This fucking album
http://www.clashmusic.com/features/maya-jane-coles-interview-album-stream-app-exclusives
― lex pretend, Sunday, 30 June 2013 21:21 (ten years ago) link
So immense and immersive and GORGEOUS
― lex pretend, Sunday, 30 June 2013 21:22 (ten years ago) link
i need to come back to this one, heard it the other day and seemed to get lost in progressively samey murk after the (iirc excellent) first four tracks
― r|t|c, Sunday, 30 June 2013 21:56 (ten years ago) link
Terrible DJ hope her record is better
― suare, Sunday, 30 June 2013 22:53 (ten years ago) link
i think she's a great dj! too close to the hot natured sound for you perhaps?
definitely did not get any sense of a fall-off over the album - murkier maybe, gothier certainly, more internalised probably, but i think the roster of guest vocalists she starts to bring in means it avoids the samey feeling. relistening now and it's one of my favourites of 2013 already...
― lex pretend, Monday, 1 July 2013 07:34 (ten years ago) link
i listened last night and really enjoyed it - it has that 2 in the morning blurry introverted sound like you say. a couple of the vocals i didn't really like, can't remember which tbh, but the overall sound of it is lush, it sucks you in
― for many people a really special folder makes a huge difference (Noodle Vague), Monday, 1 July 2013 07:42 (ten years ago) link
Her DJ Kicks was really good but I've never heard her out, I would assume she would be good based on that?
I really like the single that has the Knife soundalike vocals.
― boxedjoy, Monday, 1 July 2013 08:40 (ten years ago) link
i think she's a great dj! too close to the hot natured sound for you perhaps? --lex pretend
I'm being unfair and shouldn't have posted, I don't much like the kind of stuff she plays but that doesn't make her a bad DJ
― suare, Monday, 1 July 2013 08:54 (ten years ago) link
Loving this album. It's murky, yes, but it's a warm, enveloping kind of murk, and I agree the rotating cast of vocalist keeps things interesting, only the Thomas Knights one maybe falls flat. Excellent use of Tricky as well, large bits of the record seem to capture that Maxinquaye crackle and smoke while not sounding like it at all.
― Matt DC, Monday, 8 July 2013 20:52 (ten years ago) link
Yes. In my review I said it had the feel of Maxinquaye or Massive Attack without imitating the sound. It's another permutation of murky British soul. I think I like best the ones that Maya sings herself. One sounds so much like The xx that I got to thinking that this is how the second xx album should have sounded - atmosphere and subtlety, yes, but muscle too.
― Deafening silence (DL), Tuesday, 9 July 2013 13:02 (ten years ago) link
It's like cooly g (nite version)
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 14:52 (ten years ago) link
yeah this is pretty great
― big black nemesis, Puya chilensis (DJP), Tuesday, 9 July 2013 15:07 (ten years ago) link
Had been waiting for dan to get on this!
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 15:16 (ten years ago) link
love this. love this
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 9 July 2013 15:19 (ten years ago) link
Just hitting "Everything" now; the grooves are placid but not boring and make for great work listening. I really look forward to playing this when I can really pay attention and on speakers with good bass.
― big black nemesis, Puya chilensis (DJP), Tuesday, 9 July 2013 15:20 (ten years ago) link
Been waiting for this one
― sjuttiosju_u (wins), Tuesday, 9 July 2013 15:29 (ten years ago) link
haven't gotten all the way through the album yet but so far my first-listen standouts are "Blame", "Everything" and "Wait For You"
― big black nemesis, Puya chilensis (DJP), Tuesday, 9 July 2013 15:32 (ten years ago) link
progressively samey murk after the (iirc excellent) first four tracks
^^this seems crazy to me, if anything this record gets better AFTER the first four tracks. so gorgeous.
― Roz, Sunday, 21 July 2013 07:19 (ten years ago) link
nah. i'm right
that first four have a modern and lissom poise, light and dark perfectly intertwined, shadow for undertow
the rest is leaden dredge of 1997 cut-out bin - blood simple western neo-noir, goth triphop, some shit that sounds like underworld, tricky. withdrawal into thumbsucking clumsy
― r|t|c, Sunday, 21 July 2013 10:28 (ten years ago) link
the cover art too, nuff said. unkle doing army of the twelve monkeys?
― r|t|c, Sunday, 21 July 2013 10:29 (ten years ago) link
bizarre how little coverage the new Maya Jane Coles album is getting -- you'd think after Nicki Minaj sampled her there'd be an interview a minute
the album is great, but that isn't surprising
― sick, fucking funny, and well tasty (katherine), Friday, 1 September 2017 15:59 (six years ago) link
I listened to it, part of it, the other night. It's looooong. But very nice.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Friday, 1 September 2017 17:17 (six years ago) link
Still digesting this. Some of it is too much a throwback to a 90s sound I don't especially care for (Darkside being a good example--I also don't like the guest vocals on that). I had been enjoying the Won't Let You Down EP though.
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 2 September 2017 23:10 (six years ago) link
Is this thing going to deviate from leaden trip-hop even once over it's frankly bewildering 24-track duration?
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 6 September 2017 17:09 (six years ago) link
heh rtc called it leaden trip hop upthread 4 years ago
― flopson, Thursday, 7 September 2017 01:35 (six years ago) link
Except the first album got a lot of mileage out of exploring that overlap between house music and 90s Bristol. It still felt like body music rather than monging music.
I got bored and gave up about a quarter of the way in but I guess it takes off at some point? Like is it worth starting at the half way point?
― Matt DC, Thursday, 7 September 2017 08:02 (six years ago) link
Saw her late Saturday night (2:30 a.m.) DJing for about 75 people in Chicago and had a great time.
Have to say, she seems to have the enviable life -- must have some good mailbox money from "Truffle Butter" and Katy Perry's "Swish" and Lady Gaga's "Sour Candy" (all sampling "What I Say") without having to even incorporate that into a club set.
― deep luminous trombone (Eazy), Monday, 27 June 2022 17:16 (one year ago) link
er, make that "What They Say"
― deep luminous trombone (Eazy), Monday, 27 June 2022 17:18 (one year ago) link
It's sweet that you think that, but she made $350 last night. I guess that her hotel (+ under?) was paid. Depressing.
― paulhw, Tuesday, 28 June 2022 01:17 (one year ago) link
Surprised at that based on the cover charge. Anyway, great set, and felt lucky to see her in a smaller crowd.
― deep luminous trombone (Eazy), Tuesday, 28 June 2022 01:21 (one year ago) link