― jonathan - stl (jonathan - stl), Friday, 31 March 2006 16:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― mr. jimmerson, Friday, 31 March 2006 16:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― Robocock (noodle vague), Friday, 31 March 2006 16:43 (eighteen years ago) link
Oh...sound. Sorry.
― Justin Shumaker (shueytexas), Friday, 31 March 2006 16:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― jonathan - stl (jonathan - stl), Friday, 31 March 2006 17:36 (eighteen years ago) link
HELLO ROS!
WE ARE SIGUR ROS!
― Yoo Doo Nut (donut), Friday, 31 March 2006 17:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― trees (treesessplode), Saturday, 1 April 2006 04:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― David A. (Davant), Saturday, 1 April 2006 06:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― Treblekicker (treblekicker), Saturday, 1 April 2006 07:12 (eighteen years ago) link
As far as the question is concerned Dead Can Dance, Lush and The Wolfgang Press come to mind.
― BeeOK (boo radley), Saturday, 1 April 2006 10:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― keyth (keyth), Saturday, 1 April 2006 14:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tokyo Ghost Stories (Tokyo Ghost Stories), Monday, 3 April 2006 00:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jim Little, Monday, 3 April 2006 03:00 (eighteen years ago) link
And of course check out My Bloody Valentine, but I don't think they were on 4AD, actually. Their "Loveless" record is generally considered to be the archtypical of the shoegaze sound.
cc
― chuckchillout (chuckchillout), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― JTS (JTS), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:17 (eighteen years ago) link
Because I am a longtime fan of 4AD I dutifully checked out the recent compilation of covers. Because most of the new or current music I pay attention to is either techno and ambient or metal, this was my actually first exposure to a lot of the popular indie rock bands I hear people talking about, like Tune Yards, Future Islands, and Big Thief, and holy christ, people really enjoy these bands?
― Paul Ponzi, Friday, 9 April 2021 19:41 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9gOQgfPW4Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IOUJa7bv4A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaOj0-nvkoA
― xzanfar, Friday, 9 April 2021 19:56 (three years ago) link
I'm not aware of this album (and, tbf, unfamiliar with a lot of those bands) but iirc cover compilations are not typically the best way to first expose yrself to an artist's work.
― You Can't Have the Woogie Without a Little Boogie (Old Lunch), Friday, 9 April 2021 20:01 (three years ago) link
(Either the coverer or the coveree's work, I should add.)
why you make This Mortal Coil cry
― mark e. smith-moon (f. hazel), Friday, 9 April 2021 20:04 (three years ago) link
some of you may enjoy this mix of mine:
https://soundcloud.com/araho/colins-very-4ad-mix
"A little adventure inspired by This Mortal Coil's Filigree & Shadow."
― Cocteau Twinks (jed_), Friday, 9 April 2021 20:20 (three years ago) link
This Mortal Coil is a good example of what I'm talking about, actually! Those albums are great but not a very good metric for sussing out what either the original songs or the artists covering the songs sound like outside of a TMC album.
― You Can't Have the Woogie Without a Little Boogie (Old Lunch), Friday, 9 April 2021 20:27 (three years ago) link
iirc cover compilations are not typically the best way to first expose yrself to an artist's work.
For realz.
― Yawnsomely Literal Cover Band (morrisp), Friday, 9 April 2021 20:28 (three years ago) link
And that can be both a good and a bad thing (recalls first hearing Hootie & the Blowfish via their pretty good contribution to that Led Zep comp, subsequently recalls chagrin of buying and hearing Cracked Rear View for the first time)
― You Can't Have the Woogie Without a Little Boogie (Old Lunch), Friday, 9 April 2021 20:33 (three years ago) link
It’s also useful to realise that the “4AD sound” ceased to exist when Ivo left the label in the mid-90s
― assert (MatthewK), Friday, 9 April 2021 21:04 (three years ago) link
Just listened to the "Junkyard" and "Song to the Siren" covers. The former was kind of ok, the latter I lasted about a minute.
They missed a trick not having a Rema Rema cover.
― stirmonster, Friday, 9 April 2021 21:16 (three years ago) link
Breeders doing His Name is Alive is pretty good.
― Cow_Art, Friday, 9 April 2021 21:35 (three years ago) link
the new or current music I pay attention to is either techno and ambient or metal
Love when people who listen to the most insular shit imaginable have opinions.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 9 April 2021 21:45 (three years ago) link
if a person who used to like music hears Big Thief and goes "ugh, kids these days," then that dude has crossed over into "I like the music I liked when I was young" territory imo. Big Thief is fuckin astonishing
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Friday, 9 April 2021 23:56 (three years ago) link
vocals were a dealbreaker for me and kept me from hearing anything that might have been astonishing underneath
and for what it's worth I like plenty of new music
just not this
― Paul Ponzi, Saturday, 10 April 2021 00:37 (three years ago) link
Had the exact same response. I thought it might be a one-off put-on, but then I tried one of their albums and every song sounded like that!
― but also fuck you (unperson), Saturday, 10 April 2021 00:38 (three years ago) link
"Breeders doing His Name Is Alive is pretty good" - seconded!My favorite example of "4AD covering 4AD" however would be HNIA covering Unrest's "Imperial" (since that Unrest album was released in the U.K. by the 4AD imprint Guernica):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QM2d68ePINo
― ernestp, Saturday, 10 April 2021 01:23 (three years ago) link
xp Not every band can have “cookie monster” vocals, you guys! :-D
― Yawnsomely Literal Cover Band (morrisp), Saturday, 10 April 2021 01:29 (three years ago) link
The singer for Big Thief does sound like a Muppet, though...
― but also fuck you (unperson), Saturday, 10 April 2021 02:00 (three years ago) link
I like almost every artist in this compilation and the choice of songs to cover but the final product is a bit disappointing. This is not a good introduction to any act here obviously. We could recommend original songs by those artists to listen to instead but something tells me it wouldn’t change minds in here.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 10 April 2021 03:08 (three years ago) link
That said: Tkay Maidza, Atlas Sound, US Girls, Aldous Harding, Helado Negro, Jenny Hval, Big Thief are all great and I wont hear otherwise.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 10 April 2021 03:13 (three years ago) link
I've become quite smitten with Dry Cleaning.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 10 April 2021 03:27 (three years ago) link
Oh yeah they are good too. Actually all of them. Even Tune-yards.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 10 April 2021 03:43 (three years ago) link
Surprised Dry Cleaning haven't warranted their own thread.
― djh, Saturday, 17 April 2021 22:33 (three years ago) link
I think they’re discussed a good bit here: best out of the current-ish crop of post-punk bands people and algorithms keep telling you to listen to
― Yawnsomely Literal Cover Band (morrisp), Saturday, 17 April 2021 22:50 (three years ago) link
dif juz seem like the ultimate 4AD band to me, though they're certainly not the best
― eisimpleir (crüt), Saturday, 17 April 2021 23:33 (three years ago) link