Kelley Polar - Love Songs of The Hanging Gardens (Environ CD05)

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weird about the cover!! the shalabi album is awesomeness!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 18:16 (twenty years ago)

so is the album all new tracks? tracklist?

― tricky (disco stu), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 18:58 (twenty years ago)

sorry, my first question was answered in the opening post (answer: all new stuff)

― tricky (disco stu), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 18:58 (twenty years ago)

― unconscious, honey (FE7), Thursday, 20 October 2005 16:20 (twenty years ago)

pretty much my album of the year so far! i dont even mind the superpitcherness of the vocals

― unconscious, honey (FE7), Thursday, 20 October 2005 16:24 (twenty years ago)

This is good but the vocals are a tad "functional" for me, they don't seem to have the personality the music deserves.

― Mark (MarkR), Thursday, 20 October 2005 16:29 (twenty years ago)

i think the vocals are fuckin brilliant! unaffected but breathy.

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 20 October 2005 16:58 (twenty years ago)

kelly polar v. isolee album of the year fite!

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 20 October 2005 16:59 (twenty years ago)

if anything the vocals are a little affected for me! i dont get the functional argument at all.

― strongo hulkington's ghost (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 20 October 2005 16:59 (twenty years ago)

kelly polar v. isolee album of the year fite!

Chelonis

― Jazz Funeral in the Chinese Quarter (nordicskilla), Thursday, 20 October 2005 17:04 (twenty years ago)

roisin murphy

― strongo hulkington's ghost (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 20 October 2005 17:06 (twenty years ago)

who can actually sing

― strongo hulkington's ghost (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 20 October 2005 17:06 (twenty years ago)

*ducks*

― strongo hulkington's ghost (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 20 October 2005 17:06 (twenty years ago)

unaffected but breathy.

This is definitely accurate.

― Mark (MarkR), Thursday, 20 October 2005 17:09 (twenty years ago)

xp, I also found the vocals to be the most "difficult" part of the album. Beautiful harmonies, but on the first 10 listens or so I found them a little precious. I understand it's part of the package, etc.; they do make sense on the album, but they can be a little much. RE: album of the year, I dunno, but I do think this blends a lot of great dance-y elements (not to mention sterling production) with great musical mechanics (harmonies, melodies, etc.). It's as much a pop album as it is a dance album, and I think in this respect it'll probably have a wider reach than either Isolee or Chelonis. Am I being a philistine?

― mike powell (mike powell), Thursday, 20 October 2005 17:10 (twenty years ago)

he is mostly just talking with some melody sneaking in. it seems he could be sitting down on a couch reciting these lyrics, with some lines of cocaine available.

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 20 October 2005 17:14 (twenty years ago)

(which i like)

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 20 October 2005 17:15 (twenty years ago)

I think Chelonis is some sort of vegan.

― Jazz Funeral in the Chinese Quarter (nordicskilla), Thursday, 20 October 2005 17:15 (twenty years ago)

ok i have this now. i am going to listen later. at night.

― tricky (disco stu), Thursday, 20 October 2005 17:19 (twenty years ago)

all night.

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 20 October 2005 17:43 (twenty years ago)

OMG junior boys 64

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 20 October 2005 19:31 (twenty years ago)

i really want to hear this :(

― ambrose (ambrose), Thursday, 20 October 2005 19:45 (twenty years ago)

I'm k-jealous of people who have them album - have been thrashing the 12"'s & "Here In The Night".

― etc, Thursday, 20 October 2005 21:46 (twenty years ago)

It's as much a pop album as it is a dance album, and I think in this respect it'll probably have a wider reach than either Isolee or Chelonis.

Mike OTM. I'm surprised by how much I'm liking this, given that I either don't know or don't flip for most of the artists that Mr. Polar is being compared to.

I also don't know who Chelonis is. So wider reach by one.

― JC-L (JC-L), Thursday, 20 October 2005 22:16 (twenty years ago)

speechless...

― tricky (disco stu), Friday, 21 October 2005 05:39 (twenty years ago)

i mean it's fucking amazing, but i feel ph34r for you if you have to write about this. fuccck, it's like the soundtrack to the best john hughes movie ever while it renders most of electro-house impotent. the second half destroys me. couldn't imagine it without the vocals.

