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

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.

The last minute and a half of "Sea Of Sine Waves" is absolutely gorgeous.

Environ bulletin copypasta:
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"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.

I've been listening to this CD nonstop in the car and ipod. Sea of Sine Waves kills me.

I've heard samples of the Pearson/Usher mixes. Sounding very nice indeed. Interested in that Caribou remix after that description.

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.

(apologies if this was posted elsewhere)

npr piece: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90096959

wait, so did anyone see him in london at o2 the other week? word is he "TORE IT UP" &c&c&c.

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.

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/

Kelley Polar, Carl Craig, Matthew Dear, Joakim doing Bowie...

:- ]

Telephone thing OTM about the "Magic Dance" cover.

omg MAGIC DANCE! Labyrinth as italian space opera!

This album is so good.

SMACK THAT BABY!

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 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 <3 the opening of this album so much

the rest of it, too, but damn that first track is awesome

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.

still digging this.

I need you to hold on while the sky is falling>Love Songs of the Hanging Garden

I love this guy

this albums is incredible

THERE IS A SPECIAL SENSATION THERE IS A SPECIAL SENSATION THERE IS A SPECIAL SENSATION

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.

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.

I really like the singing

This is sooo good, singing included yeah. Actually it's so good it kinda would have deserved it's own thread!

I really like the singing, too. It is creepy in a subtle way.

Strings at the end of A Dream In Three Parts knock me over every time.

Still album of the year for me.

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

both albums are weaker because of the vocals. how about releasing these with instrumentals as well?

both albums are weaker because of the vocals. how about releasing these with instrumentals as well?

OTMx18589732495872309458723984572394857!!!

Either that or use the chick from Escort.

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

strike that reminds

You vocals haters are nuts!

this is great. the vocals are great. the M Geist album bores me to tears.

i think this stuff is terribly boring

shut up about the vocals, they're effing great.

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

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.

This is probably my favourite album of the year?

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

the use of vocal samples in production i think are brilliant, it's just when he starts saying words that it starts to really bug me

the second kelley polar is one of my favorites from '08 as well.

ok well the more and more i listen to it the more i can pay less attention to his lyrics and sea of sine waves is hittin the spot

i'll repeat my desire to have a Kelley Polar Quartet album released with no vocals and plenty of strings.

the strings on "the rhythm touch" are what really hooked me on polar

How can anyone dislike the vocals on "Satellites"? So frigging adorable.

i'll explain why i don't like those vocals. i'm not sure what it's called but in the first few lines, he adds extra breaths and exaggerates the phrasing. it sounds unnaturally stressed and strained.

"i was maaaade-huh, maaaade for you-huh"

that kinda shit drives me crazy, especially when the voice is weak anyway. i love the music on that track but the vocal is annoying.

Hercules, Morgan Geist, Kelley Polar = all great albums unnecessarily marred by poor vocals.

This dub guy trips so hard.