tell you what, for 50 bucks I'll write on your face with a magic marker, see if I get my own exhibit.
jk
― dan selzer, Monday, 3 March 2008 22:27 (sixteen years ago) link
ha. only if you cut the entire contents of a poster into your skin
― jaxon, Monday, 3 March 2008 22:28 (sixteen years ago) link
this album (not the one in the thread title which I haven't heard, but the other one) is muy bueno
― The Reverend, Saturday, 8 March 2008 09:19 (sixteen years ago) link
Really enjoying this new one as well. I keep thinking how...erm...theatrical it is, which is mostly down to how expressive his voice can be. I loved "Chrysanthemum" when it came it out last year, but it actually pales in comparison to the rest of these songs.
― lou, Thursday, 27 March 2008 14:35 (sixteen years ago) link
i like 'satellites' and 'a sea of sine waves' the best, plus 'entropy' and the first track (once it gets going - the intro is baad) but maybe it's all...gasp...TOO pretentious
― blueski, Thursday, 27 March 2008 14:43 (sixteen years ago) link
I love "Satellites" too. And "A Dream in Three Parts".
― lou, Thursday, 27 March 2008 14:48 (sixteen years ago) link
I seriously can't remember the last time I heard a full-length this good.
― Jena, Wednesday, 2 April 2008 14:43 (sixteen years ago) link
photos of environ bar mitzvah linked from environ site: http://www.letsbecomefamous.com/studiob/2008_03_01/
apple hill chamber players (kp on viola) - dinny's suite
coming back round to some of the album's later cuts after possibly overplaying "entropy". mungolian jet set/c2 remixes of select tracks plz.
― etc, Wednesday, 2 April 2008 22:10 (sixteen years ago) link
Finally picked this up. I already knew and loved "Chrysanthemum" and "Entropy Reigns," but "Satellites" and "Sea of Sine Waves" are slowly emerging as overall favorites. "Satellites" especially is just so damn cute.
I would actually give a kidney for a Mungolian Jet Set remix of Kelley Polar.
― Telephone thing, Saturday, 5 April 2008 11:18 (sixteen years ago) link
The last minute and a half of "Sea Of Sine Waves" is absolutely gorgeous.
― Xander, Monday, 21 April 2008 01:14 (sixteen years ago) link
Environ bulletin copypasta: http://a464.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/109/l_f838fbb8c59dc70034146e459049fb4f.png "Entropy Reigns" is the first single from Kelley Polar's universally-acclaimed new album I Need You to Hold On While the Sky Is Falling.
Alongside the highly-esteemed original, the EP features a pair of remixes done by Ewan Pearson and Al Usher (Partial Arts). For the more house and tech-driven floors, check the four-on-the-floor beauty of the "Pearson and Usher's Closed System Dub" (spread deep and loud across the A-side). For more electro and pop-fuelled DJ sets, "Pearson and Usher's Second Law Dynamix" does the trick.
Instrumentals for both remixes are included as well!
The digital release of the EP comes with an exclusive Caribou remix of "We Live In an Expanding Universe." Dan Snaith's epic 11 minute journey is expansive, shifting from Beach Boys-on-acid harmonies to minimal Teutonic techno to Merzbow-worthy washes of digital noise; listening (or dancing) to this remix is an adventure in itself.
Vinyl will be available at your local record store, as well as Environ's online store beginning May 13th.
... ooh, nice.
― etc, Thursday, 8 May 2008 03:16 (sixteen years ago) link
I've been listening to this CD nonstop in the car and ipod. Sea of Sine Waves kills me.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 8 May 2008 03:24 (sixteen years ago) link
I've heard samples of the Pearson/Usher mixes. Sounding very nice indeed. Interested in that Caribou remix after that description.
― arghkaybee, Thursday, 8 May 2008 20:34 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=95892
Wow. I'll definitely be buying both the physical and digital releases then. I think the instrumentals are justified, considering i don't think i could have imagined the Pearson/Usher remixes to be better than they are.
― arghkaybee, Thursday, 8 May 2008 21:13 (sixteen years ago) link
(apologies if this was posted elsewhere)
npr piece: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90096959
― winston, Friday, 9 May 2008 00:27 (sixteen years ago) link
wait, so did anyone see him in london at o2 the other week? word is he "TORE IT UP" &c&c&c.
― etc, Sunday, 11 May 2008 20:26 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, i saw him at the o2. Was excellent, a vast improvement on his Bestival show two years previous. Had a quick chat to him after while dancing to Mr. Geist. Lovely chap.
Anyone else listened to the Entropy Reigns remixes. The Pearson and Usher's Closed System Instrumental is completely destroying me.
― arghkaybee, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 00:35 (sixteen years ago) link
Kelley Polar covers "Magic Dance" from Labyrinth on a new Bowie tribute comp, complete with ridiculous spoken-word intro. In Italian. It's exactly as great as it sounds.
http://www.lifebeyondmars.com/
― Telephone thing, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 16:20 (sixteen years ago) link
Kelley Polar, Carl Craig, Matthew Dear, Joakim doing Bowie...
:- ]
Telephone thing OTM about the "Magic Dance" cover.
― willem, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 17:11 (sixteen years ago) link
omg MAGIC DANCE! Labyrinth as italian space opera!
