor, Saturday, 29 November 2008 20:15 (fifteen years ago) link
These fuckers need to play Glastonbury next year, they'd be perfect in some tent somewhere.
― Chopper Aristotle (Matt DC), Saturday, 29 November 2008 23:02 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah i was thinking they'd be big at bonnaroo. hippie kids would dig it.
― tipsy mothra, Sunday, 30 November 2008 02:53 (fifteen years ago) link
"Are you kidding? I love God's Money, but the new album is ten times the strength of God's Money, easily the best music they've put to tape."
I don't think the material is terribly lacking. But the new record does a lousy job of showcasing the drummer. He's so good and his input is so understated on this record. It's a shame because live they were awesome.
― Nate Carson, Sunday, 30 November 2008 03:36 (fifteen years ago) link
"I don't think the material is terribly lacking. But the new record does a lousy job of showcasing the drummer. He's so good and his input is so understated on this record. It's a shame because live they were awesome."
This is OTM and I hadn't really thought about it because there is so much going on in the album its easy to forget about the drummer. However, the parts were the drums are more pronounced definitely kick ass, so I totally get your point.
― oscar, Sunday, 30 November 2008 03:44 (fifteen years ago) link
songs that are more sort of drifty-dreamy on the album really cooked live, which definitely had a lot to do with the prominence of the drums. i mean, i like the vibe of the album. but the energy of the live show was a whole other thing.
― tipsy mothra, Sunday, 30 November 2008 03:49 (fifteen years ago) link
this album i feel like is the black dice album i never knew i always wanted except with tinchy stryder bonus track that could never happen but here is also that yknow
― negotiable, Sunday, 30 November 2008 03:54 (fifteen years ago) link
I played this recently in the company of my dad who has a pretty narrowly defined classic blues/soul taste continuum and he called it "interesting"My album of the year anyway
― theslothproject, Sunday, 30 November 2008 04:17 (fifteen years ago) link
I wish GGD left the Tinchy song off of the album. When ilm revisits this thread in a few years, you will all agree with me and curse GGD for time-stamping this wonderful album. The rest of the album is great, though. I'm not sure I'd say it's better than God's Money. This album seems a little too current and blog-influenced. Whereas God's Money was like their own planet, this album's more like...oh. They live in New York and want to be cool RIGHT NOW. :/
― brightscreamer, Sunday, 30 November 2008 04:58 (fifteen years ago) link
ENDLESS COOL
― oscar, Sunday, 30 November 2008 05:06 (fifteen years ago) link
are those brooklyn accents for reals? didn't know if they were kidding during the spoken moments at the show
― psychgawsple, Sunday, 30 November 2008 06:18 (fifteen years ago) link
When ilm revisits this thread in a few years, you will all agree with me and curse GGD for time-stamping this wonderful album.
This is missing the point really. As Tim mentioned upthread, the album (and especially that middle section) is awash with UK garage influences, among others. The xylophone hook on Inners Space is pure garage, and there's bits off of dubstep in here as well (although I think dubsteps blends much more easily into the overall warp and weft here). It is totally natural that someone like Tinchy turn up on here.
Considering Tinchy's been knocking round for nearly five years already, he's hardly a flash in the pan in any sense. Unless there's a kind of 'experimental indie rock = timeless, other stuff = fad' snobbery at work here that totally goes against the vibe the band are going for.
― Chopper Aristotle (Matt DC), Sunday, 30 November 2008 11:40 (fifteen years ago) link
Also several references to reggaeton.
I actually like the fact that they don't seem much to care about blending together "timeless" and "fashionable" sounds - again, this is what always seemed unique and marvelous about The Beta Band at their best (The Beta Band pulled a similar stunt of releasing a 2-step garage track at the tail end of 1999). Capital I indie (which Gang Gang Dance) usually spends far too much time strenuously avoiding pop music fads.
Although if you want to be really shocked check out the rap track on Jim Moray's album!! That makes GGD look very subtle.
― Tim F, Sunday, 30 November 2008 13:28 (fifteen years ago) link
Haha I was going to mention the Beta Band (Hot Shots II really) but thought that would be too corny indie fuxx. What I liked about Hot Shots II was that it sounded really fucking ancient but at the same time like something that couldn't have emerged at any previous moment. Saint Dymphna is similar in that regard.
I'm not trying to over-emphasise the garage influences here, they're an equal ingredient alongside dozens of other things, but to criticise GGD for "time-stamping" a record that is very consciously of it's time seems to be missing the point. See also the synth stabs on House Jam that seemingly come straight out of The Way I Are.
― Chopper Aristotle (Matt DC), Sunday, 30 November 2008 14:29 (fifteen years ago) link
Yes, this is totally brilliant.
― Tim F, Monday, October 27, 2008 8:47 PM (1 month ago)
― poortheatre, Tuesday, 9 December 2008 07:50 (fifteen years ago) link
Fact Magazine calls it
http://www.prefixmag.com/news/fact-magazine-picks-gang-gang-dances-isaint-dymphn/23767/
― oscar, Tuesday, 9 December 2008 22:21 (fifteen years ago) link
I've never heard of Fact Magazine, but that seems like the exact list a mid-level indie fuxxor from the US would make.
i'm being dismissive of these albums, but - it has your Animal Collective-ish bands (Ponytail, Gang Gang Dance, High Places) american indie-with-a-good-story (No Age, Jay Reatard, Deerhunter) run-off from Burial last year (The Bug, 2563, Flying Lotus) "good times" from New York (Vampire Weekend, Hercules and Love Affair, MGMT)
*disclaimer - i would probably consider myself a mid-level indie fuxxor from the US
― Andrew Sandwich, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 00:18 (fifteen years ago) link
anyone else think Tinchy's rap might've worked better on 'Inners Pace"?the sloppy drums on 'Princes' are still buggin' me but i like it OK
― Yentl vs Predator (blueski), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 00:21 (fifteen years ago) link
calling the bug album "run-off from burial last year" is one of the lamest things i've read on ilm, which is saying something
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 00:29 (fifteen years ago) link
"I've never heard of Fact Magazine, but that seems like the exact list a mid-level indie fuxxor from the US would make."
Fact is basically the UK version of XLR8R.
― Alex in SF, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 00:36 (fifteen years ago) link
this album is terrible y'all are nuts
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 00:42 (fifteen years ago) link
Hahaha
― Alex in SF, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 00:48 (fifteen years ago) link