Nicolas Jaar: I was a Teenage Villalobos

gonna give the mix a listen but i felt like he reealllllly fell off last year, was completely underwhelmed (and in fact bored) by all the nymphs releases. his debut album was already a bit of step down from the singles and remixes that preceded it (feel like floating points' album has a similar relationship to his previous singles) and he just seems to be heading further and further in that direction.

OTM with his solo stuff, but I still really love his Darkside work the most. But yeah, it feels like he's already lost the energy and vitality that his early teenage tracks had and has self indulged bit too heavily these days. His RA 500 mix was okay.

Fights was the best thing I've heard from him, but the supposed genius of those early singles has never been readily apparent to me.

The debut album was gorgeous on a phenomenological level - I could listen to it just for the richness of the sound - but it was more than a little lacking in tunes. I've heard most of the early singles now and they're OK; prefer the Floating Points stuff.

The title track of the debut album had enough tunes - and a drop - to fill the whole record for me. I loved the album and still listen to that title track all the time.

http://other-people.network/#/channels/333?_k=zn9crg

now that's a confusing player if I ever did see one

sounds good though!

couldn't tell if it wasn't working for me or if i was just dumb.

I'm finding the new one pretty boring and I feel pretty stupid about it

i hate this album

this guy sounds way better on paper than in real life

here I'll ruin Nicolas jaar for you:

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Nah, I'm hearing much more Suicide than Moby

classic sequence of inspired dance(-ey) singles -> tepid non-dancey albums -> undue critical adulation for artsy album twaddle -> reinforcing cycle

Haven't heard the new album, Jaar did a bunch of dance stuff with sampled old blues vocals, hence bad joke

His records just sound fabulous; it's very easy to soak into them on a sensual level. There are a handful of extended grooves on the new one where he's doing very lush things - The Governor, Three Sides of Nazareth - but there's also a bunch of stuff that makes me wonder wtf he's playing at.

otm. "sirens" on three sides of nazareth rules

just dropped a surprise album as Against All Logic

it's on Spotify

There are some really fun tracks here, I dig the low-stakes dancefloor approach (kinda like Four Tet's Percussions alias, which I like more than any recent Four Tet record).

Reminds me of Daphni too

Really enjoyable record

this is great

so little discussion about this, is it good or like wallpaper good

or maybe the discussion is elsewhere??

personally couldn't get into it, a bit too dissonant and meandering to my taste iirc

it's getting really good reviews tho

Here's a bad review if that's what you're looking for:
https://www.residentadvisor.net/reviews/22216

haha. just a lil more traction on why ppl like it. it kinda floated by me, but sounded pleasant.

really im curious what Lamp is listening to these days

so little discussion about this, is it good or like wallpaper good

― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40)

I'm enjoying it a lot, there are too many odd little rhythmic and textural flourishes for it to fit too snugly into the realm of the coffee table. Yet it is often very pleasant, and I'm fine with that.

i really like it. not as much as the Darkside record which is my favorite Jaar project by an order of magnitude but this is probably my 2nd favorite

mans on a tear

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hPfc02Q1qA

'Fantasy' is from Against all Logic's new album '2017 - 2019' out now on Other People: https://against-all-logic.bandcamp.com/album/2017-2019

I actively hated Sirens, and the first AAL didn't grab me, but this is cutting through the ADHD. He turns unpredictability into hooks somehow.

he sort of withdrew from the spotlight trained on "Nicolas Jaar", huh?

I’m a total dilettante when it comes to this guy, liked Darkside a lot, but was playing a bunch of AAL today. It’s pretty fucking good.

Like the Lydia Lunch cut-up on the new album. “If you can’t do it good, do it hard” is a good mantra tbh.

I love the new one but I pretty much adore all of his records, no matter the moniker and style. Space, Sirens, Darkside, AAL, the Pomegranates re-scoring... He's just brilliant.

Love 2017-2019. There's also a 12" with more sampled Lydia Lunch.

yeah this one is in line with the previous one i.e. very good

This single/album really are just incredible.

And there's a new Jaar LP out next week.

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https://nicolasjaar.bandcamp.com/album/cenizas

New album “Cenizas” is out.

At this point, I don’t think he is capable of releasing a bad album.

“Mud” is my favorite on first listen but the whole thing is great as usual.

I'm like three minutes into this album and ready to declare it great.

A lot of contrasts here. Can't say I like all of it but some parts I love. The closing track is a nice pop reward for listening patiently to the rest.

Just getting to this album. It's great and is a perfect fit for my current self-isolation. Sort of a drunk ambient record, stumbling from track to track, never settling into a single zone yet still adding up to a coherent mood. If that makes sense.

makes perfect sense, pgwp

cheers to NJ

His third album of the year, Telas, was released on Friday. “Cenizas was the ashes of a destruction. Telas is the fabrics of a construction.” Haven't had the chance to listen yet but apparently it's 4 ambient-ish tracks, each around 15 minutes.

It's good though i like Cenizas more.

I hadn't heard about the site

"the website { https://www.telas.parts } is where telas lives in its liquid form. it was created by abeera kamran and somnath bhatt with sounds by nicolás. somnath and nicolás started working on illustrations for telas in january 2018 and the website was developed alongside abeera in the last three months."

Thought the AAL album was outstanding on first listen earlier this year. Need to go back to it.

Can’t stand AAL, but both releases under the Jaar ‘moniker’ this year are stellar.

All 3 are amazing, I think - the AAL album/single might be the pick for me but they're all extremely different so it's a little hard to compare.

Listening to 2017-2019 again this AM. He has a particular talent for crafting coherent albums. Whole thing is very intentional and perfectly sequenced, with intros and outros that are as carefully constructed as the songs themselves.