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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.

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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.

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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

The singer on "Up!" is also on "Skin of the Night," fwiw.

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ah ok Jordan :D

oh man when if comes to "Decade poll (TRAX)" I am pushing "On My Own" so goddamn hard I swear to God

And "We Own The Sky" continues very strongly! I think I really like the overtly gauzy quality of the keyboards mixed with the ruthlessly clean-toned guitar jangles.

I see the Kate Bushisms in "Up!" but it seems really inferior to Kate Bush, whereas the other pastiche work holds up just as strongly as the source material for me.

Do these guys ever get compared to Boards of Canada? It feels like they both are doing the "melancholy nostalgia" thing in two separate genres (BOC being more beat/hip-hop oriented and M83 being more rock-pop oriented).

xp: I know it's the same singer but she's a lot better on "Skin of the Night" than she is on "Up!"

12 - Young Jeezy - The Recession
230 points, 15 votes
48 in P&J

http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/5926/youngjeezytherecessioncie5.jpg

Full album streaming: http://www.last.fm/music/Young+Jeezy/The+Recession

young jeezy 'the recession'

oh shit

really happy about this

this top 20 has become a little candyman-esque

Exactly LJ, they don't have to fight. I <3 Schnauss, but still don't really see how he's connected to M83, and thus don't see what you're complaining about

Wow. Definitely surprised at #12 (then again I haven't kept up with any of the threads in which he might have been talked about).

Earlier M83 had a lot more in common with BOC, imo. The stuff was more shapeless and less concerned with familiar structure. It's only over the two most recent M83 albums that he explored his pop leanings.

this top 20 has become a little candyman-esque

lool

I have to leave work now; I'm totally buying M83 on the way home.

I expected it to be top 5

are the similes enough though?

― whatever

no. to me, the record is all similes, representing the 80s, representing memory/nostalgia, etc. and it's not enough. it puts me off, freezes me out.

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)

― contenderizer, Friday, February 13, 2009 11:24 PM (2 minutes ago)

agreed. i'm just suspicious when faced with something that could have 'project' ascribed to it (the museum quality you reference). grrr not saying what i want.

Cant wait for contenderizers rundown
Rap/RnB
Electrodribble
Rap/RnB
Electrodribble

don't let us down no11 ;)

I expected it to be top 5

― The User Formerly Known As Pfunkboy Latterly Known as.. (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, February 13, 2009 5:32 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

idk i mean... i think this is probably a bit of fallacy since everyone who talks about rap on ilm is pretty visible in terms of posting frequency, and basically everyone who talks about rap on ilm is way behind this album. i wasn't sure about how popular it was outside of our lil crew tho

I have to leave work now; I'm totally buying M83 on the way home.

We have done our job well! :D :D :D

I'm sure I saw other people repping for it on various threads ,especially the end of year magazine threads.

(jeezy not m83)

i meant the verbal similes but no worries. couldn't see how the sunbeam/dust image related to the music itself, surely only to its reception.

I'm listening to the Jeezy now and what makes it stand out is... The last two albums were about how to hustle your way to the top but now everything is crumbling his hustling becomes hard work, its an actual struggle and no matter where you look from the bottom to the top of the scale, The Recession is portraying people left in the shit no matter how hard they work. Everything has been made so unnecessarily harder to just work. And then, of course, it ends with hope, which always helps.

soz that was meant to have some context re a contenderizer post. a beer too far...

My guess for no11 is The Bug, but I hope it places higher. Top 3 would be nice but unlikely I suppose.

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

― there's no antivote to (country matters), Friday, February 13, 2009 11:23 PM (9 minutes ago)

yah and heaven help us if you choose to tell us about it every goddamn time

And of course, it is filled with straight up bangers:

I've not mentioned Schnauss on ILM in like a year

Oh, you mean my beliefs...okok I'll dial it back

Yeah, not feelin the Jeezy stuff. Club rap isn't my bag, though.

nah dude i got no problem with them really, just sometimes yer phrasing make it sort of "LOOK AT ME I AM IN YOUR FACE LETTING YOU KNOW WHAT SUCKS AND IS NOT AS AWESOMEASDFSGS". so keep on with the what you think but you know deep breaths and all that

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