― tricky (disco stu), Friday, 21 October 2005 05:58 (twenty years ago)

by which i mean that the vocals are integral.

― tricky (disco stu), Friday, 21 October 2005 06:04 (twenty years ago)

i was listening to off the wall before i remembered that i had this and somehow the transition was just perfect.

― tricky (disco stu), Friday, 21 October 2005 06:12 (twenty years ago)

totally reminds me of michael jackson in places

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 21 October 2005 08:48 (twenty years ago)

1. Cosmological Constancy

2. Here In The Night

3. Tyurangalila

4. My Beauty In The Moon

5. Vocalise (From Here To Polarity)

6. Ashamed Of Myself

7. Rooms In My House Have Many Parties, The

8. Matter Into Energy

9. Black Hole

10. In Time

― c7n (Cozen), Saturday, 22 October 2005 10:01 (twenty years ago)

P00: in time.

― cutty (mcutt), Saturday, 22 October 2005 13:16 (twenty years ago)

jvsus, one listen into this & it's album-of-the-year! "black hole" needs yr love!

― etc, Saturday, 22 October 2005 20:53 (twenty years ago)

On some tracks, the vocals remind me Elliott Smith's multi-tracked self-harmonies (as on "I Didn't Understand")!

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 23 October 2005 07:03 (twenty years ago)

Another odd indie-rock comparison: the first 8 seconds of "Tyrungalia" = the first 5 seconds of Sufjan's "Chicago."

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 23 October 2005 07:15 (twenty years ago)

JAYMC STOP MAKING ME NOT WANT TO LIKE THIS

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 23 October 2005 07:17 (twenty years ago)

HAHAHA

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 23 October 2005 07:22 (twenty years ago)

Jaymc is just descibing why this album will eventually achieve indie crossover domination!

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Sunday, 23 October 2005 07:22 (twenty years ago)

doubt it

― c7n (Cozen), Sunday, 23 October 2005 07:24 (twenty years ago)

The Sufjan comparison is very trivial, it's just a similar sequence of ascending notes. As for Elliott Smith -- well, it's really just a reliance on choral-like vocal harmonies, but there's actually very few precedents for that sort of thing in recent pop music, so Elliott was the first person to come to mind. But I mean listen to the opening of "My Beauty in the Moon" -- it's, like, fucking Chanticleer or something.

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 23 October 2005 07:27 (twenty years ago)

Does saying On some tracks, the vocals remind me of "Scritti Politti" help? Or is that semi-covered by "The Junior Boys" references? Hint, you are allowed to want to like this.

Xpost x 4

― Jedmond (Jedmond), Sunday, 23 October 2005 07:35 (twenty years ago)

The indie comparison I would use it Kevin Tihista, but I don't think many people outside of Chicago would know who he is.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Sunday, 23 October 2005 07:39 (twenty years ago)

is he the red terror guy?

didn't they have a semi-big (indie "big") rec?

― c7n (Cozen), Sunday, 23 October 2005 10:37 (twenty years ago)

anyway I googled and yeah

― c7n (Cozen), Sunday, 23 October 2005 10:48 (twenty years ago)

This is incredible, everyone on earth needs this album, can't actually believe this! I am actually thinking of all the friends who are going to go crazy for this record and want to invite them around!

― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 23 October 2005 13:24 (twenty years ago)

Instant Classic.

― snowballing (snowballing), Sunday, 23 October 2005 14:01 (twenty years ago)

but I don't think many people outside of Chicago would know who he is.

Ha, I know who he is, in the sense that I've read articles about him and seen his name listed on bills around Chicago, but I've never actually heard his music.

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 23 October 2005 14:09 (twenty years ago)

i've been reading this thread with increasing disbelief at what i assumed was pure hyperbole but i'm listening to this now and.... WOW.

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 23 October 2005 17:01 (twenty years ago)

From the artist bio at Environ: "Recently expelled from Juilliard for the 'riot' during his Master's Recital..." ???

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Sunday, 23 October 2005 18:29 (twenty years ago)

can someone ysi anything else, please? i can't seem to find anything on soulseek. what's the danciest song on the album? all i've got is Vocalise and Here in the Night... please?

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Sunday, 23 October 2005 18:44 (twenty years ago)

please YSI this album

― biz, Sunday, 23 October 2005 19:21 (twenty years ago)

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