The Studio - West Coast

i want one of them permanent vacation ones dan's got on in that video

this is a little old now, but here's the short interview i did with them. starts on page 60: http://www.futureclaw.com/

good interview.

haha were they kind of talking shit on the embassy/tough alliance/air france/boat club guys?

great interview, and it does sound like they were hassling those dudes! 'ppl getting up, singing into a flower with a cd playing'

anyone know where in nyc i can buy the fontan 12"?

― mizzell, Sunday, 19 October 2008 20:47 (1 month ago)

doubt you're still looking for this but I found a copy at Etherea on Ave A a couple weeks ago

lol @ that interview. "If you wear a sailor hat, you're balearic."

thanks dmr, i found one at Kim's not long after. now I have to keep my eyes open for the lissvik album.

glad you guys like it. i don't think they were talking too much shit. whatever they said about the scene there, they seemed to really admire embassy, and they're buds with tough alliance (who they called during the interview to see if they wanted to drop by; their studio is down the street). boat club isn't really on the map.. the AF guys are also friends with TA (and good friends with Boat Club) but they only know studio dudes as acquaintances. no one said anything specifically, but i think if there is any sort of artistic rivalry, it's between studio and air france. the week i was there, the only tracks outranking studio's on the (something like) swedish iTunes was the entire AF ep. but, again, no one said anything, and that could all be over now... everyone i talked to when i was there thought the world of jens lekman, as a person and a performer.

Yeah the comment about "singing into flowers with the record playing" sounded like the kind of shit you talk about your friends.

Now I'm imagining Gothenburg gatherings where everyone's friends with everyone else except Studio and Air France, qwho kind of circle eachother awkwardly, knowing that only one of them can occupy the mutually desired structural position in the friendship circle.

and everyone hates TEH KNIFE?

Everyone knows goths don't go to parties.

then they go and fight the metal kids

7 trx + intermission is a great record!! i am not sure i have anything to add beyond that.

wow it really is. some of these tracks groove ever harder than the grooviest studio grooves.

I'm talking to a friend and someone says hi to her, she introduces me to him, and the next day I'm invited over to his place. he wants me to bring my bass.. and it goes, uh, alright I guess, but then the gang e-mails me this list of songs to learn:

1. Under the Bridge- Red Hot Chili Peppers-4:23
2. Cowboys from Hell-Pantera-7:02
3. Fade to Black-Metallica
4. I Could Have Lied- Red Hot Chili Peppers
5. War Pigs- Black Sabbath
6. Keep Away-Godsmack
7. Knockin on Heavens Door-Guns n’Roses
8. D’yer Mak’er-Led Zeppelin
9. How I Could Just Kill a Man- Rage Against the Machine
10. Back in Black- AC/DC
11. Hey Man Nice Shot- Filter

yeah. yay.

so today I brought over my external hd and threw the amazing "West Coast" on his comp, asked him to listen and consider it. GOD ARE MY FINGERS CROSSED.

that would be a hell of a transformation.

also, got 7 trx last week, and it is very good indeed.

really enjoying the Lissvik EP - def on a par with the Studio instrumentals

i still haven't received my poster. has anyone else been shorted a poster?

got mine just the other day, took a while though

so today I brought over my external hd and threw the amazing "West Coast" on his comp, asked him to listen and consider it. GOD ARE MY FINGERS CROSSED.

― Kyle Clewett (bassace), Tuesday, December 16, 2008 12:47 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

you are fucking delusional

yes, hard to imagine someone who considers "knockin' on heaven's door" a guns n roses song would dig something like "west coast"

the dude is delusional but lets not be dicks about it, some people were getting laid and rocking gnr in high school and not obsessing over dylan rarities

it's in a famous peckinpah flick for chrissakes. anyway, anyone who was "getting laid and rockin gnr in high school" probably hates anything that sounds even remotely like the cure.

but it's also the fact that he wants these guys to be the guys he makes "studio-esque" music with. these guys are like 20 steps from even understanding where studio are coming from.

Don't like the vocals. Love the music.

― what U cry 4 (jim)

RONG AGAIN ME. This is awesome.

i just noticed that d. lissvik's album (especially tracks 6 and 7) reminds me of the donkey kong country soundtrack. which is awesome.

he wants these guys to be the guys he makes "studio-esque" music with.

Ha! I'm delusional if I think I'm going to be the gatekeeper of cool here and change lives with all the great songs (that's right, "West Coast" wasn't the only thing I put in the folder) I brought straight outta heaven (cue Clinton's "celestial choirs" bit from the primaries). I don't think that's going to happen.

I should've mentioned that they could tell I don't dig that stuff (amazed I'd never heard "Fade to Black" in its entirety) and asked for a few of my own picks.

The thing about playing music with people who have no big interest in music -- I have plenty of experience here, others must too -- is eventually you just get sick of faking smiles and shoving stuff out like "oh yeah, that's a pretty cool song, I remember that one." People deserve your honesty, not paternalism like "here's something you might like," which they rightly read as "something you might understand" with a pat on the head.

To preempt: "no big interest" doesn't mean lack of real raw intimate passion etc. It just means without broad curiosity, ie not getting five albums a day through Google Reader feeds. Which is exhausting :p

Its easier to teach a person to play the guitar or drums than it is to teach them taste.

wasn't he just explaining how he's not trying to "teach them taste"? sounds like he just wants to play some music he likes between gnr songs

Just expressing how much more entertaining (good music is very rarely financially remunerative) it is playing with fellow novices who want the same thing; over attempting to fit square pegs into round holes. Tens of thousands of musical careers have died trying do do that.

my poster showed up btw. lower quality print than i was expecting but it still looks nice.

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/149219-el-perro-del-mar-teams-up-with-dude-from-studio

single sounds pretty cool, i like it. percussion doesn't sound quite as blissed out and cool as on Studio albums, though.

love is not pop = A++ would listen again

A+++

(I gave an additional plus)

Hmm. I'm not feelin' this as much. Maybe after more listens.

so you are saying C+ with room for improvement?

Assbring is such a great surname

sarah! ass, bring...

I was skeptical since I was annoyed by the other Perro stuff I heard but this is pretty good.

perro can get in the way at times, but she is also the reason some of these songs work so well. i think i just like it when she isn't going through the indie-pop/twee motions, like on "change of heart" when she aims for golden-era stevie nicks and actually gets kind of close. or any of the other songs where she goes for kate bush vibes and again it works most of the time.

her vocals are clearly different than the guy from 'a mountain of one', but similar in that they can make or break this type of song-based balearic stuff. it also reminds me of the tiedye and studio remixes of that rubies song, for obvious reasons

Woah: A Mountain of One vocalist issues = such a good comparison point for this.

I'd put Coloma in that category too, though they're more tenuously related on a sonic level.

it's funny how so many balearic acts are so randomly hit-and-miss when it comes to vocalists. i do want to hear this perro del mar thing though.

eh, on one listen the perro album was just prettily nothingy, though i did like 'l is for love' or whatever the song with the fleetwood mac-esque drums was

first el perro del mar album reminded me of julee cruise a bit which was a+++

this is good

this is great.....very great

i'd never heard the brennan green remix of "west side" before. pretty great

http://www.zshare.net/audio/58573829fa63e961/

I was certain I had that mix and didn't like it, but I was wrong twice. I don't have it and it's fantastic!

That El Perro Del Mar album is gorgeous. I wasn't quite feeling the first couple of tracks and then it drew me in. Heavenly Arms and (in particular) Is It Something are lovely.