Young Galaxy - Shapeshifting (2011) ~*produced by Studio's D. Lissvik*~

lol @ the closing track making me think of The Black Swan

― gr8080, Thursday, February 3, 2011 1:06 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark

That doesn't happen to be B.S.E. does it? In which she sings "Black Swan Event" (BSE)? :-)

I think the female vocals are fab tbh

I assume that gr8080 was referencing the lines in the last song about sprouting feathers and shit

this is a pretty good record, love the grooves, vocals range from 'good' to 'just there'

otm

if you're letting the vocals impede your enjoyment of this awesome musical experience then i feel bad for you son

splendid tray of sounds, and i love the vocals, both male and female. she suits the 80s romanticism especially well. listened to (watched) "we have everything" three times in a row. great video

Female vocalist strikes me as a mixture of Annie Lennox, Pat Benatar and early Sarah McLachlan - not amateurish!

i want to like this record, i really do. but the truth is that there are aspects of the lissvik/studio aesthetic that i prefer more than what they're exploring here and i'll leave it at that until i give this a real chance to sink in (i came completely full circle on the little ones remix, so i'm definitely not ruling out the possibility of changing my mind).

annie lennox is a good comparison, and that makes me want to like this even more. especially since divisive vocals are so common amongst great balearic records almost by definition

Oh man. I really love this!

and I like the female vocals

I really really love this. The vocals are definitely the weakest link, but I'd rather hear the female vox than the guy.

lol @ the closing track making me think of The Black Swan

― gr8080, Thursday, February 3, 2011 1:06 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark

That doesn't happen to be B.S.E. does it? In which she sings "Black Swan Event" (BSE)? :-)

― LBI clearly believes the cat is gone (Le Bateau Ivre), Saturday, February 5, 2011 12:19 AM (2 days ago)

No, I see what gr8080 is talking about. The final track, the title track, has lyrics like "feathers push through my skin", "creature of change", and "I am shapeshifting". I can totally see what he was getting at.

i mixed 'peripheral visions' into a set last wknd & it went ovr p well

still not ~totally~ sold on this but i think its got some really great tracks at least

For what it's worth, within like 5-10 listens to that first posted track, we have everything, the vocals have gone from "eh" to perfect.

Female vocalist strikes me as a mixture of Annie Lennox, Pat Benatar and early Sarah McLachlan - not amateurish!

― Tim F, Friday, February 4, 2011 10:25 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

she sounds like the chick from the cranberries!

anyway i think i might like this more without vocals. this & the new destroyer & the new cut copy are all terrific albums getting dragged down (for me) by irritating (to me) vocals

I agree about all of those LP's. On all the music is great but vocals grate too much to repeat listens. Wonder if this will be the next pthfrk bnm to complete the trifecta?

why does this trend for indie balearica exist. don't want it, won't see it.

Lex, you do realise that the first balearic revival thread on ILX was actually the Studio thread, right?

Between Studio and A Mountain of One, balearic revivalism was always already indie.

i never liked a mountain of one precisely because of the vocals :(

but there's so much balearic/nu-disco stuff without bad vox, without any indieness, that it's quite obvious why i don't think of it as indie

i think destroyer might be my first big war of 2011

Balearic was always the indie circle on the space disco / beardo disco / balearic venn diagram.

Maybe you really just like space disco and disco revivalism with balearic elements?

i love the amo1 vocals

I dug them on the collected works (for the most part) and esp the first EP, but I haven't been able to sit through Institute of Joy.

Maybe you really just like space disco and disco revivalism with balearic elements?

i guess? i never really paid attention to the taxonomy of any of this. i like lindstrøm and d. lissvik instrumentals and everything touched by permanent vacation and that amazing disco re-edit in your thread and the latest magician mix and aeroplane when they were good and todd terje. does this mean i have to stop using the word balearic :(

but c'mon for real destroyer are the actual worst in both theory and practice

i mean really if i could pick the thing i LEAST WANT in this music it's THAT FUCKING INDIE VOICE. why is this happening? why are people suckers for that shit?

i guess? i never really paid attention to the taxonomy of any of this. i like lindstrøm and d. lissvik instrumentals and everything touched by permanent vacation and that amazing disco re-edit in your thread and the latest magician mix and aeroplane when they were good and todd terje. does this mean i have to stop using the word balearic :(

Well if you want to avoid inadvertently referring to stuff you might not like, yeah.

