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This sound is much better for them:

"kim and jesse" is one of the better tracks. as mentioned, so is "we own the sky"

other M83 that is +

"don't save us from the flames" is kind of untoppable tho

Jeez, sounds like Air trying to play Bruce Springsteen songs.

Yeah, of the two singles that people seem to talk about, "Graveyard Girl" has always seemed a little superficial in its pleasures, a little too Sofia Coppola end-credits maybe, but "Kim & Jessie" is really great.

Jeez, sounds like Air trying to play Bruce Springsteen songs.

Given that I only just recently discovered that, total aversion to "Sexy Boy" aside, I really like Air, that is kind of a huge endorsement for me.

The singles are my least favorite songs in the album, actually.

i feel like i should like "graveyard girl" and "don't save us from the flames", opening moments and basic sound are fantastic, but they don't do anything for me once i absorb the general gist. the preserved-in-amber vibe is clearly intentional, but it kills the songs dead, afaic

I'll pimp this again. I edited the annoying spoken part of "Graveyard Girl" out and it really makes it a better song.

http://www.box.net/shared/ap3d0djsvy

so I can extrapolate the Cut Copy is gonna do well here, right?

also "Skin of the Night" is giving me massive Cocteaus vibes, mmmmm

cut copy might be top 3

looots of praise in that theard iirc

skin of the night is the best track, along with couleurs

also "Skin of the Night" is giving me massive Cocteaus vibes, mmmmm

YES!

yeah i said it on another thread but M83 sort of freaks me out because it sounds *really* 80s like how stuff in the 80s actually sounded, not like how bands like Interpol or something are supposed to sound like the 80s but really don't at all....like that "kim and jessie" song is on some, man, i dunno Glass Tiger shit or something...all that stuff sort of makes me feel weird cuz it reminds me of being a little kid and stuff...seems poignant for no reason.

"Couleurs"

omg there's a 9 and a half-minute version

omg I can totally imagine Emilio Estevez and Ally Sheedy running into each other's arms from across a football field to "Graveyard Girl". It's like all of the best parts of Echo & the Bunnymen and The Psychedelic Furs stuck together.

what's with the covert mbv refs in the instrumental sounds?

M@tt is totally OTM; if I didn't know any better I would think half of what I've heard so far was directly off the "Some Kind Of Wonderful" soundtrack.

not that i'm much bothered, just heard a rip

(JAMC is the other band I hear in "Graveyard Girl".)

omg there's a 9 and a half-minute version

It actually has about 1-1/2 min of silence at the end, go figure.

Enjoying the HI DERE liveblog -- keep it up!

It's so eighties I can see why Grimly likes it so much. Not for me though.

"Coleurs" seems like someone trying to do a cover of "The Perfect Kiss" but only on Prince's synths and with Siouxsie & the Banshee's guitars.

fuck me this is total "pander to Dan Perry" music

nowt to do with electrodribble

Why'd you avoid it all year, Dan?

what's with the covert mbv refs in the instrumental sounds?

― HI DERE

M@tt is totally OTM; if I didn't know any better I would think half of what I've heard so far was directly off the "Some Kind Of Wonderful" soundtrack.

― HI DERE

this is key for me, along with m@tt's comment. it IS an almost terrifyingly perfect replication, but like HD sez, there's something blurry in there too. which makes it more accurate, somehow, like it's not just "the past", it's "remembering the past", accurately yet imperfectly. like looking at old polaroids of yr. childhood: the image is true but hazed over, and intrinsically kinda sad/lost, even if the moments captured are happy ones.

all this seems obv, in that it's obv what they're going for, and a cool idea, but still, the weird corpselike inertness of the whole project. so cold.

oops, first quote from whatever

That's a pretty perfectly worded manifestation of my own feelings about the record. Thanks!

I don't know! It never even showed up on my radar. Probably I looked at the band name some time ago and went "oh anonymous wannabe retro-rock indie band" and never followed up.

These guys are striking me like a indie-pop version of Boards of Canada.

omg I can totally imagine Emilio Estevez and Ally Sheedy running into each other's arms from across a football field to "Graveyard Girl". It's like all of the best parts of Echo & the Bunnymen and The Psychedelic Furs stuck together.

OK now I am intrigued.

xpost to contenderizer

yeah that's it.

like the album sounds like a sunbeam coming through your window and you can see the little dust floating in it.

^ !!! OTM

M83 ain't got squat on Ulrich Schnauss' best stuff fwiw

Contrarian

Dan, here's the two singles from their previous album, 2005 or thereabouts:

"Don't Save Us from the Flames"

"Teen Angst"

@condenderizer (xxxxxxxxxxxxpst): fwiw i'm hearing it for 1st time. tk3 skin of the night female vocals very kate bush. but is it so bad that there's a gap between replication and a blurry representation? not to get all textual-feely but...

"Up!" is an even more direct Kate Bush homage.

M83 ain't got squat on Ulrich Schnauss' best stuff fwiw

I like Schnuass too. Why mommy and daddy gotta fight?!

J0rdan, that is not a contrarian belief, it is what my ears and brain scream out to me and heaven help me if I choose to ignore them

I am going to wait till tomorrow to listen to the m83 (i really liked k&j after hearing it on the trax poll) because i'm listening to the jeezy and oh dear baby jesus make this album place.

is it so bad that there's a gap between replication and a blurry representation? not to get all textual-feely but...

― whatever

no, i think it's GOOD that there's a gap. i think that without the attention to the gap, the difference between the past and our memory of it, it would be just another boring 80s retro record. my objection is to the frigid, museum-quality emptiness of the whole project (which is again, clearly part of the point, but it keeps me at too great a distance)

M83 ain't got squat on Ulrich Schnauss' best stuff fwiw

― there's no antivote to (country matters), Friday, February 13, 2009 11:19 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

Perhaps they aint't got squat because M83 and Ulrich Schnauss are nothing alike?!

Okay I'm not really feeling "Up!"; feels like a total misstep compared to the other tracks (it doesn't help that it comes on the heels of "Coleurs"), plus it doesn't really have that trapped-in-amber sense of belonging to a particular time that permeates the other tracks. Also I am not a fan of the singer on this particular track.

oh but "We Own The Sky" starts very strongly, mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

They don't have to fight. It just pains me to see one modern electro-shoegaze artist get all the plaudits and a massively superior one almost totally ignored. "On My Own" is single of the decade and in my top 5 overall 00's songs.

And yeah, Schnauss mines a more beats'n'psych-swirl-treated-sonics groove, but I often think of them in a similar bracket.

xpost to contenderizer

yeah that's it.

like the album sounds like a sunbeam coming through your window and you can see the little dust floating in it.

― Yo, I just copped dat brand new Manity Kane cd. (M@tt He1ges0n), Friday, February 13, 2009 11:17 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^ !!! OTM

are the similes enough though?

lou im just joshing w/ you btw