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

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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)

leechers, the lot of you. use p2p like honest people!

― unconscious, honey (FE7), Sunday, 23 October 2005 19:25 (twenty years ago)

Ronan OTM!

ha, I'm breaking my brane trying to think of what the vocals around 0:47 in "my beauty in the moon" remind me of, but I keep getting distracted by the awesome "empire state human" beat!

― etc, Sunday, 23 October 2005 19:50 (twenty years ago)

slighty deviant here, but if anyone cares, I just discovered Metro Area 6 is on iTunes now. F**k a vinyl rip and support!

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

god i wish itunes had better bitrates available

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 23 October 2005 21:29 (twenty years ago)

yeah why has that not been petitioned to hell or just flat out changed? either way a 160kbps cd version is better than a vinyl rip for me.

― buboclot, Sunday, 23 October 2005 21:32 (twenty years ago)

Rumor has it that the Environ catalog will be up on Bleep soon.

― jeffery (jeffery), Sunday, 23 October 2005 21:53 (twenty years ago)

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

There was a lot of laughing going on. It was very difficult to stop.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Monday, 24 October 2005 02:15 (twenty years ago)

A+

environ = still batting a thousand

― vahid (vahid), Monday, 24 October 2005 02:29 (twenty years ago)

actually, i'd prefer to buy it tonight on Bleep.com than download it for free. i'd rather go to the shop and buy it there but i have to wait. if it's done and it's on Soulseek, why can't i get it in the shops. this, more than downloading, is losing the recording industry sales.

― biz, Monday, 24 October 2005 05:09 (twenty years ago)

OH MY FUCKING GOD "MY BEAUTY IN THE MOON"

Get it from Fluxblog if you haven't yet, it is the business. It's settled, I am buying this the day of release. I will knock over nuns and the elderly in my haste.

― telephone thing, Tuesday, 25 October 2005 00:39 (twenty years ago)

oh the remixes are going to be hot.

― jergins (jergins), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 01:16 (twenty years ago)

It is very good, though I'm not sure I'm quite as excited about it as a lot of people on this thread.

― Movie Shoot in the Chinese Quarter (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 01:24 (twenty years ago)

Not that I intended it as a direct comparison, but as I said above, for a really well-produced vocal house record, I would pick the Chelonis R. Jones album over this every time.

― Movie Shoot in the Chinese Quarter (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 01:25 (twenty years ago)

Hmmm. It certainly sounds stunning, but weirdly static & sterile too. Maybe not for me.

― login name (fandango), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 04:38 (twenty years ago)

maybe the people who are super excited haven't heard the kelley polar EPs? weren't paying attention to metro area? i still like the metro area LP better than this, and i like "rhythm touch / castrovalva" better than metro area. this is very very very good but not mindblowing. also, they lost the dance a bit, which sux.

― vahid (vahid), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 05:47 (twenty years ago)

If Metro Area sounds like this, but a little more danceable I am suddenly a lot more interested.

I'll confess I had Metro Area lumped in with that Italo-disco revival thing as a name, I had no idea they were even contemporary! How's the Morgan Geist solo stuff (been having a quick lookup on discogs y'see) should I ever happen to bump into it?

― login name (fandango), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 05:54 (twenty years ago)

Lost the dance a bit on purpose, it's a pop album.

Geist's solo stuff is fantastic, and 90% of it sounds nothing like Metro Area. The stuff he's done since starting Metro Area, I sometimes like more then Metro Area, because Darshan ruins everything he touches. Seriously though, the Super EP is, well, self-explanatory.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 06:13 (twenty years ago)

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