Lex have we checked on your opinion of Steely Dan (excluding Tori covers of same) before? I feel like we have but I can't remember what the conclusion was.

since when did "balearic" refer only to the indie shit and not to the good stuff, anyway? is this a just-ilm thing or did some disco revivalist committee decide on this at some point

i like the two steely dan songs i've heard (but not as much as the tori cover), i have a steely dan album in my itunes that i've been meaning to listen to for i think 3 years now*, i like the idea of them in my head but if they're anything like destroyer i am definitely just going to delete it unheard

*record holders are can - i think i've had TWO albums by them in my itunes for four years now but i still haven't heard a note of either

since when did "balearic" refer only to the indie shit and not to the good stuff, anyway?

it doesn't, but nor can you separate balearic from "the indie shit". In particular, "balearic" has heavy historical grounding in effete white pop-rock, which lends itself to indie revivalism as readily as disco revivalism.

Steely Dan don't have similar vocals to destroyer, but I'm just curious as to the limits of your aversion to (in this case only slightly) whiny white male vocals.

*record holders are can - i think i've had TWO albums by them in my itunes for four years now but i still haven't heard a note of either

you listened to destroyer before can??

the latest magician mix

do you mean BEANS? cause that one is amazing and balearic in many ways (including containing divisive indie elements waha)

i like the two steely dan songs i've heard (but not as much as the tori cover), i have a steely dan album in my itunes that i've been meaning to listen to for i think 3 years now*, i like the idea of them in my head but if they're anything like destroyer i am definitely just going to delete it unheard

*record holders are can - i think i've had TWO albums by them in my itunes for four years now but i still haven't heard a note of either

― lextasy refix (lex pretend), Monday, February 7, 2011 11:29 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

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you listened to destroyer before can??

i prioritise stuff that's current, as ever

do you mean BEANS? cause that one is amazing and balearic in many ways (including containing divisive indie elements waha)

yes! entire thing was awesome.

it doesn't, but nor can you separate balearic from "the indie shit"

i find i can separate the stuff i like very very easily from the indie shit

How did Destroyer/Dan Bejar infect this thread? Keep that shit in its own place where I never have to hear about it.

it doesn't, but nor can you separate balearic from "the indie shit". In particular, "balearic" has heavy historical grounding in effete white pop-rock, which lends itself to indie revivalism as readily as disco revivalism.

^^^ This is kind of what I was getting at upthread.

she sounds like the chick from the cranberries!

Also this. And a bit "crap Sinead O'Connor". It's all a bit self-consciously late-80s early 90s etheral warble.

The guy's vocals aren't actually significantly different from the guy from the Junior Boys or that Twin Shadow dude. But the songwriting isn't really up to Junior Boys quality.

I've always thought that encoded in the concept of "balearic" was a kind of aesthetic redemption of certain kinds of stylistic "failure" - which is perhaps the most anti-Lex notion I can concoct (at least excluding notions about whiny white male vocals). Expounded on this here and here.

She sounds a bit like Shakira to me fwiw.

the moment (on "blown minded") when she pronounces the words 'sublime intuition', it's like 1996 all over again

The guy's vocals aren't actually significantly different from the guy from the Junior Boys or that Twin Shadow dude. But the songwriting isn't really up to Junior Boys quality.

― Matt DC, Tuesday, February 8, 2011 5:12 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

dude's vocals aren't junior boys quality, either

This sounds pretty good to me today. Even the over-singing, melodramatic chicks vocals aren't annoying me.

I've been loving this album the past month or so (helped by the great weather we've been having in the UK) but whenever I listen to it I'm inevitably left with a sense of yearning for Yearbook 3 and I don't think that's ever going to happen :(

With the dawn of summer, this album gets better and better. Beach music, imo.

this album is god damned excellent

they are happy parents!

So good!

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