The Studio - West Coast

You can get Studio t-shirts from Phonica at the minute. They're 30 fucking quid though.

25 if you order them through the Information website (I'm wearing mine now! beautiful off-white)

25 fucking quid!

I can't find a proper image of the shirts!

lemmetry:
http://www.inf000.com/images/stu004.gif

There's also this one:

http://www.phonicarecords.co.uk/images/sleeves/info001tblkl.jpg

nice one

I just absolutely love the fact Pitchfork never reviewed West Coast. They've been on a hot roll lately, reviewing "it" bands (mostly honestly very good ones, like Fleet Foxes). Similar to Cutty's thread, the inner hipster in me is frustrated by people who only use Pitchfork to listen to new music. However, it seems Pitchfork has been quick to spot (or influence) the newest trends, and finging West Coast on my own is a rare victory.

I'm lame.

I think a review of the rereleased West Coast after having already reviewed Yearbook 1 would probably have been a bit redundant though.

i listen to it on my commute.

-- gr8080, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 19:31 (Yesterday)

um, that's the east coast dawg. :-p

finding West Coast on my own is a rare victory.

i don't really see the difference between finding out about a record on pitchfork and finding out about a record on ILM.

its the same distance either way

xp

Yeah, fwiw we were going to review WC but we knew Y1 was on the way so we waited and only reviewed that.

Is there a thread about yearbook 2 which I did not know existed until five minutes ago?

you're on it.

oh right, i never clicked the skipping posts thing and I didn't see!

Want this, watching it spin would be nice. When I first heard West Side it sounded like an amazing thing and it still does.

I want the "No Comply" t-shirt black on white.

: (

We are what is wrong with the world.

No, I think you'll find that's all the people not digging on Studio.

These guys remind me a lot of: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEx7pkmFc6s

i went to their studio in göteborg today. i don't know what the published interview is going to look like, but before i forget everything they said when i wasn't recording...

-that Fact magazine info about scrapping tracks for a live studio album in 2009 was either never true or no longer true. they're working on one new remix, overseeing fontän's debut album (who play live instruments; i got the feeling that studio were going to tour vicariously through them).. they don't have any definite album release plans, although they have three albums worth of material 'in the can.' they're unsure when or if they'll release any of it. (west side was culled from material that dates back to 2003)´
-vahid: they had to edit self-servce to fit it on cd.
-'balearic music' is any music played while wearing a sailor hat.

for the record, these are some of the coolest, nicest, humblest dudes i've ever met. i even got some t-shirts haha

(i met air france, too, if anyone's has q's)

-'balearic music' is any music played while wearing a sailor hat.

poortheatre, where do you write for??

nowhere, really. a friend of mine is starting a small culture magazine (Futureclaw) and asked me if i wanted to write something for it, and it turned out to be an interview with studio. i was going to sweden anyway to visit some friends, so i did the interview in person. and i just e-mailed air france because i was in town.. g-burg is really cool. great time of the year to visit.

I hope it went something like this:
Studio: Ja, ve have tre albums already, how you say, in the can.
poorteater: ysi?

finally getting around to listening these dudes, playing yearbook 2 right now and it's.....kind of boring?

Start with their original stuff at least!

yearbook 2 = major disappointment, good tracks but i already heard it all! :(

none of the Y2 tracks reach the heights of 'out there' or 'west coast' but this is still one of the best releases of the year.

-- poortheatre, Monday, June 23, 2008 5:33 AM (4 weeks ago) Bookmark Link

Ha ha poortheatre that's like a capsule summary of my review!

-- Tim F, Monday, June 23, 2008 5:44 AM (4 weeks ago) Bookmark Link

you heard it here first, folks

-- poortheatre, Monday, June 23, 2008 5:57 AM (4 weeks ago) Bookmark Link

it's a remix compilation

-- cutty, Monday, June 23, 2008 7:40 AM (4 weeks ago) Bookmark Link

I'm way more impressed by their original material than I am by their remixes.

Impossible kills everything else on here, despite me thinking nothing could bowl over Kylie. I was wrong.

Many thanks to Tim F. & Co. for your references to Disco Inferno - a discovery nearly as great as West Coast itself.

Fwiw (and impressively, to me, anyway), iTunes (US) sells the otherwise out-of-print "In Debt" in the "iTunes Plus" mode.

upcoming projects in order:

-remix windsurf ('the last remix')
-finish supervising ('curating') fontan album
-supervise album of Oslo band called Century

I'm glad I didn't shell out $30 for this. its okay I guess but my favorite song was the shortest one, the rest just kinda went on and on aimlessly.

hate it when songs last more than 4 minutes

then what are you doing on The Studio - West Coast thread?

real talk, right there.

The idea that Way Out could be 'aimless' had me briefly reassessing my definition of 'aim', and then I realised it was bollocks.

srsly question ppl who don't like this band

So, has anyone heard the Fontän single? Got it from iTunes.
It's a gorgeous song, hazy Pink Floyd like vocals, solid driving drums and terrific double-barreled guitars (what a rush when they come in for the first time so early in the song). Remixes by A Mountain of One (with a bassline reminiscent of Air, Twilight Zone synths and "Love Like Blood" lite guitars) and Studio who reconstruct the song in their typical fashion.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&Item=260258754743&Category=306&_trksid=p3907.m29

want^

another typically awesome studio mix, on pink vinyl!

So, has anyone heard the Fontän single?

yes and it's awesome, Mo1 AND Studio, and the original is a great track too.

It's this, right? The :30 samples do have a Pink Floyd quality to them.

italians do it better have their own version of studio now, tiedye

loving the little ones mix. i hope the next full length sounds more like that and "no comply" than the AM01 and kylie remakes. not hating just like one sound a little better than the other.

i ordered west coast from the information site and they sent me yearbook 2 for free