Little Boots - "Stuck on Repeat"

Have they 'succeeded' where LB failed?

Hmmm...

2 La Roux In For The Kill Single Mar 2009
1 La Roux Bulletproof Single Jul 2009
2 La Roux La Roux Album Jul 2009 Notes
27 La Roux I'm Not Your Toy Single Oct 2009
19 La Roux La Roux (re-entry) Album Jan 2010
28 La Roux In For The Kill (re-emergence) Single Jan 2010

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsX4FPFBgFk

Someone at work is off to see Ladyhawke tonight. This whole electro-girl songwriter craze feels like a very long time ago indeed, but I'm glad the artists involved haven't been completely dropped.

Yeah, that song does sound a bit quaint.

I really like that song.

About time to get them back. This anthemic stadium dance thing courtesy of David Guetta, Swedish House Mafia etc. is a bit wearing in the long run. Longing to see new stuff from Little Boots and La Roux instead.

New album streaming http://pitchfork.com/advance/82-nocturnes/

holy SHIT this is amazing

Not really sure about this tbh, feels kinda lacking in personality, both in vocal and production terms. And I liked big sections of the first album.

i'm liking a fair amount of this

I'm in shock at how good this is. It's so much better than the first album.

Beat Beat needs to be put out as a single right now!

It's quite good! Just been listening to it here this hour which given the Slayer news has been more than a little incongruous.

Thought this was sounded like a bunch of fourth singles from a late Kylie album. Except Crescendo, which is so good it shows how average the rest is.

That's exactly what it sounds like, that or really watered down Saint Etienne copyists. The anonymuity of the production doesn't help - this Tensnake remix of one of the tracks is so much better:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tofjr7L3h9Q

Also is this slipping out with zero publicity entirely? Feels like the music industry just gave up on her.

Considering it's produced by Tim Goldsworthy, James Ford and Andy Butler it sounds shockingly anonymous, and the lyrics are dreck. Maybe Joe Goddard wasn't returning her calls. It's a shame because after the perceived disappointment of the debut (even though it went gold) she needed to kill it this time around and this just isn't going to save her.

Also is this slipping out with zero publicity entirely?

i feel like i've seen more people checking for (as in, going to listen to) this album than i really should have done, considering. i'll probably check it out at some point but idk why it made a lot of people drop what they were doing for it

I think there was a general feeling of unresolved potential there, she's obviously got good taste and I did see rumours that she was working with Joe Goddard and Tensnake and there was this vague feeling that she might end up doing something really exciting but that hasn't really happened.

Why isn't "Headphones" on this? It should be.

all the singles since the 1st album have been great i thought, but no Headphones? that's weird.

yeah i like pretty much all of this now. good record.

'strangers' is pretty clumsy and the clear weak link, 'beat beat' is massive and probably should be a single

679 didn't want to release the finished record but allowed her to release it on her own label, hence no Headphones-

I thought Headphones was always meant to be a standalone single? Seems like I read something to that effect when it popped up.

As per above comments, I kinda wish she found a producer soulmate and established a less anonymous identity. The MNDR album last year did this sort of thing better.

I played this again and really enjoyed it pretty much all the way through. I really like how it flows. It's a shame it's not going to sell at all. This kind of sounds like the album I thought she'd make when I first heard the full version of Stuck On Repeat back in 2008. A lot of the stuff she tried on Hands just didn't suit her that much, Remedy gave her an actual hit single but you could tell it wasn't her style.

I never understood why she did an edit of Stuck on Repeat for the album and didn't put it out as a proper single? She answers that in this interview.

http://thefourohfive.com/news/article/i-know-who-i-am-and-where-i-am-at-now-the-405-meets-little-boots

I actually really like this album.

liking this, reminds me some of that kathy diamond album a few yrs back. i can see this being great for the summer

yeah i get its flaws, but i just dig the album's sound, house stuff is gonna always do it for me

Seems like she needs to have a bit of space and do her own thing without any pressures. Hopefully she hasn’t burnt herself out by the whole major-label thing.

is there a remix disc or w/e of this planned? i feel like there should be

damn this shd have more than 595 views https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuCLJLDHQJk

little boots has quietly been making very good music for the past 5 years

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sQzEib6hOA

I totally missed this new EP but it is characteristically brilliant. I think about her and Charli XCX in similar terms - why are people so suspicious of artists who openly admit they want to make great pop music?

in her case probably because her first go-round wasn't great (I still like "Remedy" though) and lost among La Roux/v1 Lady Gaga/etc; also it doesn't help that there's really no solid place in the music press right now for this kind of thing except, like, Popjustice

("well why didn't you pitch it" because I totally missed it)

I enjoyed the first album a lot at the time and was completely underwhelmed by the follow-up. Played the debut a month ago and it was sounding like it came from a completely different pop universe to now, like the idea that anyone would try and pitch those songs as mainstream concern seems totally alien in a world of straight-down-the-line maximalist Zara Larsson bangers.

the follow-up was uneven but the first four tracks are completely unfuckwithable (really, it should have been an EP)

yeah "Motorway" is probably the greatest thing she's ever done give or take "Stuck On Repeat"

I love this video for Eros though, it's such a simple concept but it looks incredible

The second album is my favourite. Still love “Every Night I Say a Prayer@.

Yeah, I love that second album. One of my favourite albums of the decade. Working Girl was crazy underrated too. Both much stronger and more consistent than Hands.