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This is great, really great. Johnny Jewel has clearly embraced his pop instincts between this and the new Glass Candy, which is growing on me.

vox have a kind of demo vibe, hmmm

a little bird in pdx told me that johnny jewel recorded his own soundtrack for the drive sdtk and then it was scrapped by the bigwigs or the powers that be or w/e

this is a well-informed bird but i'm still skeptical- has anyone else heard anything about this?

There's a link to an interview with him about it on the Drive thread. He was sort of approached to do the score so he wrote and recorded one but never really heard back about it. He said it was going to be released in bits and pieces on various things.

found it: http://www.boxofficemagazine.com/articles/2011-09-johnny-jewel-on-developing-the-unique-soundtrack-for-drive

i want to hear it.

also re: everyone stopped caring about this stuff for four years and then the Drive soundtrack happened \o_o/

i think that this is what happens when labels stop releasing albums? still crossing my fingers for 'after dark vol 2'

Desire's II was 2009 and I think that's my favourite from the label. I know I'm splitting hairs because 2 years is a long time but, still.

vox have a kind of demo vibe, hmmm

― caek, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 04:22 (5 hours ago) Bookmark

otm but it's sorta refreshing; not that chromatics suffer from it but i guess it is a way to diversify like ice-cool-production-sheen

They've put out a bunch of great singles in the last year - the Fred Ventura 12", the Alides Hidding 12", Simonetti's EP, the Perseo stuff, and the new/old Tiedye one (which I haven't heard yet)...

Lots of people stopped caring after seeing chromatics live, me included. Glass Candy live were great though.

God, I absolutely LOVE Chromatics live!

i am aware of all of the great releases in the past few years (see upthread!) but when you come out of the gates with 2 flagship bands and all they release over the course of 4 years is unreleased demos and rarities or w/e the interest is sure to wane

desire have a couple ok songs but i much prefer the idib 12"s if u wanna talk about later pd stuff

This could just be early infatuation, but "Kill for Love" is immediately angling hard for my '11 singles list.

After Dark 2 is becoming the Chinese Democracy of neo-Moroder hipsterism.

how long ago was the 'if i cant hold you' 12"? that shit was a jam

so this symmetry record... what do people think?

i haven't spent much time with it but i think it might be sort of awesome, but i'll withhold further hyperbole until it sinks in

i *will* say, tho, that 2 hours is a hell of a lot of one on one time with johnny jewel

i'm a real human being http://i.imgur.com/zi7hd.gif

hmmm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSycSBYHitc&

Not sure what to make of that. It's certainly no Running Up That Hill.

Cool video, non-exciting cover.

Still think "Kill for Love" is a cool track, though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbx8qRg6tPE&feature=youtu.be

Now I'm excited about their comeback again.

yeah this is awesome

You mean because of 'lady'? It's an old track, no? I've had a demo of it since 2008 or so. Had no idea it hadn't been released since then.
The version on this video doesn't sound vert different from what I have... the vocals are mixed higher and the rhythm halfways was definitely improved but the basics are still there. If this is from their new album I wouldn't get too excited yet until I heard the rest, Lady has been around for years now.

I thought this Chromatics record was supposed to be out Valentine's Day, but it obviously didn't come out. What's the hold up?

think it's a mastering issue or something? It's been delayed anyway

Eh, it's probably a "we don't have the funds to press a bunch of copies, but when we do..." issue.

check out Nite Jewel's album if you've got a hankering for some smooth synth-pop JF

hella frustrating to see this thread bumped with still no further mention of the symmetry album. would you guys listen to it if i told you that the vocalist from chromatics is on the final track? you know that johnny jewel is symmetry, right? are you not responding b/c whiney was making fun of a track from the actual drive stdk that had nothing to do with idib?

no, it's not another springsteen cover

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdV5fnwTwZM

pretty accomplished morning after/comedown vibes

not saying that the album is mindblowing or anything but it's a pretty good listen if you like the more ambient side of chromatics or if you dig the instrumental glass candy trax

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wlTmedBBG4&feature=related

it's a pretty good listen if you like the more ambient side of chromatics or if you dig the instrumental glass candy trax

Not as much as the more pop side of Chromatics or the vocal Glass Candy trax, so I really don't have much to say about it. It's cool for chillin out.

i like the symmetry album but i haven't got anything interesting to say about it sorry

whatever happened to Twisted Wires? saw them open for Glass Candy and thought they were pretty good, and liked that one single they released ... then they disappeared off the face of the earth, apparently.

Yeah, Symmetry is nice stuff. New Chromatics vid but still no release date for ''Kill for Love".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbuEDkPOq9I&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Good track. (But I wonder though whether I'll be able to shake 'Drive' from this aesthetic now).

I think this may be my favourite Chromatics track.

These have all been in high rotation for me, especially Lady. I have a feeling this is going to be one of the few albums I'm in the record store for on release day.

...and yet another new single (it's really beautiful):

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

that is great

Yeah, quite looking forward to this record now.

Chromatics album supposedly on iTunes now, but I don't see it.

https://twitter.com/#!/MikeSimonetti/status/184434832275808257

about to listen to this.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/kill-for-love/id514145032

There it is!

Damn that's a long album.

vocals on "Kill for Love' have been...processed (don't know the technical term) versus the single version. I prefer it!

"Lady," holy crap. And yeah, how many of these count as "bonus tracks"? 93 mins is a bit much.

listening to it now. Up to track 10 and so far I'm iffy on the longer tracks but the shorter ones have been pretty bloody great. Don't know why they felt the need for the excessive double-album thing.