Luomo

this has grown on me like all Luomo does ha. at least 'Slow Dying Places' and 'Lonely Music Co.' have to the extent that I adore them as much as anything else he's done.

Vocalcity and (espec.) Present Lover two of my all-time faves but try as I might I cannot get into "Convivial". What do you all see in it??? I miss the space of the other albums. I like pop but not Luomo pop.

its not as good as the first two albums, but idk, its catchy as a mf imo

never really got into Vocalcity but, yeah, Present Lover will always remain one of my favorite albums. Lush, open - feels like a particularly lucid early morning

I like convivial a lot, it is very 80s.

new album coming soon:

http://www.myspace.com/luomomusic

"Lush, open - feels like a particularly lucid early morning"

damn, is this what early mornings are like for some people?

i like dont love convivial. present lover & vocalcity are too dope tho

tbh i like synkro more than any other luomo song, but i like the present lover better over all ... plus the way it was mixed down is way more dancefloor conducive

what about that moment in body speaking where she gets it in the butt?

― elan, Tuesday, August 12, 2008 4:57 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this is the best

convivial is most noteworthy for the cassy and apparat collabs, but those two tracks are as beautiful as anything on the present lover

viz:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pr0jIfwWIkE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg5XsIiNvjY

I like "Gets Along Fine" the best. It's so sad! "Nothing Goes Away" is so cutely retro.

"Get's Along Fine" > "Slow Dying Place" >>> "Nothing Goes Away" = "Love You All" > "Have You Ever"

why 'have you ever' so low?? i could listen to just its tappy percussion for hours, it's like the perfect pop distillation of his 'everything sounds the same until you listen closely' style i think. i've never cared for 'gets along fine' mostly cause i'm not a big fan of that throbbing synth stab thing he does, i don't really like 'love you all for the same reason. nothing goes away definitely deserves a higher place though, if only for the amazing water-drop counter to the bass drum. possibly my favorite drum-melody ever. convivial is great, people way underrate it imo

"Have You Ever" is great! It's my sixth favourite song on one of my favourite albums of 2008.

Still annoyed that I missed an uusitalo set in Montreal, even though I saw him as Delay and in the MVO trio. I guess it was a long set at the art museum that wasn't officially part of Mutek.

did anyone ever work out who "chubbs" was a pseudonym for on "gets along fine"?

OK I worked out to Convivial today and it sounded good. grrrrrr!

Because you move. The way you move. I've got to keep on moving with you.

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thought this would be revive for new album info

unchill

every time luomo releases a new album my heart breaks again, so i'm glad it's just a revive of my favorite song

new sistol is good

i think he lost his way a little in the last few years with 'convivial' and the live improv vlad delay stuff, but he's still a huge talent

Lol at the idea of "Convivial" being his shark-jumping moment when "Paper Tigers" exists.

He's now saying that he's retired 'Luomo' indefinitely.

pull the plug, sasu

sometimes i wonder if it isn't a blessing that derrick may gave up when he did

Lol at the idea of "Convivial" being his shark-jumping moment when "Paper Tigers" exists.

He's now saying that he's retired 'Luomo' indefinitely.

― Tim F, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 20:12 (26 minutes ago)

ha, i completely forgot about its existence

seem to remember it was 'alright' actually

I seem to remember it was forgettable

ha

I never understood people who got stuck with bands long after their creative peak has passed and specially those playing years old albums when there is so much better stuff nowadays until Luomo's Vocalcity. Why doesn't do more variations on that ultra dark sexual Mille Plateaux / Raster Noton house thing? You know, there's like four more albums to datamine from that particular record! I wish I had some talent so I could build a whole career out of my chillwave / hypnagogic impressions of him circa 2000.

He also said no more Uusitalo oh well

elan OTM. after "Paper Tigers," i was done.

that said, "Really Don't Mind" was a pretty decent track, especially the Radio Edit.

always meant to pick up the album after loving the radio edit of Really Don't Mind, so I still have the impression that there's a whole album of goodness waiting for me

keep it that way

O
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three new Luomo songs on myspace
http://www.myspace.com/luomomusic

h8 ya luomo

new album new traxxx! http://www.luomomusic.org/#4

New album is a banger. May disappoint some people who don't want the project to disappear into the dancefloor and lose its luomo-ness (this is the least erm micro and least pop Luomo album yet) but some of the builds on these tracks would destroy a club.

It's not flashy-dense like Convivial was, more just really voluptuous dancefloor chuggers.

And the first schaffel track I've cared about in ages.

Excited!!!!!!

huh i didn't get any sense of bangingness at all from it, thought it was kinda flat with a few nice moments but after filing my review didn't feel compelled to return to it at all

you reviewed it and got to keep a copy

yeah but it's actually out now too

3 October I think.

Such is the state of my cred with record labels slash "the industry" that I have to listen to it on stream for review purposes.

the release date i was told was 18 sep?

having to stream albums sucks, i refuse to review based on them unless there's no other option

pushed back

Re the album itself, I expect I'll end up liking it less than Convivial (and Vocalcity and The Present Lover) but a lot more than Paper Tigers.

From what I've heard of it, if Convivial was Uusitalo with vocals Plus is Sistol with vocals.

From memory Lex our favourite tracks on Convivial were rather different and I suspect that I can see in that the basis of our convergence w/r/t the new one.

Really Don't Mind is still better than anything on The Present Lover. Albeit just.

eh