official i love music thread for AEROPLANE

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'.

Except that until this, their 12'' singles and remixes have generally been fantastic..

The album version of Caramellas is good, as are London Bridge and My Enemy. It's clearly not that they have forgotten how to make the kind of music that made us all like them--they just don't seem interested in doing that all the time any more. Can't blame them, but you also can't blame fans for responding negatively.

i for one am going to blame them

The strange thing here, as stirmonster points out, is that all these songs were written and demoed before the Aeroplane buzz started - by early 2008, according to Vito - so this album was being slowly put together at the same time as the big remixes and singles. It's just that nobody knew about them, so it seems like a drastic transition from one sound to another. Odd record.

Bits of this album remind of me of the Phil Oakey & Giorgio Moroder record.

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?

I don't think I can actually think of one that had this level of virtually unanimous goodwill followed by this level of virtually unanimous "this is shit".

Still haven't heard it but I really want to out of some sort of morbid fascination.

this album isn't that bad! and mostly not even that surprising. there are a few, uh, curveballs, a couple of which are really horrific, and the more traditional aeroplane moments aren't as all-out blissful and immediate as their remixes, which was expected. bits of it remind me of a weaker version of gatekeeper's optimus prime ep, it has the same sense of ludicrousness.

the ost & kjex album is much better, i might start a thread on that at some point.

actually that gatekeeper ep is super good. a youtube, as i think it would pertain to the interests of most reading this thread:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZaB3Jxmygo

Not a single thing on the Aeroplane album as nice as that Gatekeeper track.