Unknown, vaguely Cardiacsy prog-pop that only MaresNest and I actually like

this track is 1:35 of pretty melodies and then 0:35 of holy shit what just happened

http://open.spotify.com/track/3Bgxm1dKUaLjRVmjUIDU7g
Americans go here http://www.myspace.com/toarmsetc and listen to 'Berries' for that is it (also listen to The Black Pampas for a passable VdGG impression)

the album's pretty good as well

Extra Life's 'Made Flesh' is EVEN BETTER on returning, if that was possible

jeez what an album

― acoleuthic, Saturday, 21 August 2010 02:31 (5 months ago)

my god, listening to it again on headphones, my god my god my god, why was this only my #4 of 2010? oh I know it is because there were at least 3 other flat-out sensational albums released last year.

more people need to hear it. may colonise Johnny Fever's thread and proselytise it in a few weeks. Has the added advantage of being hated by Johnny Fever, so at least I'll cause annoyance

THUMPERMONKEY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCT7kioyXSU

Whateley is probably their stand-out track, but they've got an insane live-show, a new record coming out in September, and lovely kind hearts. HEAR THEM if you like the idea of hypermelodic math-doom-prog with close harmony and guitars the size of GIANT PEACHES

(or in other words, the above song is probably the single piece of music released in the past 5 years that is most mathematically precision-engineered to appeal to me)

Hi LJ, how are you?

Also.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAYxGBZLQuc

I'm good! I have like 2 or 3 posts in the OAWIA bank coz I've taken to not posting or really even reading ILX of late, it's too much of a downer

Anyway yeah. Work's going well, scored 71 in a cricket match t'other week, married life is quite the bower of idyll (yours also I trust)

...but most importantly, I now have a reliable roster of bands to follow dutifully around London (basically, Knifeworld + those who sail with them, which generally means Thumpermonkey, and To Arms Etc, our scandalously-overlooked math-pop wedding band)

Do you have any suggested additions to the list? Perhaps we should convene

(oh and what about that song eh)

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BARRINGTONE TOTALLY PLAYED THE THUMPERMONKEY GIG I WAS AT THE OTHER DAY!!!! They were fucking amazing and fun as a bun. There was an instrumental track that blew my Christ-goddamn head off. Melodic and rhythmic complexity closer to Autechre than yer average three-man band

I got into Extra Life b/c of this thread, very excellent stuff

Don't wanna bother you dudes but a list of 5-10 good records along this vein would be much appreciated

Extra Life from Brooklyn? Nice dudes.

http://extralifetheband.blogspot.de/ = Extra Life broke up which is a shame but the new stuff sounds promising. p keen on the idea of the frontman doing a metal(-influenced) band

POSTING SPREE

Extra Life's new one was very, very good if not quite Made Flesh, but it is hard to see where they could have gone from there as a three-piece with such a fixed and distinctive musical dynamic so not the worst news.

New Thumpermonkey album is GREAT and you gotta hit up their Soundcloud asap if you fancy bathing in joyous math-prog-metal-pop any time soon. Blackout is pretty much the most kickass song of the year and is what Muse really ought to sound like (even nicks one of their songtitles!) but never will

I just heard it for the first time. "Ten Year Teardrop" made me laugh during the Weird Al freakout in the middle and I feel bad for it :(

feel like this band VIRUS are calculated LJ-bait, being as they are Ulver's pals from Oslo and rooted in black metal but not really anything to do w/ it at this point. the album I linked to is idk 70s prog meets 80s goth, but the good end of both of those. not coming up w/ anything more specific right now. also there's a Walker Brothers cover at the end. anyway I really like it

^^^that was cool btw, need to give it a listen or two more

just dropping by to say that North Sea Radio Orchestra are making some of the best music, leave it at that really

God, I really love this Stars In Battledress they premiered at "Roastfest" back in 2011. Here's hoping the Brothers Larcombe can actually stop playing in other people's bands long enough to finish recording their second album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxLuAA7yDtM

There's a song that they played me once years ago for the second SIB record called something like, Women of the ministry that is so fucking good, I've been waiting for those two to finish their record so I can hear it again.

Roastfest was amazing and I'm sad I missed half of it. I didn't miss William D Drake though, or SIB. That new song was amazing, as was Fluent English, which came out on the Believers Roast compilation. You know that James Larcombe used to post to ILX, right?

Yep, I know those bums.

can you tell them to hurry up and record album 2 then? and keep pestering lapsus linguae while yer about it

While we are discussing our decade-old House of Stairs-related longings, does anyone know who Desmotabs were? Bonus points if you have a giant stash of unreleased Desmotabs material you'd like to send me.

Extra bonus points if you have any of the electronic music that Sarah from the Monsoon Bassoon was working on after the split (according to my hazy memory of a drunkenly shouted and possibly misheard conversation at a gig) but no, I don't hold out any hope of ever hearing that, even if I didn't totally mishear...

