Gang Gang Dance LP

itll be awesome when theres a band w/gang gang dance/excepter style sensibilities that has more conventional awesome songs and singing - this is by no means a criticism of said bands - btw are there any bands like that

so this new Gang Gan Dance LP strangely sounds a lot like http://www.greenplanetmusic.com/images/TheLostScrollsOfMoses.jpg

Animal Collective?

And GGD is def moving in that direction. There's some super SONGS on this rekkkkkid.

so this new Gang Gan Dance LP strangely sounds a lot like: mad professor - the lost scrolls of moses

o wait i misunderstood - yah i guess animal collective

but i was thinking like more pop and stronger singing

kate bush?

I was waiting for that (or someone to say Sioxie and the Banshees.)

I definitely hear a little Siouxsie.

new stuff u guys awesome new sensibilities dont u see

"itll be awesome when theres a band w/gang gang dance/excepter style sensibilities that has more conventional awesome songs and singing - this is by no means a criticism of said bands - btw are there any bands like that"

This is basically what I'm always looking for. I do like that there are several bands (Gang Gang Dance, Animal Collective, Air France) that are closing in on this space from different directions. But I don't know of anything right in that interzone just now.

wish I woulda seen the whole show at Santos last friday, they were dope but they didn't go on until 2am and I had to work the next day. it was ridic to have Growing go on before them, they shoulda been either first or last on the bill imo.

by the way who were the djs that night?? holy trainwrecks. painful.

totally love this album. so good.

by the way who were the djs that night?? holy trainwrecks. painful.

mostly leo fitzpatrick, i think.

"itll be awesome when theres a band w/gang gang dance/excepter style sensibilities that has more conventional awesome songs and singing - this is by no means a criticism of said bands - btw are there any bands like that"

This is basically what I'm always looking for. I do like that there are several bands (Gang Gang Dance, Animal Collective, Air France) that are closing in on this space from different directions. But I don't know of anything right in that interzone just now.

― Tim F, Wednesday, October 29, 2008 8:38 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I think "summertime clothes" from the new ac album may be the best contender for this so far.

i listened to this album for the first time today and not much more can be said that hasn't been said already. one of my top albums of 2008 without a question and i've only listened to it once. it's like one of those albums that just comes at you out of nowhere and blindsides you. this reminds me of what i felt and thought when i first listened to studio

Yeah, Studio is a good reference point in feel if not in style.

I think "summertime clothes" from the new ac album may be the best contender for this so far.

― mizzell, Wednesday, October 29, 2008 8:53 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

"Summertime Clothes" is gonna pwn all when it is released!

jeez not everything is goth, guys

xp and those guitar licks that breeze in around the middle of the first song are more than edging towards studio territory, no?

Yeah there's that same corny spanish guitar sound (see also the last track on the Lindstrom album).

man the transition from the first track into the second one i could listen to on repeat for hours.
also the production on this is like shimmering prisms in flight. haha i need to stop, bottom line is this a great fucking record.

""itll be awesome when theres a band w/gang gang dance/excepter style sensibilities that has more conventional awesome songs and singing - this is by no means a criticism of said bands - btw are there any bands like that"

whoever it ends up being they had better have some uncommon surnames

saw these guys with of montreal tonight. was pretty awesome all-around.

Seriously, one of my favorites for the year.

― Bomb Bomb Iran (san frandisco), Wednesday, October 29, 2008 7:04 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^ this

by the way who were the djs that night?? holy trainwrecks. painful.

mostly leo fitzpatrick, i think.

― mizzell, Thursday, October 30, 2008 12:52 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^ lolz

"itll be awesome when theres a band w/gang gang dance/excepter style sensibilities that has more conventional awesome songs and singing - this is by no means a criticism of said bands - btw are there any bands like that"

This is basically what I'm always looking for. I do like that there are several bands (Gang Gang Dance, Animal Collective, Air France) that are closing in on this space from different directions. But I don't know of anything right in that interzone just now.

― Tim F, Wednesday, October 29, 2008 8:38 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^ el guincho

Yeah I thought of mentioning El Guincho. I think he's slightly subtler in his use of zany rainbow coloured samplestuff than the others - or perhaps the better way to put it is that side of him is more subtly blended into his other influences.

The better parts of The Beta Band LP catch this vibe a bit, I think.

