i think the cassy track is my favourite so far
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 30 September 2008 20:17 (fifteen years ago) link
"its a face with headphones with soundwaves coming out of them"
i thought it may have been a reference to seismic booty-shaking beats.
"He resists pigeonholing and is against market fundamentalism"
THE NEW LUOMO ALBUM WILL SAVE THE GLOBAL ECONOMY
― tricky, Tuesday, 30 September 2008 21:07 (fifteen years ago) link
^^ I haven't got much past this and "Love You All"
my god! I am going to listen to this album a lot!
― tpp, Tuesday, 30 September 2008 21:10 (fifteen years ago) link
"against market fundamentalism"
actually this seems quite u+k the more i think about it.
― tricky, Tuesday, 30 September 2008 21:19 (fifteen years ago) link
This is great, and it's a direct line from the Uusitalo album to this -- "Robert's Reason" isn't even disguised much, it's just "Lumimies" from the Uusitalo record. And that's double plus good, because that album is one of my most listened-to records. It's one of those creeper records that when you first hear it, you think, "Ok, yeah, this is good stuff, cool, whatever," and then you listen to it 700 more times. I feel like the new Luomo will be like that, too.
― crusty but benign (kenan), Thursday, 9 October 2008 19:41 (fifteen years ago) link
The drum programming on 'gets along fine' sounds like it's really influenced by Coupe Decale and other african dance musics.
― sous les paves, Thursday, 9 October 2008 21:30 (fifteen years ago) link
I like the track that sounds like Morten Harket.
― djh, Tuesday, 14 October 2008 22:13 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm feeling a bit underwhelmed by this. I've listened ALOT and am continuing to do so but....it's not that exciting to me yet apart from the second track which I like.
It's not that it's bad, just feels a bit bland to me.
― Local Garda, Tuesday, 14 October 2008 22:17 (fifteen years ago) link
I am still listening to this lots, more than I've listened to an album in a long time, but I couldn't say I have been bowled over by it yet either. Kinda strange.
― Local Garda, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 17:54 (fifteen years ago) link
Really enjoying this. Listening to it makes me wonder what went wrong with Paper Tigers. Was he just completely uninspired when he made that or what?
― lou, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 18:31 (fifteen years ago) link
A bit disappointed so far. I miss the "post-structural" vocal cut-ups
― baaderonixx, Wednesday, 29 October 2008 15:38 (fifteen years ago) link
underwhelmed here too (although I think he peaked a long time ago w/vocalcity), the few tracks with chopped up vocal details are my favorites, but maybe only because they remind me of the glory days
― Paul in Santa Cruz, Wednesday, 29 October 2008 15:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Hmm, I reckon the bits that resemble his earlier stuff too closely are the (relatively) weakest moments on the album. Paper Tigers exhausted that aesthetic and (at times) took it into the realm of self-parody (in truth he was already edging into this realm with the TPL version of "Tessio", by far that album's weakest link).
My favourite moments on this album (to be really strict with myself: "Love You All", "Slow Dying Places", "Gets Along Fine") are those where he's really pushing himself into new areas sonically.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 29 October 2008 20:28 (fifteen years ago) link
fact interview:
"I lived for quite a long time in Berlin, and looking back I think the album reflects my life there: social, collaborative, surrounded by people who make music, club music. Even though I consciously tried to avoid all that, it still had an influence…"
― pro-buffalo stance (haitch), Monday, 3 November 2008 04:44 (fifteen years ago) link
"Gets Along Fine" is.....INCREDIBLE.
― Local Garda, Thursday, 13 November 2008 19:52 (fifteen years ago) link
that stood out for me on 1st listen, just beautiful
― WHALE WARS (jabba hands), Thursday, 13 November 2008 23:04 (fifteen years ago) link
I listened to this again last night, and I still can't shake the feeling that it has been a case of diminishing returns since The Present Lover. There are moments I like a lot on Convivial ("If I Can't" is a highlight), but I have to say, I'd take Paper Tigers over it. There's nothing on here I like as much as "Really Don't Mind."
― jaymc, Thursday, 13 November 2008 23:45 (fifteen years ago) link
Ha ha I think "If I Can't" is one of the weaker tracks precisely because it could easily have been on Paper Tigers.
"Really Don't Mind" and "Wanna Tell" are fabulous tracks but they totally felt like the end-point of the aesthetic he pushed on The Present Lover.
Whereas with Convivial he starts from there only to travel in new directions. Nothing on Paper Tigers is as exciting or shocking as "Love You All", or the last half of "Slow Dying Places", or the percussive blasts of "Gets Along Fine".
― Tim F, Friday, 14 November 2008 00:35 (fifteen years ago) link
I guess the disappointing thing for me is that those "new directions" are ... nothing new. Exciting? Shocking? I wish I heard what you were hearing in these tracks!
― Paul in Santa Cruz, Friday, 14 November 2008 01:50 (fifteen years ago) link
I haven't heard this, and the comments make me not want to, especiall after how much I've been enjoying The Present Lover this week, its wintry and crisp, its good for walking alone in town at night to.
― I know, right?, Friday, 14 November 2008 03:23 (fifteen years ago) link
I never really got Luomo before now, and this may be more to do with my changing tastes over the last 3-4 years, but this one really is sublime. I could lose myself in the second half of Slow Dying Places.
― Chopper Aristotle (Matt DC), Thursday, 27 November 2008 22:53 (fifteen years ago) link
Haha OTM. It's like a really lush, deep take on Justin Timberlake house or something.