I remember a couple of JL posts under his real name. Did he post more under a different name? My ILXmail should work if anyone feels moved to indulge my gossipy nature.

Desmotabs was a mate of The Monsoons lot, I am hazarding a guess but he might be the dude that goes by the name of Gasman that appeared on the Cardiacs tribute. I will ask if this is the case.

I have no idea if Sarah ever finished her solo stuff and I haven't spoken with her in age.

As far as LL goes, Callum is kinda the keeper of the fabled lost second record and most of it is done, they need to finish vocals and he intends to do that, but they are all over the map now, he has sneaked me a couple of roughs and they are awesome, so it'd be a real shame if it never happened.

Ah, I like the Gasman, have lots of his stuff! I did wonder if it was him as there are some similarities.

This is a pleasing jigsaw-puzzle-fit of an answer, but at the same time (if it is him) it's also a little sad there isn't some other elusive electro-pronker out there waiting to surprise me with a full album...

I'll ask Kavus, he will know, I imagine Desmotabs is kinda hard to google

The 2nd Lapsus Linguae album part-exists on YouTube as a Bull & Gate gig, and even recorded through a phone it's quite obviously a monster

I've emailed Calum and asked him to come on here and explain the sitch, so stay tuned.

XP - Kavus just replied, apparently the HOS track was it for Desmotabs (as far as released music goes) he turned his back on weird music soon after apparently, sorry!

What a waste! Thanks for finding out though.

what's a good NSRO album to start with? always meant to give em a listen

I'd love to contribute to this thread but I really think everyone who posts here knows every band I like :/

Hey frogbs, just chip in, I owe you bigtime anyway for the amazing amount of JP music you have uncovered and posted about.

Either of the two NSRO records are worth your attention, don't sleep on this either

http://shrubbies.bandcamp.com/

Craig & Sharon's pre NSRO band.

Maybe the Fibonaccis...but not sure. It's been too long since the last time I listened to them.

There's three NSRO records! They're all good, though.

I always find it really weird that Richard Larcombe used to be in a band with, of all people, Iain Lee. They split due to Lee's commitment to his TV "career". He might've been better off sticking with the band in retrospect.

All three NSRO albums are amazing. The first one or the third one would be best for starters, I think - the second one's a bit less immediate.

Loving MN's connections! The world of melody-soaked English art-pop is a smaller one than it perhaps should be...

Here's one off the third album that I'm currently obsessing over:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL4f_AP2loQ

William D Drake's solo stuff is absolutely urgent + key too

Roughly 1/5 of my life is spent thinking this is the best genre of all the genres, if it is a genre

Long-shot question: anyone remember a track by a band in this genre called "Popocatepetl" from maybe 10-15 years ago? I thought it was Lapsus Linguae but I'm not getting anything from Google.

Pop-A-Cat-A-Petal was Ultrasound's name before they were Ultrasound, was that what you were thinking of? I think they did release some material under that name early on.

never heard them but wasn't that the name of the singer from Ultrasound's band before he joined Ultrasound

er xp

I've seen it spelled like the volcano too I think?

maybe wrongly but

Ah okay. This has helped. I think it's a track by them on one of the ORG Records compilations I was thinking of. I have to take a look through my old CD box.

i thought i had all the org comps but clearly i don't!

was going through boxes of 45s the other day to chuck in the skip and found a rich seam of monsoon bassoon records, timely..

Hmm, weren't all the Monsoon Bassoon recordings(including unreleased stuff) supposed to be coming out in a big box? Wonder what happened to that.

Huh, I forgot about that, I was looking forward to buying it if it ever happens. And when oh when will the Deep Turtle retrospective finally come out?

(if anyone on this thread has not heard Deep Turtle, check out whatever you can find on youtube - There's a Vomitsprinkler in my Liverriver is a fine album and possibly the best album title ever - and join me in crying over the total out-of-print-ness of all of it. crazy Finns)

whole album, will listen now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQ8mRPIC8Y4

ohhhh yes

upgrade that to *oh my fucking lord*

like a more seamless, less self-conscious mr bungle, but with possibly more range and better songwriting? and a slier humour? and more punk? camp blackfoot were mentioned upthread - their music is pretty much in this album's unhinged shadow (as is the mars volta, kinda)

each trilogy (interesting deconstruction of 'prog' as essentially consisting, short-story-style, of a beginning, middle and end) so far has been better than the one before it, and the first one was fucking amazing

alright, here you go (from a band I've been really digging lately)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLi1ivZ4cXk

outside of the Cardiacs themselves I don't really find much modern prog that compares to the good ol' bands but lately I realized that I prefer them over Yes, Genesis, Gentle Giant, etc

one more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-EqAxBJUjM

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