Hooverphonic -- Why no thred on them?

Mad About You
Renaissance Affair
Every Time We Live Together We Die A Bit More
2wicky
Lung
Vinegar And Salt
Inhaler
Human Interest
The Last Thing I Need Is You
The World Is Mine

If nothing else, "Mad About You" is definitely one of the best post-trip-hop singles going. I like them a lot, generally, the best songs are generally on "The Magnificent Tree", but "Blue Wonder Powder Milk" is probably the most consistent, and lots of it veers away from trip-hop anyway, into sort of uptempo swinging 60s pop, of the kind Emma Bunton did after it. (especially "The World Is Mine", which Emma should cover).

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I still find the first two albums consistently fantastic, but 'The Magnificent Tree' really disappointed me initially. I've kept it mainly for the title track, which steals the beauitiful opening guitar line from Crosby Stills + Nash's 'Guinnevere'. 'Jackie Cane' goes for big show tunes, and is a better album, but not as lovely as the first two, for my taste.

Inhaler
2 Wicky
Wardrope
Plus Profond
Nr. 9
Renaissance Affair
Battersea
Autoharp
The Magnificent Tree (yeah, this song is beautiful)

4th Hooverphonic - the _Jackie Cane_ concept album - is the spottiest. The 5th is a live disc, done w/ strings - "The World is Mine" and "Sometime" are particularly nice with different backgrounds.

6th (a 2cd) is out now in Belgium, comes out January in the UK. US date = ? Sound samples HERE. The _More Sweet Music_ version of "No More Sweet Music" is particularly enticing, with the Mancini strings. Seems like a return to the lusher earlier tunes.

Went to see them open for BT years ago. Much more rocking than I was expecting, incl. an AC/DC cover in their set. Great show.

"Club Montepulciano"
"We All Float"
"Jackie Cane"
"You Love Me To The Death"

Anyway. Unnecessary namedrop over. They're very big around here, but I haven't really checked them out other than hearing them on the radio all the time.

Reviving because I finally got around to listening to The President of the LSD Golf Club (which came out in 2007 apparently) and it's a pretty cracking great pop album. The Autour de Lucie comparison upthread is OTM... I'd add comparison points to Ivy, Monade.

Geike (their singer) is leaving at the end of the year, wants a solo thing, rest of band to continue, don't know if they're going to look for another singer immediately.

Too bad. I was hoping that they could get around to touring the US.

So it's not a hiatus, but a split? Checked the Hooverphonic website, but the forum isn't aware of the change yet, and there's no news announcement on the main page.

Autour de Lucie's Valerie Leulliot put out a fairly lowkey solo album. Would be interested to hear what Geike's got in mind for hers.

If you've never seen them live, the Singles 96-06 Ltd Edition has a bonus DVD of 17 videos plus an entire concert. Doesn't include the LSD videos, but is still one of the best bonuses I've seen, and only $6 or so more than the standard version.

It's only been announced a couple of hours ago. All in Dutch (unfortunately) :

http://www.standaard.be/Artikel/Detail.aspx?artikelId=DMF10102008_104

http://deredactie.be/cm/de.redactie/cultuur%2Ben%2Bmedia/081010GeikeWeg

http://www.stubru.be/node/69564

Just got an email from the Hooverphonic news list...

Hooverphonic is sad to announce you that Geike will leave the band by the end of 2008.

Alex and Raymond will definitely go on with Hooverphonic!

They are therefore looking for a new singer (male or female).

If you're interested, please send us your updated CV, as well as an MP3 and a recent picture of yourself

Candidates do not necessarily have to come from Belgium, we are open to cross-border collaborations.

Here's that lovely VW commercial:

"Renaissance Affair" is one of my favorite songs ever.

It is great! "Blue Wonder Powder Milk" is so sexy an album.

Revive!

New album, new singer, new website: http://www.hooverphonic.com

Kinda like the new album so far... Makes up for not having a new Ivy album.

This morning I've been hearing the first four albums after almost 8 years of not touching them and they've aged better than I thought. I find it interesting that they never stick to a particular kind of sound but they don't sound like a different band either (best band from the 'era' that pulls this trick effectively too is Groove Armada, imho).

In the first album they mimic Portishead (2wicky), Slowdive (Cinderella, Someone), St. Etienne (Inhaler, Wardrope) and Lush (Revolver) to drop some references and 3 albums later they sound like Julee Cruise, Stereolab, The Boo Radleys, Goldfrapp and the Cardigans.

New album streaming:

http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/code/1565620/hooverphonic-the-night-before-album-stream-video-free-unfinished

Digging this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ3UlDe35lg

5 years later, and the band's moved on to their 4th singer(or their sixth, if Wikipedia's correct.). Has anyone else kept up with the band? I bought the four Noémie Wolfs releases increasingly out of loyalty, but with the new singer being a 17 year-old winner of a Belgian "The Voice", I'll take a pass on the future releases. I play the Geike Arnaert's albums regularly, along with the Liesje Sadonius first disc. Geike's reasons for leaving are a bummer, and wish she'd followed up her 2011 solo with another release.

I still like LSD Golf Course - I wish they could have gone off in that direction, instead of generic stuff for TV contestants.

2wicky and mad about you will always be classic

Not quite the DLR reunion with VH for their greatest hits album, but still... Geike Arnaert is back with the band, while also continuing as a solo artist (with two albums released).

New version of "Mad About You" here..

Reading some of the FB comments about the news, reactions dependent on how one discovered the band. Many sad Luka fans. The pairing had too much of a March/October vibe for me to follow. Hoping for some future brilliance now.