Please talk about: "Buffalo Stance" by Neneh Cherry

been playing this all day

This is a great album. It is amazing how she manages to convey so much frustration and charisma using only her voice, some percussion and one bass tone, and it's amazing how for such a minimal-sounding production it has so many hooks and earworms. It makes sense that she hasn't released anything for such a long time as this sounds like so much pent-up anger being expelled.

i love this record

The frenetic almost-rapping she does on the last track sounds amazing! Though it kinda makes me wish she'd do some proper rap too, but I guess those days are far behind (IIRC there wasn't any rapping on Man either).

this record right here

I was listening to this with a hangover and really not prepared for the rasping scraping cackling noise she does on the last track.

Enjoyed this on first listen but there's a kind of bluntness to some of her lyrics (and willingness to fall back on well-worn turns of phrase) that jarred with me slightly.

The first song is amazing.

It makes sense that she hasn't released anything for such a long time as this sounds like so much pent-up anger being expelled.

it's only two years since the cherry thing, which was good preparation for the new one in lots of ways - the scratchy expressiveness of her voice in particularly

"spit three times" is amazing

and tuomas otm about how perhaps neneh's contribution to her own album was more significant than the producer dudes, especially as she's now made two albums within two years with completely different collaborators and styles that both nonetheless share a definite aesthetic

Four Tet's bee quite vocal on twitter about how Rocketnumber9 need a lot of the credit people are ascribing to him.

Yeah I'd heard there'd been Twitter buzz about this album

surely Twitter buzz is an onomatopeoic oxymoron?

Four tet's bee is half bird

It's not uncommon

The Buzzing of Summer Tweets

can we talk about "Everything" and "Weightless"?

Let's talk about the god damn awesome synth 'bit' 2:50 into the track with Robyn. Fuck me. So cool.

I like that song a lot but I don't really like Robyn on it, or she doesn't really add much

Yeah, her voice is perhaps too much like diet-Neneh to add much.

If every vocal on here was pitch-shifted, too cool for school Knife fans would be going nuts over this album.

Weightless is incredible

gets better every time i hear it

this is really good. the title track has that skittery intense feel of the thing album although the rest of the album is quite sparse.

Weightless is incredible

'tis

Neneh's youngest girl Mabel just premiered her first single today: http://www.thefader.com/2015/07/13/mabel-know-me-better

an early version

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

interesting

I love this song

that demo/early version doesn't really hang together does it? they made the different parts sound of a whole in the final version

loving the "whaaa is he liiiike" ad-libs

it's a weirdo throwaway remix of another song [the A-side], with one of the guys' girlfriend adding some vocals over the top, not really intended to "hang together" at that point!

aaah, I see

Man, had no idea about this. Amazing that something so great could come so casually from something so shite (the A-side). That B-side may not exactly hang together, but all the bits are there, and they wouldn't need much changing.

wow the A-side really is awful.

incidentally, anyone know where i might be able to get the stem samples from the Neneh version? I've been wanting to do a remix of the track for years but no idea where you get this sort of thing

According to wikipedia, the Buffalo Stance single was released on my tenth birthday. I can't find anything else confirming this though. Hope it's true.

I always thought Buffalo Stance was a weird-ass song so the fact that it started as a remix makes a lot of sense

nice review from maura

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/neneh-cherry-raw-like-sushi/

does anybody know who directed the Buffalo Stance music video? is it the same person who did this Sinead O'Connor/MC Lyte vid? are there other music videos from this era that are in this style?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_W7u7g7oV68

yeah, same guy. he did loads of Sinead videos, from Troy for a decade or so onward. The No Clause 28 video is totally in the same style, as was Neneh's Kisses On The Wind, but in black & white.

the two videos from Jamie J Morgan's solo album might hit the spot for you, too.

(No Clause 28 is by Boy George, and Jamie J is the Morgan of Morgan / McVey.)

I was looking up the genesis of Lara Croft after seeing the new film and the Wikipedia entry mentions that Neneh Cherry was one of the models for her. Which seemed odd.

the links in the second and third paragraph of that review made me get a very late start on actual work today. Now I know tons of stuff about Ray Petri, Jamie Morgan, and The Face magazine.

so dont. you get fresh with me.

No style rookie
You better watch don’t mess with me

Don't remember this thread---great to see the love on here for The Cherry Thing as well as Raw Like Sushi. Saw collection of TCT remixes on discogs; anybody heard those?
I liked The Blank Project Deluxe, which does incl. mixes, though it's overall chilly (in the creepy Ballardian sense, incl. murky allusions verbal and aural) *and* tending to fairly lengthy tracks in medium tempo, that I've never really warmed up to it---overall, but for instance opener "Across The Water," which might be about her kid, got me right away.

I've still got Rip Rig & Panic's I Am Cold and Attitude somewhere---need to dig those up and get more RRP and related:
https://www.discogs.com/artist/27501-Rip-Rig-Panic

This review of Mark Springer's 2017 collection looks promising:
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/jul/13/mark-springer-circa-rip-rig-panic-review-fascinating-freeform-jazz-that-never-loses-its-way

new song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efTqhft8yCk

produced by Four Tet and 3D of Massive Attack

You can certainly hear 3D's input. Track would have fitted right in on Mezzanine.

new album broken politics out october 19

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGrXaPLX0PU

and you may find yourself listening to "Shot Gun Shack"

Great news! Blank Project still one of my faves of the decade.

Out today! Get thee to a record store.