Wild Nothing

"Chinatown" is really amazing.

I really like them.

Saw them the other week - very weak performance, absolutely no enthusiasm (& yeah I realize the dream/shoegaze-esque formatting, but come on and tap your foot at the least). Love their last album's artwork tho, really one of my favorites from that year.

That "performance" sounds perfect!

ha, well i was pretty conscious of the archetypal shoegazer provisions for a "concert" but these guys have just far too melodic working material to just stand around and insist "this is all about the music, man". i GET IT with mbv and such, but in their cases it really was both essential to their methods and allure, whereas these dudes i felt where just doing it because they knew their predecessors did. slowdive/ride/swirlies did plenty of rocking out on stage, and had as equally mellow songs.

Swirlies didn't go nuts when I saw them, but I was distracted by the amazing songs so my memory is fuzzy.

The ep is marvellous - I played the LP a lot but it pales next to Golden Haze.

agreed. The EP is just fucking awesome. Love the LP too.

I saw them recently and really liked it, my only complaint was that several songs were cut in half! (stopped verses short of the end for some reason - every song was like 1:45 long, weird)

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

lovely sleeve

beautiful sleeve - looks like some long lost Factory/Crépuscule sleeve

They have even made Hipster Runoff post-ironic:
http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/2013/01/wild-nothing-was-most-relevant-authentic-band-2k12.html

yes was gonna post that - as usual not sure how to take this

All I know is that I like the record quite a bit.

Yes the record is great.

Probs my #1 for the poll tbh.

In my top 5, I think.

I mean I know it makes me ~~white~~ but sometimes I just want Michelle Williams listening to cassettes on a walkman.

Oh, it'll definitely be in mine!

Holy shit.

Has anyone heard "A Dancing Shell"? New EP comes out tomorrow.

Un-fucking-believable. I almost thought it was the wrong band. What does it sound like to me? Scritti Politti, Human League, Pet Shop Boys, Simple Minds, AR Kane, Style Council, hints of acid house, and probably a lot of even more obvious stuff I'll talk with my therapist about when I get back next week.

Thanks for the tip. I didnt know a new release was coming up... Nocturne was one of my favs last year

i was listening to it last night, it definitely raised my eyebrows. i need to listen to it again (and again)

these guys were surprisingly good when i saw them back in feb (in the hottest room ever). the sarah-isms come out way way more live than on record, oddly

Saw them last fall, like Sept or Oct and completely disagree. Their llive set emphasized the simultaneous muscularity of the sound and boredom of the vocals. Sarah/c86 I associate with thin production.. This sound was big.

Hard times .

it had very little to do with the bigness or otherwise of the sound. melodically and instrumentally there was a lot of the wake in what they were doing, orchids too

Yes, there's a big influence, but what I'm saying is that they're doing something much bigger and more important. And when they play live it's more modern than that thin sounding indie.

"data world" is the jam

Wow, I was getting pretty hammered last night.

Anyway, just woke up to the full EP. This is a record that confounds and delights. It's got a lot to do with Bowie also, I think it sounds like Low.

Trying to arrange a 12" copy from my local record shop but the guy hasn't got back to me yet.

This guy has clearly lost his fucking mind. There's one song on here that sounds like Blur.

God I love this.

Ha, I was right. EP ends with Eno/Manzanera noodling. What. the. fuck.

I hope this arrives in the mail soon... the last album is so pretty.

I haven't read a review of this yet that isn't spectacularly insulting.

In what way? I haven't read any, really.

None of them really address how different the music is on this EP. They kind of talk about Wild Nothing in a general way, but none of them really sit down and try to understand the rationale for the stylistic shift.

Well, I guess "rationale" isn't the right word, but maybe "significance."

how would you characterize the shift? i'd be interested to hear...

Has anyone mentioned that fact that the first song on the EP is basically a straight up cover of Always Crashing In The Same Car...

Has anyone mentioned that fact that the first song on the EP is basically a straight up cover of Always Crashing In The Same Car...

― Oblique Strategies, Thursday, May 16, 2013 12:21 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Nope, I noticed it pretty much straight away. Same chord progression.

Anyways, I love this... but I loved Nocturne too, so...

From reading recent interviews, it would seem like Mr. Tatum wasn't personally happy with the way Nocturne turned out, hence why this new EP has a bit of a broader range to it. Apparently he feels like he 'tried too hard' with Nocturne and feels like it was a bit of a 'perfectionist' record and that it's 'missing something' for him. The new EP allegedly was conceived partly because he was sick to death of touring the Nocturne material. I'm sure all of you (like me) who voted for Nocturne in the 2012 EOY poll will be scratching their heads here!

*their=your

i think nocturne is great and this recent ep is doing v little for me tbqh, i would almost venture that it's his weakest set of songs

Yeah, I mean I can understand people's feelings regarding the new EP vs. Nocturne, and why fans of one may not take well to the other... I mean, Nocturne is very much a one-sound kind of record (although it's a great sound), and the new EP is more all over the place... I'm finding myself liking both releases a lot for different reasons. I kinda hope he experiments further on his next full-length, actually, which I think would be great if he could come up with songs that were up to snuff!

I'd say that 'Ride' and 'Data World' were my highlights of this new EP... really love those two.

New album is sort of meh, but the opening track has some great xylophone-sounding synths and this track is absolutely stunning:

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

Haven't heard this
but

This is the kind of thread I like to see

They are real marimbas, not xylophone sounding synths. Get yer mallet instruments straight if you're going to talk shit.

i like the songs i've heard from the new record

I stand corrected.

Get yer mallet instruments straight if you're going to talk shit.

if i had a dollar for everytime someone said this to me....

Every time I listen to the Empty Estate EP, I find myself wishing he'd expanded that to a full length.

It is a full length what the hell are you talking about

When the mid 80s were over, I really missed the guitar sound in "Partners in Motion" (and in places on the Tornado Wallace album from last year) and I'm overjoyed it's finally okay to make a guitar sound like that again

This is probably why I am really feeling this new album

It is a full length what the hell are you talking about

― fields of salmon, Friday, August 24, 2018 1:53 AM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It's an EP, not an LP - I would have thought that was apparent.

Sounds like the new one is going to be right up my street!

really enjoying this so far. it feels like he took lessons from Life Of Pause (which i wasn't super into and he, from interviews, doesn't sound like he quite was either) and just applies those sophistipop tendencies to his usual soundscapey popcraft.

yeah this is good

Haven’t checked the new album yet, but he did a list of album influences on Vulture that makes me think he may lurk here

http://www.vulture.com/amp/2018/08/5-80s-albums-that-influenced-wild-nothings-indigo.html

Wow, he's def an ilm'er in spirit.

the world is watching

bend

The new one is basically Nocturne II, but the songwriting isn't anywhere near as consistent in terms of quality and while the production on Nocturne helped his vocals to blend in with the music unobtrusively, here I can't take my mind off the fact that Tatum is a weak singer.

this one hasn't clicked with me yet, I ended up loving the last one after multiple listens though

it took a while but 'wheel of misfortune' grew into my fav from this one. that main riff is sublime

nice little EP out called "laughing gas"

i like the new one. no prefab sprout-isms like the last one but there's some great stuff on here. last track is probably my favorite