The Studio - West Coast

i'm glad you like it tim--i've been listening to it quite a lot, maybe it needs its own thread

yes please!

Has it even gotten a legit release yet?

am i on everyone's killfile or something? yes, it has been reissued.

i thought they were talking about the Strategy record, lil man

Strategy record has definitely been released - saw it in the shops the other day.

I have a real copy of it in my office now and am listening to it - released mid-July in the UK, got it from Amazon.

Very good indeed, btw.

HAS L0u1s J@gger HEARD STRATEGY?

Taking L0u1s J@gger (By Strategy)

Hahaha I like how L0u1s J@gger is auto-encrypted.

Also, Ned would like this.

You would, Ned.

please don't spoil a good thread

Have I not recommended this to Ned before? It's like a birthday cake for Ned with sparklers that explode when you light them forming fireworks in the shape of "NED RAGGETT!!!"

You totally recommended it to me upthread! And quite happily I am getting a promo copy this week.

I thought that was The Studio? Which should be waiting at home for me. Is there a separate Strategy thread now?

apparently there is an epic studio remix of the new a mountain of one single!

leo?

no, LEO!

that strategy album is just ok. first 2 songs and "Stop Spinning" are nice balearic disco dub (not dubby disco), but the rest of it is kinda mellow shoegazy m83 stuff which didn't do anything for me.

same here

xpost - we should probably just have a nü-balearic thread to differentiate it from the beardo disco thread.

The piano in track 3 of the Studio album is totally AR Kane.

whatevr jaxon

also have a new remix of "west side" by brennan green

I'm liking Strategy WAY more than Studio.

new remix of "west side" by brennan green

Meantime, the Studio album is here in the mail, and I will listen in a bit.

Okay, the Disco Inferno connection I don't sense either, though I can see what Tim is driving at. But the comment in the first post from him -- "superbly glistening eighties art-rock sheen" -- is appropriate for the album as a whole, no question. I'm not feeling immediate overwhelming "Whoa, LUV" yet, but I am v. impressed.

I'm with Ned, but I can see grower potential. The glistening bit is spot on. What it reminds me most of, I guess, is early Cure. There's a similar sense of space and that overall mood of chilly summer dawns, that I get from 'Japanese Whispers' or '17 Seconds'.

But it's more 'up,' to put it simply.

Yeah if the Cure had recorded '17 sec' in Nassau, it might have come out this way.

I'm liking this. It hits all my Factory fetishist buttons in all the right ways. I do hear a bit of the Cure in there too.

The Disco Inferno comparison is more in relation to the "No Comply"/"Radio Edit" single.

The guitars in Origin are fucking awesome. This is growing on me. I wish they had a real drummer, I think.

Track 3 is so fucking "i"-era AR Kane it hurts.

Even his enunciation is a little bit like thingy's. It reminds me of the one that reminds me of Bjork circa Debut.

i would be their real drummmer

Nick do you have West Coast or Yearbook I? Which track are you referring to?

West Coast. Self Service is the AR Kane-ish one. I've just reviewed the album for Stylus so I'll say no more!

"Self Service" is maybe my favourite a lot of the time, especially when the vocalist sings "(something) (something) against you!" and then he has this syncopated "ooh ooh ooh ooh" in time with a keyboard riff and the beat. The rhythms on it are amazing, esp. in the second half. Shame it was edited for Yearbook I.

Second listen last night brought everything more into focus, I have to say.

did you smoke a doobie?

this has been my #1 this year since january

did you smoke a doobie?

Yeah, yours.

I wanna listen to this poolside at cocktail time.

LOL at this comment from i guess i'm floating
I'm really getting sick of these ridiculous Scandinavian "indie pop" musicians making crappy pop music slightly deviating from mainstream radio in order to gain the favor of music-connoisseurs wannabes. What happened to the days when "indie rock" meant Guided By Voices and Beat Happening and Sebadoh and Pavement and Neutral Milk Hotel and The Velvet Underground?

People like that are beyond saving.

Yeah!! What happened to grunge music, man?!

can't. stop. listening.

also quite amazed at tim's opening post, had you already lived for some time with the album when you wrote that? it's so accurate! and yes, "west coast" is totally cure ca. 17 seconds (an album i just recently bought & heard, btw). those "delicately pushed piano stabs" in "self service" are indeed very ar kaney. love that glorious guitar that comes in after 3 mins.

nothing much to add. i'm gonna put it on again.

It grows very wonderfully -- Willem is quite right, this adds on with relistenings, and you sense its own logic come to the fore.