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34 - Max Tundra - Parallax Error Beheads You
97.5 points, 8 votes, 1 #1 vote
142 in P&J, 27 in p4k

http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/3135/108en80vx5.jpg

The perfect pop of "The Entertainment", the manic chopping on "Orphaned", the heavy bends on "Number Our Days", the overall Buggles-worthy gloss on the vocal lines, the clever but ouch-worthy personal risk of the lyrics vs. the clean room OCD production, I could go on but the whole thing is jawdropping.

― Neotropical pygmy squirrel

this coulda been higher, really great album. I think the poppier opening stuff is better though.

I heard Max Tundra years ago and hated it. Has it changed much since then?

yeah what's dude like (feel like a douche but can't listen right now?) like is it... kelly polar style?

like mental polyphonic ringtones

nothing like kelley polar. Tighter claustrophobic artificial thick, very XTC Scritti Politti vein of British hyper-pop

mental polyphonic ringtones sounds pretty dope

Mastered By Guy at the Exchange is probably a better entryway, its a bit more varied.

I could see you totally liking this btw Jordan

perfect pop

Can I put in that there's probably no phrase that so greatly turns me off of wanting to hear something as this one?

Haha, mental polyphonic ringtones is a gr8 (and accurate) description.

that song was okay until the vocals kicked in

this list is really bad so far

(no offense musically)

`i don't know why I posted that one, its a really bad first impression really.

That hairy freckle character looks like Peter Gabriel dressed as a flower.

ehhhh yeah the list has gone from "interestingly esoteric and bemusing" to just plain bad now. still, we're fairly low down, and the top half pretty much has to be better right now. heads will roll if jazmine doesn't get in though.

that video was dreadful. even more annoying than the stuff i heard years ago. and that was fucking annoying.

I have managed to vote for precisely none of these albumens so far. There's a couple I wouldn't mind checking out properly though.

I think "Which Song" is my favorite off that record, and not quite as abrasive as will get fooled again (though still quite abrasive).

only one thing i voted for so far has charted (glass candy)

omg that max tundra track is TERRIBLE :o

expected it to be the same ol' same ol' senseless bleep blip blip idm as it was years ago but that was some rancid indiepop there. the opening line...i cannot bring myself to even type it out again but WTF no.

(was referring to 'will get fooled again')

Yeah, none of my votes have made it yet either, still don't think this is too bad a bottom of the list though. madxposts

what a bizarre sentence fragment.

anyway, i hope the top end of the list is filled with art-damaged electronics

xxp to myself

Only 2 of my chosen albums hae made it yet. Boris and Paavoharju .

i am definitely finding things that i would like to check out based on the list so far, but it just seems weird and not like ilm at all, which is probably a good thing

either that or i don't pay attention to enough of ilm (closer to the actual truth)

I won't be investigating the Max Tundra. That's for sure.

There are def a few things here (Moulton and Lissvik) that I wouldn't have even heard of if not for ILM threads this year. xpost

yup i heard of both of those because of ilm as well. i am def going to check the lissvik.

i like this list so far. very esoteric compared to the trax one, the only thing to actively dislike here are the p4k picks (hold steady, max tundra)

is tundra like crystal castles?

God no

ok cool

Also Carlos Giffoni (can't rep for adult life enuff btw).

Agreed, it's his best stuff so far.

weird, just realised that solange's album placed but her singles didn't. and beyoncé's singles placed, but tbh i don't expect her album to. that seems oddly...backwards to how it should be.

― lex pretend, Tuesday, February 10, 2009 2:24 PM (4 hours ago)

i was thinking this same thing! i was glad when solange placed but i thought 'uh, where was sandcastle disco?!'

and ya i'll stan for sasha fierce, as you and j0rdan said

solange's album is defintely better than beyonce's

and "Single Ladies" is better than "Sandcastle Disco"

haha you listened to jay reatard. lex you need a youtube channel where you film yourself listening to trendy indie music, would be like all the "2 girls 1 cup" reaction videos.

― nascar jesus (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, February 10, 2009 3:55 PM (3 hours ago)

haha i know right! im proud of lex for giving it a shot, but it's really not at all for him.

(that sounds a bit patronizing, like he doesnt 'get' it...that's not what i mean)

Yes it was :P

the opening line...i cannot bring myself to even type it out again but WTF no.

I found the girl on Google Image Search
She was in the background of a picture of a church
I knew if we should get along as we were able
I shouldn't really bring her to the Seder table

I found the girl on eBay
She was bidding on Halfway To A Threeway
I wrote the words "a grain of sand" upon a grain of rice
She baked a pie of very shy laboratory mice

I found the girl on MySpace
In her profile there was my face
I went into a corner shop and bought myself an edge
Another shiny vector to add to my cortege

I found the girl on Friendster
Where her taste in cinema defends her
She rescued me from vagary and indecision
By telling me our future was the new religion

Na na na na na na na na na na na na na
Na na na na na na na na na na na na na
Na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na
Na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na

Then I found you

o_O

O_o

>:@

i found the girl on ilx
she was really funky and fresh
with fashion sense and argyle socks
then i discovered she liked indie rock

That's brilliant lyrics. Any guy who writes about a girl bidding on 'Halfway to a Threeway' deserves to be listened to.

Not when it sounds like shit it doesn't.

Real talk.