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i love the tunes where it just fades off into oblivion (tick of the clock, broken mirrors, no escape)

I listened to this last night while I was going to sleep and thought it was really clumsily sequenced. Just now realized I had my Winamp on shuffle. Listening to it in the intended order now, it makes a lot more sense.

hmmm, $12 postpaid for the 16-track cd or nearly $17 for the 17 track itunes version.. probably neither for this sort of bullshit

$12 pp is a pretty good deal for a cd, no?

it's not bad, but it seems like a stooge to be missing out on the bonus track, but a bigger stooge to pay $5 more for a download just to get it.

is it worthwhile getting the bonus track?

i;m seeing $9.99 on itunes for the 17 track version..

Yah, I paid 9.99 last night.

congratulations on not being australian i guess

if someone wants to buy it for me and zip it up i'll paypal you $11

I'm excited to hear this, will there be a vinyl release?

According to their fb-page, yes, there will be a vinyl release soon. Just hope shipping overseas won't be too much...

£7.99 on itunes uk iirc

it is looong

Italians Do It Better said...

THERE WILL DEFINITELY BE VINYL. DOUBLE LP FORMAT WITH A SILVER FOIL STAMPED BACK COVER...LYRIC INSERT...ON ICY IVORY VINYL..AND YES...THERE WILL BE MP3 CODES INSIDE. WE WON'T SPECULATE ABOUT THE ARRIVAL DATE BECAUSE THERE ARE WAY TOO MANY FACTORS OUT OF OUR CONTROL...BUT IT'S COMING. IN THE MEANTIME...WE REPRESSED OUR OUT OF PRINT CDS AND "KILL FOR LOVE" CDS WILL BE IN THE STORE AT SOME POINT LATER TODAY. ALL VINYL LPS ARE ON REPRESS FOR COLORED VINYL TOO. WE LET THE ENTIRE STORE GO OUT OF PRINT TO COORDINATE OUR MOVE TO LOS ANGELES. XO

I know its lame but I really want some IDIB t-shirts

i have two, so i am double lame

I'm kind of blown away by this... what are others' thoughts?

I think on first listen it was tough to get past how good the first 5/6 tracks are. I listened to it again all the way through, and while I still think it's long I'm loving it.

so how do i get the double t-shirt

http://soundcloud.com/johnnyjewel/chromatics-kill-for-love-album

Full album stream fyi

This is great so far. Up to Candy, could be the best thing I've heard on IDIB besides After Dark.

This record is my favorite thing right now.

this could blow up pretty big if everyone who swooned over that kavinksy track gets into it

whole shebangs available to stream

http://soundcloud.com/johnnyjewel/chromatics-kill-for-love-album

just finished this, definitely too much to take in on one listen but its phenomenal. The last track is surprisingly like tim hecker/fennesz find of ambient thing

really feelin this tbh fyi

This is the best thing I've heard all year.

has pitchdork weighed in on this one yet?

WHO CARES

my my hey hey

bnm is here to stay

considering they loved the overblown, often tedious M83 double album, they're gonna hate this for being too long and unfocussed.

mad love for the autotuned trax on this one

title track on this is pretty awesome

not use how far into it I will get before I lose focus though

this could blow up pretty big if everyone who swooned over that kavinksy track gets into it

otm

ok i was wrong about p4k

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/16452-kill-for-love/

Really like "kill for love" although, somehow, I feel like it's not as good as I'd like it to be after the intro.
I'm quite excited by this album, going to order it now !

it's a really icy, arms-length sort of album. full of repetitive, spacey probable-creepers. good on first listen, but looking forward to relating to this more when i'm feeling, i dunno, a bit more patient and/or nostalgic.

just ordered it on their blog. it's pretty cheap !

These Streets Will Never Look The Same yall

this is dope as fuck. heavy too. the neil young opener is exciting!

man idk if I should wait for the vinyl w/ mp3 codes

Excellent album.

These Streets Will Never Look The Same yall

― caulk the wagon and float it, Tuesday, April 3, 2012 8:37 AM (11 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yes this

not sure if i "get" this album. sounds very nice, icy and inviting at the same time, provides a comfortably inhabitable atmosphere all the way through, but nothing's really grabbing me on the first pass. in enjoy the vibe more than the songwriting, and as a result, i frequently find my attention wandering. more well-crafted persona than seriously engaging personality, at least on the first pass. guess that's sort of their stock-in-trade, though...

maybe it's just the length of the thing that's making it hard to digest. have liked them primarily as a singles band in the past.

Johnny Jewel is definitely determined to get you to devote a lot of your time to his music this year

hah, for real.

he should do a 10 album set with e-40

id like to go on record saying that i think Johnny Jewel is an epic rock n roll stage name for the ages

plus a damn fine song

Will the vinyl have No Escape on it?

Okay, so I've spent a bit of time w this over the last few days. I get it even less than I did before. This is honestly one of the laziest, emptiest and least engaging albums I've heard in a long, long time. I understand that the stasis and vacuity are not just intentional but by and large "the point", but nothing is done to make the nothingness interesting or musically compelling. It's a more or less entirely blank slate against which a few obvious influences are allowed to play. The hooks are few and far between, the melodies aren't moving or memorable, the beats plod along dully without groove or propulsion, and the tones are steadfastly generic. It sounds like a drug-deadened indietronic spin on the wallpaper mood music you hear in Starbucks.

I'm not saying there aren't standout songs. "Candy" and "These Streets Will Never Look the Same" are both pretty great, working as pop without losing the creepy-cool designer zombie vibe (autotune is a much better vehicle for this kind of narcotized robot lounge music than breathy human affectlessness, imo). Unfortunately, most of the rest is oppressively boring.