― Chopper Aristotle (Matt DC), Thursday, 27 November 2008 23:10 (fifteen years ago) link
still where Garda was a month agobut the problem for me may be that i want it to have the same aquaeous depth or immersive quality as things like 'Synkro' but retaining the song structures he's using now
― GSOHSHIT (blueski), Thursday, 27 November 2008 23:11 (fifteen years ago) link
hard to pin down what i feel about it. maybe that while the structures and vocals are cool it's all a bit too timid and abrupt and the sounds themselves just seem flat and boring (to me...altho last half of 'Slow Dying Places' can take exception to this as Tim sez). i'll probably get into it a bit more over more time tho (took me long enough to love Vocalcity stuff too).
― GSOHSHIT (blueski), Thursday, 27 November 2008 23:24 (fifteen years ago) link
still trying to see how much mileage he can get out of "tessio", apparently
http://www.discogs.com/Luomo-Tessio/release/1609790
― armatrader joan's (donna rouge), Tuesday, 20 January 2009 06:50 (fifteen years ago) link
not feeling those remixes. the spectre one is the better for me though.
― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Tuesday, 20 January 2009 08:02 (fifteen years ago) link
stimming and luomo paired sounds fantastic, man made some of my favourite records of the year
― straightola, Tuesday, 20 January 2009 09:11 (fifteen years ago) link
this has grown on me like all Luomo does ha. at least 'Slow Dying Places' and 'Lonely Music Co.' have to the extent that I adore them as much as anything else he's done.
― unban dictionary (blueski), Wednesday, 2 September 2009 00:02 (fifteen years ago) link
Vocalcity and (espec.) Present Lover two of my all-time faves but try as I might I cannot get into "Convivial". What do you all see in it??? I miss the space of the other albums. I like pop but not Luomo pop.
― life behind bras (admrl), Friday, 13 August 2010 05:36 (fourteen years ago) link
its not as good as the first two albums, but idk, its catchy as a mf imo
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Friday, 13 August 2010 07:33 (fourteen years ago) link
never really got into Vocalcity but, yeah, Present Lover will always remain one of my favorite albums. Lush, open - feels like a particularly lucid early morning
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Friday, 13 August 2010 08:43 (fourteen years ago) link
I like convivial a lot, it is very 80s.
― allows bourbon enthusiasts a view into how america’s native spirit (u s steel), Friday, 13 August 2010 08:50 (fourteen years ago) link
new album coming soon:
http://www.myspace.com/luomomusic
― kokokeho, Friday, 13 August 2010 10:10 (fourteen years ago) link
"Lush, open - feels like a particularly lucid early morning"
damn, is this what early mornings are like for some people?
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Friday, 13 August 2010 15:44 (fourteen years ago) link
i like dont love convivial. present lover & vocalcity are too dope tho
tbh i like synkro more than any other luomo song, but i like the present lover better over all ... plus the way it was mixed down is way more dancefloor conducive
― NOT FUNNY NEEDS MORE GUCCI (deej), Saturday, 14 August 2010 01:59 (fourteen years ago) link
what about that moment in body speaking where she gets it in the butt?
― elan, Tuesday, August 12, 2008 4:57 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
this is the best
― NOT FUNNY NEEDS MORE GUCCI (deej), Saturday, 14 August 2010 02:00 (fourteen years ago) link
convivial is most noteworthy for the cassy and apparat collabs, but those two tracks are as beautiful as anything on the present lover
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Saturday, 14 August 2010 12:27 (fourteen years ago) link
viz:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pr0jIfwWIkE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg5XsIiNvjY
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Saturday, 14 August 2010 12:28 (fourteen years ago) link
I like "Gets Along Fine" the best. It's so sad! "Nothing Goes Away" is so cutely retro.
― i like barbecue ribs (u s steel), Saturday, 14 August 2010 12:56 (fourteen years ago) link
"Get's Along Fine" > "Slow Dying Place" >>> "Nothing Goes Away" = "Love You All" > "Have You Ever"
― Tim F, Saturday, 14 August 2010 15:24 (fourteen years ago) link
why 'have you ever' so low?? i could listen to just its tappy percussion for hours, it's like the perfect pop distillation of his 'everything sounds the same until you listen closely' style i think. i've never cared for 'gets along fine' mostly cause i'm not a big fan of that throbbing synth stab thing he does, i don't really like 'love you all for the same reason. nothing goes away definitely deserves a higher place though, if only for the amazing water-drop counter to the bass drum. possibly my favorite drum-melody ever. convivial is great, people way underrate it imo
― lucas pine, Sunday, 15 August 2010 05:56 (fourteen years ago) link
"Have You Ever" is great! It's my sixth favourite song on one of my favourite albums of 2008.
― Tim F, Sunday, 15 August 2010 09:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Still annoyed that I missed an uusitalo set in Montreal, even though I saw him as Delay and in the MVO trio. I guess it was a long set at the art museum that wasn't officially part of Mutek.
― turtles all the way down (mh), Sunday, 15 August 2010 10:27 (fourteen years ago) link
did anyone ever work out who "chubbs" was a pseudonym for on "gets along fine"?
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Sunday, 15 August 2010 17:57 (fourteen years ago) link
OK I worked out to Convivial today and it sounded good. grrrrrr!
― Henry's Hepcat (admrl), Sunday, 15 August 2010 19:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Because you move. The way you move. I've got to keep on moving with you.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 10:33 (thirteen years ago) link
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4033/4666313926_3915645bbb_o.png
― jabba hands, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 13:21 (thirteen years ago) link
thought this would be revive for new album info
― rouxymuzak (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 13:22 (thirteen years ago) link
unchill
every time luomo releases a new album my heart breaks again, so i'm glad it's just a revive of my favorite song
― elan, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 16:20 (thirteen years ago) link