New from the DFA...

i remember them saying this was coming but i thought it never actually surfaced

ii still rc, their cassette comp was only available by buying this from turntable lab

Holy Ghost! album is pretty good but feels kinda generic 2006-era indie synthpop in the first half, can't help but wish for a bit more personality. I like it from Jam for Jerry onwards though, and yeah that song in particular is vv arresting.

Can't believe they didn't put I Will Come Back on there though, their best song by miles.

Should have swapped it for Say My Name imo. I might be reading too much into the title but it think Jam for Jerry gets the poignant/celebratory balance just right.

Yeah it's tracks 2 through 5 that don't really do it for me, they sound like something any mid-00s blog band might have churned out.

? i will come back isn't on it ?

idk i havent heard the album but i generally dont these guys seem kindof generic at first and then gradually the songs open up. i mean thats how i felt abt i will come back at first, it comes from that cut copy school of indie that i really couldn't be bothered w/ but then its actually really kind of generically perfect and blankly resonant etc etc etc

I like Do It Again but kinda want a dub / instrumental version of it

jam for jerry is O_O

New Invisible Conga People 12" on DFA. sounds good

whoa, is that the first johnny jewel project on DFA??

he's not part of that group, right?

yeah, they were one of the few IDIB acts with no johnny jewel involvment.

The dub on that single sounds exactly like SALEM (which I don't mind, but I know is profanity around these parts). It's very different from the last 12", anyway. Still, nice.

xp i see i see i misread this article i found carry on

you can download the CFCF remix of Holy Ghost's "Wait and See" at <ahem> Gorilla vs Bear

"In A Hole" is consummately dope.

i dig it (geddit?)

yeah ive been listening to it all week, its a nice record to settle into just as spring is coming in

great & strange song v much in line w/

deep house with effete-to-creepy male vocals seems to be very thoroughly 2011.

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ok so this crystal ark set on beats in space is sounding phenomenal so far. i would LOVE to see them live (7-piece band whaa?)

and that new single seems like a summer jam in the making

ok so this crystal ark set on beats in space is sounding phenomenal so far. i would LOVE to see them live (7-piece band whaa?)

looks like I'm accidentally seeing them twice on Saturday! thought the "after-party" type one would be a Russom DJ set. is definitely going to have to be cut down compared to the headline show though:

Gavin Russom, the synthesizer wizard behind The Crystal Ark and Black Meteoric Star, has been specially commissioned to create his most ambitious work ever exclusively for Vivid LIVE. The show is a 90 minute concert and installation featuring a 10 strong collective of musicians and artists from NYC, DFA Records, LCD Soundsystem and more.

Bringing the full Crystal Ark collective together with dancers, lighting designers and video and projection artists, Russom will expand on the immersive multi-sensory experiences he has developed for the 28th São Paulo Bienial, MOMA and PS1 in New York.

Sydney Opera House is the perfect location and Vivid LIVE the ideal occasion for this fusion of intense visuals with the living sound of The Crystal Ark full band.

wow, so jealous. can you dance in the sydney opera house? or is that not allowed at these type of gigs

this is in The Studio, which is a black box theatre* that'll be set up in a thoroughly dance-friendly fashion for the next fortnight. I'm also seeing there Azari & III, The Swiss, OFWGKTA**, the Avalanches DJing, and Hypnotic Brass Ensemble. There are other straight-out club nights too, including a 2Many DJs-hosted one.



* on the ground floor/around the side of the whole edifice, between two proscenium arch rooms.

** if I can swap my tickets which clash with the Cure playing their first three albums, upstairs in the Concert Hall ***.

*** if everyone gets up dancing at the Concert Hall, the ushers let you get away with it, but it's not super-conducive to partying down**** unless you're near an aisle. if only a handful of people get up, they get politely asked not to block other people's view.

**** the Opera Theatre is even less so; people stayed sitting for Lee Scratch Perry there two years back.

Another Rapture (The Ratpure) album coming on DFA in September...

interesting. kinda lost track of them. the single off the 2nd album was pretty good (get myself into it)

that new invisible conga people single is pretty cool, especially the main mix of In a Hole

second rapture album was pretty good, didn't realise they were still a live prospect though

Anyone know if anyone from the DFA camp had any production input on the new Rapture LP?

It doesn't look as though they did which sort of seems a bit of a strange move if it's produced by "Phoenix producer/Cassius member Philippe Zdar produced the record, which the Rapture recorded in Brooklyn and Paris."

I thought the Ewan Pearson production on the last LP was a massive let down and didn't really see this band getting much further from Echoes if they didn't work with Murphy directly again.

i'd be really surprised if that rapture album ends up being any good.

for those that missed the beats in space, not only is there a crystal ark single coming out next week, but gavin russom is putting another one out in august

any US/Euro ppl who've bought the Holy Ghost! album - does it come in a plain jewel case in your territories?

The Rapture also had a major lineup change sine the last album - bassist/vocalist Mattie Safer out; ex-Q and Not U co-front guy Harris Klahr in.

xpost: Netherlands reporting: yes it's a plain jewel case.
Such a great album to play in the car and shamelessly sing along on the top of your lungs :)

the gavin russom remix of cut copy is really great...

http://open.spotify.com/track/7GuQvBlPfekAYVY1Its3ep

wow

Alternate link for those who can't use spotify:

http://soundcloud.com/cutcopymusic/need-you-now-gavin-russom

i'm into the carl craig remix of that one too

not really loving the new Crystal Ark, too much vocals imo

Yea, I like the Instrumental

it's the poppiest thing he's done so far (save the britney remix maybe) but i think it's great. NO PARES

I would like this new Benoit & Sergio 12" SO much more if it didn't have the pitched down "PRINCIPLES" voice every 4 seconds. Driving me nuts. The b-side is much nicer.

Very odd new one from the DFA - incredibly reverential cover of Pylon's "Cool" by Deerhunter; b-side is remixes by Sasha Frere-Jones featuring vocals from the woman from Sleigh Bells: http://www.pitchfork.com/news/42939-listen-deerhunter-cover-pylon/
Huh.

reverential

you ain't kidding. sounds really great though

rewards 12" (particularly 'asleep with the lights on") sounds ace

if they're 12" only, dunno why these alleged series of Juan Maclean "too-housey-for-an-album" singles have to come out under a pseudonym, but

http://dfarecords.com/main/archives/2324

side projects are fun

it's not like the first Juan album was afraid of being "too techno"



maybe to avoid angry emails from entitled whang fanboys tho

http://exclaim.ca/images/juan.jpg

New Gavin Russom single, "Night Sky": http://dfa.hasawebstore.com/product/INS97502/nightsky

'rhoda's theme' by fall on your sword could be my fave DFA of the year, and it's been a good year

IT IS AMAZING, thank you for bringing it to my attention

Is that from the movie Another Earth?