official i love music thread for AEROPLANE

yeah. Can't think of a worse song this year than 'I Don't Feel', and 'Without Lies' is narrowly behind.

guys i need to hear this

i've never been so scared to add something to my library.

I am now going to wash out my ears by listening to Too Hard on repeat for five days.

diff band, guys

holy cow maybe not!! ouch

No, it's definitely the same one we know: http://www.myspace.com/aeroplanemusiclove

Although, I'm going to get to NOT know them very quickly now.

what in the hell is this? some of it sounds nice in a 70s disc/ELO type of feeling but then again, some of this sounds really awful.

this is hilariously awful but that's.... something.

i kind of feel like i want to listen to it again just in case i'm missing the point but i'm pretty sure i'm not. Without Lies, Good Riddance, Fish In The Sky and We Fall Over are genuinely fascinating in their awfulness but I Don't Feel is just an unlistenable racket. if you're someone like me who listens quite closely to lyrics then i recommend a stiff drink before you hear this. it's a genuinely bizarre record.

how many times can i say "genuinely"?! thank god i don't write songs.

what i'm listening to right now sounds like an elaborate prank.

This about sums it up. I could see about half the tracks growing on me and the rest...either it's brilliantly forward-thinking or straight up shitty.

scared to hear this... they were one of my favorite things a year and a half ago or so...

I liked the Jim Steinman-inspired bridge in We Can't Fly, but I didn't expect the whole album to be an homage to him.

major major major lols at "Good Riddance"

music for Jared Hess soundtracks.

oh god it opens with that 'electric piano' patch that's on every cheapo keyboard

this is gonna be monstrous in some way or another

this is all a big running inside joke right guys? haha can't wait till we actually hear the record and have a good laugh about it

maybe this explains why one of them abandoned ship.

i have been meaning to check these dudes out since forever and today is the first time i've actually openned this thread lol

this is all a big running inside joke right guys?

I wish :(

someone should have sat them down in the initial stages and told them that they can't write songs and that they should forget that and put ten good tracks together. i wonder who wrote the lyrics, them or the singers? because they have to be written by someone who can't speak english well.

having said that i enjoyed boggling at this.

I might listen to this one or two more times in December, when I have to craft some kind of paragraph to award it WORST ALBUM OF THE YEAR.

did you take any joy at all from it? because i laughed two or three times.

I probably just cringed at the things you laughed at. It's why I have a hard time watching embarrassing situations in tv shows like the original BBC The Office or whatever. I hate feeling that uncomfortable, and this album is that feeling magnified.

lol guys stop ur beating this joke to death

I got an email last week saying this was beyond terrible, so maybe it's not a joke :/

i know, i'll shut up until more people have heard it.

Where are you people getting this alleged abomination from anyway?

lmgtfy

what?cd

man is this a shitty (2000s-style) indie pop record. i want to like it SO BAD, but i can't get down with anything other than "we can't fly" (which i still think is great). UGH. i know these guys are pop fetishists, but how did they not have the good sense to realize that they SUCK at doing it themselves. i probably would have jumped ship too if a record like this was going to be associated with me in any way

In this interview he goes on about feeling freed of the constraints of making dance music.

keep waiting for someone to swoop in and defend this

At first I wanted to use Mark Hollis from Talk Talk, but we couldn’t find him at all. But then I heard Poni Hoax’s “Antibodies” and their lead singer sounded exactly like Mark

!!!

Because what is Aeroplane? It’s slow BPM, melodic music…and when I’m DJing people don’t really want to hear that, I have to up the tempo. So I need these kind of uptempo tracks that still suit the Aeroplane feel, and it’s so hard to find suitable records. I spoke to Erol (Alkan) recently, and he said ‘why don’t you just make your own’, which is a good idea – I will probably make some music just for DJ sets which is slightly different form Aeroplane as you know it. In that respect, I have a couple of concepts ready, but I can’t say too much else just yet.

glimmer of hope?

This is like a really, really shit delorean album. Where is the lushness? Makes me wonder if they even, like, listened to their own remixes.

Taken on its own and not as a follow-up to their previous material, there are only a couple truly WTF moments and I'm still not sure I'm not missing something. "I Don't Feel" is one of the most bizarre tracks I've heard all year but has something of Ariel Pink's "Round & Round" to it, which I hated initially and now love. Things actually get quite good around the 2-minute mark when the backing track starts to take over. "Good Riddance" is more lame than [i]bad<?i>, while "Fish in the Sky" appears unredeemable but is so weird that it's hard to know for sure.

BTW who are the vocalists?

Tom Jones on Good Riddance?

Sky Ferreira on "Without Lies"

I want to know how 'whispers' came into being, track before song I suppose?

i wonder who wrote the lyrics, them or the singers? because they have to be written by someone who can't speak english well.

“Then we found Nicole Morrier – who has written songs for Britney Spears – and got her to write the lyrics because I am very bad at that.”

There’s half an answer

“Where they are two ways I can go…I can stay in the shadows a bit, and focus on writing and composition, and maybe try to do something like Mark Ronson did with Amy Winehouse. Or I could keep doing albums as Aeroplane, I could sing on them, play live on my own…”

Maybe he should have made this decision slightly earlier...

this has a new version of 'caramellas', is that any good?

kinda lolling @ this reaction. what's the last record with a bit of buzz that ILMers wanted to like* that went down in a screaming heap like this?

* - not indie landfill hype

The Xtina record was disappointing, but no trainwreck. Before that? I dunno. Can't think of anything.

i don't understand the winehouse thing - is he implying that mark ronson wrote back to black? because he has a writing credit on one song on that record.

a co-writing credit.

Didn't he do the arrangements

he made his name as a producer/arranger/svengali dude, rather than a hip-hop DJ, off the back off the album

listened to this and while i will never (of my own choosing) listen to it again, i wasn't too surprised or shocked by how it sounded. it sounds VERY belgian to my ears and bertrand burgalat's input is blatantly apparent. i can imagine it having far more resonance with a european audience than with the average ilm poster and reckon it will be huge. if it wouldn't result in me having a contract taken out on my life i'd upload the demos of the album that were recorded around 18 months ago. even back then it was apparent (from the demos) that the album would take this kind of direction rather than that of the singles or remixes.

this is maybe that classic good remixers/ bad original work or bad remixers/ good original work thing. seems to have been quite common in dance since forever.
sasha/fatboy/justice/simian/soulwax/oakenfold/jaxx... they can do one of the 2 things really well but never both.

Mixmag have heard it and seem to be liking it. the quote in the feature is 'best album of the summer'.