KERO KERO BONITO

it should be out in the US at midnight

it's basically a full length TOTEP in sound which is exactly what i wanted

this is a v nice album, although i maybe slightly preferred TOTEP, pound-for-pound. that's nitpicking though. this really is lovely

visiting hours -> if i'd known is SO good

Spinning Wheel!

The whole of the second half is stupidly good.

great stuff, visiting hours personal fav on first listen

bit saint etienne-y to me

fantastic album. almost wish they hadn't split the material into two releases but that's a nitpick.

I listened to Intro Bonito a while back and thought it was terrible. But lots of people seem to like this band who also like things I like. Is that unrepresentative or do I just have bad taste in music?

Their style has changed a lot since then. I like both old and new KKB, but basically the new LP seems to have gotten the PC music sceptics on-board as it has moved away from that sound. So if that sounds like you then maybe give it a go?

New one is much better and I'm a PC Music fan

this album barely resembles Intro Bonito (which i agree is pretty bad). Bonito Generation was definitely a step up though still a bit underwritten but it's this year that they've really come into their own

also Flamingo has 21 million youtube views, when did that happen wtf

Would suggest that anyone more into their earlier stuff check out the Kane West LP as it features 2/3 members and is probably better than Intro Bonito

It's not just musically they've developed. Sarah has turned into an amazing lyricist seemingly overnight.

btw there will be physical editions of the album, but not shipping until mid December according to this:
https://www.polyvinylrecords.com/product/time_n_place

But do scroll down and read the full press blurb - very insightful for once.

also Flamingo has 21 million youtube views, when did that happen wtf

― ufo, Tuesday, October 2, 2018 12:16 PM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Maybe this guy had something to do with it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcnygxZoyaQ&t=70s

That didn't work :(

It's a guy (ID: acai) playing guitar hero version. He seems to be pretty popular.

xxp the press blurb is very interesting, thanks for the link. completely agree that sarah's lyrics are really fantastic on this album

i'm definitely going to try to find a tracklist that coherently combines TOTEP with Time 'n' Place, it shouldn't be too hard to fit

I mean you can be pretty free with it, almost every track is so self-contained and ends with a sudden whoosh of noise

Saw them last night in Brighton. A very charming gig with most of the audience singing along. Would like to see them again in a year if they keep gigging to see a tighter performance.

Would suggest that anyone more into their earlier stuff check out the Kane West LP as it features 2/3 members and is probably better than Intro Bonito

― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, October 2, 2018 5:21 AM (yesterday)

boy did I misread this the first time

yeah, the name and artwork for that project are obviously (pretty funny) trolling

More goodness!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSuINZdJBk8

Saw these guys in Atlanta last night and it was the most fun I've had at a show in years. The crowd was super hyped and you could tell the band were really feeding off their energy. I thought they did a great job of re-working the old songs in the live band format. Go see them if you have the chance.

I had slept on Time 'n Place until this week but wow, what a fantastic record. It's very melancholy--I'm hearing a valiant struggle to stay positive in the face of existential boredom and/or tragedy. There are also so many gorgeous melodies and textures throughout, like in the bridge to Time Today, which might be my favorite bit of music from last year.

Does anyone else get Trish Keenan vibes from Sarah's vocals? To me, they both share a kind of wistful British stoicism, though both bands obviously come from different places aesthetically.

We released a new song today, "The Open Road". Taken from the upcoming Swimming/The Open Road 7" single.https://t.co/t8lXSlRbvf pic.twitter.com/Tnrsz5EQ2p

— Kero Kero Bonito (@KeroKeroBonito) February 25, 2019

is good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQDcNRqjQZo

i like the new EP well enough

Ooh didn’t know they had something new

Pleased that they seem to have got the RAAAWWK out of their system. The EP still has the odd noisy moment, but it's all synth-led. It's a bit prog in places actually! I particularly like "Battle Lines".

I didn't know what the hell they were going to do next.... this whole EP is very fun... in a new way

Loving "The River"!

Is raaawwk still more or less what they're doing as a touring act? I was thinking of seeing them when they come through Minneapolis.

It’s Bugsnax!

https://blog.playstation.com/2020/06/26/anatomy-of-an-earworm-inside-kero-kero-bonitos-toe-tapping-bugsnax-theme/

damn was hoping they would have put a proper version of it up :(

Now they do!

We released the full-length version of our song for Bugsnax: https://t.co/VNBBGTyrw3 pic.twitter.com/9ljWEXkfj4

— Kero Kero Bonito (@KeroKeroBonito) July 20, 2020

hell yeah

Summer jam

I'm way too addicted to this damn song.

🎵 kind of bug and kind of snack 🎶

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0Aa9F0h0VM

civilisation ii ep out in april. this single is fine but not really on the level of their 2018 material which is how i feel about the first civilisation ep these days

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9__MSNKRTtY

also found they were regularly covering u2's "vertigo" on their last tour lol. about as deliberately an uncool song as possible which i guess was the point

Welcome to Tim's Twitter Listening Party for our 2018 album Time 'n' Place. #timstwitterlisteningparty pic.twitter.com/ESXxHW31DX

— Kero Kero Bonito (@KeroKeroBonito) February 19, 2021

this is a good read about the making of time 'n' place

xp nice, finally! I can't say I'm any less psyched for Civ II than I was a couple years ago. As much as I'd love them to keep exploring the introspective sugary noise-pop of Time 'n' Place (probably my favorite album of the past five years, period), I think this electronic post-apocalyptic world-building thing they're doing now is a brilliant way for them to evolve. I love that they're an "eras" band that completely switches things up sonically and conceptually from album cycle to ablum cycle, which is something I associate more with art-pop "auteurs" like Björk and PJ Harvey than bands like KKB

they say in that twitter thread that the concept behind the civ eps is keeping things entirely hardware-based which is a continuation of what they did on time 'n' place, except that they're not working in the band format they did there. the results so far have been decently interesting, probably their most overtly video game soundtrack-esque music, but i don't love it as much as time 'n' place and totep.

i guess i like the sound of the civ stuff but the songwriting hasn't grabbed me anywhere near as much as what they were doing in 2018

Yeah musically the Civ stuff didn't appeal to me as immediately as the Time 'n' Place era stuff, but it's grown on me hard. The production is more sophisticated and darker than anything else they've done (though the video game music timbres help maintain a whimsical aura), and the way the lyrical focus has shifted from the personal to sci-fi/fantasy storytelling is really cool.

Man I love the new song already. Freestyle-ish beat, lush melancholy synths, wispy chopped-up vocals: yes, please

AND WE WILL BE. WELL. RESTED.
WHEN THE ASCENSION COMES

My 13-year-old son's favorite band, he plays them in the car all the time. I enjoy it.

A young man of taste he is. Civilisation II EP is out today, absolutely slays as expected. "Well Rested" is a legit 7-minute deep house odyssey

A young man walking the one true path.

Yeah this new one's great

This does sound like video game music, in a way I can't appreciate or enjoy. And why are their tunes so aimless now, when they used to be all about catchy melodies (to the point that they had a song about how great they are)?

This band is clearly going places artistically, but they left me behind a while back. Oh well