El Guincho is kind of shit live compared to Panda Bear

love how amazingly clear the production is on this

Probably worth mentioning High Places as falling into this area as well. Their album is v. pretty.

is the el guincho worth listening to? you know, considering my tastes.

i love the gang gang dance album - the word springing to mind is crystalline, it just seems to have endless angles and facets to it, plus it's crystal clear sonically, you can hear EVERYTHING - but i pretty much hate all the comparisons here...beta band, panda bear, animal collective ugh. don't see the similarities at all, they're all so bloodless while GGD is full of life.

Chromatics maybe?

So am I the only person who thinks their new album is a lot duller than their earlier ones? (Haven't read the thread, so maybe I'm not...)

i've never heard their earlier albums and really want to now! have been meaning to check them out for years now

El Guincho album is great

the vocals are a deal breaker for me on this one, they seem silly, not very thoughtful, quite annoying

lex I think the el guincho record is really good, but if you didn't like person pitch it's probably not for you

I think it depends on why you don't like Person Pitch frankly.

i didn't like person pitch because...well, for one there are those awful wimpy vocals, so hand-wringing and timorous. beach boys harmonies leave me cold at the best of times but these are even more of a drag, so slow and irresolute, refusing to resolve into anything attractive. also i'm sure like the entire album is out of tune? or at least disorientating in a really unpleasant way, like you're hearing it underwater. i don't care if this was the intent, it sounds shitty. the music just sounds like muddied-up found sounds, not even arranged well, it's a total mess. and there's nothing else, it's all detail and no groove, cake decorations (the kind that taste really horribly sweet if you try to eat them) without any cake. it actually made me feel nauseous to listen to and is seriously one of the worst things i've ever heard, my dislike isn't just reaction against the baffling praise for it.

which is why i'm confused that it's being brought up here... st dymphna is so bold and clean and precise, everything which person pitch wasn't.

I suspect you might like El Guincho. In a lot of ways it's Person Pitch minus the Beach Boys plus groove.

especially since both st dymphna and el guincho are both very percussive

Hmmm, I guess I need to listen to El Guincho again.

ok well a friend told me to give el guincho a chance a couple of weeks ago so i guess once i make copy deadline tonight (hollow laugh) i'll dig out the promo

listening to st dymphna now, is it that feeling of randomness which makes people compare it to person pitch? both have a load of ingredients but st dymphna uses its random/unexpected quality in completely different ways, every new sound is an extra spark which builds on what was already there to good effect, as opposed to just something else to throw haphazardly into the mix

Honestly I haven't spent much time with this new one yet so I won't comment on it, but everyone who hasn't heard "God's Money" should go listen to it.

i've enjoyed Saint Dymphna over the last couple of days. They way they akwardly stack sounds is super appealing, however 'crass' some of them are (this in terms of pitch wheel keyboards and weird casio bass). Im not all too keen on the girls bizzaro-accent yells, but that is countered beautifully by tinchy stryder using a robo filter.
My only other prev. contact with them came in the form of that Retina Riddim DVD/disc, which i thought was great. The audio disc with that, btw, runs to the exact playing time as Music For 18 Musicians. Im yet to figure the significance of that tho.

"is it that feeling of randomness which makes people compare it to person pitch? both have a load of ingredients but st dymphna uses its random/unexpected quality in completely different ways, every new sound is an extra spark which builds on what was already there to good effect, as opposed to just something else to throw haphazardly into the mix"

Well obv I don't hear Person Pitch that way at all, that album feels obsessively structured to me (any shifts in sound are quite deliberate and really there's not many of them, where the track changes directly completely it's more in the sense of it effectively becoming an entirely new song), whereas Saint Dymphna has this sort of frenzied chaos that could end disastrously but doesn't, not because there's a secret structure but because by glorious happenstance none of their moves fuck up. They're like an insane gambler who really should lose a round just to learn a lesson, but for some reason always wins.

The comparisons spring not from any strict similarity but because kaleidoscopic, dance-not-dance hippie-dippie sample-pop seems to have turned into a miniature movement within indie over the last twelve months after having been out in the cold for about seven years (the elephant in the room is The Avalanches); for better or worse, Person Pitch is the flashpoint for this development.

Lex I'd say the likelihood of you liking El Guincho (who I really really like, though not as much as Saint Dymphna) could depend on what you think of Manu Chao.