― Roz, Friday, 13 June 2008 12:05 (sixteen years ago) link
This album is so good.
― I know, right?, Sunday, 15 June 2008 14:31 (fifteen years ago) link
SMACK THAT BABY!
― I know, right?, Friday, 27 June 2008 21:08 (fifteen years ago) link
Magic dance is so great! But the track I've got on repeat at the moment is the Caribou mix of "We live in an expanding universe". Nice and dissonant.
― I am using your worlds, Friday, 27 June 2008 21:50 (fifteen years ago) link
I have to listen to it on hype machine cos I gots no hard copy. This is kickin' yer Hercules and Love Affair in the retro disco balls, gently.
― I know, right?, Friday, 27 June 2008 21:55 (fifteen years ago) link
I <3 the opening of this album so much
― The Reverend, Monday, 28 July 2008 09:15 (fifteen years ago) link
the rest of it, too, but damn that first track is awesome
― The Reverend, Monday, 28 July 2008 09:16 (fifteen years ago) link
Satellites is definitely the winner. It's hidden at first but as soon as it hits you it hits you HARD.
This album is sex.
― I know, right?, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 14:22 (fifteen years ago) link
still digging this.
― Roz, Monday, 11 August 2008 18:12 (fifteen years ago) link
I need you to hold on while the sky is falling>Love Songs of the Hanging Garden
I love this guy
― I know, right?, Monday, 11 August 2008 18:22 (fifteen years ago) link
this albums is incredible
― Tape Store, Monday, 11 August 2008 18:29 (fifteen years ago) link
THERE IS A SPECIAL SENSATION THERE IS A SPECIAL SENSATION THERE IS A SPECIAL SENSATION
― Tape Store, Monday, 11 August 2008 18:30 (fifteen years ago) link
I need you etc = what i meant by "this".
I'm listening to the Caribou remix of "We Live in an Expanding Universe" now. love how it starts dreamy and wooshy... and then goes all weird and noisy and synth-stabby.
― Roz, Monday, 11 August 2008 18:35 (fifteen years ago) link
i still believe this album would be 1 million times better if there were no singing or if the singing wasn't so awful. please release a kelley polar quartet album with no vocals.
― brotherlovesdub, Monday, 11 August 2008 18:50 (fifteen years ago) link
I really like the singing
― I know, right?, Monday, 11 August 2008 18:51 (fifteen years ago) link
This is sooo good, singing included yeah. Actually it's so good it kinda would have deserved it's own thread!
― sonderangerbot, Monday, 11 August 2008 19:08 (fifteen years ago) link
I really like the singing, too. It is creepy in a subtle way.
― The Reverend, Monday, 11 August 2008 22:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Strings at the end of A Dream In Three Parts knock me over every time.
Still album of the year for me.
― arghkaybee, Tuesday, 12 August 2008 22:25 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm confused by the amount of love for this album, especially after I just picked up the new Morgan Geist album, which I think kills this one
― funderwear (san frandisco), Tuesday, 7 October 2008 17:55 (fifteen years ago) link
both albums are weaker because of the vocals. how about releasing these with instrumentals as well?
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 7 October 2008 17:59 (fifteen years ago) link
OTMx18589732495872309458723984572394857!!!
Either that or use the chick from Escort.
― Display Name, Tuesday, 7 October 2008 18:01 (fifteen years ago) link
i'm not feelin the vocals as much on the polar album, but i think jeremy greenspan has much more character to his voice than polar reminds. the album is like the love child of junior boys (first album) and metro area, which is why i love it
― funderwear (san frandisco), Tuesday, 7 October 2008 18:05 (fifteen years ago) link
strike that reminds
― funderwear (san frandisco), Tuesday, 7 October 2008 18:06 (fifteen years ago) link
You vocals haters are nuts!
― I know, right?, Tuesday, 7 October 2008 18:18 (fifteen years ago) link
this is great. the vocals are great. the M Geist album bores me to tears.
― jed_, Tuesday, 7 October 2008 19:02 (fifteen years ago) link
i think this stuff is terribly boring
― joe 40oz (deej), Tuesday, 7 October 2008 19:05 (fifteen years ago) link
shut up about the vocals, they're effing great.
― uncannydan, Tuesday, 7 October 2008 19:23 (fifteen years ago) link
i like the vocals on 'Entropy' with the duet dynamic (a bit Human League perhaps), and the "heroin, cocaaaine" line keeps getting stuck in my head
― Annoying Display Name (blueski), Tuesday, 7 October 2008 19:23 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah that bit is great and was stuck in my head for a while too when I first got the album.
This thread reminds me to go and listen to the Caribou remix of expanding universe immediately.
― the goose that got the cream (I am using your worlds), Tuesday, 7 October 2008 19:30 (fifteen years ago) link
This is probably my favourite album of the year?
― I know, right?, Tuesday, 7 October 2008 19:33 (fifteen years ago) link
i mean, in terms of production i think I Need You To Hold On... is incredible and definitely more original than the new Morgan Geist.
but polar's voice isn't... much of anything. it's not haunting enough, nor is it sexy, it's just too friggin nice, plain, boring... IMO and sounds more like a bad pad vocal on a keyboard
― funderwear (san frandisco), Tuesday, 7 October 2008 20:35 (fifteen years ago) link