New from the DFA...

nobody cares about the crystal ark album? save for the crappy sleeve it's really good

yeah this is dope

and then there's this

Larry Gus - Silent Congas (free download)

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2012/11/larry_gus_relea.html

Holy shit, this video:
http://vimeo.com/53650993

they should've made a video edit before they filmed that.

agree jed. they should take some tips from the pros. ;-)

haha!

Pretty keen to hear the Crystal Ark LP, and I think that video's pretty great.

Not on DFA but as we're talking about Crystal Ark - what's the Midnight Magic album like?

it's pretty great but the best tracks have already been out as singles (Beam Me Up, Drop Me a Line, Same Way I Feel)

best of the new ones is probably Paranoid Jungle

I do like them solidly better than Escort for what that's worth

"Rhodes" off the Crystal Ark album is such a languid jam:
http://soundcloud.com/coolhunting/06-rhodes

https://soundcloud.com/factory-floor/fall-back-1

holy shit this is great

certainly the most tuneful thing they've done

i am pretty into this, thanks stevie!

Enjoying this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfM4bc9553I

i like that. the surahn ep has grown on me quite a lot too

really dig the b-side on the marcus marr

that marcus marr intro had me thinking it was going to sound like delia & gavin but then it turned into phoenix :-(

watching the world got the prins thomas treatment:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdS6xEwZDMM

much better than 'the music' imo:

https://soundcloud.com/marcus-marr/marcus-marr_pleasure_moon

ok that's dope, i just bought that on itunes

sounds like mungolian jetset in a good way

really feeling the Prins Thomas remixes of Surahn

i was listening to the marcus marr single wondering where i'd picked up the recommendation and thinking "wtf is this annoying shit" about the a-side but the b-side was much better, yes!

http://www.factmag.com/2013/03/04/james-murphy-files-90000-lawsuit-against-former-dfa-partner-tim-goldsworthy/

death from attorneys

ack that's not good. a real shame, in fact.

a very sad denouement.

http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/0/40/1139064-dr_evil_one_million_dollars_super.jpeg

little bit late but love the noodling in the second half of 'the music'

I copped a Delia & Gavin from 2005 or whatever from a DFA representative at this big outdoor record fair. for some reason i've listened to it ~90 times or so but never actually owned it.

12 years of DFA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuJ6KdhEaa0&feature=youtu.be

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Days of Mars is easily my favorite full-length to come out on DFA, but I'm probably the only one who'd say that

thought it was pretty well regarded?

think "yeah (crass vn)" is my fave single song

Days of Mars is amazing but I often get sidetracked by the Relevee single/remixes and just listen to that

^both are great, as is Track 5, which might be my favorite thing by them, or on DFA

Track 5 is amazing. Out-carpenters carpenter.

Love Holy Ghost's "Dumb Disco Ideas".

the first half underwhelmed me but the second half is tremendous

it all passed without incident is the best i can say.

first few minutes feel like HG! by numbers, would be much lesser song if they'd done an edit. this is partly bcz, as with everything bar I Will Come Back and Jam For Jerry, the lyrics are completely blank, so it works great that the vocals become more explicitly sheer decoration once the synths take off.

enjoying not being able to work out if the drums are pads or carefully produced acoustic kit; looking forward to the CD to see who's credited with cwbll

love the "dumb disco ideas" instrumental. could have been made circa "yeah" -- i like that.

Has it been said all over the place that the Blurred Lines instrumental sounds a lot like a 2004/2005-ish DFA track?

new, non-album, James Murphy / HG! track on latter's Soundcloud today

^i like the music a LOT, though the vocals are oddly weak

that's not odd although they are significantly worse than usual.

i don't normally have a problem with the singing but this has the feel of a rough guide vocal that never got replaced

Unmentioned above, but the The Juan Maclean returned with a single in April:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nwf31pKvGc4

Nancy Whang's vocal aside, its not as endearingly idiosyncratic as past outings. And I like Whang more on Classix's "All You're Waiting For".

10 years later, that cabaret voltaire song in the top post mix is still the jamb:

http://www.rdio.com/people/jamesmurphy/playlists/5224085/not_particularly_summery_summer_jam_mix_tape/

great video and song this larry gus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfmA6tNGUqI

I was wondering what people thought of that Larry Gus album. The couple tracks I heard are pretty cool.

not really into it. it's great that he had this complicated algorithm for deciding which background samples to use or whatever, but it's not really borne out in the music, idk.